4 comments

  • lucaslazarus 30 minutes ago
    I don’t entirely understand the war-gaming aspect here. Is this just Model UN for adults?
    • NDlurker 0 minutes ago
      Yeah like d&d, I think
  • fred_is_fred 23 minutes ago
    A good read on this from Neil Stephenson is Termination Shock. It's fiction, but covers some of the possible geopolitical fallout here.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Termination_Shock_(novel)

    • NDlurker 1 minute ago
      Currently reading that. Great book
  • ErroneousBosh 26 minutes ago
    The past couple of years the Sun has been low-single-digit-percent amounts brighter because it's the first actual solar maximum that's done anything for 40 years.

    It's been heatwaves and droughts and stuff unlike anything we've seen since I was in primary school.

    So yeah any attempt by us to dick about with the Sun's output is going to be utterly catastrophic, because it's not going to be even as small as a 3% increase or decrease.

  • therein 45 minutes ago
    A dangerous game they are already playing, acting like they only wargamed it. This is already happening, I noticed many private aircraft doing it over eastern California near national parks.

    I reported it to FAA, well turns out you can just put any flare on your plane and fire them wherever.

    Beats me how and why it makes sense to hire a Florida company through a Utah company to go spray public lands you don't own over eastern California.

    • schiffern 2 minutes ago
      Presumably he refers to the Stanislaus or Upper Tuoloumne River projects (or similar), which are cloud seeding for local irrigation districts. It even mentions the flares.

      https://library.oarcloud.noaa.gov/noaa_documents.lib/OAR/OWA...

    • stackskipton 16 minutes ago
      Flares and spraying sounds like aerial firefighting. Small aircraft go ahead of big boys to mark positions with aerial flares and tankers come in to drop.
    • dcrazy 38 minutes ago
      I suppose you’re talking about cloud seeding?
    • fred_is_fred 24 minutes ago
      I don't usually engage on conspiracy theories but why not provide more detail? If you've seen the planes, then you can use an app to figure out what the aircraft is and the owner also. You could then share that data here. What company and/or entity is "they" here?

      Which National Parks?

      What endgame are you proposing here? What's the goal?