They found why the moon was stuck like this. An accident, an experiment gone wrong, and the rich {censoreds} that caused it? Were more interested in arguing whose fault it was than fixing it. Fine, then everyone ELSE would fix it, and the moon would be shoved back to its proper orbit again.
https://peakd.com/fiction/@internutter/challenge-04534-l150-ameliorative-measures -- Anon Guest
There's an old saying - two can keep a secret if one of them is dead. The corollary to this is that a group of very rich and influential people can plausibly keep a secret if they keep distracting the larger throng with other business. And there were plenty of distractions now that the moon was stuck between the Earth and the sun.
But even with desperate scrambling to "talk about more important things", the secret could not stay safe.
Of course it took ludicrous amounts of money to do it. What they aimed for didn't matter so much as what happened, and there was still a faction attempting to create a profit out of the situation of their own making. Step one had been freezing the moon. Step two involved solar panels covering the far sign of the moon and space elevators somehow streamlining and cornering the market on solar power.
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