no. just.. no.

(fuck)

Is this before or after the teslas can drive themselves? /s

Oh so the thing right wing loons like to say the Jews already do?

He's cooked, pack it in. If we're lucky he'll fall in love with an AI pigeon and live out the rest of his days in squalor, which is the only part of Nicola Tesla's legacy he deserves.

Guess they figured out how to bring scarcity to the solar market.

That's not how weather works you moron.

This dude is like some drugged out crazy guy ranting on a street corner.

He needs to hurry up and od on ketamine before he figures out to upload his consciousness into neuralink and we end up in Altered Carbon.

Can we not indulge into the fantasy of a wanna be super villain?

Didn't MGT specifically make fighting this lunacy her cause?

Fuck off Elon. Nobody likes you.

Alternative title: Ultra rich billionaire makes another idiotic suggestion

Yes, why not let an emotionally fragile, egotistical maniac control the weather? What a good idea.

Futurama did it first.

Simpsons did it: https://simpsons.fandom.com/wiki/Sun_Blocker

We're still paying attention to what this moron says?

Can people stop listening to this lying robot dicked fuck?

Hey hey hey. Elon. 1-2-3-eyes on me. Ok? Listen little man. You have to put away all the toys you already got out before you start getting any more toys out. You made a big mess out there in low Earth orbit already, you need to help clean it up before you start any more games. Got-it got-it?

Yes, I know you don't want to, but sometimes we have to do things we don't want to. Yes, even if you took all of the play money for yourself.

Yes, I know your daddy owned an emerald mine. That doesn't mean you don't have a responsibility to help keep this whole place usable.

Also, while you're doing your cleanup, there's still a hole you dug in Las Vegas that you forgot about, and you also need to apologize to the rest of the class for breaking the government services they all enjoyed, and help everyone put them back together.

I know it's not going to be easy to fix them. That's why we don't break things, right? That's right. Especially when....? When we don't know what they're for, right. But you can do hard things, especially if you have help.

I know you fed it into a wood chipper, Elon. We all watched you do it. No, I don't think it's funny or epic.

Ok. Well if you aren't going to help clean up, I think we might need to have a consequence, ok? ...no, the consequence can not be going to Mars.

Emphasis on "tiny" adjustments, per the article. I don't think Elmo comprehends just how much surface area is going to be required to make any measurable let alone meaningful impact, nor the cost of hefting all of that mass up there and keeping it there.

This whole crackhead idea is completely infeasible. But he probably hopes it'll help him scam the government out of a bunch of money trying (and failing), while wasting vast amounts of rocket fuel.

Nice. Some shade to choke to death in.

We are going to build a wall around earth and make the aliens pay for it

An yes weather control satalites. Has he been reading too many comspiracies?

We already have the answer of how to deal with this:

We can and have shut this thing down when the political will is available. The efficiencies developed in agriculture and manufacturing have shown that the vast majority of economic activity is effectively idle, not necessary, and purely for the purpose of creating the impression of larger economies than are actually present.

No one starved due to lock-downs. No governments collapsed. Netflix views increased. People took on hobbies and got more exercise.

We have an exact template of what we would need to do to save our climate future.

All that we lack is the political will. And no, geoengineering solutions to prop up and support a broken approach to economics isn't a solution.

He just keeps getting more idiotic

We need to stop letting supervillains pollute the sky with garbage. As well as a moratorium against satellite quantity, and satellites that serve any purpose outside of science and some communication. (Starlink should be deorbited as well, if for no other reason than the atmospheric pollution created by the short life cycle of those satellites.)

... He does realize they can't just shit on international organizations like the UN and USAID and expect the rest of the world to follow them tow in line, right? Specially given this will affect those regions for whom climate change would actually be beneficial.

Anyway, this sounds more like a bullshit excuse to do nothing about the causes of climate change. This would have excessive costs of the solution and the maintenance that would likely have to be footed by society and not the people who do everything to avoid taxes like Musk. This would give polluters an excuse to pollute more and a way to put even more chokeholds around societies.

But even more fundamentally, climate change is due to things like carbon dioxide basically reflecting heat back onto the planet. Dampening sunlight doesn't just block heat, it dampens the entire electromagnetic spectrum. For a speculative solution you would be adding additional problems ecosystems would have to deal with.

How about narcissistic self-obsessed psychopaths stop trying to milk society for all they have as fast and much as possible? They can start by paying taxes and not engineering entire political programs to subvert democracies for personal gain.

"uhhh your country didn't vote the way i wanted. fuck your crops!" starts scorching summer

Conservatives shit their pants over things like SNAP and DEI. But they see this fucking moron and say: give him all the tax dollars.

This is all pure bullshit, inspired by his fear that his failure to get anywhere near his Artemis mission goals would result in him getting his NASA public money tit turned off.

"I'll just come up with some bullshit off the top of my head saying I am going to do something with satellites - it doesn't matter that it isn't possible - and the American public will lap it up like the mugs they are. They will insist on giving me billions via NASA."

Trump appointed Musk's crony as head of NASA so the grift will continue. Musk and China applaud. It will result in China winning the new space race, and is another nail in the coffin of the dollar as global reserve currency. Billionaire grifters will get rich over this period, while the average American will get poor.

"Elon, where do you get your brilliant ideas from?"

"Well, they just come to me. Because Im so brilliant."

"So not from other people that you then repackage ?

"No."

"You dont just buy companies, and slap an 'I made this' sticker on it?"

"Not from popular cartoons from over 20 years ago?"

".... go fuck yourself!"

I like the illustration. it's like his head is exploding out of sheer stupidity

"Guy who sells rockets proposes launching a million satellites"

He's a grifting idiot. He cant even get self driving cars working. Until he finishes that work he should sit in the corner with a dunce hat on and leave the talking to people who arent failures.

You’ve already won Elon. You’re a trillionaire. You don’t need to find new ways to rape the planet and its inhabitants. Please just fuck off and leave the rest of us to die in peace.