@sundogplanets "We don't know who struck first, us or them. But we do know it was us that scorched the sky."

@sundogplanets I remember watching an episode of Jimmy Neutron where they did this. It did not go well...

The episode is called "Jimmy on Ice" for anybody who needs a children's cartoon to break down why this is a bad idea.

@sundogplanets This is also Snowpiercer.

@sundogplanets Well, gee. That plan doesn't sound like it could have any unforeseen consequences, does it?

Just less sunlight. On which all life on Earth depends for survival. And no practical way to remove the "tons" of particles if we needed to.

What's that? They'll eventually fall to Earth? Well, that sounds much better. Now we'll just have massive pollution over land, rivers and seas of a type whose effects are as yet unexplored. What could possibly go wrong?

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eejits

@sundogplanets “And when he tried to steal our sunlight, Mr. Burns crossed that line between everyday villainy and cartoonish supervillainy.”

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Insane on its face, based on highschool level physics. Do they know how plants work?

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Oh boy. I just finished "Nuclear War", a scenario by Annie Jacobsen, and I'm still trying to shake off the sense of impending grief for everything.
Great book though. Learned a lot.

I might have Termination Shock in my tbr queue: been on a bit of an "end of the world" tack.

@sundogplanets just from the headline my first thought was orbital sunshades, to compete with the orbital mirrors.

I wonder what you’d get if you didn’t pay either of them

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@sundogplanets Good book, but I don't want to live it.

@sundogplanets Highly recommend "Termination Shock" -- and it really is a warning not a suggestion.

@sundogplanets We are already doing the Moab thing from Fall, might as well break out all his Torment Nexus stuff

@sundogplanets maybe, just maybe, we could use something like this as a tool. But only after we have stopped making the problem worse and we’ve researched this idea for decades.