BradGuth wrote:
On May 17, 10:22 pm, Pat Flannery wrote:
Paul F. Dietz wrote:

L1 is unstable, so keep shades there would require active stabilization,
probably involving light pressure.
You don't need a full shadow to reduce insolation at the Earth;
a shade that appears smaller than the sun's disk, as seen from
Earth, would still reduce insolation at Earth. What you'd want
is the shade placed so that for every illuminated spot on Earth,
the shade was fully in front of the sun as seen from that spot.
I still like the billion mylar balloons at high altitude concept; it's
very simple, they can be turned out at almost nothing per balloon, and
sunrises and sunsets are going to look very wild indeed with the whole
sky full of glittering points of light.
Could you bounce microwaves off of these things for telecommunications
or OTH radar?

Pat

The new and improved L1 is actually very stable.

The new and improved L1?

You folks really don't get the big picture, or even the medium
picture.

How about the small picture? Like the screen on my old digital
camera?

You are looking at everything as though through a straw, and
at best that's a pretty damn narrow FOV.

Is that something like a POV?

If so, what's a narrow POV? Is that a POV where you see only one
thing? Like moving the moon to save the world perhaps?

I say; we run those full blown supercomputer simulations, then we
speak.

What is it we'll be simulating?

BTW; How many dozen of those spendy supercomputers do we own these
days?

We? I don't own even one. This computer is an Athlon X2 4200+, and
it suits my needs for video work.

Cheers

Rich

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Brad Guth