Controversial Bill Gates-funded plan to dim the sun's rays moves forward quietly | Blaze Media
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Don't worry, Bill Gates says it's a measure to help us combat global warming.
Sweet dreams...
Technology Controversial Billionaire is Quietly Plotting on Blocking Sunlight from Reaching Earth
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Don't worry, Bill Gates says it's a measure to help us combat global warming.
Sweet dreams...
CarlManvers2019
Writers Blocked Douchebag
Next up a massive extremely expensive worldwide train where people eventually go crazy and desperate enough to eat actual babies
Except they call the “tailenders” bigots and the like
Doomsought
Well-known member
I will beleive a climate model when it can predict twenty years into the future on the day it is implemented.
Bear Ribs
Well-known member
I wouldn't be so credulous. There's a very old scam that still works, where the con artist mails 1000 people letters saying he's an investment guru. 500 of them are told a specific stock will go up, and 500 that it will go down. A month later the scam artist checks the stock and mails whichever set of people he was right about that another stock will go up or down. The 250 that are right twice are told about a third stock, and then the 125 that were right three times in a row are sent a letter saying that now that he's proven his investment genius, he's offering them the rare chance to vastly increase their wealth via his investment firm. Then the con artist sits back as the money rolls in.
Climate prediction has actually shown a tendency to follow this pattern with them presenting dozens of climate models and then keeping only the ones that were right and insisting that this means those models will be right in the future as well, and quietly dropping the failures while continuing the present the successes.
Buba
A total creep
Who is "they"?
Those like Greta and AOC and all those pushing for the these climate change things and never push the two biggest countries to do any damn thing
Buba
A total creep
Oh, OK - now clear - the greenie loonies, AGW scam, European deindustrliasation pushers
The ignore India and China and beg the western countries to do better! crowdOh, OK - now clear - the greenie loonies, AGW scam, European deindustrliasation pushers
prinCZess
Warrior, Writer, Performer, Perv
Simpsons...did...it?
I was under the impression 2020 was being written by Tom Clancy, but a guest-spot by Conan O'Brien at the end makes some sense. It's apparently like the slate of EndWar and NetWar or whatever-they-were-called novels. Gates adopting the role of supervillain is a vaguely surprising twist, but not especially. You can never trust nerds.
More seriously...It's better than the 'incite nuclear winter' idea, at least, and even seems outside-prospect promising. But...unintended consequences as a factor seems ENORMOUS in all-caps and with neon lights around it and a sun-spot shining overhead.
Seems like pursuing better energy production methods would be a better usage of funds.
I was under the impression 2020 was being written by Tom Clancy, but a guest-spot by Conan O'Brien at the end makes some sense. It's apparently like the slate of EndWar and NetWar or whatever-they-were-called novels. Gates adopting the role of supervillain is a vaguely surprising twist, but not especially. You can never trust nerds.
More seriously...It's better than the 'incite nuclear winter' idea, at least, and even seems outside-prospect promising. But...unintended consequences as a factor seems ENORMOUS in all-caps and with neon lights around it and a sun-spot shining overhead.
Seems like pursuing better energy production methods would be a better usage of funds.
Snowpiercer was a pretty messed up movie, though, since the end outcome is, "Well, you stuck it to the man! Hooray! Now everyone is going to die, but they're going to die equally and that's better than living!"
So communism?
Maybe, but this was presented as a heroic win.
So Hollywood showing communism and that it is supposed to be good
Not really. He didn't overthrow the elite class and raise up a communist replacement; he basically just wrecked everything that *everyone* needed to survive, and called it a victory. More or less straight up anarchist, subverted by the fact the end was cut at the, "Two survivors triumphantly exit the wreckage and walk away", effectively handwaving away the fact that there was no chance of survival out there.
Also, it's not a Hollywood film in the first place.
It wasnt?
Uh, no, it wasn't. It was a Korean film based on a French science fiction story, filmed in Prague. It wasn't even originally slated for a general release in the United States; it was only going to be a limited art house showing.
I definitely did not know that
CarlManvers2019
Writers Blocked Douchebag
I doubt what Bill Gates will do will really affect things much or may take years to have an effect