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Re:Rogue geoengineering startup attempts to affect atmospher... by spoiler on Wednesday December 28, 2022 @05:33AM (#34159543)
> No doubt the next step is to go for some public support from a 'celebrity' en route to a fully funded trial.

Prediction: Americans will make it a Dems vs Reps thing. Pro and Against alignment will largely only depend on who first tweets about it. The other side will just blindly look for arguments against it (regardless of accuracy), even if we found out it performs well.

Now, I don't know if this is a bad or a good thing myself (out of my depth here), but I see why experts would be concerned with this, as I imagine it's got far reaching consequences

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Re:Rogue geoengineering startup attempts to affect atmospher... by hef19898 on Wednesday December 28, 2022 @05:54AM (#34159669)
You skipped the part where Elon jumps in, one way or the other...
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Re:Rogue geoengineering startup attempts to affect atmospher... by jaggs on Wednesday December 28, 2022 @07:08AM (#34160201)
Indeed :)
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Re:Rogue geoengineering startup attempts to affect atmospher... by AzzieElbab on Wednesday December 28, 2022 @08:51AM (#34160919)
Wait until ppl find out that the whole idea came from Microsoft’s early CTO
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Re:Rogue geoengineering startup attempts to affect atmospher... by hef19898 on Wednesday December 28, 2022 @08:55AM (#34160948)
So we will get a sulfur-yellow screen of death instead of a blue one?
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Re:Rogue geoengineering startup attempts to affect atmospher... by AzzieElbab on Wednesday December 28, 2022 @09:11AM (#34161109)
Sulfur is going too high up in the atmosphere to fall out as rain but anything can happen right?
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Re:Rogue geoengineering startup attempts to affect atmospher... by AzzieElbab on Wednesday December 28, 2022 @10:49AM (#34162159)
More like rain of sulphur bugs. But hopefully not.
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Re:Rogue geoengineering startup attempts to affect atmospher... by tanseydavid on Wednesday December 28, 2022 @12:32PM (#34163412)
Nathan Myhrvold to be more specific.

Some people think that Mhyrvold's approach to climate-change-mitigation has already been implemented rather than just being an idea.

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Re:Rogue geoengineering startup attempts to affect atmospher... by onos on Wednesday December 28, 2022 @07:38AM (#34160398)
It’s definitely annoying but I wonder if it’s also not entirely bad: We have a built in debate system for any issue that catches people’s attention.
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Re:Rogue geoengineering startup attempts to affect atmospher... by koheripbal on Wednesday December 28, 2022 @07:41AM (#34160419)
There are no debates anymore. It's all just name calling and stamen attacks
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