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maybe we could just float a whole bunch of white styrofoam balls in the arctic when the BOE happens to bump the albedo? lmao.
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Jan 15, 2022 21:40
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JeremoudCorbynejad posted:Sci fi idea: control of a solar shade is lost and it spins wildly on its axis, bathing the entire earth in an endless strobe light effect  Real talk tho, the issue with a solar shade is not deploying one, it is how to keep it in place when it is inherently a solar sail and will constantly be fighting against the pressure of solar winds.
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Jan 15, 2022 21:46
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hekaton posted:i assume any and all geoengineering ideas will be tried simultaneously without coordination or long term planning 
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Jan 15, 2022 21:46
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JeremoudCorbynejad posted:Sci fi idea: control of a solar shade is lost and it spins wildly on its axis, bathing the entire earth in an endless strobe light effect what if it takes decades to spin on its axis, so forevermore in addition to having yearly warm/cold phases postapocalyptic society also has to deal with going from temperate to hellworld and back every hundred years
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Jan 15, 2022 21:48
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Slavvy posted:We will get a nuke fight long before we get any kind of geo engineering attempt. Afaik: why would you do something costly, difficult to justify and with a questionable chance of success when you can, instead, just steal poo poo off your neighbours to maintain quality of life? geo engineering will definitely happen as a "placate the plebs" horse and pony show nukes will also definitely happen india pakistan water war 2031 but i honestly don't know if it'll be followed by them becoming commonplace. prolly just the one exchange of a few hundred, "minor" global impacts, and then nothing else with em until rapidly declining america decides to end the world rather than recognize it already gave up hegemon status
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Jan 15, 2022 21:49
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silicone thrills posted:maybe we could just float a whole bunch of white styrofoam balls in the arctic when the BOE happens to bump the albedo? Albedo is stored in the balls
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Jan 15, 2022 21:50
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silicone thrills posted:maybe we could just float a whole bunch of white styrofoam balls in the arctic when the BOE happens to bump the albedo?
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Jan 15, 2022 21:51
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hekaton posted:what if it takes decades to spin on its axis, so forevermore in addition to having yearly warm/cold phases postapocalyptic society also has to deal with going from temperate to hellworld and back every hundred years This is a chaotic era.
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Jan 15, 2022 22:02
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BIG HEADLINE posted:"Don't gently caress in the front hole." Last time a group tried to make that popular the Catholic church wiped them out. At least we still remember them in the origins of the word "bugger". Oglethorpe posted:so a lot of people got probed with the new parasite but a lot of you are forgetting that it needs to protect itself from covid with a proper P100 half-mask respirator Love this but I object to the characterization of our hard-working rotifer mascot as a parasite. They're so independent and autonomous they don't even need sex. Also, where can I get the gang tag? This needs to happen. Xaris posted:cuz things are still fun while they're around. and also pizzas, rent, power, and lentils currently still requires money. which means getting in a 4000lb bubble of plastic n steel bubble risking imminent death to go to work and doing just enough to appear competent to management. the only thing guaranteed to any one person is death; might as well do whatever you want in between: might as well have some fun and things are also very funny. like fishes still try to swim upstream even if their waters are shallow drying out polluted death cesspools filled with broken glass and oil spills. Trying to find that Venn diagram of "Apocalypse" and "Having to Go to Work" with the arrow pointing to the thin sliver of an intersection: "How did we end up here?" IAMKOREA posted:Buddhism my dude 😎 So, I was in the local Health Centre getting my Covid booster, had to wait 15 minutes and didn't bring any reading materials except my phone. I hate reading on a phone and never browse because I want a decent sized screen for my porn. The browsers on my computers all have ad blockers up the yin yang because I hate ads with a passion. Not my phone, because my phone is for voice and text.  Decided it was time to take your advice. Fired up the browser, typed in "Buddhist Meditation Techniques" and was assaulted with ads and splash screens for "Buy Buddhist Meditation Techniques at..." Just seemed really, really wrong. Still stuck in the Okanagan Valley, watching the world burn while taking care of my elderly demented father in law. I keep getting a faint whiff of insecticide while drinking tea. Maybe he sprayed ant killer in the back room, maybe he was using it to clean the stains out of the teacups like the other inappropriate chemicals I keep finding next to the kitchen sink. His house has a magnificent view of the lake, surrounded by vineyards with absolutely no effort made at terracing or slowing runoff from into the lake. To the contrary, it looks like they started the machine at the edge of the lake and ran directly up hill, trenching as they climbed. I guess being a desert they don't have to worry about this traditionally but every summer the lake that provides the town's water becomes so contaminated with ag runoff that they have a bottled water use advisory. Any ant killer my father in law is adding to my tea is just topping up what industry has already put there. Increasingly I'm thinking that we're wrong to view dementia as an aberration or fault in the human brain. It's the ground state, some of us are just better at papering it over than others.
