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Showerthoughts

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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The best ones are thoughts that many people can relate to and they find something funny or interesting in regular stuff.

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While I was in the shower, I thought of a brilliant idea! Let’s trigger several smaller volcanic eruptions that release a semi-controlled amount of volcanic ash into other atmosphere. That will cool down the atmosphere, which should buy us some time to fix our carbon emissions.

Then I realized, that doing so would block visible light. Plants need the light to grow, and we need the plants to breathe and eat. Obviously, this is not going to be a long term solution. Oh, and how do you even make sure the volcanic eruption doesn’t spiral out of control and suddenly spew out 50 times the ash we were aiming for. Oh, and volcanoes also spew CO2 and even nastier gases, so… It sounded so good while I was still in the shower. The more I think about it, the worse it gets.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Have you read the Mistborn novels, by any chance? That's more or less what would happen, only without the cool metal magic

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Man, the fact that

Tap for spoilerThe mist they were so scared of didn't actually harm plant growth, and the Lord Ruler fucked up the ecosystem for nothing
was something. Also, I don't think our plant life would adapt nearly well enough to sustain human life if it happened to us.

Tap for spoilerBesides, those humans were genetically engineered to survive off shit nutrients, at least on the main continent.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

It happened again. I get a great idea, and later find out that, not only someone else thought of it first, but they also made it into a product many years ago.