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Enormous Foil Sunblock Plan Concocted By Israeli Scientists
A group of Israeli scientists at the Technion Israel Institute of Technology have developed an enormous Sun blocking sheet of aluminum foil the size of Argentina, which they want to install permanently in space.
The plan is to send the spacecraft to the Sun-Earth L1 Lagrange point, the point between the Sun and the Earth where the two’s gravity nearly cancels each other out, and unfurl 2.5 million square kilometer slightly-more-advanced-than-tinfoil tinfoil, and block out enough sunlight to cool the Earth by 2.7 degrees Celsius.
The team wants to space-road-test the concept first, with a much smaller $20 million prototype, but apart from having devastating consequences for any life on Earth that needs light, the final version would be the single most expensive man-made structure ever and cost trillions of dollars.
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