"550,000 million dollar Kepler space telescope"
I think you're about 3 orders of magnitude too high.
So... The two of you are in agreement that we're completely fucked unless we follow your path.
However, you seem to disagree strongly about what that path is, save that yours is the "right" one.
Here are two cricket bats. Beat on each other until one of you is unconscious or you reach a consensus.
The rest of us will continue blundering our way to the future while you have it out. Hopefully, by then the answer won't matter anyway.
If it fails as badly as the rabbit infestation, you've given the pols another wonderful issue to send out direct mailings about!
Not to mention, a whole slew of disaster movies that will make Night of the Lepus look positively tame.
"why would some intentional geoengineering be so bad?"
If it fails, not much.
But if it works, and global warming is controlled, it would undercut the best fundraising, societal engineering and lobbying arguments many organizations have.
Example: It'd remove a massive issue for the Democrats and Republicans to argue about and scare voters with.
Repeat that with both environmental and conservative organizations losing that issue, and you have a worse crisis for them than just the prospect of getting cooked by rising temperatures.
"What are ya programmin' for, Timmy my boy?"
"Helps with my hallucinations. I get to see the world in its real black and white!"
(We're all coders on this bus.)
"hillbilly echo-chamber constantly circle-jerking while chanting "fuck you, got mine"."
Oh, really?
What type of echo-chamber do you circle-jerk in, and what mindless mantra do you chant?
They will very soon have a comprehensive database of the very best automated troll entry coding skillsets that GNAA and other such groups can muster.
Or didn't they get the memo that Hank the Angry Drunken Dwarf won man of the year over a decade ago?
You mean, like is combined with arsenic (a deadly poison) to use for all sorts of evil things like LEDs and high speed transistors for things like cell phones?
And you can combine it with that nitrogen stuff that is part of so many explosives. And use it for (wait for it) even brighter LEDs!
Wow. That's some real exotic stuff there. Certainly wouldn't want any of that in the world.
Yeah, this is the sort of BS I'd expect out of The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. It's sad they've figured out that submitting everything to Slashdot is a way to shovel their message.
Nasty. Swans are already mean as all get out and now you want to genetically engineer them with African bee dna, so they behave like killer bees.
Black swan: Cygnus atratus
Africanized honey bee: Apis mellifera adansonii
Africanized Black Swan: Cygnus atratus adansonii (variety: Winged Death).
Attacks in flocks of thousands and chases you for miles. Almost as bad as sharks with lasers, but can fly and travel on land. Doctor Evil would be proud.
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