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By dint of bombarding the sun with ethanol it should be possible to change its spectrum more towards the blue end, so annoying terrestrial plants.
Reason? Reason, does there have to be a reason, as the man said.
Or Copper chloride,
QED
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083468/
[not_morrison_rm, Apr 20 2014]
inadvisable promo photo
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0170962/
[not_morrison_rm, Apr 20 2014]
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I'm not sure ethanol would do it - it would just
become a bunch of carbon, oxygen and hydrogen
atoms. |
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But I like copper chloride. Maybe add a little
strontium as well. |
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With sufficient control, and polarised sunroofs, it might be possible to make all the world's traffic lights redundant... |
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Some civilizations do this* with technetium. See
"technetium star" |
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*Note this is not a controversial theory. In the
several minutes since it was first hypothesized, no
one has argued against it. |
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I do this all the time with a 600w sun and variously-
composed gaseous vapour bulbs, and I'm not just talking
about artificially inducing flowering. I can alter adult
height, growth pattern, and even make a female plant
think she's a dude by carefully messing around with her
spectral exposure and photocycle. So that part of the idea
is definitely feasible. Dunno about changing the color of
the sun, though. I'm not sure we have enough additive to
really make a difference. |
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Hmm, you're hiding your strange idea in my strange idea, I find that unsporting somehow..... |
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I'm sorry. It's just that my strange idea doesn't
make any sense on its own, but can if taken in the
context of your idea. |
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See, I think that the idea of the climate changing
seems to make some people crazy. Taking this as
a correlation rather than causation, it becomes
hypothesable (?) that crazy people might want to
change the climate, or some aspect thereof.
(Why? You already answered that.) |
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So, since we do see stars with technetium-
influenced spectra, and that many of these stars
are red giants of substantially advanced age (>2
Gy), and Tc has no isotopes with a half-life
exceeding 4.2 My, and in a fusion environment
would have an accelerated mean lifetime of less
than a score of years, it does not stand to reason
that these spectra are a natural phenomenon, and
therefore must be artificially induced, which
would be crazy. |
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I did watch a few episodes, didn't seem that bad. |
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More or less in the same area of IMDB there is "Johnny Sokko and His Flying Robot" and that promo pic would not go down too well in the modern world.. |
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No, it's "quod erat derilictum", which means "I left it
here somewhere" |
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After reading all my favorite ideas I'm left with the
same word on my lips: |
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Fewer plants, Fewer people. Easier to get a seat on the train, but less to eat. |
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Reason. Reason? Does there have to be a reason? |
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//even make a female plant think she's a dude |
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Are there any "lifestyle" magazines for male plants? "Hubba, hubba, hubba look at the stamens on that one" and so on. |
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'High Times' is a popular title, but I'm sure there are others. |
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Can't you do that by putting polarized lenses around the plants? |
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