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Planetary Solar Shield
The latest plan for fighting global warming sounds more like intergalactic warfare: Launch clouds of miniature spacecraft that bend 1.8 percent of the sun´s light away from Earth. Roger Angel of Steward Observatory Mirror Laboratory in Arizona has worked out the math. Now, with financial backing from the NASA Institute for Advanced Concepts, he´s making a prototype of a light-diverting material. The gram-weight flyers he has in mind would be shot into L1 orbit, a sweet spot that follows the same yearly path as the Earth. From that vantage, the crafts´ collective shadow would help cool the entire planet.
WHY, GOD? WHY? Increasing carbon dioxide levels mean that global temperatures could rise by 10
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I love the 50s b-flick poster so much I'd buy one. But someone whisper to Michael it's "*Scientists* doing extraordinary research" before the print run starts. Great article.
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