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Imagine a world without skin cancer by launching giant space sails is like saying: imagine a world without white people. People have evolutionarily adapted to
by standyro 4y ago
Imagine a world without skin cancer by launching giant space sails is like saying: imagine a world without white people.
People have evolutionarily adapted to the sun by producing melanin in their skin, but for some reason aerospace is the only answer?
Why the West (and frankly many on HN) seems so content on destroying the natural world for problems that only matter to a subset of rich people somehow still surprises and amazes me.
There are distinct advantages to making the internet unlivable, so that insane comments like this don’t have to exist anymore.
- dylan604 4y ago>There are distinct advantages to making the internet unlivable, so that insane comments like this don’t have to exist anymore. I always imagine these kinds of things starting in a conversation of a bunch of stoners munching on Funyuns while chugging Mountain Dew. "Like, dude, it would be so cool, if like, we made a giant sun shade in space. That'd be so rad!" Only someone thought it sounded smart when heard from outside the circle which is the really sad part.
- adastra22 4y agoAt least one of us has worked in the aerospace field and has relevant domain knowledge to evaluate the feasibility of this idea. I'm gonna guess its not you.
- dylan604 4y agoWell that's just kind of dumb logic really, as if it were you, you wouldn't need to guess it was me now would you. Sometimes, smart people can be kind of not smart. Also, at least one of us can get a joke, and I'm guessing it's not you