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Jan 15, 2022 22:06
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I'm not generally one to post youtube links with little context but this is a journey I think many posters here would find fascinating. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pp2wbyLoEtM&t=1936s
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Jan 15, 2022 22:35
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JeremoudCorbynejad posted:Sci fi idea: control of a solar shade is lost and it spins wildly on its axis, bathing the entire earth in an endless strobe light effect read Nightfall by Isaac Asimov. Middling prose but good eschatology.
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Jan 15, 2022 22:44
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Ive played a lot of Dyson Sphere Program, I'm ready to lead us in constructing solar shades to solve Climate Change and Save the World. First step: We need to prioritize unlocking the purple research cubes.
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Jan 15, 2022 22:46
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nikosoft posted:First step: We need to prioritize unlocking the purple research cubes.
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Jan 15, 2022 22:48
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is the nature abhors a dome person a goon? i've been linking their video to people and having them cease contact with me. lol. lmao.
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Jan 15, 2022 22:50
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JeremoudCorbynejad posted:Sci fi idea: control of a solar shade is lost and it spins wildly on its axis, bathing the entire earth in an endless strobe light effect This would drive so many people (and animals, and plants) utterly insane
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Jan 15, 2022 22:55
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bi crimes posted:is the nature abhors a dome person a goon? i've been linking their video to people and having them cease contact with me. lol. lmao. started watching it again today, the completely valid argument that helicopters are green technology is still loving hilarious
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Jan 15, 2022 22:55
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hekaton posted:what if it takes decades to spin on its axis, so forevermore in addition to having yearly warm/cold phases postapocalyptic society also has to deal with going from temperate to hellworld and back every hundred years Winter is cumming
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Jan 15, 2022 23:00
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i like how spraying some chemicals into the atmosphere is so expensive somehow that just escalating into nuclear war is cheaper. this is a common refrain in this thread. using a nuke would not be cheap in any fashion imo. like i really think if nukes happened you’d be holy poo poo this is awesome and make popcorn meanwhile we literally already do regional atmospheric engineering (lol the floods in the middle east)
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Jan 15, 2022 23:01
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hekaton posted:i assume any and all geoengineering ideas will be tried simultaneously without coordination or long term planning lmao 💯
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Jan 15, 2022 23:02
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vyelkin posted:I honestly had trouble following who did and didn't want one (because I am very stupid), so for the sake of my sanity just quote this post if you want a sixer with a bdelloid rotifer as the image
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Jan 15, 2022 23:04
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vyelkin posted:I honestly had trouble following who did and didn't want one (because I am very stupid), so for the sake of my sanity just quote this post if you want a sixer with a bdelloid rotifer as the image late to the party but 
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Jan 15, 2022 23:07
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Rime posted:"Far Post-apocalyptic ice age setting, hundreds of years after humanity loses control of a solar shade" is a thread I'm I'm legit shocked no sci-fi author ever explored. book of the ancestor is similar but inversed, sun output lowers and induces ice age, they used a focus to heat a habitable ring that but generations passing means its slowly falling out of orbit and is uncontrollable/ irreparable/ unrepairable. So wars constantly break out as the new status quo settles. It was sorta meh so i never finished it but the plot was that somebody wanted to control the system to diffuse the focus while over enemy nations and freeze them all to death or something?
