He needs to hurry up and od on ketamine before he figures out to upload his consciousness into neuralink and we end up in Altered Carbon.

Can people stop listening to this lying robot dicked fuck?

Emphasis on "tiny" adjustments, per the article. I don't think Elmo comprehends just how much surface area is going to be required to make any measurable let alone meaningful impact, nor the cost of hefting all of that mass up there and keeping it there.

This whole crackhead idea is completely infeasible. But he probably hopes it'll help him scam the government out of a bunch of money trying (and failing), while wasting vast amounts of rocket fuel.

We already have the answer of how to deal with this:

We can and have shut this thing down when the political will is available. The efficiencies developed in agriculture and manufacturing have shown that the vast majority of economic activity is effectively idle, not necessary, and purely for the purpose of creating the impression of larger economies than are actually present.

No one starved due to lock-downs. No governments collapsed. Netflix views increased. People took on hobbies and got more exercise.

We have an exact template of what we would need to do to save our climate future.

All that we lack is the political will. And no, geoengineering solutions to prop up and support a broken approach to economics isn't a solution.

Conservatives shit their pants over things like SNAP and DEI. But they see this fucking moron and say: give him all the tax dollars.

We need to stop letting supervillains pollute the sky with garbage. As well as a moratorium against satellite quantity, and satellites that serve any purpose outside of science and some communication. (Starlink should be deorbited as well, if for no other reason than the atmospheric pollution created by the short life cycle of those satellites.)

"Guy who sells rockets proposes launching a million satellites"

He's a grifting idiot. He cant even get self driving cars working. Until he finishes that work he should sit in the corner with a dunce hat on and leave the talking to people who arent failures.

He's cooked, pack it in. If we're lucky he'll fall in love with an AI pigeon and live out the rest of his days in squalor, which is the only part of Nicola Tesla's legacy he deserves.

Hey hey hey. Elon. 1-2-3-eyes on me. Ok? Listen little man. You have to put away all the toys you already got out before you start getting any more toys out. You made a big mess out there in low Earth orbit already, you need to help clean it up before you start any more games. Got-it got-it?

Yes, I know you don't want to, but sometimes we have to do things we don't want to. Yes, even if you took all of the play money for yourself.

Yes, I know your daddy owned an emerald mine. That doesn't mean you don't have a responsibility to help keep this whole place usable.

Also, while you're doing your cleanup, there's still a hole you dug in Las Vegas that you forgot about, and you also need to apologize to the rest of the class for breaking the government services they all enjoyed, and help everyone put them back together.

I know it's not going to be easy to fix them. That's why we don't break things, right? That's right. Especially when....? When we don't know what they're for, right. But you can do hard things, especially if you have help.

I know you fed it into a wood chipper, Elon. We all watched you do it. No, I don't think it's funny or epic.

Ok. Well if you aren't going to help clean up, I think we might need to have a consequence, ok? ...no, the consequence can not be going to Mars.

Yes, why not let an emotionally fragile, egotistical maniac control the weather? What a good idea.

That's not how weather works you moron.

Now he's getting ideas from Monty Burns.

Someone tell him how plants get energy to stay alive.

Guess they figured out how to bring scarcity to the solar market.

I will say it again:

Musk is not an engineer. E.g. he has not played Kerbel Space Program.

He demonstrably does not understand the tyranny of the rocket equation, and how obscenely uneconomical getting anything to, and doing anything in, space is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsiolkovsky_rocket_equation

Geoengineering is something worth seriously discussing (and TBH I hope he draws attention to it), and "solar shades" are theoretically neat, but this is not the way. Not with the trajectory of launch tech we have.

You’ve already won Elon. You’re a trillionaire. You don’t need to find new ways to rape the planet and its inhabitants. Please just fuck off and leave the rest of us to die in peace.

Do you guys remember how clean the sky looked when we were all in lock down? 'Cause I do.

This dude is like some drugged out crazy guy ranting on a street corner.

Is this before or after the teslas can drive themselves? /s

Even if it weren't fuck nuts suggesting it, this is surely a bad idea. We need direct sunlight to hit the earth. The problem is the dissipation of the heat generated by that light due to greenhouse gas saturation. Blocking the sunlight in the first place WILL cool the Earth, but with the cost of decreased capacity for plant and algae life to carry out photosynthesis and, thus, remove carbon dioxide from the air and produce oxygen at a minimum. Seems like that would contribute to the greenhouse gas problem, rather than address it, with the additional consequence of reduced yield for crops. I'm sure there would be other consequences too. They have the potential of being MASSIVE!

TL;DR: viable last-ditch option would resemble Highlander 2 in terms of putting one corporation in charge of "protecting" the planet.

Okay, so I was keeping the idea of using deliberate "global dimming" in my back-pocket just so it wouldn't worm it's way through the zeitgeist. It's a viable last-ditch option, but it comes with steep drawbacks. But since we're here now, fuck it.

We already know that, thanks to requiring shipping vessels to use low-sulfur fuel, cloud seeding can actually reduce solar gain. The problem is that it also blocks out a lot of the light needed for photosynthesis. So this approach punches down on the environment in a completely different way. As for people, while global warming will absolutely impact agriculture, so would less sunlight.

https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-how-low-sulphur-shipping-rules-are-affecting-global-warming/

So we could just use airplanes and cloud-seeding. Or we could increase particulates in the atmosphere. Or, as Elon suggests, fly satellites to do the job. The tradeoffs here are awful: disrupt where rain happens, raise lung cancer risks globally, or catapult one man into multi-trilliionaire status while they charge every government on earth for the privilege. Plus, each of those options are more or less forever if we never get around to carbon sequestration that actually works.

We should seriously considering doing anything else first.

Edit: I know I didn't invent this idea. Rather, I just didn't want to add to any consensus around it.

Dude sucks for sure, but real talk: I think when the seas rise and the food gets scarce and there's no way we can avoid doing something, the powers that be will resort to some kind of geo-engineering BS. It'll be a coin flip if that kills all of us

Fuck off Elon. Nobody likes you.

Can we not indulge into the fantasy of a wanna be super villain?

We are going to build a wall around earth and make the aliens pay for it

Where’s Marjorie?? THERE HE HIS MARGE THE WEATHER CONTROLLER

We're still paying attention to what this moron says?

This is all pure bullshit, inspired by his fear that his failure to get anywhere near his Artemis mission goals would result in him getting his NASA public money tit turned off.

"I'll just come up with some bullshit off the top of my head saying I am going to do something with satellites - it doesn't matter that it isn't possible - and the American public will lap it up like the mugs they are. They will insist on giving me billions via NASA."

Trump appointed Musk's crony as head of NASA so the grift will continue. Musk and China applaud. It will result in China winning the new space race, and is another nail in the coffin of the dollar as global reserve currency. Billionaire grifters will get rich over this period, while the average American will get poor.

Dude couldn't even build a tunnel

Simpsons did it: https://simpsons.fandom.com/wiki/Sun_Blocker

Wait!? The Democrats already have weather control technology!? /S

Didn't they just make this illegal in Florida

He also said he'd have people on mars by 2024...

Didn't MGT specifically make fighting this lunacy her cause?

Futurama did it first.

Alternative title: Ultra rich billionaire makes another idiotic suggestion

Can we just launch elon into orbit? Preferably from a cannon.

I thought they didn't believe the climate could be changed...