An yes weather control satalites. Has he been reading too many comspiracies?
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Watched the None like it Hot episode of Futurama and liked Wernstrom's idea.
Hell if we just launch enough satellites we won't have to worry about the pesky sun. /s
I am sure he does not plan to serve those satellites to world's fascist regimes, why would he
Huh. Doomsday weather device is on my BINGO card.
It wasn't enough to help ruin the US, now he wants to fuck up the entire world.
Someone must have told him about the really cool documentary they saw called Geostorm, Narrated by Gerard Butler.
Ooohhh, more lies out of the mouth of Elon? You don't say!
Well if his Mars target dates are anything to go by (2018 first feet on Mars, right? And where are we with that now? Maybe but not even 1%) then this project would be completed by the year 2489
Fuck it. Let's just make a Dyson sphere. If you can already circle the planet with enough satellites to cool it while letting plants still grow you're well on your way
The sun is a bit bigger than the earth. Dyson sphere goes around the star, not the planet.
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Ah... Souls in the Great Machine... A good book, but a terrible guide for humanity's development.
Next up: mining the moon
“A large solar-powered AI satellite constellation would be able to prevent global warming by making tiny adjustments in how much solar energy reached Earth,” Musk tweeted, apropos of seemingly nothing.
“It would only take tiny adjustments to prevent global warming or global cooling for that matter,” he added. “Earth has been a snowball many times in the past.”