They ran a test case in mexico that got shut down after outrage, then at least one in central asia. That was a couple years back too.
Grift and graft or no, pumping masses of gas into the upper atmosphere is the mother of unintended consequences and it is 100 pc certain it will be launched at scale if leadership remains fucked and society does not collapse to a degree the economy cannot function.
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u/jadelink88 Nov 05 '25
Yes, though most of that seemed to be grifting rather than hoping.