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.
Is this before or after the teslas can drive themselves? /s
- or before or after he builds underground tunnels for Teslas across country?
This dude is like some drugged out crazy guy ranting on a street corner.
Guess they figured out how to bring scarcity to the solar market.
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.
Didn’t MGT specifically make fighting this lunacy her cause?
No, she’s on a revenge kick because the rest of the neo nazis club she works for told her she’s not allowed to run for Senate.
She’s basically throwing a tantrum by being as “bad” as she can imagine, which ironically means doing her job to help the people she represents, but don’t mistake it or empathy, she’s just checking boxes
Not really, she’s just trying to capture maga cult members who are going a stray. She’s still a racist piece of garbage no matter who she picks a fight with.
“Elon, where do you get your brilliant ideas from?”
“Well, they just come to me. Because Im so brilliant.”
"So not from other people that you then repackage ?
“No.”
“You dont just buy companies, and slap an ‘I made this’ sticker on it?”
“Not from popular cartoons from over 20 years ago?”
“… go fuck yourself!”
Futurama did it first.
Can we not indulge into the fantasy of a wanna be super villain?
An yes weather control satalites. Has he been reading too many comspiracies?
Watched the None like it Hot episode of Futurama and liked Wernstrom’s idea.
Oh so the thing right wing loons like to say the Jews already do?
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.
Usually when people talk about this kind of thing, they suggest making a sun shade and delivering it to the Lagrange point between the earth and sun. It certainly feels more reasonable to do it that way. But I wonder which method really is more feasible. (Obviously both methods aren’t realistic right now)
Well, two things about that.
One, the L1 Lagrange point between the Earth and Sun is further out than the orbit of the moon. Even without doing any math, just a cursory observation of how shadows work will illustrate that, given that the moon itself can just barely cover the disc of the sun from where it is, any such object placed there would need to have a diameter larger than that of the moon in order to completely block the sun’s light. Or some appreciable and nontrivial fraction of the diameter of the moon if you only want to block part of the sun’s light. Lofting something that massive up there and more importantly keeping it there given that it’d also be well within the gravitational influence of the moon would be quite the challenge. (“Quite the challenge,” by the way, is rocket scientist talk for, “This is complete science fiction, and whoever suggested it is insane.”)
Point two is that the Deep Space Climate Observatory is currently already parked there.
You wouldn’t be blocking all of the suns light. That’d kill us. Blocking 2% would be a noticeable “fix”. It’s been a thought out on paper project for decades. It’s “possible” in the strictest sense, but would take something (or many smaller somethings) the size of most of South America to do. It would take thousands of launches to a destination around 800,000 miles away, and then it would also all have to be able to adjust for orbital changes because the lagrange point isn’t a stable orbit.
We just need another massive once a millennium volcano eruption. Throw the world into chaos and starve half the population to death while the earth is half covered in atmospheric ash for a year. The slow Thanos snap.
the lagrange point isn’t a stable orbit.
That’s totally true, but to be fair, it’s still more stable and requires less maneuvering than low earth orbit. So if we’re comparing the two orbits…
We just need another massive once a millennium volcano eruption. Throw the world into chaos and starve half the population to death while the earth is half covered in atmospheric ash for a year. The slow Thanos snap.
I gotta be honest, that sounds like a less-than-optimal solution. But I like that you’re thinking outside the box!
Lol. Thanks.
Low earth orbit is consistently unsstable but the drag and gravity is pretty consistent so you’re guaranteed to have to consistently adjust away from earth and speed up, or go the starlink route and just plan on launching a satellite replacement every 5 years(they do still have thrusters and adjust to stay in the right areas for their lifespan).
The lagrange point actually has a wobble to it. Due to solar radiation and gravity from other planets as they move around, so that sweet little perfect spot of neutral gravity moves around in distance between the sun and the earth all the time.
We’d probably have an easier time covering like 5% of our planet in mirrors spread out all over the place. That would cool the planet down by about 2c. Good luck keeping them all clean.
“A large solar-powered AI satellite constellation would be able to prevent global warming by making tiny adjustments in how much solar energy reached Earth,” Musk tweeted, apropos of seemingly nothing.
“It would only take tiny adjustments to prevent global warming or global cooling for that matter,” he added. “Earth has been a snowball many times in the past.”
