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am_Unition · 1245 days ago · link · · parent · post: All the right words on climate have already been said
The semi-Dyson shield isn't a serious proposal, it's just a fun thought experiment. Certainly, though, any aggressive aerosol'ing could have some relatively serious unforeseen side effects. Nothing as dramatic as accidental re-entry of mile-wide mirror, but yeah, slap a couple of antipodal equatorial space elevators onto the hex framework and, baby, you got a sci-fi backdrop goin'.
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am_Unition · 1245 days ago · link ·
Wow, only conceived of in 1979? Boggles the mind. On the other end of things, the "How the hell did they know at the time?" end, Chapman-Ferraro had the basics of geomagnetic storms worked out in 1931.