Idk anything about stars or solar systems, but when my house gets too hot I just close the curtains and it helps everything cool down. Maybe we can close earth’s curtains and will fix it?
That’s literally a photo of it happening at the only scale that matters. The solution is that once the moon is there, we just need to stop it from moving away.
I just realized the saying is “Do the carpets match the drapes” but in my head I was thinking “Do the curtains match the drapes”. Even though curtains and drapes are similar. Brain fart.
Couldn’t we do this in a more localized way for large cities? Like a big ol’ shade satellite for areas being dangerously affected by heat waves? I know it’s just a bandaid but we will need these kinds of extreme weather mitigation techniques to keep us alive so we can solve climate change or die trying.
Ps I’m not a scientist, so this is a sci-fi idea only - as in idk the maths of what this would take.
It’s not really hard to implement at all but would just trade pest for cholera. We could just burn a lot of coal again, the dustier and dirtier the better. But that’s pretty bad for air quality but it would seriously cool the planet.
Idk anything about stars or solar systems, but when my house gets too hot I just close the curtains and it helps everything cool down. Maybe we can close earth’s curtains and will fix it?
This does happen and it’s an effective way to decrease the temperature:
Might be difficult to implement at scale though.
That’s literally a photo of it happening at the only scale that matters. The solution is that once the moon is there, we just need to stop it from moving away.
Problem solved forever.
But more importantly, what color should the curtains be?
Should they match the drapes?
You mean the carpet?
I just realized the saying is “Do the carpets match the drapes” but in my head I was thinking “Do the curtains match the drapes”. Even though curtains and drapes are similar. Brain fart.
Couldn’t we do this in a more localized way for large cities? Like a big ol’ shade satellite for areas being dangerously affected by heat waves? I know it’s just a bandaid but we will need these kinds of extreme weather mitigation techniques to keep us alive so we can solve climate change or die trying.
Ps I’m not a scientist, so this is a sci-fi idea only - as in idk the maths of what this would take.
The structure you describe is called a Soleta. If you are interested, space nerds have explored the possibilities in some detail.
A orbiting, remotely positional, moon-sized sun shade? That’s crazy enough to work I think you’ve solved the heatwave here
It’s not really hard to implement at all but would just trade pest for cholera. We could just burn a lot of coal again, the dustier and dirtier the better. But that’s pretty bad for air quality but it would seriously cool the planet.
Wouldn’t filling the air with dark and absorbing gasses warm the planet?
Simpsons did it!
1950s general with itchy trigger finger and extra nuclear bombs:
“Hold me beer!”