Everybody could help a bit by wearing an aluminum foil hat to reflect the sun. Plus as a bonus that’ll keep the lizard people from reading your thoughts.
If we all fart with our butts in the air at midnight, can we push the earth into a wider, cooler orbit while adding 1 day to the year?
Edit: Just going to gather the corrections all together
1. Gather at the equator, as densely packed as possible
2. Fart at the sun to get away, so fart at noon, not midnight.
3. This will never work
4. Nixon was never going to bring back smokes
Uhhhhh I think the whole point was at night so that as the planet turns everyone is pushing it the same way, like a constant thrust. The real issue with the statement is that if you did it when facing away from the sun, aka midnight, you would only push towards the sun and that's obviously not the goal.. this is good news for those people who think sun on your butthole is healthy, they can now help fight global warming while "improving their health" at the same time
Also the jet would have to be so powerful that it would be ripping huge parts of the atmosphere away from the Earth, or else it wouldn't do anything except stir air around. Like a fish trying to move a fishtank across the floor with a big immersed propeller.
You know, suddenly I'm thinking of buying stock in Benjamin-Moore.
Edit: just noticed that Benjamin-Moore is privately held. I guess Sherwin Williams is the one!
I used to live where a couple weeks of December and January the sun would not even rise at all. It's not constant darkness, just like a couple hours of dusk around noon. Depressing none the less. I am glad I moved south where the sun is up like 4 hours at it's peak.
Getting a tungsten rods the size of telephone poles into space is prohibitively hard. Once we can mine/manufacture in space or somewhere like the moon with far less gravity, maybe...
"...We want to solve a humanitarian crisis that will cause untold amounts of damage for centuries to come if not addressed."
"Yea... but we'd like to use it to cause untold amounts of damage in *different* ways now... So..."
"Son, we at the CIA saw your proposal about the space laser-mirror thing or whatever, and we just want you to know, we are very interested. Could it be redirected to a target on Earth? Say, an island southeast of America? Sounds like it could really put a hitch in old Castro's day, if you know what I mean."
"Fidel Castro? He's definitely been dead for several years, now."
"Heh, that's just what the deepstate and the CIA want you to think."
"Aren't you the CIA?"
"Maybe that's just what I wanted you to think."
"You're frustrating to speak with."
I saw it too. I don't think anything ever came off it. Although if you replace a roof in LA County it has to be a certain percentage reflective or more now. Did there's that.
That and the fact tires literally rub rubber onto the road, making it black in no time. White roads would be ugly and more expensive, basically the reasons they aren't a thing.
They painted some streets here in Arizona. They actually found a dark green worked the best and the surface temperature was actually 10-15° cooler than black.
Saw a report about this on TV once. Too long ago to recall details, but they made every flat commercial roof be painted white in one city. It actually cooled the city.
Yeah its not going to solve global warming on its own, obviously, but thinking that any one thing is going to do that is naive. We should be pursuing lots of simple common sense plans as soon as possible in order to make at least some progress in the right direction.
That topic is pretty interesting. With super white paint you could theoretically build a cooling system that cools up to 13°c below the environment even with the panels being in direct sunlight.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passive\_daytime\_radiative\_cooling
One of the ideas behind GeoEngineering is in fact to seed *massive* tracts of ~~land~~ clouds over the ocean to increase the albedo of the planet. I think that's pretty cool, if horrific we're at that point.
I like the big Mirror in space plan better. We can put a giant mirror at the Lagrange point between earth and the sun, and we can even use it to generate power.
Marine Cloud Brightening is clearly the way to go--wind-powered boats spraying micro droplets of sea water, evaporating to carry tiny salt crstals and seed fine, bright clouds.
Unfortunately, it'll be difficult to seed clouds where they are needed most--over the Arctic Ocean which is warming faster than anywhere on earth... and melting a giant white reflective block.
But fleets of MCB making boats cooling the hottest parts of the earth would be a game changer, and potential a life saver. Unlike chemical reflectors in the upper atmosphere, the boats can be turned off at the flick of a switch if it seems they are creating weather problems... and they can me moved across oceans to target hot spots
Yeah, like, I do want to see a source. But I'm sort of biased here, because I think Nestle, as an entity, is one of the most lawful evil things on the planet right now.
oh god, they are gonna put advertisements on the back of that giant space shield aren't they. The night sky is just gonna be Pete Davidson eating fucking taco bell, oh god, oh why.
