Prof. Sam LawlerTomorrow I've got an interview with the Financial Times and then the Wall Street Journal to talk about space junk and satellite pollution. So I guess maybe people with money are starting to notice that the commercial space race is a really really bad idea?
Cykonot@sundogplanets at least Elon is too incompetent to flood the zone with yimby studies painting his satellites burning up as a genius geoengineering ploy
@sundogplanets imagining a video like this, but promoting dropping 10k tons of aluminum etc a year into the atmosphere, not to mention rocket propellant
https://youtu.be/-UiCSvQvVys?si=si67DOa5e0QfKetH
Followed up with studies proving an ozone layer hole is good for solar power
Also, remembered this interaction where you dropped a 29 TON bomb on me 😮💨
https://mas.to/@cykonot/112396407259822972
@cykonot I've definitely had to quickly choke off questions I've gotten at public talks about "well actually isn't alumina in the upper atmosphere a good thing?"
Gods... if we're going to geoengineer (and I'm definitely not advocating that), it needs to be careful, well-studied, and purposeful. Not an accidental consequence of some other dumb shit we're doing.