Since the Beginning of Time Man has Yearned to Destroy the Sun.

“I will do the next best thing...block it out!”

In the fantastic* Simpsons episode Who Shot Mr Burns Part One, C. Montgomery Burns’s most dastardly crime against the town of Springfield is to block out the sun with a giant umbrella - “owls will deafen us with incessant hooting...”

I read in the paper this morning that one plan to save us from global warming is to block out the sun with giant umbrellas in space.

If that happens, please please please please please can they be called Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie.

*For anyone who I’ve droned on to about TV, I never said it was rubbish, just that watching it makes us stupid.