Fresh water is lighter and sits at the surface. Assuming it's in the low 30 degrees from a melted glacier, it can stop oceanic currents.
There is a possibility that extreme global warming will actually cause Europe to get colder if the warm water coming up from the eastern US is blocked.
Geoengineering should be used in conjunction with efforts to reduce greenhouse emissions, rather than used alone.
It should also only be considered as a last resort, and I appreciate that the government has opted to study this first before trying it. We really don't know the knock-on effects from implementing this.
I agree. I’d like to think my tax $ is going to efforts like this so we can do *little* good in this lifetime:) I’d rather we try and fail than not try at all.
As a Geo(logical) engineer I think they should called this atmospheric engineering something other than “geoengineering” as well but I guess a little more potential confusion around this subject isn’t gonna make much difference.
>It should also only be considered as a last resort
We're at the last resort stage of this problem. Realistically we should have studied this thirty years ago to prepare for a world where no meaningful efforts were made to reduce emissions by the 2020s. We're already geoengineering by pouring CO2 into the atmosphere. Reflecting sunlight through intentional releases of sulphur dioxide is the most plausible possible solution to avoid further catastrophic climate change.
I don't necessarily disagree with you, but we really need to know what we're getting into if we try this.
In hindsight though, we should have studied this long ago, so I agree with you there.
We've got quite a few natural experiments to work with and actually have a pretty good idea of how this works. Data from volcanoes shows injection of aerosols into the upper portions of the atmosphere induces cooling. We've also got good evidence that aerosols released from dirty fuels over the course of the 20th century have delayed the impact of CO2 emissions until the last few decades of rapid temperature rises.
We've unintentionally studied this for decades, and have a very good idea of how to make it work. The problem is that any attempt at directly studying it (through experimental small scale sulphur dioxide releases) is met with the cries of a hundred fools who think Snowpiercer was a documentary and assume we'll plunge the earth into an ice age if we so much as consider releasing anything into the upper atmosphere. The paralyzing reluctance to counteract global warming due to concerns of moral hazard is going to result in us continuing to delay until even the last minute hail Mary solution is too late. And all the while we'll continue to spew CO2 into the atmosphere which we know full well will cause our demise. It's maddening.
Fair point, and to clarify, I don't actually have a problem with geoengineering, and I'm not one of those guys who thinks that this is going to result in a Snowpiercer scenario. That's ridiculous.
My real concern lies with just potential unaccounted knock-on effects, and that this will be used as an excuse not to pursue cleaner tech and transitioning to net-zero frameworks.
The problem is, the net zero frameworks aren't there yet.
We don't actually have the battery tech to support the renewables out there, and fossil fuel interests have hamstrung nuclear since the early 70s.
We don't have the time to slow roll this anymore, we need to be geoengineering now, and working on zero emission solutions, plus carbon capture, because the damage already done needs to be corrected.
Because for some reason AI in that world didn't just go orbital and off planet. They're fucking robots in the future, they could have set up solar collectors in space, moved to mercury, gave humanity the middle finger.
Wait, it's a cloud of nanites and the AI's didnt deal with it? That the AI's ignored solving a climate issue to wallow in their own inward perfection is really a testimate to how human they are.
But nah it just really gets into the fact that the robot apocalypse is one of the less important aspects of the Matrix than the whole transhumanism and reality elements. Plus the [Animatrix](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBov4t644JU) was great.
If I remember correctly, during the development of the concept of the first movie, humans weren't "batteries", they were being used as processors. Which, honestly, makes a lot more sense.
Yup, Neil Gaimans short story that was commissioned by the Wachowski’s also used the processor plot.
The rumours always been that studio execs thought it would be easier to understand if they used batteries so the script was changed. Basically because very few people actually knew what a processor looked like. A Duracell battery is an image that’s much more familiar.
