Technology

"Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should."

Futurama did it first.

I remember the mickey mouse series where scroge did just that, or was it donald. That was from way before year 2000 BTW.

So what's next, solar roadways?

[johnny silverhand noises intensifies]

Reflect Orbit 2.0 Hacker Edition:

Move corporate HQ to Russia, place mirrors in orbit to block sunlight, then charge big $$$ to unblocked it. Profit.

If we could actually do this, couldn’t we also send up large Sun ray blockers that would help us control global warming?

This is not just simple bullshit this is part of a greater Solar Radiation Modification effort and is highly likely to actually become a thing because we are going to block the sun we aren't going to stop using oil.

Whatever happened to the 12 Jasons? They used to stop things like this. I imagine they were disbanded by the regime.

This reminds me of the venetian shade idea. 'Trillions of dollars' hahaha okay let's see who wants to pitch in.

Yeah, mirrors seem like a huge problem. Why not go with photovoltaics - a decades-old, proven technology, and just beam energy to a ground-based storage facility to be used later?

I know some amount will be lost in conversion and transmission, but you could still have underground facilities in cities providing extended daylight for good reasons, like to help people with seasonal affective disorder, or to grow crops out of season.

Astronomers cannot warn at 2000C! Mhaaa ha ha ha ha ha!

Astronomers can barely warn even at 100C! Ha ha ha mha haha ha!