Firstly im so sorry to hear this. I can completely empathise as i lost my father who was my best friend to Pancreatic Cancer. Like you, one day we were fine and joking, the next day my world collapsed with the news. Uncontrollable sadness, then anger, then desperation and the why me / why my dad. I just wanted to write to you to say that you are not alone. You dont know me, i dont know you, but i wish you and your partner well and send thoughts and love. It is a surreal thing to happen. I remember looking at other people living their regular lives smiling and laughing and thinking, how can they be happy. An unbelievable amount of varied emotions. Seeing really unhealthy people, or bad people on the news, and i know this sounds bad, but wondering, why us, why not them. Just mind spinning type stuff, a plethora of every conceivable emotion. I hope you have loved ones you can vent and talk to. Again, you’re not alone.

Thank you. I can relate to everything you're saying.

I think what's been helping has been reading about death and what that means and potentially feels like. I think part of the issue is that the topic of death is so misunderstood and feared, that it creates no reasonable way forward mentally. So hopefully I can learn more about that over the coming weeks.

https://eli5.gg/racism I get an infinite loop. Figures, it's hard to explain stupidity.

I wish that was that reason but the infinite loop was due to reaching a rate limit on OpenAI. It now displays an error message instead.

I know how small the debris is relative to the earth. But the sheer number. Would that have any effect on the sun reaching earth and it’s heating / cooling?

No.

To have an effect you need to launch multiple orders of magnitude more mass than we have, and that mass would need to be optimized towards having as large as an effect as possible by being very very thin film positioned so that it is consistently between earth and the sun (or you could add on a few more orders of magnitude).

You can look at proposal for doing this intentionally to get a sense for the scale: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_sunshade

No, that's like trying to cool your house with a pinch of dust.

Bus = 0.0002 km²

Earth = 510.1 million km²

(Earth / Bus) / 100 = 25,000,000,000 bus sized satellites needed to cover 1% of the sky.

You're a bit off, you have to calculate the area considering the height of satellites.

Nope

And then put it back in the ground, or burn it again..?

Yes, it doesn't make sense. Where would the CO2 come from? Capturing CO2 is not a proven technology.

Or maybe cars would be equipped with a tank that compresses CO2, but even then.

It's funny how the solution is all about stopping to use fossil fuels, but people still find ways to CREATE fossil fuels.

Why has the dynamic become, the Government and it's Citizen's being seperate from one another.

The government is funded by its Citizens.

I remember a time when spying on EVERYONE was a bad thing.

Was that day 9/10/2001? I remember those days, too. I miss some parts of them.

..or sifting it from the river before it enters the ocean. Is it the incentive for recycling is big enough for plastic to be recycled immediately after use, or no recycling centres. I remember recycling bottles and cans as a child for 5c each. This sounds like something that could be solved by somebody with enough capital investing in a recycling system / plants there. Bill / Elon / Jeff? Seems an extremely important issue we get solved, here on earth...

There is no such thing as plastic recycling as there is no use for second hand plastics. The best thing you can do is put it in a landfill. The Romans had landfills, there's no excuse for countries in the modern day that just toss trash in the river.

Sounds like hard work..

Israel and Palestine? That would be a good read.

"our parents and grandparents, basically."

I now feel officially elderly, Cheers for that. Lol.

I think the implication here was that your parents and grandparents were less computer savvy at the time. This resulted in them installing all kinds of toolbars that destroyed performance.

Great and funny read.