Combating Global Warming With Science
<a href='http://www.livescience.com/technology/050627_warming_solution.html' target='_blank'>halo?</a>
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<!--QuoteBegin--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->A wild idea to combat global warming suggests creating an artificial ring of small particles or spacecrafts around Earth to shade the tropics and moderate climate extremes.
There would be side effects, proponents admit. An effective sunlight-scattering particle ring would illuminate our night sky as much as the full Moon, for example.
And the price tag would knock the socks off even a big-budget agency like NASA: $6 trillion to $200 trillion for the particle approach. Deploying tiny spacecraft would come at a relative bargain: a mere $500 billion tops.
But the idea, detailed today in the online version of the journal Acta Astronautica, illustrates that climate change can be battled with new technologies, according to one scientist not involved in the new work.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
rather interesting take on fighting global warming, although expensive it would probably be better in the long run considering we could use the ring as a station for future space based projects.
A snippet.
<!--QuoteBegin--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->A wild idea to combat global warming suggests creating an artificial ring of small particles or spacecrafts around Earth to shade the tropics and moderate climate extremes.
There would be side effects, proponents admit. An effective sunlight-scattering particle ring would illuminate our night sky as much as the full Moon, for example.
And the price tag would knock the socks off even a big-budget agency like NASA: $6 trillion to $200 trillion for the particle approach. Deploying tiny spacecraft would come at a relative bargain: a mere $500 billion tops.
But the idea, detailed today in the online version of the journal Acta Astronautica, illustrates that climate change can be battled with new technologies, according to one scientist not involved in the new work.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
rather interesting take on fighting global warming, although expensive it would probably be better in the long run considering we could use the ring as a station for future space based projects.
Comments
Oh, and I think this idea is silly. I highly doubt they thought through the effects of having a huge body in space affecting our gravitation pull. Hell the moon has a huge affect on the oceans, let alone a giant belt around our whole planet (that will be much closer than the moon)
It'd be a lot cheaper to buy everyone in the world a hydrogen car...
And before anyone asks: My proof lies with NASA. Everything points to it there, from them, and hundreds of other places(But their the most well known).
And before anyone asks: My proof lies with NASA. Everything points to it there, from them, and hundreds of other places(But their the most well known).<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
In the movie <i>The Day After Tomorrow</i>, global warming causes a mini ice age.
And before anyone asks: My proof lies with NASA. Everything points to it there, from them, and hundreds of other places(But their the most well known).<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
In the movie <i>The Day After Tomorrow</i>, global warming causes a mini ice age. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
That ain't happening <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->
When it comes down to it, Global Warming has been going on for 6000 years(the last ice age? Correct me if I'm wrong on that, I don't remember exactly). ANd any way you look at it, we've heated, in the past 500 years, 6 degrees celsius.
It hasn't sped up in this century. In fact, its shown slowings: This entire century(since 1906), we've raised the temperature a whole .3 Celsius. From 1800-1900, it raised .8 Celsius. It continues to increase the farther back you go.
Its a lie folks.
Its late right now, but tomorrow I'm going to find that article and post it up heres so everyone can see it.
Its late right now, but tomorrow I'm going to find that article and post it up heres so everyone can see it. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
I'd believe a organization that studies the planet as a whole as 90% of it's job before a company that only cares about whats on it, let alone the fact when that company has been proven wrong countless times, especially in that area(there was a debate in '03 between NASA and NG- NASA had the facts, NG had feeling. Sorry, feelings aren't real, folks.)
roflmao WHAT IS GOING ON