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Re:What made Earth a giant snowball 700M years ago? Scientis... by sand500 on Wednesday February 14, 2024 @01:18PM (#39373162)
Does it have to be a sheet of material? If all we want to do is shade the earth, we could launch a few million KGs of glitter into low earth orbit or to the Sun-Earth L1.
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Re:What made Earth a giant snowball 700M years ago? Scientis... by ajuc on Wednesday February 14, 2024 @02:32PM (#39374091)
They would attract each other and clump into a loose ball.
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Re:What made Earth a giant snowball 700M years ago? Scientis... by sand500 on Tuesday February 20, 2024 @06:01PM (#39448126)
Probably only over thousands or millions of years?
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