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A controversial experiment to artificially cool Earth was canceled — what we know about why (www.theverge.com)
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[–] LostXOR@fedia.io 12 points 2 months 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).