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[–] randombullet 6 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Just increase the density of neutrons by 0.1%.

The universe will probably cease to exist.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 hours ago

What can be ruled over then?!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

I'd love a story about a supervillain who was around so long and was so successful that when he eventually stopped his villainy everyone keeps blaming him for everything that goes wrong even when there is basically no evidence

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 hours ago

Maybe that's how religion started.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Hey, wait a minute. This is EDUCATIONAL. You're tricking us into LEARNING.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 23 hours ago

Learning to do my bidding!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 18 hours ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 17 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 12 hours ago

You are "DOOM!"

Can't you read? It's right there.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

2 means "just" removing earth's magnetic field, van allen belts don't shield from anything, these are trapped solar wind

5 could have side effect of disturbing ozone layer, on top of, yknow, just suffocating every animal

7 is not even wrong

10 sounds like CIA's final plan for assassinating Castro: just let him die of old age

[–] [email protected] 4 points 21 hours ago

better than the looney tunes exploding cigar bs they were trying to pull

[–] [email protected] 3 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Salt one doesn't make any sense.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 15 hours ago

I'm glad I'm not the only one confused by the concept of salt undergoing metamorphosis

[–] [email protected] 12 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

This really makes you appreciate the bazillion factors that went to making Earth a place where life can thrive.

Really sucks humans are wreaking it, and the only ones who can make a significant impact to reverse course don't care.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 17 hours ago

"The planet is fine. The people are fucked." - George Carlin.

Nobody is"wrecking it". We may fiddle with the biosphere until we can't thrive anymore, that much is true.

The planet and the life on it will continue until the sun expands in the far, far future.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (1 children)

The germ factories point sounds like a conspiracy though.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 21 hours ago

fern? germ factories

there were a few stupidly close calls in soviet biological weapons program

[–] [email protected] 4 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (1 children)

Siphoning 2% of the sun's radiation sounds easy until you think about how much fucking energy that is. If we back it off to like 1% we can catapult ourselves onto the kardashev scale. #10 would still be at play, and it would be even more disastrous than before!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 22 hours ago

Well it says "siphoning", but I think it rather refers to just blocking the light.

Which is something we've actually thought about and which definitely doesn't have any global risks attached to it.

https://theconversation.com/not-such-a-bright-idea-cooling-the-earth-by-reflecting-sunlight-back-to-space-is-a-dangerous-distraction-223353