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In what has to be one of the most stupid, ridiculous, frivolous wastes of money, a "researcher" named Roger Angel (an Arizona astronomer), has come up with a way to to cool the Earth in an emergency (read because of global warming) . We simply need to deploy a space sunshade. Yup, that's right. Little beach umbrellas to block out a portion of the sun's rays reaching Earth.
He proposes we
He proposes we
launch a constellation of trillions of small free-flying spacecraft a million miles above Earth into an orbit aligned with the sun.
Wonderful.
The spacecraft would form a long, cylindrical cloud with a diameter about half that of Earth, and about 10 times longer. About 10 percent of the sunlight passing through the 60,000-mile length of the cloud, pointing lengthwise between the Earth and the sun, would be diverted away from our planet. The effect would be to uniformly reduce sunlight by about 2 percent over the entire planet, enough to balance the heating of a doubling of atmospheric carbon dioxide in Earth's atmosphere.
And the cost?
The total mass of all the fliers making up the space sunshade structure would be 20 million tons. At $10,000 a pound.
That comes to about $8,000,000,000,000,000 (That's $8 quadrillion). Which roughly comes out to about $1.6 million per person on Earth (assuming a population in the near future of 5 billion people).
How long would it take to deploy Mr. Angel?
How long would it take to deploy Mr. Angel?
The sunshade could be deployed by a total 20 electromagnetic launchers launching
a stack of (1 million) flyers every 5 minutes for 10 years.
Hate to burst your bubble, but NASA can't even launch a couple of shuttles every year and you're talking about completing over 21 million successful launches (21,024,000 to be exact)! Ass.
I think the greatest discovery researchers have made this century is the discovery that they can use fear to scare up grant money.
I think the greatest discovery researchers have made this century is the discovery that they can use fear to scare up grant money.
Global warming has become big business. Political motivations and scare tactics allow this kind of "research" to continue. Yes, Mr. Angel is receiving government grant money and yes, he is receiving MORE money to further develop this stupid idea.
Here's a thought you moron - take your research grant and make American farms and single-family homes energy self-sufficient. Then figure out a way to retro-fit all farms and homes for under $25,000. With the money you make from that form a PAC and force the auto industry to make zero emmissions cars. Then we won't need your drug-induced-saw-Stars-Wars-124-Times vision of the future. Ass.
Here's a thought you moron - take your research grant and make American farms and single-family homes energy self-sufficient. Then figure out a way to retro-fit all farms and homes for under $25,000. With the money you make from that form a PAC and force the auto industry to make zero emmissions cars. Then we won't need your drug-induced-saw-Stars-Wars-124-Times vision of the future. Ass.
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