The irony is people complaining about the super cold weather right now.
How about if he just makes Earth's orbit perfectly circular instead?

I wouldn't trust Elon Musk to launch a bottle rocket into the air, let along something like that.

Last time SpaceX got fined for safety issues, Elon Musk went all US Shadow President with the DOGE cuts, got rid of the head of FAA and had fired a bunch of the FAA (Federal Aviation Administration) employees, to the point airplanes were crashing. Even after all that, Elon Musk launched the deemed as unsafe space rocket just to watch that also blow up and come crashing down. I guess it costed more than the fine at least?

If he decides to do that we can say bye bye to humanity

No need for anything that drastic. All we have to do is put an object large enough between us and the sun.

We should park Elon's head at L1.

we should take the earth and PUSH IT somewhere else!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0sTNLdNhuE

I give it a 0.0001% chance of success and a 99.9% chance of global disaster

Oprindeligt skrevet af Azza ☠:

I wouldn't trust Elon Musk to launch a bottle rocket into the air, let along something like that.

I wouldn't trust him to drive me somewhere, The d*** head would crash.

can't elon just send a rocket with cold water and snow to the sun?

You do realise that changing the orbit by even 0.35% would have serious consequences... right?

The year lenght would increase by 0.5%, 367 days.

There will also be altered monsoons, jet stream changes, and even possible regional warming.

Changing Earth's orbit will also alter long-term orbital resonances with Jupiter and Saturn and affect Mars' and Venus' orbital dynamics which will increase eccentricity and result in bigger effects on climate than distance alone...

The Luna-Earth tidal system would also be disrupted via altered precession cycles, changes to Earth’s axial tilt dynamics, and modifications to Milankovitch cycles.

Biosphere shocks would be next in line because a 0.3 - 1°C cooling is not uniformly beneficial... cooling tends to reduce photosynthesis, shrink growing seasons, reduce agricultural yields, move climate zones faster than ecosystems can adapt, and intensify drought in some regions...

Many species are already stressed by current warming; adding a new stress, even in the other direction, could push ecosystems over the edge and kill them... which will ultimately affect humans as well... so yeah... not good to change Earth's orbit even by a little.

Oprindeligt skrevet af allegedly:

can't elon just send a rocket with cold water and snow to the sun?

Only if it was a night mission.

A Dyson sphere isn't just constructed in space. First you gotta built the infrastructure... a Dyson skeleton if you will.

Oprindeligt skrevet af DarkCrystalMethod:

The irony is people complaining about the super cold weather right now.
How about if he just makes Earth's orbit perfectly circular instead?

People complain it is what they do, they complain about drought, so it rains for 5 days, now they complain about rain and mudslides, they will complain about heat in the summer, well, it is summer, they complain about winter being too cold, again, it is winter, they will complain about it being too wet, so it will dry up, now they complain about drought again.

Solar flares (Geomagnetic storms form the Sun) & Earth's naturally ever changing atmospheres cause constant fluctuations of the planet's temps/climate too..
So either way, it'll get either too cold or too hot for those flakey people.

We simply CAN'T win or lose against Mother Nature. Basically, we're screwed.

no matter, it can't be done, because Earth would eventually find equilibrium once again.

Oprindeligt skrevet af Maximus10113X:

If he decides to do that we can say bye bye to humanity

I said bye-bye to humanity 10 years ago.

Oprindeligt skrevet af Beltneck:

Maybe when human civilization actually registers on the Kardashev scale. First level has the ability to harness all the available energy on a planet, which is still far beyond our grasp.

Really don't think tiktok brains will be taking technology forward though.

Transform the planet’s core into a colossal fusion reactor. Install massive plasma turbines across the Pacific and other oceans to harness this energy, driving the planet forward through controlled eruptions of stellar matter. Construct an immense equatorial ring, reinforced with hexagonal grids and lined with solar panels, to generate a continuous photon-gravity bubble encasing the world. The orbital ring station would be directly accessible via towering space elevators.