• KneeTitts@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    We just build a planet-sized sunshade to freeze the atmosphere

    Cost, 100 to 1000 trillion. We can barely fund NASA

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      3 months ago

      Why is the only argument I ever heard against thinking about things in the cool space future “we couldn’t do it this financial quarter so it’ll never be possible at all”?

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        3 months ago

        I like to think about the spacefaring AI (or cyborgs, if we’re lucky) that will inevitably do this stuff in our stead, assuming we don’t strangle them in the cradle.