NASA looks at plan to blot out Sun

The Sydney Morning herald ^ | November 20, 2006

[dixiechick2000]

[FYREDEUS]

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

[AmericaUnite]

Restoring sea ice & blocking out 20% of the sun's rays. Yes, that will have no unintended consequences. (/sarc)

Can we cryo preserve the scientists in the restored ice?

[The Spirit Of Allegiance]

ROTFLOL! Talk about your Milky Way....

[devolve]

Moooooooooooo!

[SlowBoat407]

Simpsons did it!

[potlatch]

Looks like I get the "MOO-BAT" award huh?

[dixiechick2000]

"Talk about your Milky Way...."


Please...let's not. ;o)

[Gene Eric]

>> 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.

[diamond6]

Opening pandora's box............BIG TIME!!

[Rocky]

So long, and thanks for all the fish.

[devolve]

Yeah

Like all those graphic "awards" you see on internet websites -

I think I'll give myself an award while I'm at it!

[Moonman62]

They're launching Rosie O'Donnell into space?

They'll have to invent a rocket capable of the job first.

[potlatch]

What award are you going to give yourself?

[the anti-liberal]

"It should be possible to build a colony deep underground"

Think claustropobia and depression on a large scale - 'seasonally affected disorder', SAD.

[devolve]

I shouda known!

[FYREDEUS]

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

[potlatch]

Should have known I would be prepared huh?

[FYREDEUS]

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.

[July 4th]

Wouldn't it be cool if a system of mirrors like that could be used to light up large areas on the Earth at night?

This is being done to some extent in a couple of places in Europe; one is in Italy. There's a town that's at the bottom of a steep valley, and its residents get little to no sunlight 365 days/year. They got grant money to build a big mirror array on the top of the valley to reflect sunlight down to the town.