• _stranger_@lemmy.world
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    23 hours ago

    He’s cooked, pack it in. If we’re lucky he’ll fall in love with an AI pigeon and live out the rest of his days in squalor, which is the only part of Nicola Tesla’s legacy he deserves.

    • alekwithak@lemmy.world
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      22 hours ago

      Just some drugged out crazy guy manipulating entire governments to his increasingly unhinged whims.

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      23 hours ago

      Technically, physics does allow a satellite-based method to deal with climate change. Economics, on the other hand, does not. You would need to chuck an unfathomable amount of mass into orbit.

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        22 hours ago

        Do you though? I mean, a satellite orbiting the sun between the earth and the sun could cast a large shadow, right?

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          18 hours ago

          Not really. Case in point - the Moon. It’s absolutely massive, like several orders of magnitude larger than any satellite we’ve ever launched, and when it happens to line up just right between the Earth and the Sun, the umbra is only like 150km wide.

        • SpacetimeMachine@lemmy.world
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          20 hours ago

          If the sun was a point light source that is accurate. It is not though. You would need an absolutely enormous sat to cast a shadow that would actually affect our weather. Plus you would also need a way to keep it in position as the solar radiation would push it out of position quickly.

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          22 hours ago

          That’s… Not how shadows work… Or orbital mechanics… Or economics…

          His suggestion, impossible as it is at the current stage of human development, is slightly less impossible than this.

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      1 day ago

      More interestingly, if he truly announced that idea, he’d have to be admitting climate change is real in the first place.

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      1 day ago

      psst… “climate”… and pray tell, which energy source do you think powers the atmosphere to exhibit weather or climate?

      Geothermal? Tidal? Nuclear isotope decay in the core?

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      19 hours ago

      No, she’s on a revenge kick because the rest of the neo nazis club she works for told her she’s not allowed to run for Senate.

      She’s basically throwing a tantrum by being as “bad” as she can imagine, which ironically means doing her job to help the people she represents, but don’t mistake it or empathy, she’s just checking boxes

    • Gary Ghost@lemmy.world
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      22 hours ago

      Not really, she’s just trying to capture maga cult members who are going a stray. She’s still a racist piece of garbage no matter who she picks a fight with.

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      19 hours ago

      No, it will totally come. Right after his mars colony, self driving cars, hyper loop and robots. He could switch his drugs to crack to get even more done! /s

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    19 hours ago

    I like the illustration. it’s like his head is exploding out of sheer stupidity

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      1 day ago

      Don’t say that.

      People constantly telling him that nobody likes him is how we got this megalomanic asshole in the first place. Like before he stole the idea for PayPal and was just getting in random fist fights with his brother, everybody seemed to hate him.

      So like, it’s true, but Jesus keep it down. He’s probably got a ghost profile on Lemmy and uses it to virtually suck his own dick because it can’t be done physically anymore.

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        20 hours ago

        I find it unlikely, but it would be funny if he was on lemmy. I haven’t seen a single positive thing said about him here.