🚀 go-pugleaf

It's all about sustaining and/or improving the quality of life.  If
that motive on behalf of salvaging our environment takes on the form
of accomplishing my LSE-CM/ISS, or that of my VL2 POOF City as part of
the ultimate game plan, while our moon is gradually getting relocated
to Earth's L1, then so be it.

As to the perfectly valid argument(s) or honest topic jest of
artificially blocking out a little more than a sufficient portion of
our sun, as such is all about sustaining and/or improving the quality
of all life.

The best I can accomplish thus far, is coming up with the new and
improved sun + (moon at Earth L1) as becoming worth 50.4% of our
existing lunar tide.

A 50% reduction in tidal action is perhaps a little less important to
ocean and other terrestrial life than we've been giving it credit.
Most tidal life can adapt, some of which getting by with a little of
our best intelligent design as help wherever necessary.

This moon relocation process of getting that mascon situated out to
Earth's L1 (roughly 4X further away than it's current orbital trek) is
going to take a good century or more, and therefore I'm not imposing
an overnight change to whatever terrestrial life that we know of
that's attached its life endurance to that existing lunar cycle and
ocean tidal issues.

There will be some unfortunate extinctions of life which simply can
not adapt, though hopefully humanity will not become one of those.
However, at the very same time, other existing species that are
currently finding it downright difficult or nearly impossible to
survive as is, as such will likely bloom or otherwise better populate
under the conditions of having less terrestrial trauma to deal with.

A measured reduction in global warming (in good part due to the solar
isolation afforded by the moon itself), along with having accomplished
much less gravity/tidal trauma taking place (inside and out), is what
should by rights benefit most all known species of life on Earth
(hopefully just short of bringing on another ice age).

What we honestly need for this daunting task is having that spendy
supercomputer running all of its parallel CPUs off the charts, doing
exactly whatever's necessary for figuring out what's doable, and
otherwise telling us whatever else needs to be avoided at all cost.
If you should happen to have such supercomputer access, and wouldn't
terribly mind running off a few of these weird ideas, as such I'd like
to see a few of those what-if results in 3D animation.
-
Brad Guth