Tony Bark@pawb.social to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day agoElon Musk Announces Plan to Control Climate by Surrounding Earth in Adjustable Satellitesfuturism.comexternal-linkmessage-square175fedilinkarrow-up1346arrow-down19
arrow-up1337arrow-down1external-linkElon Musk Announces Plan to Control Climate by Surrounding Earth in Adjustable Satellitesfuturism.comTony Bark@pawb.social to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day agomessage-square175fedilink
minus-squareMonkderVierte@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up22arrow-down1·5 hours agoThat’s not how weather works you moron.
minus-squareharmsy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·2 hours agoTechnically, physics does allow a satellite-based method to deal with climate change. Economics, on the other hand, does not. You would need to chuck an unfathomable amount of mass into orbit.
minus-squareshane@feddit.nllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 hours agoDo you though? I mean, a satellite orbiting the sun between the earth and the sun could cast a large shadow, right?
minus-squarebalsoft@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-21 hour agoThat’s… Not how shadows work… Or orbital mechanics… Or economics… His suggestion, impossible as it is at the current stage of human development, is slightly less impossible than this.
minus-squareMonkderVierte@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-22 hours agoYeah, that’s why. He must have some weird misunderstanding to think it’s actually doable.
minus-squarePhAzE@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·4 hours agoMore interestingly, if he truly announced that idea, he’d have to be admitting climate change is real in the first place.
minus-squareHugeNerd@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·5 hours agopsst… “climate”… and pray tell, which energy source do you think powers the atmosphere to exhibit weather or climate? Geothermal? Tidal? Nuclear isotope decay in the core?
minus-squareHugeNerd@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 hours agoTake away the Sun. You think what’s left is gonna drive any weather of any kind? With that liquid oxygen sea on the surface…
That’s not how weather works you moron.
Technically, physics does allow a satellite-based method to deal with climate change. Economics, on the other hand, does not. You would need to chuck an unfathomable amount of mass into orbit.
Do you though? I mean, a satellite orbiting the sun between the earth and the sun could cast a large shadow, right?
That’s… Not how shadows work… Or orbital mechanics… Or economics…
His suggestion, impossible as it is at the current stage of human development, is slightly less impossible than this.
Yeah, that’s why. He must have some weird misunderstanding to think it’s actually doable.
More interestingly, if he truly announced that idea, he’d have to be admitting climate change is real in the first place.
psst… “climate”… and pray tell, which energy source do you think powers the atmosphere to exhibit weather or climate?
Geothermal? Tidal? Nuclear isotope decay in the core?
Also, the sun.
All of the above Pat.
Take away the Sun. You think what’s left is gonna drive any weather of any kind? With that liquid oxygen sea on the surface…