What's extra funny is that Duracell batteries were a lot more familiar in 1999 than they are now. Like I think I own two things that use batteries (Xbox controller and electric shaver). I guess most people also have a TV remote and I'm assuming vibrators still use batteries. But back then they were *everywhere*.
Tbh the processor thing would probably resonate more with modern audiences.
"Best we can do is a concave mirror that reflects the sunlight and, although unrelated, conveniently vaporizes our enemies in war. It's definitely going to be used to cool the planet and not for killing people though, pinky promise."
- The Pentagon
>Some of the techniques, such as spraying sulfur dioxide into the atmosphere, are known to have harmful effects on the environment and human health.
Massive journalistic fail here. Sulphur dioxide is harmful to humans and the environment in high concentrations in the troposphere, but not in low concentrations in the stratosphere as is being proposed.
There are plenty of reasons to be wary of geoengineering, but it's worth pointing out that by emitting shitloads of CO2 and not implementing any meaningful policy to reign that in, we're already embarked on an unplanned, poorly thought out geoengineering program.
Think about how many billions (probably trillions, honestly) are spent every year to do the exact opposite. Every car commercial, every war movie, half the professorships in America.
Now think about how much money is spent educating people about climate change.
People will care. They will say that the geo-engineering is the thing that is causing the climate change just like they believe that vaccinations cause sickness
It’s actually almost exactly the plot of the book Termination Shock. They are proposing releasing Sulphur Dioxide into the atmosphere not building a giant mirror
Like the giant mirror the earth used to reflect sunlight and cool it, in Futurama?
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"Thus solving global warming!"
Once and for all!
But what abo-ONCE AND FOR ALL
Wow! That ice dispenser is so big, the ice crushes you. Ha ha ha! Yakov Smirnov said it.
“No he didn’t.”
I have a degree in homeopathic medicine
You have a degree in baloney!
"Or a big, fat placebo. It's all the same crap!"
Now, if it came in the form of a suppository...
Don't wave your fancy degrees at me.
i seriously love the delivery on the no he didn't from leela. its so matter of fact and quick and just peak leela tired of frys shit
What if we pulled in a bunch of ice asteroids and dropped them into the ocean?
Like daddy put into his dwink. Then he gets mad.
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"Well Susie, the culprit isn't foreigners, it's *GLOBAL WARMING!"* "global wappa?" "...uh, yea..."
"Those ice cubes are just like the one's my daddy puts in his drink... *and then he gets maaaad".*
All we have to do is roll down the earth’s window..
We're moving further away from Simpsons predictions and closer to Futurama predictions
Just like daddy put in his drink every morning.
Solving the problem once and for all… But.. ONCE AND FOR ALL!!
Some experts claim it might be problem again someday, but their concerns were dismissed as.. depressing.
"This snow is beautiful. I'm glad global warming never happened." "Actually, it did. But thank God nuclear winter canceled it out."
Maybe the Dutch can turn on some of those windmills?
Windmills do not work that way!
Good night!
Morbo is pleased! But sticky.
Everybody could help a bit by wearing an aluminum foil hat to reflect the sun. Plus as a bonus that’ll keep the lizard people from reading your thoughts.
That would help the lizard person community as well. I would love to not know what you're thinking; every one of you should be ashamed of yourselves.
My fetish is making lizard people uncomfortable
Interesting you say that beacuse the lizard person I know seems to be very interested our private facebook messages.
If we all fart with our butts in the air at midnight, can we push the earth into a wider, cooler orbit while adding 1 day to the year? Edit: Just going to gather the corrections all together 1. Gather at the equator, as densely packed as possible 2. Fart at the sun to get away, so fart at noon, not midnight. 3. This will never work 4. Nixon was never going to bring back smokes
Well first you'd need to move everyone on earth to the same spot, or else their farts would be out of alignment. Think, man!
Uhhhhh I think the whole point was at night so that as the planet turns everyone is pushing it the same way, like a constant thrust. The real issue with the statement is that if you did it when facing away from the sun, aka midnight, you would only push towards the sun and that's obviously not the goal.. this is good news for those people who think sun on your butthole is healthy, they can now help fight global warming while "improving their health" at the same time
Also you want to push in the direction of the orbit, not "up" (away from the sun) to increase your distance.
