Big if true. Maybe as much as 330,000 the mass of the earth.
Ya know, that does sound pretty BIG!
With some rough calculations it might be 0.00001578 Light Years far.
I know it is a meme, but I feel this is a little too belittling of climate change being responsible for increase in temperature. Like, I can see this unironically shared on Facebook and twitter with people being “hurrdurr, fake climate change, heat comes from sun!!!”.
My conspiracy theorist mom shared stuff like this all the time. This will absolutely be shared among climate change deniers as they roll coal on their way to the funeral for their daughters who died in the Texas floods.
The solution to climate change is to blow up the sun. Obvious. … Edit: /s
It’s one of Alex Jones and several of his “sources” main apologetic for climate change. They claim the sun is the “main driver for climate change.”
Yeah, someone should put an Onion watermark on this thing for safety!!
Idk anything about stars or solar systems, but when my house gets too hot I just close the curtains and it helps everything cool down. Maybe we can close earth’s curtains and will fix it?
This does happen and it’s an effective way to decrease the temperature:
Might be difficult to implement at scale though.
That’s literally a photo of it happening at the only scale that matters. The solution is that once the moon is there, we just need to stop it from moving away.
Problem solved forever.
But more importantly, what color should the curtains be?
Should they match the drapes?
You mean the carpet?
I just realized the saying is “Do the carpets match the drapes” but in my head I was thinking “Do the curtains match the drapes”. Even though curtains and drapes are similar. Brain fart.
A orbiting, remotely positional, moon-sized sun shade? That’s crazy enough to work I think you’ve solved the heatwave here
Simpsons did it!
Couldn’t we do this in a more localized way for large cities? Like a big ol’ shade satellite for areas being dangerously affected by heat waves? I know it’s just a bandaid but we will need these kinds of extreme weather mitigation techniques to keep us alive so we can solve climate change or die trying.
Ps I’m not a scientist, so this is a sci-fi idea only - as in idk the maths of what this would take.
The structure you describe is called a Soleta. If you are interested, space nerds have explored the possibilities in some detail.
1950s general with itchy trigger finger and extra nuclear bombs:
“Hold me beer!”
They should try to extinguish it… with water…
Well, if you add enough water quickly enough, it should cool down.
And if you add it slowly enough, it should go out after “just” a “short” while.
I doubt this would work. The sun runs on hydrogen fusion. Adding water is just adding fuel to fire.
Yes, but more massive stars burn out faster. And even more massive stars turn into black holes and cool down rapidly.
Well… black holes are not cool, either.
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And adding more fuel to a fire make it burn hotter and faster. Largers stars die faster, so more fuel will reduce the lifespan.
This is like some Trump logic right here
Why would libs put it there in the first place?
We better destroy it just to be safe
I knew it!
I’ve been saying this for years!
SHUT UP ABOUT THE SUN!
Don’t Talk To Me Or My Sun Ever Again
Reminds me of when Beatrix von Storch, politician from the far-right German party AfD, once suggested suing the sun for damages done by climate change in an interview.
Link: https://youtu.be/IV8UzT_9bXg (englisch subs available)
Why is Saturn bigger than the sun?
Perspective can’t be the answer.
But it’s behind the sun, so perspective should make it even smaller! Also this is obviously to scale.
Can everyone not focus on the Sun? -Dotard 47
Yeah it’s a funny joke, but this kind of shit actually works on people to an alarming degree.
I think it’s an extension of dunning-kruger, essentially. These dummies love “knowing” something that all those smug educated people that study it for a living somehow do not know. It’s something I see in my more conservative relatives too, the need to put others down to establish your legitimacy.
Even decades ago I remember hearing in conservative media the revelations that water vapor was a greenhouse gas, or that methane was, or that the sun goes through cycles, or that the earth’s orbit isn’t perfectly circular. Every single time it was discussed with the wonder of that brain exploding in space dude meme. Just flinging that confusion and doubt in all directions, knowing that each piece will probably be the thing that convinces part of the audience.
