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Or Elon will put up a ginormous film screen and we'll sunshade the Earth?

• wongarsu 3y ago
  My money would be on China unilaterally putting a giant ultra thin foil in geosynchronous orbit over parts of their country. Everyone will act outraged, but as positive results for nature and agriculture roll in everyone will rush to copy them.
  • jvm___ 3y ago
    The "what will happen if..." modelling for that will be interesting...
  • busyant 3y ago
    > a giant ultra thin foil in geosynchronous orbit I'm going to reveal my ignorance, but is this a genuine idea that has been floated by researchers/engineers?
    • wongarsu 3y ago
      Yeah, if we could block something like 2% of solar radiation that would counteract global warming for now. The usual suggestions are to put the foil in low earth orbit or the L1 point, but geosynchronous might be easier politically https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_sunshade https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_sunshade
• mnd999 3y ago
  Wasn’t that Mr Burns?