Monday, December 8, 2008
And Almost Everywhere: “Clay Pigeons” in Space...
113 x 10 14 is the amount of solar heat, in BTU, that hits the Earth’s surface every second. One plan for deflecting some of the heat: launching stacks of 800,000 reflective disks into orbit every 5 minutes for 10 years. The cost: 5 trillion (J. Jacquot, Discover, November 2008) Authorities decided...
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