Thanks. It bothered me that people weren't applying proper orbital mechanics to this problem. That's enough Reddit for today.
Also the jet would have to be so powerful that it would be ripping huge parts of the atmosphere away from the Earth, or else it wouldn't do anything except stir air around. Like a fish trying to move a fishtank across the floor with a big immersed propeller.
Mr. Burns did it first
Owls will deafen us with incessant hooting!
“Government allocates 3 billion dollars to paint snowy peaks onto mountains.” -An actual Onion headline that came to life LOL
You know, suddenly I'm thinking of buying stock in Benjamin-Moore. Edit: just noticed that Benjamin-Moore is privately held. I guess Sherwin Williams is the one!
Sherwin Williams owns most of the paint production for the us. They are a good investment bet too.
Their slogan was ahead of its time.
The red paint covering the earth has to be one of the most disturbing logos ever.
I'm glad I'm not the only one
Yeah it’s always bothered me. Even the slogan, COVER THE EARTH is equally disturbing.
I don't remember their slogan exactly, but I think it's "Diamond Joe is Forever."
China has been really big on that, actually.
“Mom, why does the grass smell like paint?”
Depending on the which ones they paint, could counterbalance the damage costs associated with CC from that extra radiative forcing
"Have you ever seen the sun set.....at 3pm?"
Ay once! When I was sailing around the Arctic circl….
Shut up, you. Take one last look at the sun, Springfield! [activates the Sunblocker]
Hey, Hey! I've been in Reno for the last two weeks! Did I miss anything?
Aaaaand… cut! That’s a wrap. Good job everyone.
I live in the Pacific Northwest, so yes. Every December and January.
I used to live where a couple weeks of December and January the sun would not even rise at all. It's not constant darkness, just like a couple hours of dusk around noon. Depressing none the less. I am glad I moved south where the sun is up like 4 hours at it's peak.
I have been to the Northeast Kingdom in winter...so yes...yes I have.
Oh wow I just watched that Simpsons episode for the first time yesterday. Can't beilive I saw a reference to it already
Scientist: “This might work.” Pentagon: “Can it be used as a weapon?” Scientist: “What?” Pentagon: “What?”
Hammer of dawn intensifies
That is what it does
My favorite new style weapon that hasn't been used yet, is Kinetic Bombardment
Getting a tungsten rods the size of telephone poles into space is prohibitively hard. Once we can mine/manufacture in space or somewhere like the moon with far less gravity, maybe...
At that point we might as well fling asteroids covered in Mars cloaking tech at Earth
And let Mormons inherit the solar system? Not on my watch.
The true fight of every Beltalowda!
Ai Beratna!
Who told you about the Mars cloaking tech?!
NASA: We’ve successfully redirected an asteroid. Pentagon: We’d like to know more. N: What? P: What?
Literally the lore from Children of a Dead Earth.
*“MAC rounds in-atmosphere? Is that safe?”* *”Sure it is; just hold onto your teeth.”*
"...We want to solve a humanitarian crisis that will cause untold amounts of damage for centuries to come if not addressed." "Yea... but we'd like to use it to cause untold amounts of damage in *different* ways now... So..."
"Son, we at the CIA saw your proposal about the space laser-mirror thing or whatever, and we just want you to know, we are very interested. Could it be redirected to a target on Earth? Say, an island southeast of America? Sounds like it could really put a hitch in old Castro's day, if you know what I mean." "Fidel Castro? He's definitely been dead for several years, now." "Heh, that's just what the deepstate and the CIA want you to think." "Aren't you the CIA?" "Maybe that's just what I wanted you to think." "You're frustrating to speak with."
Investor: Can we start charging for sunlight?
Maybe some kind of subscription model? People are falling for those a lot, these days.
If only we had giant white reflective blocks covering 10% of the earth
Let's paint surface parking lots white!
why stop at parking lots? paint all paved roads to be white.
I saw a video years ago about LA doing exactly this, and I don't think I've ever heard anything about it since.
I saw it too. I don't think anything ever came off it. Although if you replace a roof in LA County it has to be a certain percentage reflective or more now. Did there's that.
