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Giant space umbrella tethered to asteroid could protect Earth from climate crisis, study says (www.independent.co.uk)

submitted 2 years ago by itsaghostcar@lemmy.ca to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

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[–] nxfsi@lemmy.world 26 points 2 years ago (7 children)

Find asteroid at L1 Lagrange point, which is unstable, meaning objects need to burn fuel to stay there for prolonged periods of time
Put giant sunshade on it directly facing the Earth
Sunshade acts like the largest solar sail in existence, making station-keeping useless
Because L1 is an unstable equilibrium, solar radiation immediately blows asteroid away from the Lagrange point and directly into Earth's gravity well

I'm sure nothing can possibly go wrong with this plan.

[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

We keep stuff in unstable orbit all the time using thrusters.

We can easily counteract the solar wind with a reasonable amount of thruster fuel.

[–] Resistentialism@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

And remember kids: when the fuel isn't being burnt on earth, and it's being burnt outside our planets stuff. Pollution is no longer our problem.

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