What if we were to...

[Guest Octavio]

block the sun with a giant piece of tinted glass? What would be some effects of this in our society?

[swansont]

One effect would be that somebody would shoot C. Montgomery Burns.

[VendingMenace]

i suspect the suglass' industry would take a serious hit

[iglak]

what color is the tinted glass?

if it's green, many plants would die

[greg1917]

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

[Sayonara]

The town's sundial would be useless. Owls would deafen us with their incessant hooting.

[bigjnorman]

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.

[VendingMenace]

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.

[YT2095]

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?

[Kedas]

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.