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Musk: AI Satellites Would “Adjust” Sunlight to “Prevent Global Warming”
The New American ^ | November 5, 2025 | Veronika Kyrylenko

Posted on 11/05/2025 2:15:33 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum

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Et tu, Bruté?
1 posted on 11/05/2025 2:15:33 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Skynet controlling how much sunlight reaches Earth, what could possibly go wrong?


2 posted on 11/05/2025 2:17:31 PM PST by PTBAA
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God Save us .
Another Billionaire trying to play God
over this global warming scam.
Arrest all these dangerous rich lunatics before
they kill the planet and US .


3 posted on 11/05/2025 2:20:09 PM PST by ncalburt ( Gop DC Globalists are the evil. )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

That assumes that we can figure out the “optimal” amount of sunlight.

Just like fighting “climate change” assumes our current climate is “optimal.”


4 posted on 11/05/2025 2:21:29 PM PST by MV=PY (The Magic Question: Who's paying for it?)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

With “friends” like this... who needs “enemies” ?


5 posted on 11/05/2025 2:23:08 PM PST by yantis
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Like the great idea of bringing King Kong to NYC , did that guy get sued for all the deaths and damage ? LOL


6 posted on 11/05/2025 2:23:12 PM PST by butlerweave (Fateh)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

How can such an intelligent man taken in by the Global Warming con?


7 posted on 11/05/2025 2:23:36 PM PST by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Elon can test this on Venus before trying any tech on Earth.

Wanna control sunlight? Do it on another planet first.


8 posted on 11/05/2025 2:23:51 PM PST by Bayard
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Jeez, talk about hubris. Musk needs a King Canute moment.


9 posted on 11/05/2025 2:25:08 PM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Has he ever been outside when a very thick cloud covers the Sun , you want it to move away fast


10 posted on 11/05/2025 2:25:19 PM PST by butlerweave (Fateh)
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11 posted on 11/05/2025 2:26:17 PM PST by montag813
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

A fool and his money....


12 posted on 11/05/2025 2:27:01 PM PST by Fungi
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What could possibly go wrong🥶


13 posted on 11/05/2025 2:27:29 PM PST by Licensed-To-Carry (John 14:6 Romans 10:9 Hebrews 9:27)
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To: MV=PY

Just tax it and politicians will find the optimal.


14 posted on 11/05/2025 2:28:01 PM PST by Cold Heart
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Really? Who is going to program these satellites?


15 posted on 11/05/2025 2:28:35 PM PST by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: butlerweave

Lol!

But I bet he DID keep the money he got from the ticket sales

😆


16 posted on 11/05/2025 2:28:39 PM PST by Beowulf9
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

[To lower Earth’s average temperature by approximately 2 degrees Celsius, a space sunshade at the Sun-Earth L1 Lagrange point would need a total area of several million square kilometers. The exact size depends on the specific design and the target amount of cooling needed to offset ongoing warming, but estimates generally fall within the range of a few million square kilometers.

Key estimates for the required size and related metrics:

Percentage of sunlight blocked: To fully offset global warming (which would include cooling by roughly 2°C), studies suggest blocking around 1.7% to 2% of incoming solar radiation.

Total area: A structure with an equivalent area of approximately 2.6 million square kilometers (or about 1 million square miles) would be required to block this amount of sunlight if positioned at the classical L1 point. Other estimates suggest an even larger area, around 4.5 million square kilometers, might be needed.

Composition: Due to the immense size and mass, a single structure is not feasible. Proposed designs involve trillions of smaller, independent disks or a series of smaller, modular shades acting together as an “archipelago”.
Mass: The total mass of such a system would be substantial, estimated at millions of tons (e.g., about 20 million tonnes in one proposal), posing a significant launch challenge.

The physical scale of such a project is comparable to the size of a large country, such as Argentina or roughly half the size of the contiguous United States, highlighting the monumental engineering and cost challenges involved.]-Gemini

Even with starship it would be millions of launches and trillions and trillions of dollars....or we can just bask in the warmth of a greener and wetter planet for a few thousands years till the ocean and the water cycle via igneous rock weathering pulls all the carbon back down to limestones , corals and deep sea muds.


17 posted on 11/05/2025 2:30:53 PM PST by GenXPolymath
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To: PTBAA

Don’t worry, he’ll be on to something else next month.


18 posted on 11/05/2025 2:36:58 PM PST by beethovenfan (The REAL Great Reset will be when Jesus returns. )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Musk is not the first to speculate on this “insane” idea.


19 posted on 11/05/2025 2:38:03 PM PST by Sacajaweau
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How can such an intelligent man taken in by the Global Warming con?

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20 posted on 11/05/2025 2:39:26 PM PST by laplata (They want each crisis to take the greatest toll possible.)
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