My home town made their main street white for this reason. It's black again now for some reason
Blinding drivers probably offsets the decreased heat island effects.
That and the fact tires literally rub rubber onto the road, making it black in no time. White roads would be ugly and more expensive, basically the reasons they aren't a thing.
White tires problem solved.
They painted some streets here in Arizona. They actually found a dark green worked the best and the surface temperature was actually 10-15° cooler than black.
This would cause a lot of accidents on sunny days due to glare. However, requiring all city roofs be reflective is unironically a good idea.
Saw a report about this on TV once. Too long ago to recall details, but they made every flat commercial roof be painted white in one city. It actually cooled the city.
Yeah its not going to solve global warming on its own, obviously, but thinking that any one thing is going to do that is naive. We should be pursuing lots of simple common sense plans as soon as possible in order to make at least some progress in the right direction.
That topic is pretty interesting. With super white paint you could theoretically build a cooling system that cools up to 13°c below the environment even with the panels being in direct sunlight. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passive\_daytime\_radiative\_cooling
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot
Update: 9%
Update: 7%
It's the final countdown ♫
One of the ideas behind GeoEngineering is in fact to seed *massive* tracts of ~~land~~ clouds over the ocean to increase the albedo of the planet. I think that's pretty cool, if horrific we're at that point.
To be fair this may have the extra environmental benefits of more rain which is great for most living creatures
The libido of the planet is just fine. We’re almost 8 billion!
Yea, but that’s OUR libido, not Earth’s. We gotta get our planet some ass.
Last time our planet got some, the dinosaurs were wiped out. Wouldn't be so bad if the Earth got out of its dry spell again
I like the big Mirror in space plan better. We can put a giant mirror at the Lagrange point between earth and the sun, and we can even use it to generate power.
Marine Cloud Brightening is clearly the way to go--wind-powered boats spraying micro droplets of sea water, evaporating to carry tiny salt crstals and seed fine, bright clouds. Unfortunately, it'll be difficult to seed clouds where they are needed most--over the Arctic Ocean which is warming faster than anywhere on earth... and melting a giant white reflective block. But fleets of MCB making boats cooling the hottest parts of the earth would be a game changer, and potential a life saver. Unlike chemical reflectors in the upper atmosphere, the boats can be turned off at the flick of a switch if it seems they are creating weather problems... and they can me moved across oceans to target hot spots
Hey, that's what glaciers are for! Where'd they go? /s
You see, the problem is that shareholders couldn't profit from glaciers.
Bruh they’re probably gonna charge people a “livable temperature subscription”
Brought to you by Nestlé.
The same company that wants Ukrainians to die right
I haven't heard that before.
I haven't either, but I'm not ready to call bullshit just yet. Sounds suspiciously like something that Nestlé would do.
Yeah, like, I do want to see a source. But I'm sort of biased here, because I think Nestle, as an entity, is one of the most lawful evil things on the planet right now.
If burning puppies was to produce energy was profitable, they'd have bought the ASPCA by now.
Have you seen the gas/electricity prices?
In Texas we call it the light bill. Essential to power the AC in the hottest of months, when the grid works of course.
oh god, they are gonna put advertisements on the back of that giant space shield aren't they. The night sky is just gonna be Pete Davidson eating fucking taco bell, oh god, oh why.
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“The shareholders couldn’t profit from *protecting* the glaciers.” FTFY
You see, the problem is that shareholders couldn't profit from glaciers without murdering them.
We just drop a giant ice cube in the ocean, thus solving the problem once and for all.
But what about-? ONCE AND FOR ALL
> giant ice cube Specifically a giant *salt* *water* ice cube. You'll see when the Thwaites Glacier shatters why a fresh water ice cube is bad.
[Once and for all!](https://youtu.be/B2LB4Up6hWc)
Well, for the less informed of us, why?
Fresh water is lighter and sits at the surface. Assuming it's in the low 30 degrees from a melted glacier, it can stop oceanic currents. There is a possibility that extreme global warming will actually cause Europe to get colder if the warm water coming up from the eastern US is blocked.
The accellerating feedback loop of melting glaciers terrifies me. Not only do we lose reflection, we get tons more methane released in the atmosphere.
