Guest Octavio Posted November 13, 2003 Share Posted November 13, 2003 block the sun with a giant piece of tinted glass? What would be some effects of this in our society? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swansont Posted November 13, 2003 Share Posted November 13, 2003 One effect would be that somebody would shoot C. Montgomery Burns. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VendingMenace Posted November 13, 2003 Share Posted November 13, 2003 i suspect the suglass' industry would take a serious hit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iglak Posted November 14, 2003 Share Posted November 14, 2003 what color is the tinted glass? if it's green, many plants would die Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greg1917 Posted November 14, 2003 Share Posted November 14, 2003 As Iglak said, depending on the colour certain things would die. the social effects would be hatred of whoever put it there and a worldwide crusade against them in order to remove it. or maybe thats just my own violent imagination Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sayonara Posted November 14, 2003 Share Posted November 14, 2003 The town's sundial would be useless. Owls would deafen us with their incessant hooting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigjnorman Posted November 14, 2003 Share Posted November 14, 2003 Originally posted by iglak what color is the tinted glass? if it's green, many plants would die quite the contrary my friend, plants reflect green light, they do not need it to survive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VendingMenace Posted November 14, 2003 Share Posted November 14, 2003 right, plants look green becuase they absorb other colors than green, hence in the light the reflect green in dominant. Similarely, green glass looks green because it absorbs colors other than green. Thus, we can asume the green glass could be (and most likely is) filtering out colors wich plants absorb (mostly yellow, if i remember correctly). So, if the green glass is filtering out the light that plants absorb, and hence use, we can assume that a green glass placed in front of hte sun would detrimental to plants. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YT2095 Posted November 14, 2003 Share Posted November 14, 2003 We`de be lacking sand from many beaches to make the thing and Billions would be spent doing it that would have been better employed giving it to me Who`s up for a good multi-Billion dollar beach party? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kedas Posted November 14, 2003 Share Posted November 14, 2003 Did someone already calculate if we have enough desert to do that? more practically would be what if there were a lot of small dust particals. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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