I Call This Enemy: The Sun (The Simpsons)

ThingsICantFindOtherwise0 HN recommenders · 2022–2026
1.2M views · comedy · evergreen · Uploaded 2016-01-31

A short Simpsons clip from Who Shot Mr. Burns Part 1 in which Mr. Burns declares the sun his enemy and plans to block it out.

Quoted as a joke whenever sunshades, geoengineering or anti-solar policy come up.

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3 comments from Hacker News

@DocTomoe2022 · in “Cooling the Earth with a sunshade near the inner Lagrange point (2006)”

Friendly reminder that a private company with launch capability currently is massively increasing the space junk problem and about to trigger the Kessler scenario for a quick buck and internet access without cables, while at the same time ruining surface-based astronomy. So why stop there? And as always, the Simpsons have predicted it: [VIDEO]

@a_e_k2024 · in “The likelihood of unilateral solar geoengineering”

"Since the beginning of time, Man has yearned to destroy the sun. I will do the next best thing: block it out!" [VIDEO]

@feurio2026 · in “US govt pays TotalEnergies nearly $1B to stop US offshore wind projects”

"Since the beginning of time man has yearned to destroy the sun" - Charles Montgomery Burns [VIDEO]