We are pretty good at lifting things above the atmosphere.
Yes, with the Falcon Heavy we're down to about USD 1,700 per kilogram. And it only needs about 22 kilogram of rocket for every kilogram of payload to get it to LEO (which is not quite high enough to stay there forever, but let's just say it does). Say, how many tons of "lampshade material" did you want to get up there again to envelope the earth?
As for "really big", the farther from the earth the structure is the more shade it generates.
Nope. Sorry, but nope. Light from a source that is magnitudes bigger than the planet at the distance we are at is for all practical purposes parallel. One square meter of shading material will provide a one square meter shade. Provided you align it right, of course.
Yes technological inventions are necessary, but we went from no powered flight to landing on the moon in 66 years and the pace of technological innovation has greatly improved since then. Its mostly a matter of starting to work on the problem.
The laws of physics don't change. Getting one unit of mass off the ground to an orbit takes a certain amount of energy, anything less would violate the laws of energy conservation.
Well, then it's time to tell people who complain about a broken certificate to update their fucking browser to a version that isn't a security problem for the whole damn web!
Then install an offloading proxy on the machine you want to monitor and its certificate in the browser used. It ain't hard to break ssl encryption, provided you control one endpoint...
You do know that nothing is easier than auto-renewing your certificate, yes? Hell, pretty much any proxy and other SSL-offloader comes with its own "how to automate LE-Cert-Renewals".
Well, everyone being egocentric assholes doesn't seem to be a solution either.
By the way, keep your "freedom" (aka "screw you, I got mine, now"), and I'll keep my high life expectancy, my superior education system and a healthcare system that not only everyone can afford but also ensures that I enjoy my long life in good health.
Depends on what provides that shade. Because, well, that energy from the sunlight doesn't cease to exist just because something else absorbs it.
I know, I know, you want to reflect it. The problematic component here is reflecting it early enough. To do that, you'd have to get a reflector up reeeeeeally high above the planet. And that creates the problem of getting it there, and in quantity. Because the planet is kinda big.
Anti-globalizing doesn't really solve much, for all that would accomplish is heavy lobbying towards lowering local ecology standards to allow domestic use of those polluting industries.
You see, plastic is cheap. Up to about a hundred years ago, everything was made of wood. It was a readily available material, but needed lots of work from a quite skilled person to be shaped. The advent of cheap sheet metal changed that a bit more than half a century ago, and suddenly everything was metal. But once plastic arrived about half a century ago, that was the material dreams are made of. Dirt cheap, able to take any form, able to withstand most of the things we use in everyday life, durable for eternity without any treatment and most of all, easy to mass produce.
There is nothing you could possibly do to make the industry forgo this material. If it's not produced abroad, it will be produced here.
This will continue as long as the US can force countries to sell for dollars. Remember Saddam? He sold his oil for Euros. The rest of the petrol exporting countries quickly learned that it's not healthy to do so.
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Not you, personally, you as in an addendum to your post.
Screw English and its lack of an impersonal pronoun.
And this is a gun, gringo, telling you that you pull out your cellphone now and vota communista!
Or whatever comes close enough to it in this country.
We are pretty good at lifting things above the atmosphere.
Yes, with the Falcon Heavy we're down to about USD 1,700 per kilogram. And it only needs about 22 kilogram of rocket for every kilogram of payload to get it to LEO (which is not quite high enough to stay there forever, but let's just say it does). Say, how many tons of "lampshade material" did you want to get up there again to envelope the earth?
As for "really big", the farther from the earth the structure is the more shade it generates.
Nope. Sorry, but nope. Light from a source that is magnitudes bigger than the planet at the distance we are at is for all practical purposes parallel. One square meter of shading material will provide a one square meter shade. Provided you align it right, of course.
Yes technological inventions are necessary, but we went from no powered flight to landing on the moon in 66 years and the pace of technological innovation has greatly improved since then. Its mostly a matter of starting to work on the problem.
The laws of physics don't change. Getting one unit of mass off the ground to an orbit takes a certain amount of energy, anything less would violate the laws of energy conservation.
Just for shits and giggles, can you explain how this would let everyone MitM a connection?
Well, then it's time to tell people who complain about a broken certificate to update their fucking browser to a version that isn't a security problem for the whole damn web!
You shouldn't be in charge of an internet facing machine altogether...
Then install an offloading proxy on the machine you want to monitor and its certificate in the browser used. It ain't hard to break ssl encryption, provided you control one endpoint...
You might want to elaborate on that, it's not as obvious as you think it is.
At least to me, it ain't.
You do know that nothing is easier than auto-renewing your certificate, yes? Hell, pretty much any proxy and other SSL-offloader comes with its own "how to automate LE-Cert-Renewals".
Well, everyone being egocentric assholes doesn't seem to be a solution either.
By the way, keep your "freedom" (aka "screw you, I got mine, now"), and I'll keep my high life expectancy, my superior education system and a healthcare system that not only everyone can afford but also ensures that I enjoy my long life in good health.
Screw you, if you don't want mine.
While true, I fail to see the relevance.
Depends on what provides that shade. Because, well, that energy from the sunlight doesn't cease to exist just because something else absorbs it.
I know, I know, you want to reflect it. The problematic component here is reflecting it early enough. To do that, you'd have to get a reflector up reeeeeeally high above the planet. And that creates the problem of getting it there, and in quantity. Because the planet is kinda big.
Now we don't even need to get influence from abroad, we can simply let them hack the devices and vote directly.
Cut out the middle man, it's the capitalist way!
I'm sweating my ass off in an office heated to cozy 35C, you can have my share of heat, thank you very much.
Yup, we're boiling the Pepe slowly.
I just enjoy telling people that they're wrong. Everyone has a hobby.
Odd. How comes, then, that there's always a tab left the taxpayer has to pick up?
Ok, then how do you keep the spread up? Air currents don't tend to distribute evenly.
Anti-globalizing doesn't really solve much, for all that would accomplish is heavy lobbying towards lowering local ecology standards to allow domestic use of those polluting industries.
You see, plastic is cheap. Up to about a hundred years ago, everything was made of wood. It was a readily available material, but needed lots of work from a quite skilled person to be shaped. The advent of cheap sheet metal changed that a bit more than half a century ago, and suddenly everything was metal. But once plastic arrived about half a century ago, that was the material dreams are made of. Dirt cheap, able to take any form, able to withstand most of the things we use in everyday life, durable for eternity without any treatment and most of all, easy to mass produce.
There is nothing you could possibly do to make the industry forgo this material. If it's not produced abroad, it will be produced here.
Umm... you do know that plants (you know, the stuff we, and that other stuff we eat, eat) need sunlight to grow, yes?
I think the planet has prior art to this, so don't bother trying to patent that idea.
Well, it would be a start if we at least got people to finally accept that we should do something instead of just keep moving towards the abyss.
This will continue as long as the US can force countries to sell for dollars. Remember Saddam? He sold his oil for Euros. The rest of the petrol exporting countries quickly learned that it's not healthy to do so.
New rule: People above the age of 60 may cross the street at a red light.
People above the age of 70 have to.
No, it's definitely the lack of pirates.