An effective sunlight-scattering particle ring would illuminate our night sky as much as the full Moon..."
Here we go. Owls will deafen us with their incessant hooting...
Why do I forsee another climate change debate in about 200 years with, on the other side of the debate, the oil industry replaced with the consortium that has the contract to maintain the ring?
$40,000 for every man, woman, and child on Earth. I think it would be more equitable to ration it according to per-capita income. You lazy Americans, your share is $280,000 per person. Better sell all those extra boats and SUVs. And Ethiopia, we want to see all you slackers pitching in $700 a person. Better put in double-duty at that open-air market. Let's get cracking!
Barring questions of efficacy, I think this would be super cool to just have.
Yes! I demand a shiny new ring!
I don't care what you all say, I became a Scientologist yesterday. They told me that aliens will save earth from global warming and malnutrition. Phooey on the earth ring!
Humans are soiling the planet with our waste.
I propose we send all human waste into space to form the ring.
The Fecal Ring.
(Coming soon to a theatre near you...written by Larry Niven and David Pournelle)
"our hyper-complex civilization is theoretically and technologically capable of dealing with any significant climate change we may potentially face in the future."
I can't believe real humans say stuff like that. I guess that's why things are such a mess...
Seriously, that line is worthy of a Simpsons episode.
A cockring. For the earth. Awesome idea, especially if we make it a habitable space station.
This totally rips off my Really Fucking Big Umbrella solution. I demand a royalty.
I'm not paying for a ring that only shades the Equator. Wouldn't that create even more climactic chaos? I suppose it is more attractive than the 'flood the atmosphere with metallic dust' idea, though.
Looks as if the Scientist Marketing Board has decided that going for a more serious image was a mistake, and really they need to get back to traditional 'nutty professor' branding.
Yes, rings have done wonders for the atmospheres of other planets in our solar system. If it worked for Saturn...
I'd settle for an air conditioner ATM.
An effective sunlight-scattering particle ring would illuminate our night sky as much as the full Moon, for example.
That sounds pretty cool.
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Heh. I guess they don't have much confidence in the idea.
An effective sunlight-scattering particle ring would illuminate our night sky as much as the full Moon, for example.
That sounds pretty cool.
Three words:
no more stars
After the press conference, Dr. Frink and colleagues retired to continue researching other alternative methods.Other researchers have suggested such schemes as adding metallic dust to smoke stacks, to flood the atmosphere and reflect more sunlight back into space.
Anyone recalls The Animatrix? It sounded like a good idea at the time... *shudder*
This is certainly one of the more stupid things I have heard.
“$40,000 for every man, woman, and child on Earth” For $17000. every American person could have a photovoltaic power system (really for much less after market forces drive down the price). Ethiopians could do it for much less naturally.
I like Argh’s Fecal Ring, future space stations could collect it for fertilizer in our orbiting space greenhouses. And we would still see the stars.
I say plant trees, lots and lots of trees and put ozone generators on the wingtips of high flying planes.
According to the CIA World Factbook the gross world product was $55 trillion. Maybe if we boost SETI funding we can find another civilization to loan us a couple of hundred trillion?
Nothing compares to the rings of Uranus.
*laughs own head off at favourite Solar System joke*
This is all, so, shattering
*pauses somberly*
$500 billion for a ring of small spacecraft? That's really not so bad; it's a damn sight cheaper than the dealing with global warming. Naturally, it'd go way, way overbudget, but still, I say we do it.
Shading the tropics would disturb every ocean current on earth, changing climates planet-wide.
A shift in the Gulf Stream, for example, could put Britain and Ireland into a deep freeze.
This is a bad, bad idea, and I can't believe any scientists are taking it seriously.
Sure, there might be some minor drawbacks, but it'd be so badass. Don't be a pussy.
Yea, stop being a pussy.
Let's do this thing.
Well, youre not getting my $40,000, so one of you is gonna have to cough up 80 grand.
I'll do it. COME ON, EARTH-RINGS! This is gonna rule.
We should paint the moon red next. That'll help with the ozone or maybe combat terrorrism or something. It's needed though.
Painting the moon red makes it a better target. Let's blow up the moon! It's had it comin' for a looooooooong time...
We should paint the moon red next.
Even better...paint Ronald Reagan's smiling face on it. Just think, everytime you look up into the night sky, he'll be there...watching over you.
I think I just creeped myself out.
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