Comment on holee shiet

CaptDust@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• CookieOfFortune@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  This does happen and it’s an effective way to decrease the temperature:

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  Might be difficult to implement at scale though.

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  • _stranger_@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    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.

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  • nexguy@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    By more importantly, what color should the curtains be?

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    • CookieOfFortune@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Should they match the drapes?

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      • jaybone@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        You mean the carpet?

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  • CaptDust@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    A remote positional moon-sized sun shade? That’s crazy enough to work I think you’ve solved the heatwave here

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  • Pandantic@midwest.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    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.

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    • meyotch@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      The structure you describe is called a Soleta. If you are interested, space nerds have explored the possibilities in some detail.

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  • wischi@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    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.

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    • nexguy@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Wouldn’t filling the air with dark and absorbing gasses warm the planet?

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      • wischi@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Aerosols aren’t gases in the classial sense and reflect sunlight. This works especially well high up in the atmosphere.

        …nasa.gov/…/aerosols-small-particles-with-big-cli…

        There are studies that collect data around volcano eruptions and coal power plants getting online and offline. Long story short: Climate is complicated; I’m not a climate scientist and not to be trusted; it would work great at cooling the planet; we definitely shouldn’t do it (yet?) because it masks the temperature problem and could lead to us not reducing CO2 because we “wouldn’t have to”, but it could be a tool if we might be on the edge of a catastrophic runaway effect that causes too much water to evaporate into the atmosphere.

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  • BennyInc@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Simpsons did it!

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• MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  1950s general with itchy trigger finger and extra nuclear bombs:

  “Hold me beer!”

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