Tony BarkNov 5

Elon Musk Announces Plan to Control Climate by Surrounding Earth in Adjustable Satellites

https://pawb.social/post/34365323

Elon Musk Announces Plan to Control Climate by Surrounding Earth in Adjustable Satellites - Pawb.Social

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Show threadMonkderVierte
That’s not how weather works you moron.
Nov 6 at 12:24pmWeb
Show threadHugeNerdNov 6

psst… “climate”… and pray tell, which energy source do you think powers the atmosphere to exhibit weather or climate?

Geothermal? Tidal? Nuclear isotope decay in the core?

Show threadSippyCupNov 6
All of the above Pat.
Show threadHugeNerdNov 6
Take away the Sun. You think what’s left is gonna drive any weather of any kind? With that liquid oxygen sea on the surface…
Show threadNeilBrüNov 6
Also, the sun.
Show threadPhAzENov 6
More interestingly, if he truly announced that idea, he’d have to be admitting climate change is real in the first place.
Show threadDragonTypeWyvernNov 6
He already has? Y’all seem to have forgotten he started as a liberal darling.
Show threadharmsyNov 6
Technically, physics does allow a satellite-based method to deal with climate change. Economics, on the other hand, does not. You would need to chuck an unfathomable amount of mass into orbit.
Show threadMonkderVierteNov 6
Yeah, that’s why.
Show threadshaneNov 6
Do you though? I mean, a satellite orbiting the sun between the earth and the sun could cast a large shadow, right?
Show threadbalsoftNov 6

That’s… Not how shadows work… Or orbital mechanics… Or economics…

His suggestion, impossible as it is, is slightly less impossible than this.

Show threadSpacetimeMachineNov 6
If the sun was a point light source that is accurate. It is not though. You would need an absolutely enormous sat to cast a shadow that would actually affect our weather. Plus you would also need a way to keep it in position as the solar radiation would push it out of position quickly.
Show threadzalgotextNov 6
Not really. Case in point - the Moon. It’s absolutely massive, like several orders of magnitude larger than any satellite we’ve ever launched, and when it happens to line up just right between the Earth and the Sun, the umbra is only like 150km wide.