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WCDT 11-15 April 2011 (1901-1905)
El_Flesh:
looked it up. dont find anything except a def of each separate word.
mike837go:
--- Quote from: El_Flesh on 12 Apr 2011, 05:18 ---looked it up. dont find anything except a def of each separate word.
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Exactly! Each word is real. But Jeph put them together to show how technically advanced Hannerdad is.
"microsatelites to keep Earth's albito stable"
That's $million$ just to make sure that the amout of light being reflected back into space stays the same. How silly is that?
Photovoltaic melanocyts: Solar powered pigment changes in the skin? Hel-lo! We already got that. Suntan anyone?
Our hero, Mr. Jacques has humor on many levels. Three cheers!
akronnick:
--- Quote from: mike837go on 12 Apr 2011, 05:13 ---Why would we want to manage how much light is being reflected off our planet?
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To manage global climate of course.
Not only could you mitigate anthropogenic global climate change, you could control climate on a local basis.
Imagine an 8 month growing season in Siberia and Northern Canada (a very large fraction of Earth's dry land) while maintaining comfortable climates in other parts of the world.
El_Flesh:
I'm sorry. I still don't understand why he calls him a 'movie sign'.
If it's supposed to reference bizarre technologies that would only appear on 3K,
then it doesn't make sense. It would be counter to the established universe and
thus Marten is self-referencing the strip's 3K universe?
Skewbrow:
--- Quote from: mike837go on 12 Apr 2011, 05:25 ---Exactly! Each word is real. But Jeph put them together to show how technically advanced Hannerdad is.
"microsatelites to keep Earth's albito stable"
That's $million$ just to make sure that the amout of light being reflected back into space stays the same. How silly is that?
--- End quote ---
That could be a way to control the global climate. By controlling the amount of reflected light we might be able to cool off (or warm up) the planet somewhat. The scale of such an operation would be massive, but it may be an engineering solution to global warming. I am too ignorant about the planet scale physics to judge, whether albedo control alone would make enough of a difference to Earths temperature, or whether it might have some kind of unwanted side effects. May be in QCverse that was the chosen path, and JEC's AI played a key role?
I would prefer to keep politics out of this, so I will not discuss global warming on this forum.
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