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> Warnings from a lone scientist would be ignored. A good movie plot, but I imagine in reality it would be obvious from the start that this would be a possibil

> Warnings from a lone scientist would be ignored. A good movie plot, but I imagine in reality it would be obvious from the start that this would be a possibility and no scientists would be caught off-guard when the shade just didn't get removed. I can be almost certain as well that large factions of humans would "know" (believe, based on no facts) that is was happening all along and there would be incredible conflict across Earth as we figured out how to deal with this gentle attack, even before it was certain that is was an attack.

Intralexical 3y ago
> even before it was certain that is was an attack. If it was done without consent, then it is an attack, and it doesn't fu*cking matter whether it ends up causing physical harm (or even if the invaders genuinely thought they meant well). Regardless of whether it ends up taking away somebody's sunlight forever, it's still robbing people of all their agency. That decision was never theirs to make.