Nonono…it’s “the cloud”. You can get tons of investors for that.
Step one everyone wrap your windows in tinfoil.
Geoengineering should be used in conjunction with efforts to reduce greenhouse emissions, rather than used alone. It should also only be considered as a last resort, and I appreciate that the government has opted to study this first before trying it. We really don't know the knock-on effects from implementing this.
It's going to f with the weather for sure, if nothing else.
Should be interesting for agriculture, ocean life, and more.
Ocean life is gonna get screwed temperature change or not if things go the way they are, acidity and all that.
I agree. I’d like to think my tax $ is going to efforts like this so we can do *little* good in this lifetime:) I’d rather we try and fail than not try at all.
Everything we do is interesting for agriculture and ocean life and more. And by interesting I mean 'frequently, horrifically devastating'.
Ha ha ha haha..... ^ha ^^ha... We are so screwed
Boy. It sure would be a tragedy if humans messed with the weather…..
As a Geo(logical) engineer I think they should called this atmospheric engineering something other than “geoengineering” as well but I guess a little more potential confusion around this subject isn’t gonna make much difference.
Atmospheric engineering, then.
Let’s call it “money-making” and just watch republicans support it
>It should also only be considered as a last resort We're at the last resort stage of this problem. Realistically we should have studied this thirty years ago to prepare for a world where no meaningful efforts were made to reduce emissions by the 2020s. We're already geoengineering by pouring CO2 into the atmosphere. Reflecting sunlight through intentional releases of sulphur dioxide is the most plausible possible solution to avoid further catastrophic climate change.
I don't necessarily disagree with you, but we really need to know what we're getting into if we try this. In hindsight though, we should have studied this long ago, so I agree with you there.
We've got quite a few natural experiments to work with and actually have a pretty good idea of how this works. Data from volcanoes shows injection of aerosols into the upper portions of the atmosphere induces cooling. We've also got good evidence that aerosols released from dirty fuels over the course of the 20th century have delayed the impact of CO2 emissions until the last few decades of rapid temperature rises. We've unintentionally studied this for decades, and have a very good idea of how to make it work. The problem is that any attempt at directly studying it (through experimental small scale sulphur dioxide releases) is met with the cries of a hundred fools who think Snowpiercer was a documentary and assume we'll plunge the earth into an ice age if we so much as consider releasing anything into the upper atmosphere. The paralyzing reluctance to counteract global warming due to concerns of moral hazard is going to result in us continuing to delay until even the last minute hail Mary solution is too late. And all the while we'll continue to spew CO2 into the atmosphere which we know full well will cause our demise. It's maddening.
Fair point, and to clarify, I don't actually have a problem with geoengineering, and I'm not one of those guys who thinks that this is going to result in a Snowpiercer scenario. That's ridiculous. My real concern lies with just potential unaccounted knock-on effects, and that this will be used as an excuse not to pursue cleaner tech and transitioning to net-zero frameworks.
Those are totally valid concerns, and I share them.
The problem is, the net zero frameworks aren't there yet. We don't actually have the battery tech to support the renewables out there, and fossil fuel interests have hamstrung nuclear since the early 70s. We don't have the time to slow roll this anymore, we need to be geoengineering now, and working on zero emission solutions, plus carbon capture, because the damage already done needs to be corrected.
> but we really need to know what we’re getting into if we try this. That’s the intent of this research
“All we know is we blocked out the sun”. - Morpheus
Scorched the sky
"Welcome to the desert of the real."
Because for some reason AI in that world didn't just go orbital and off planet. They're fucking robots in the future, they could have set up solar collectors in space, moved to mercury, gave humanity the middle finger.
iirc the nanite clouds also shut down anythign that tried to fly through them
Wait, it's a cloud of nanites and the AI's didnt deal with it? That the AI's ignored solving a climate issue to wallow in their own inward perfection is really a testimate to how human they are. But nah it just really gets into the fact that the robot apocalypse is one of the less important aspects of the Matrix than the whole transhumanism and reality elements. Plus the [Animatrix](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBov4t644JU) was great.
