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Big if true. Maybe as much as 330,000 the mass of the earth.
That's like... 1 sun. What a coincidence!
Ya know, that does sound pretty BIG!
With some rough calculations it might be 0.00001578 Light Years far.
Hmm that's about 1 AU, coincidence ? 🤔
The number of times I've had to explain to adults that the sun is a star is way more than it should be. It never stops being so disappointing too that even the most basic shit, not this exclusively, is just something so many people don't know, think about, have any interest in and don't ever read more than the sparse title about that thing in the news (those titles and articles often being partly of fully false).
I've explained to many adults, many with college educations, that insects are animals. Understandable for those who don't realize corals are animals, but they think bugs are plants or something? Smh
I think for many people, when they say animal, they think vertebrate. When asked what insects are, they can't answer.
This and "humans are animals". It's shocking the amount of times I've had to argue this.
Idk anything about stars or solar systems, but when my house gets too hot I just close the curtains and it helps everything cool down. Maybe we can close earth's curtains and will fix it?
This does happen and it’s an effective way to decrease the temperature:
Might be difficult to implement at scale though.
That's literally a photo of it happening at the only scale that matters. The solution is that once the moon is there, we just need to stop it from moving away.
Problem solved forever.
But more importantly, what color should the curtains be?
Should they match the drapes?
You mean the carpet?
I just realized the saying is “Do the carpets match the drapes” but in my head I was thinking “Do the curtains match the drapes”. Even though curtains and drapes are similar. Brain fart.
A orbiting, remotely positional, moon-sized sun shade? That's crazy enough to work I think you've solved the heatwave here
Couldn’t we do this in a more localized way for large cities? Like a big ol’ shade satellite for areas being dangerously affected by heat waves? I know it’s just a bandaid but we will need these kinds of extreme weather mitigation techniques to keep us alive so we can solve climate change or die trying.
Ps I’m not a scientist, so this is a sci-fi idea only - as in idk the maths of what this would take.
The structure you describe is called a Soleta. If you are interested, space nerds have explored the possibilities in some detail.
Simpsons did it!
It's not really hard to implement at all but would just trade pest for cholera. We could just burn a lot of coal again, the dustier and dirtier the better. But that's pretty bad for air quality but it would seriously cool the planet.
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1950s general with itchy trigger finger and extra nuclear bombs:
"Hold me beer!"
Why would libs put it there in the first place?
We better destroy it just to be safe
They should try to extinguish it... with water..
Well, if you add enough water quickly enough, it should cool down.
And if you add it slowly enough, it should go out after "just" a "short" while.
I doubt this would work. The sun runs on hydrogen fusion. Adding water is just adding fuel to fire.
Yes, but more massive stars burn out faster. And even more massive stars turn into black holes and cool down rapidly.
Well... black holes are not cool, either.
Never know until you try!
And adding more fuel to a fire make it burn hotter and faster. Largers stars die faster, so more fuel will reduce the lifespan.
This is like some Trump logic right here
I knew it!
I’ve been saying this for years!
SHUT UP ABOUT THE SUN!
Don't Talk To Me Or My Sun Ever Again
Reminds me of when Beatrix von Storch, politician from the far-right German party AfD, once suggested suing the sun for damages done by climate change in an interview.
Link: https://youtu.be/IV8UzT_9bXg (englisch subs available)
Also den Fremdscham, den ich bei dieser Menge an pseudowissenschaftlichen trara verspürte… cringre^10
Why is Saturn bigger than the sun?
Perspective can't be the answer.
But it’s behind the sun, so perspective should make it even smaller! Also this is obviously to scale.
Can everyone not focus on the Sun? -Dotard 47
Yeah it’s a funny joke, but this kind of shit actually works on people to an alarming degree.
I think it’s an extension of dunning-kruger, essentially. These dummies love “knowing” something that all those smug educated people that study it for a living somehow do not know. It’s something I see in my more conservative relatives too, the need to put others down to establish your legitimacy.
Even decades ago I remember hearing in conservative media the revelations that water vapor was a greenhouse gas, or that methane was, or that the sun goes through cycles, or that the earth’s orbit isn’t perfectly circular. Every single time it was discussed with the wonder of that brain exploding in space dude meme. Just flinging that confusion and doubt in all directions, knowing that each piece will probably be the thing that convinces part of the audience.
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