• CaptDust@sh.itjust.works
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    3 days ago

    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?

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      3 days ago

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

      Might be difficult to implement at scale though.

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        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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        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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        3 days ago

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