"Keith nuttle" wrote in message
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Capt. JG wrote:
"Larry" wrote in message
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Gordon wrote in news:g9qdnfPgS_rKr4
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Now, if only we could get the warming alarmists to face facts and cool
it as well.



That's very easy.....simply cut all government cash handouts to global
warming college professors and global warming will cure itself
overnight.
Professional teat suckers, they'll find another grant to apply for
within a
few minutes.

Global warming is caused by the SUN, just like the rest of life on
earth.




You should probably stick to talking about things you know about...

And where do you think the heat in the earth's atmosphere comes from the
twit obama. There are many very basic books in the library. Google
library to learn the definition, and their location.


Suggestion... go read some of them. Ask if you need help!


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On 2008-11-06 05:16:26 -0500, cavelamb himself said:

Jere Lull wrote:
On 2008-11-05 22:07:12 -0500, Vic Smith said:

I recall the oceans absorb solar heat, so to cool the earth we could
dump plane loads of a floating reflective material onto the oceans.
Maybe Christmas tree foil or that glitter stuff kids use with Elmer's
glue.


Nah; a better solution would be to put something big between the Earth
and the sun if it's too hot, a big mirror or a bunch of little ones
somewhere up there if it's too cool.

The technology and materials exist; cost is the biggie.

You are kidding, right?

Absolutely not at all.

And it actually is on topic for the newsgroup ;-)

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_sail

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Jere Lull wrote:
On 2008-11-06 05:16:26 -0500, cavelamb himself
said:

Jere Lull wrote:

On 2008-11-05 22:07:12 -0500, Vic Smith
said:

I recall the oceans absorb solar heat, so to cool the earth we could
dump plane loads of a floating reflective material onto the oceans.
Maybe Christmas tree foil or that glitter stuff kids use with
Elmer's glue.



Nah; a better solution would be to put something big between the
Earth and the sun if it's too hot, a big mirror or a bunch of little
ones somewhere up there if it's too cool.

The technology and materials exist; cost is the biggie.


You are kidding, right?


Absolutely not at all.

And it actually is on topic for the newsgroup ;-)

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_sail


Programmers call that "vapor ware".

And no, we do NOT have the technology for anything like that.

HEck, we don't even have the technology to go to the moon at this time.


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On 2008-11-06 19:54:30 -0500, cavelamb himself said:

Absolutely not at all.

And it actually is on topic for the newsgroup ;-)

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_sail


Programmers call that "vapor ware".

Hey, I is one of them, too. I know the difference between not being
able to deliver a promise (vapor) and noting that something is possible
if someone wants to pay for its development (wish list).

And no, we do NOT have the technology for anything like that.

I agree that we couldn't do what I suggest tomorrow, but I'm surprised
how many advancements have been made since I last checked in, how many
creditable tests, both with sails and solar panels, how many probes
have used the underlying techniques successfully.

That they have problems getting the deployment tests launched
successfully is hardly a condemnation of the technology, given what has
been demonstrated. Hell, blame the damn Russian rockets that can't get
it up.

If you want to compare this to anything, I'd point to how much closer
we are to that than we were when JFK challenged us to fly men to the
moon. At the time, we had trouble getting rockets off the launch pad,
much less into space.

HEck, we don't even have the technology to go to the moon at this time.

The technology is proven. It's a HARDware issue!

= Not MY problem ;-)

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