Reminds me of when Beatrix von Storch, politician from the far-right German party AfD, once suggested suing the sun for damages done by climate change in an interview.
Link: https://youtu.be/IV8UzT_9bXg (englisch subs available)
Yeah it’s a funny joke, but this kind of shit actually works on people to an alarming degree.
I think it’s an extension of dunning-kruger, essentially. These dummies love “knowing” something that all those smug educated people that study it for a living somehow do not know. It’s something I see in my more conservative relatives too, the need to put others down to establish your legitimacy.
Even decades ago I remember hearing in conservative media the revelations that water vapor was a greenhouse gas, or that methane was, or that the sun goes through cycles, or that the earth’s orbit isn’t perfectly circular. Every single time it was discussed with the wonder of that brain exploding in space dude meme. Just flinging that confusion and doubt in all directions, knowing that each piece will probably be the thing that convinces part of the audience.
Why would libs put it there in the first place?
We better destroy it just to be safe
Big if true. Maybe as much as 330,000 the mass of the earth.
With some rough calculations it might be 0.00001578 Light Years far.
Ya know, that does sound pretty BIG!
I know it is a meme, but I feel this is a little too belittling of climate change being responsible for increase in temperature. Like, I can see this unironically shared on Facebook and twitter with people being "hurrdurr, fake climate change, heat comes from sun!!!".
It's one of Alex Jones and several of his "sources" main apologetic for climate change. They claim the sun is the "main driver for climate change."
My conspiracy theorist mom shared stuff like this all the time. This will absolutely be shared among climate change deniers as they roll coal on their way to the funeral for their daughters who died in the Texas floods.
The solution to climate change is to blow up the sun. Obvious. ... Edit: /s
Yeah, someone should put an Onion watermark on this thing for safety!!
Idk anything about stars or solar systems, but when my house gets too hot I just close the curtains and it helps everything cool down. Maybe we can close earth's curtains and will fix it?
This does happen and it’s an effective way to decrease the temperature:
Might be difficult to implement at scale though.
That's literally a photo of it happening at the only scale that matters. The solution is that once the moon is there, we just need to stop it from moving away.
Problem solved forever.
A orbiting, remotely positional, moon-sized sun shade? That's crazy enough to work I think you've solved the heatwave here
Couldn’t we do this in a more localized way for large cities? Like a big ol’ shade satellite for areas being dangerously affected by heat waves? I know it’s just a bandaid but we will need these kinds of extreme weather mitigation techniques to keep us alive so we can solve climate change or die trying.
Ps I’m not a scientist, so this is a sci-fi idea only - as in idk the maths of what this would take.
Simpsons did it!
1950s general with itchy trigger finger and extra nuclear bombs:
"Hold me beer!"
They should try to extinguish it... with water..
I knew it!
I’ve been saying this for years!
SHUT UP ABOUT THE SUN!
Don't Talk To Me Or My Sun Ever Again
Why is Saturn bigger than the sun?
Perspective can't be the answer.
But it’s behind the sun, so perspective should make it even smaller! Also this is obviously to scale.
Can everyone not focus on the Sun? -Dotard 47
