WARNING: THE FOLLOWING SENTENCE CONTAINS POTENTIALLY LETHAL AMOUNTS OF SARCASM:

I’m sure this will be a complete success, and I see no downsides.

Hopefully someone will take him out. He should be on next starship.

Suffocating the planet to keep rich people from being tried for crimes against the earth. Sure is a new spin on boiling us frogs in the kettle.

... He does realize they can't just shit on international organizations like the UN and USAID and expect the rest of the world to follow them tow in line, right? Specially given this will affect those regions for whom climate change would actually be beneficial.

Anyway, this sounds more like a bullshit excuse to do nothing about the causes of climate change. This would have excessive costs of the solution and the maintenance that would likely have to be footed by society and not the people who do everything to avoid taxes like Musk. This would give polluters an excuse to pollute more and a way to put even more chokeholds around societies.

But even more fundamentally, climate change is due to things like carbon dioxide basically reflecting heat back onto the planet. Dampening sunlight doesn't just block heat, it dampens the entire electromagnetic spectrum. For a speculative solution you would be adding additional problems ecosystems would have to deal with.

How about narcissistic self-obsessed psychopaths stop trying to milk society for all they have as fast and much as possible? They can start by paying taxes and not engineering entire political programs to subvert democracies for personal gain.

I guess I'll go get ready for the eternal eclipse...

Oh, as in launching a bunch of exploding space-shuttles to obscure the sun? Got it.

What the hell is that thumbnail. That's nightmare fuel.

Maybe the best example of someone who needs a Walter Sobchak in his life.

Just a big guy who won’t go away and keeps telling him to shut the fuck up.

If he does this he will only be trapping himself on the planet with the rest of us. We must make it as hard on him as possible

That fucker high. Probably banged his coconut on the way down to one of his surprise naps again.

https://youtu.be/liYBTWFDnKA

I think launching satellites is a terrible idea but I do think Geo engineering is a necessity. We are on a good trajectory to phase out most fossil fuels simply because the economics make more sense. If we can do something to avoid the worst of climate change we need to do it because the fossil fuel industry is not going to give up massive profits to save the planet unfortunately. Even if there are side effects theres no way it's worse than letting climate change happen.

Elon must have read KSR's Mars Trilogy and never once thought this might end badly.

No.

Why save Earth he's going to live on Mars anyway. Can he just go already?

Can we not indulge into the fantasy of a wanna be super villain?

Alternative title: Ultra rich billionaire makes another idiotic suggestion

It wasn't enough to help ruin the US, now he wants to fuck up the entire world.

We're in Picard S2, on the Confederacy timeline.

Fml.

“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.”

Someone just watched Geostorm while on keta