Sun ‘umbrella’ tethered to asteroid might help mitigate climate change: An astronomer has proposed a novel approach – a solar shield to reduce the amount of sunlight hitting Earth, combined with a tethered, captured asteroid as a counterweight.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/07/230731151552.htm
#science #space #climatechange #astronomy #solarshield #asteroid
Didnt they do something like this in Futurama?
They put up a mirror, a piece of debris hit it and turned it into a focusing lense and started cooking people.
One of my favorite bits from Futurama:
Sun reflects off the mirror and hits the earth*
Random guy- "That’s a little bright. "
Poof.