Posted on 11/20/2006 7:58:13 PM PST by chemical_boy
THE idea seems like something out of a Superman comic: a machine or missile shoots tonnes of particles into the atmosphere that would block the Sun's rays, cool down the overheated Earth, and reverse global warming.
But at the weekend scientists gathered in a closed session organised by NASA and Stanford University to discuss researching such a strategy. The idea is called geo-engineering: using technology to tinker with the Earth's delicate climate balance.
Ken Caldeira, a climate scientist at the Carnegie Institution's Department of Global Ecology at Stanford University, said his modelling showed the idea worked. "We found that if you blocked 20 per cent of the sunlight over the Arctic Ocean it would be enough to restore sea ice," he said.
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You too?
I'll see your Styx and raise you my favourite filk-song
*sings, but in a bit lower key than my Dennis DeYoung voice ;-)*
Oh, give me a locus where the gravitons focus,
Where the three-body problem is solved,
Where the microwaves play, down at three degrees K,
And the cold virus never evolved.
Home, home on LaGrange,
Where the space debris always collects,
We possess, so it seems, two of Man's greatest dreams:
Solar power and zero-gee sex.
We eat algae pie, our vacuum is high,
Our ball bearings are PERFECTLY round [ooh].
Our horizon is curved, our warheads are MIRVed (yee haw!),
And a kilogram weighs half a pound ;-).
Home, home on LaGrange,
Where the space debris always collects,
We possess, so it seems, two of Man's greatest dreams:
Solar power and zero-gee sex.
If we run out of space for our burgeoning race
No more Lebensraum left for the Mensch
When we're ready to start, we can take Mars apart,
If we just find a big enough 'wrench' ;-).
Home, home on LaGrange,
Where the space debris always collects,
We possess, so it seems, two of Man's greatest dreams:
Solar power and zero-gee sex.
I'm sick of this place, it's just McDonald's in space,
And living up here is a bore.
Tell the shiggies, "Don't cry," they can kiss me goodbye
'Cause I'm moving next week to L4!
Home, home on LaGrange,
Where the space debris always collects,
We possess, so it seems, two of Man's greatest dreams:
Solar power and zero-gee sex.
We possess, so it seems,
two of Man's greatest dreams...
Solar power and zero-gee sex!
lol
Can we cryo preserve the scientists in the restored ice?
ROTFLOL! Talk about your Milky Way....
Simpsons did it!
Looks like I get the "MOO-BAT" award huh?
"Talk about your Milky Way...."
Please...let's not. ;o)
>> they're gonna mess with the earth's climate
And after a miscowibration, we'll find ourselves needing to burn more fossil fuel to heat things back up. Or maybe we should just drink more milk in that case.
Opening pandora's box............BIG TIME!!
So long, and thanks for all the fish.
Yeah
Like all those graphic "awards" you see on internet websites -
I think I'll give myself an award while I'm at it!
They'll have to invent a rocket capable of the job first.
Think claustropobia and depression on a large scale - 'seasonally affected disorder', SAD.
I shouda known!
Zion? ;-)
Cheaper and easier maybe, maybe not, but even IF so then not better, only a cheaper and easier TRAP [as 'cheap and easy' often is]...
Hey I'm not against building underground colonies [afterall thats the only sensible way to build on Luna] but ULTIMATELY on Earth it's a dead end strategy fit only for neo -Malthusian thinking...it can't ever solve what I call the chick and egg problem [Earth is the egg, Humanity is the chick - no matter how 'green' we are about 'conservation' and 'waste reduction' ultimately we must break OUT of the egg or eventually die starved and/or poisoned in our own wastes]. Since inevitably we will run out of space and resources simply 'rearranging the deckchairs on the titanic' whether ON Earth or UNDER it 'moving on DOWN' becoming 'Morlocks' is no real solution...moving on UP on the other hand...
Well, there no shortage of space in ummm...space...and never will be...
*cues Jeffersons music and sings*
Hey we're moving on Up,
From the Earthside,
To a dee-luxe compartment @ Ell Fi-i-ive
Yeah movin on Up [movin on up]
From the Earthside,
We fine-ly got our piece [peace?] of the sky-y-y...
lol
Should have known I would be prepared huh?
Give [dis]credit where [dis]credit is due for that piece of perfidy - that was the esteemed Carl Sagan behind that dangerous bit of political mischief concealed inside the worst kind of badddd science.
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