While I was in the shower, I thought of a brilliant idea! Let’s trigger several smaller volcanic eruptions that release a semi-controlled amount of volcanic ash into other atmosphere. That will cool down the atmosphere, which should buy us some time to fix our carbon emissions.
Then I realized, that doing so would block visible light. Plants need the light to grow, and we need the plants to breathe and eat. Obviously, this is not going to be a long term solution. Oh, and how do you even make sure the volcanic eruption doesn’t spiral out of control and suddenly spew out 50 times the ash we were aiming for. Oh, and volcanoes also spew CO2 and even nastier gases, so… It sounded so good while I was still in the shower. The more I think about it, the worse it gets.
This guy thinks we can control volcanoes.
Happy campers are poopin their Pampers
You get some paper machet, you get some altroids, you drop in some diet coke, and BOOM! You got a 4th grade science teacher failing you because you did the project wrong, and (airquotes) “didn’t pay attention”.
…what were we talking about.
If you want to make a shade without choking life to death how about a big parasol in space? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_sunshade
Basically this:
Totally forgot about nukes.
Have you read the Mistborn novels, by any chance? That’s more or less what would happen, only without the cool metal magic
It happened again. I get a great idea, and later find out that, not only someone else thought of it first, but they also made it into a product many years ago.
Man, the fact that
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The mist they were so scared of didn’t actually harm plant growth, and the Lord Ruler fucked up the ecosystem for nothing
was something. Also, I don’t think our plant life would adapt nearly well enough to sustain human life if it happened to us.
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Besides, those humans were genetically engineered to survive off shit nutrients, at least on the main continent.
At least the “how” should be easy: drop Tsar Bomba down Old Faithful, and set off the Yellowstone caldera.
What could go wrong. Literally nothing. It’s scientifically impossible for any part of this plan to cause any problems at all.
This could cause a lot of acid rain
Ha that’s a shower thought!
Should have also posted this in LinkedIn. Some of those aphorism are actually dumber than my idea, so it should fit right in.
