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Sun 'umbrella' tethered to asteroid might help mitigate climate change: An astronomer has proposed a novel approach -- a solar shield to reduce the amount of sunlight hitting Earth, combined with (kbin.social)

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Sun 'umbrella' tethered to asteroid might help mitigate climate change: An astronomer has proposed a novel approach -- a solar shield to reduce the amount of sunlight hitting Earth, combined with a tethered, captured asteroid as a counterweight.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/07/230731151552.htm

#science #space #climatechange #astronomy #solarshield #asteroid

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[–] WarlordSdocy 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Didnt they do something like this in Futurama?

[–] ChamrsDeluxe 2 points 1 year ago

They put up a mirror, a piece of debris hit it and turned it into a focusing lense and started cooking people.

One of my favorite bits from Futurama:

Sun reflects off the mirror and hits the earth*

Random guy- "That's a little bright. "

Poof.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

doing literally anything and everything before actually addressing the root of climate change