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[–] alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 33 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

The school that had 22000 stolen corpses from indigenous and enslaved people as of 2022 didn't consider indigenous people? Shocking.

When you just google "harvard human remains", there's so many different results, you have to be more specific. Did you mean the 7000 bodies they kept for eugenics research, the organ smuggling ring in 2023, the book bound in human skin?, the routine grave robbing during the 1800s?

[–] zaemz@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Jesus. I always assumed there was creepy, evil "rich people doing weird shit" kinda stuff going on behind the scenes there, but this is worse than the masked-bloodpact-orgy-dressup deal I imagined.

[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Harvard makes irl super villains. Just have a glance at their alumni.

[–] Valon_Blue@sh.itjust.works 31 points 1 month ago (3 children)

They should just harvest a huge block of ice from a comet and drop it in the ocean.

[–] davidgro@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago

What if we did just that.

[–] Brunbrun6766@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago

Once and for all

[–] TheRaven@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

Makes sense.

  1. Create a massive rocket
  2. Burn a massive amount of rocket fuel to get it into space
  3. Surround the comet ice in enough artificially made heat resistant materials so it doesn’t burn up in the atmosphere
  4. Use more rocket fuel to angle the giant ball of ice so it doesn’t burn up on re-entry
  5. Burn some more fuel to slow down its descent once inside the atmosphere so it doesn’t crash into the earth, ending all life in the immediate area
  6. Drop the ball of unsalted ice in the ocean
[–] Valon_Blue@sh.itjust.works 29 points 1 month ago (1 children)

.....it's a Futurama reference

[–] TheRaven@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 month ago

Hahhaha. Totally missed that. I just assumed it was a joke.

[–] LostXOR@fedia.io 12 points 1 month ago

Fun fact, the kinetic energy a comet would gain from falling into the Earth's gravity well is around 60MJ/kg, more than two orders of magnitude greater than the energy which would be absorbed by it melting (0.33MJ/kg).

[–] MTK@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago
  1. Make a tv show with this reference in it.
[–] reddig33@lemmy.world 20 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I’ve watched Snowpiercer. I know how this ends.

[–] acosmichippo@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

unfortunately we also know how runaway greenhouse effect ends.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 5 points 1 month ago

Sci-fi has assured me that Venus has the hottest babes, but they're awful cagey about what kind of hot.

[–] Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I’ve seen a bunch of Terminator style movies where an AI slices, dices, scorches and/or nukes humanity to oblivion long before climate change gets us. I have it on good authority that we don’t need worry about the temperature change.

[–] JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 19 points 1 month ago

Making the sky grey would be very depressing way to address climate change, and likely still not enough.

[–] recursive_recursion@programming.dev 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

When they first announced the launching of solar reflecting particles into the atmosphere to cool down the planet I thought it was pitched by a youtuber or someone

I really didn't expect to see it was Harvard

[–] it_depends_man@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

"We didn't consider the idea because it sounded silly"

Isn't something I want scientists to say. So good on them for taking a look at the feasibility.

[–] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago

Why not test the reflective aerosol plume over Harvard?

[–] wjrii@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Neal Stephenson in shambles…

[–] theilleists@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Netherworld inconsolable. Punjab overjoyed.

[–] wjrii@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

spoilerAnd poor Laks...

[–] Etterra@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Honestly the best solution is the one that is probably the least feasible; an array of solar reflectors/collectors geosynchronously orbiting between the Earth and the Sun. Not only would it reduce the amount of sunlight getting to the planet, but you can manufacture them in space and use them to make electricity, hooray! But relax the space infrastructure to be able to pull it off right now. Maybe in a hundred years.