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Re:Cooling the Earth with a cloud of small spacecraft near t... by QAPereo on Friday August 25, 2017 @11:34PM (#15103921)
Geoengineering is just that thing we're going to do out of desperation, which will hasten the end, nothing more or less.
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Re:Cooling the Earth with a cloud of small spacecraft near t... by perilunar on Saturday August 26, 2017 @03:51AM (#15104532)
If we do it, it will be out of desperation, but it won't hasten the end. It will buy us time while we actively remove carbon from the atmosphere.
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Re:Cooling the Earth with a cloud of small spacecraft near t... by lagadu on Saturday August 26, 2017 @02:33PM (#15106712)
It will hasten the end because?
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Re:Cooling the Earth with a cloud of small spacecraft near t... by QAPereo on Saturday August 26, 2017 @05:17PM (#15107513)
We don't really have any concept of how to do it, and it will be a hammer blow to an already depleted biosphere. the cynic in me also suspects that it would lead to war.
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