rewind2846: Simple solution: USE LESS.
Not "use none", but "use less".

qorkfiend: SatanReport: rewind2846: Simple solution: USE LESS.
Not "use none", but "use less".

NO

for farks sake its in your cyber name. we need to rewind the humans.

humans were never meant to live this way. plugged into the doohickeys and whiz gigs with your face in the computer!

we need to go back to farming and hunting and gathering like gaia intended

not blotting out the sun like the matrix

the matrix was a good movie.

If Gaia intended that she erred grievously by giving us the ability to build and assuming we wouldn't use it

2fardownthread: Don't Look Up   was very helpful as a morality play, kind of simllarly to Contagion, showing how people get distracted so easily from doing what is right. We get tweaked and twitchy and get railroaded into thinking that if we just buy one more product or have one great idea, that everything will turn around. That one weird trick. That new diet. That spark joy way of thinking that will fix our lifestyles, the planet, or impending doom. Meanwhile, the reality steamroller just rolls over all of those ducklings and we stand horrified.

I have separated my brain into that half which still appreciates whimsy and neat ideas, and the other half which appreciates human experience and human nature. It works! I have watched human nature take the concept of EVs from being a neat idea, and turn it into a wasteful cash grab. Home batteries were a great idea until the marketing of them settled into a.. cash grab by electricity arbitrageurs. Most renewable ideas seem legitimately interesting until the claims for clams pop up to ruin everything. There is a predictable pattern. I will call it green hucksterism.

And so we come to Moon mining! A great idea. And yes it can work. And yes it is probably cheaper than changing every last bit of our infrastructure here on Earth. Changing outer space is a lot cheaper, and hey! No NIMBY! Go look at videos on YouTube by IsaacArthur. The technology is trivial. Mine the aluminum. Pound it into thin sheets, and launch the sheets using mass drivers to some Earth orbit and set them up. When you don't need them, repurpose them as reflectors, or shades, or whatever.

Musk and Co are launching 3300 satellites. Just imagine each rocket had rolls of aluminum foil about a 100th as thick as what you would use for a baked potato. Let's say 33,000 rolls of foil, Earth launched, each roll covering half a football field. 33,000 x 50 m x 50 m. I think that is a square that is 9 km on a side. Now put that square a few thousand miles from Earth, and that is a lo ...

Shakin_Haitian: SatanReport: qorkfiend: SatanReport: rewind2846: Simple solution: USE LESS.
Not "use none", but "use less".

NO

for farks sake its in your cyber name. we need to rewind the humans.

humans were never meant to live this way. plugged into the doohickeys and whiz gigs with your face in the computer!

we need to go back to farming and hunting and gathering like gaia intended

not blotting out the sun like the matrix

the matrix was a good movie.

If Gaia intended that she erred grievously by giving us the ability to build and assuming we wouldn't use it

oh yeah building. all you computer people are so creative, building the fancy tools to kill mother gaia who never hurt you or anyone.

its like nobody has ever heard the word hubris. its like none of you can deal with the idea of having to do any real work, with your hands.

all you want to do is type type type like a bunch of robots in the matrix

Why do you think we're separate from nature?