Mon. 07/11 - Sailing Without a Map, or Compass, or Anything

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Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff

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4.6 • 739 Ratings

🗓️ 11 July 2022

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Could an MIT idea to ease the climate crisis by blowing up giant sun-blocking bubbles in space actually work? Plus, the Polynesian voyagers who are reviving ancient seafaring techniques and traversing thousands of miles across the ocean without maps or modern technology. And a cool little interactive Easter egg from the latest season of Stranger Things. Sponsors: Calm, Get 40% off a Calm Premium Subscription calm.com/coolstuff Indeed, Get a free $75 credit PLUS earn up to $500 extra in sponsored job credits with Indeed’s Virtual Interviews at Indeed.com/goodnews Links: MIT Scientists Suggest Wild Plan to Ease Climate Change: Space Bubbles (ScienceAlert) Space Bubbles (MIT Senseable City Lab) Climate change: MIT proposes using a space bubble shield the size of Brazil to cool the Earth (Interesting Engineering) MIT Scientists Propose Space Bubbles to Reverse the Worst of Climate Change (Gizmodo) This woman navigated a 3,000-mile Pacific voyage without maps or technology (National Geographic) Polynesia's master voyagers who navigate by nature (BBC) “Stranger Things” Has a Surprise for Fans That Call the Surfer Boy Pizza Number (Teen Vogue) Where to Buy Stranger Things' Surfer Boy Pizza (Pop Sugar) NASA Is About to Unveil The Deepest View of The Universe Ever – A Day Ahead of Schedule (ScienceAlert) Jackson Bird on Twitter See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:28.7	it's monday july 11th 20 2022. I'm Jackson Bird. Today, could an MIT idea to ease the climate crisis by blowing up giant sunblocking bubbles in space actually work?
0:51.1	Plus, the Polynesian voyagers who are reviving ancient seafaring techniques and
0:56.3	traversing thousands of miles across the ocean without maps or modern technology. And a cool
1:03.1	little interactive Easter egg from the latest season of Stranger Things. Here's some cool
1:08.3	stuff for your ride home.
1:18.6	Like I and others have said before, emerging tech that seeks to ease the climate crisis feels a bit like the dot-com bubble right now. You know, tons of money is being poured into
1:24.0	the sector towards all sorts of different technologies, all promising bigger and
1:28.3	better solutions for this absolutely critical dilemma. But will any of them actually pull it off
1:34.5	in a significant enough way to be effective? Well, here's another one to add to the bubble.
1:40.6	Actual bubbles. Space bubbles, as the MIT scientists working on them have dubbed them,
1:46.7	would be manufactured in space and act as a sort of shield for the Earth from solar radiation.
1:53.5	The space bubbles would be on a raft, roughly the size of Brazil,
1:57.9	and carefully positioned in Lagrange Point One between the Earth and Sun.
2:03.0	The idea of using something to shield the Earth from solar radiation is not an entirely new
2:08.3	concept, but the team at the MIT Sensible City Lab might be closer to turning the idea into
2:14.2	reality than anyone yet. As Science Alert summarizes, quote,
2:19.4	first proposed in the late 1980s, the suggestion of using a vast space umbrella to block a tiny
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