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Jan 15, 2022 23:24
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Rime posted:Hold your thumb up to the sun, now imagine how large an object you'd require to generate iceball earth if it was placed in an orbit inversely distant from your thumb. Transarctica. Though closer to atmospheric dimming.
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Jan 15, 2022 23:49
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Transarctica gets points for having the best quit button in gaming.
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Jan 15, 2022 23:55
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atmospheric dimming would be the way to go because it would have to be a pretty bizarre scenario to put up a light shield and then lose control and be unwilling to do anything about it but it is a sci-fi book so maybe a virus prevents anyone from doing anything in the meantime
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Jan 16, 2022 00:00
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UPWepZSWXQ
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Jan 16, 2022 00:26
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ghislaine maxwell is being discussed in the jeffrey epstein thread
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Jan 16, 2022 00:43
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skooma512 posted:“Once there were brook trout in the streams in the mountains. You could see them standing in the amber current where the white edges of their fins wimpled softly in the flow. They smelled of moss in your hand. Polished and muscular and torsional. On their backs were vermiculate patterns that were maps of the world in its becoming. Maps and mazes. Of a thing which could not be put back. Not be made right again. In the deep glens where they lived all things were older than man and they hummed of mystery.” a few people i know who read The Road thought that coda meant the book had a hopeful ending.
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Jan 16, 2022 01:20
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mediaphage posted:atmospheric dimming would be the way to go because it would have to be a pretty bizarre scenario to put up a light shield and then lose control and be unwilling to do anything about it putting up the shield cost a lot of money and taking it down will cost even more, plus if we take it down we might have to stop emitting and really we should wait for the science to see if blocking out most of the sunlight is really a bad idea oops now we live in a post-apocalyptic society and we've lost all launch capability to destroy the shield, guess we have to learn to live with the forever winter
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Jan 16, 2022 01:48
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how would taking a shield down cost money, just drop it into the ocean
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Jan 16, 2022 01:52
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a less impossible way to build a 100km lens in space is to build a trillion tiny lenses and just dump them at the right spot so to retrieve enough of the comparatively tiny lenses to undo your solar dimming effect may be, uh, not super possible
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Jan 16, 2022 01:54
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nuclear bomb, next question
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Jan 16, 2022 01:58
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Nuke a volcano I watched a lot of volcano disaster movies growing up and I want my apocalypse to come with a volcano
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Jan 16, 2022 02:07
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but doesn't nuking the volcano release the engrams?
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Jan 16, 2022 02:10
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mediaphage posted:atmospheric dimming would be the way to go because it would have to be a pretty bizarre scenario to put up a light shield and then lose control and be unwilling to do anything about it In-story almost everyone starved. And the people who built the shield were sitting on a stockpile of coal and oil as a backup plan.
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Jan 16, 2022 02:13
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December 1993
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Jan 16, 2022 02:45
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i mean this is dumb and i’m dumb for talking about it but a sun shield would only work from an unstable lagrange point. it would need constant vigilance to stay in position. also anyone that can launch a project like that could pretty easily just send a comparatively tiny rocket with explosives on it i always thought a good self own story would be attempting to asteroid mine by bringing the rock closer and accidentally hitting the earth with it mediaphage has issued a correction as of 03:04 on Jan 16, 2022 |
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Jan 16, 2022 03:01
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SKULL.GIF posted:December 1993 PS4 walked so FF7 could run. 
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Jan 16, 2022 03:04
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SKULL.GIF posted:December 1993 Man I was playing this with my kid like a week ago
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Jan 16, 2022 03:10
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so whats this green thing everyones bitching about
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Jan 16, 2022 03:14
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