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America’s answer to global warming

Posted: January 27th, 2007 | Author: Aaron | Filed under: science, tech, usa, world |

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From the nation that called its anti-ballistic weapon system, “Star Wars”, comes a predictable response to global warming: reflective dust & giant space mirrors.

The irony of using ’smoke and mirrors’ has presumably been lost of them.

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3 Comments on “America’s answer to global warming”

  1. 1 jamsodonnell said at 8:52 pm on January 27th, 2007:

    Isn’t irony a bit like steely?

    S Baldrick

  2. 2 Jose said at 7:28 am on January 28th, 2007:

    Everything that isn’t suppressing oil. The US government smells of oil all over.

    Those same mirrors could be used to supply energy, and if I were them I wouldn’t be playing with Nature any longer.

  3. 3 Jose said at 8:16 am on January 29th, 2007:

    And I wonder what would happen if those sun rays were returned to the sun producing a higher concentration of energy. I wonder whether in the long run the sun would explode.

    The Bush Administration is an incredible dreadful group of rogues who should be better in straitjackets and in high security cells.