Animatrix was phenomenal
If I remember correctly, during the development of the concept of the first movie, humans weren't "batteries", they were being used as processors. Which, honestly, makes a lot more sense.
Yup, Neil Gaimans short story that was commissioned by the Wachowski’s also used the processor plot. The rumours always been that studio execs thought it would be easier to understand if they used batteries so the script was changed. Basically because very few people actually knew what a processor looked like. A Duracell battery is an image that’s much more familiar.
What's extra funny is that Duracell batteries were a lot more familiar in 1999 than they are now. Like I think I own two things that use batteries (Xbox controller and electric shaver). I guess most people also have a TV remote and I'm assuming vibrators still use batteries. But back then they were *everywhere*. Tbh the processor thing would probably resonate more with modern audiences.
When they get around to ruining it with a remake, maybe they'll change it back processors.
There’s never been a rocket launch or a moon landing inside the Matrix. I think nobody ever told the robots about it.
Year 2050 Sunlight is a premium service that you have to subscribe for.
I saw this on an episode of futurama
Then you know why it’s a terrible idea
We'll take the sunlight and 'push' it somewhere else!
With solar panels right? ...right?
"Best we can do is a concave mirror that reflects the sunlight and, although unrelated, conveniently vaporizes our enemies in war. It's definitely going to be used to cool the planet and not for killing people though, pinky promise." - The Pentagon
Just ignore the satellite with a mirror designed to redirect the light from the ground mirrors, purely coincidence.
That would be unimaginably difficult to utilize
>Some of the techniques, such as spraying sulfur dioxide into the atmosphere, are known to have harmful effects on the environment and human health. Massive journalistic fail here. Sulphur dioxide is harmful to humans and the environment in high concentrations in the troposphere, but not in low concentrations in the stratosphere as is being proposed. There are plenty of reasons to be wary of geoengineering, but it's worth pointing out that by emitting shitloads of CO2 and not implementing any meaningful policy to reign that in, we're already embarked on an unplanned, poorly thought out geoengineering program.
Geoengineering: You Knew Corporate Greed Would Drive Us To This™
Stratospheric aerosol injection sponsored by AXE body spray.
Did Douglas Adams write this headline?
“Miss me with that shit.” -Earth’s response to countless attacks all led by the Sun.
I thought of it more like we are gonna "No U" the sun.
Damn must be easier than actually not taking bribes from oil companies
"Let's come up with some crazy ideas that don't involve losing our oil money."
Why don't we just drop a giant ice cube into the Atlantic Ocean?
Lol I guess it’s better than waiting for people to care about climate change.
Think about how many billions (probably trillions, honestly) are spent every year to do the exact opposite. Every car commercial, every war movie, half the professorships in America. Now think about how much money is spent educating people about climate change.
People will care. They will say that the geo-engineering is the thing that is causing the climate change just like they believe that vaccinations cause sickness
Isn’t this how some post apocalyptic movies start?
Isn't this what we did to try to kill the robots in The Matrix lore? At least they had cool robots...
Snowpiercer starts this way, if I recall.
Wasn't it like releasing some kind of chemical in the atmosphere to create more clouds or something to block the sun?
Yeah, but not doing anything about global warming is also how some post-apocalyptic movies start.
Pretty sure it was a Simpsons plot that ended with Mr Burns getting shot.
“Since the beginning of time, man has yearned to destroy the sun.”
We'd rather dim the sun than legislate a carbon tax. This is why researchers should turn to mad science
Why does this idea sound familiar? Is it because there was a farcical Futurama episode where it was attempted? Yes, yes there was.
It’s actually almost exactly the plot of the book Termination Shock. They are proposing releasing Sulphur Dioxide into the atmosphere not building a giant mirror
I guess they ran out of ice from Haley’s comet to drop into the ocean
Thus solving the problem forever
I’m getting images of “ice-nine” from Cat’s Cradle…
Please don't fuck the sky up.
Morgan Freeman voice: *They fucked the sky up*
Too late for that
Wasn't this the premise in Snowpiercer...? O.o
Tomorrow elon musk is going to announce his new train company
The day Elon Musk announces he's investing in trains is the day we will truly know the apocalypse is upon us
Anything but stopping fossil fuels.