Space Ring Could Combat Global Warming

Posted by timothy on Monday June 27, 2005 @01:33PM from the pie-plate-in-the-sky dept.

telstar writes "Though the debate continues around global warming, a new proposal suggests building an artificial space ring around the Earth to block the light of the sun and bring a balance to solar radiation, cloud cover, and heat-trapping greenhouse gases. The ring could be comprised of particles which would scatter the sunlight, or be built by an interconnected ring of spaceships aligned to block the light. The former proposal is estimated to cost anywhere from $6 trillion to $200 trillion dollars, while the spaceship solution would run approximately $500 billion. Halo fans rejoice."

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Nothing's impossible! by Baldrson · 2005-06-27 13:42 · Score: 0, Redundant

If the US can invade Iraq for weapons of mass destruction, discover that the whole thing was a con perpetrated by the Bush administration and then stay there killing thousands American boys, hundreds of thousands of Iraqis and blowing hundreds of billions of dollars a year -- why what the hell? Build a ring aound the earth for a few trillion dollars!
What's anyone gonna do about it? Shift to the Yuan as the reserve currency or something?

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Seastead this.