Everybody go read "Termination Shock" by Neal Stephenson, because apparently that whole scenario is actually about to start happening: https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/11/21/stardust-geoengineering-janos-pasztor-regulations-00646414
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Academics, looks like there's an open letter against solar geoengineering that you can sign on to here: https://www.solargeoeng.org/
@sundogplanets Didn't we do solar geoengineering already unknowingly with shipping?
https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/cleaner-shipping-fuel-is-contributing-ocean-warming-scientists-say-2024-05-31/
'Theoretically, rogue billionaires could afford to at least start changing the climate on their own. That’s the premise of the science fiction novel “Termination Shock,” which inspired Iseman to found Make Sunsets in 2022.'
WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK TECHBROS
@sundogplanets Who can/will stop them? We have rules for installing a plant in most of our countries but do we have enough international rules for space? And if not which organisation could do that?
@sundogplanets “It doesn’t turn out well in the book.”
@sundogplanets - curious, have you read the book and what did you think if you have ?
@sundogplanets I'm (re-)reading this book right now actually. Very WTH.
@sundogplanets wait, so one group of techies want to build some space reflector thingy to shine more sun at night and another bunch want to block the sun? Sigh.
In spring of 2020 I was helping organize a conference on “Why Solar Geoengineering is Bad Actually and How To Regulate it Now Before It’s Too Late”. Scheduled for early April. Cancelled by Covid lockdowns and never revived.
@sundogplanets They're willing to do anything that doesn't involve addressing the cause. I threw "Termination Shock" down halfway through because it was making me scream.
Besides having terrible ideas, Stephenson desperately needs an editor.
@sundogplanets Sci-Fi Author: In my book I invented the Torment Nexus as a cautionary tale.
Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus.
@sundogplanets I am getting really tired of the hubris of Silicon Valley.
@sundogplanets and then, on succeeding, Snowpiercer.
JeffGoldblum.gif except capitalists rather than scientists.
@sundogplanets where's the one for it?
@sundogplanets Well I can't think of any way this can go wrong .. oh wait
It's like a bond movie without bond
@sundogplanets I say if they want to go work capitalism on the surface of the sun, we let them
Can't believe we're at "The solution to polluting the atmosphere is more pollution of a different type."
