The art of moving and shaping nature in order to constuct a better place for mankind. Such as: a city wanted to build itself with its local river in mind, and decided to carve water canals in a twisting meandering way throughout its residents and businesses locations. The city was beautiful and everyone had access to crystal clear water canals. Such as: a large circumference tube was raised higher and higher into the atmosphere with a horizontal opening at the top which could catch the earth's jet stream air current and channel the air to earth where it was used for wind turbines and for the substution of fossil fuels in that it could be used to transport people and items, such as todays bank-teller tubes but on a much larger scale. Such as: Mountains were scooped up and placed into the deserts so that the rainclouds could therefore go to the desert area, since before they had been blocked by the mountain ranges. Thereby turning the deserts into farmland
2007-04-11 05:51:31 · 4 answers · asked by warning 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Other - Politics & Government
Its a very interesting idea. Scientists are always trying things out before thinking them through carefully. Its sound good, but there are always consequences when manipulating the forces of mother nature. Some times the consequences can be quite devastating.
It does deserve to be thought through.
2007-04-11 05:57:46 · answer #1 · answered by darrellkern 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
All those ideas sound great, but they could have tremendous impacts on other areas of the world. An incredible amount of study would have to be done before such projects could even be contemplated. In particular, we would need a much greater understanding of how weather works before we could consider removing the jet stream (could lead to more and more devastating hurricanes, based on our current understanding) or moving mountains (what would happen in the areas where the mountains were?).
But eventually I think humans will get around to trying things like that, if not here then on other planets.
2007-04-11 13:01:29 · answer #2 · answered by Jensenfan 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Forget it. The tree huggers would never allow it. Heck, Senator Kennedy doesn't even want wind turbine near his estate. They ruin the view.
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2007-04-11 12:59:51 · answer #3 · answered by Jacob W 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
cool idea as long as we use democrats as the guinea ppigs....
2007-04-11 12:55:37 · answer #4 · answered by badjanssen 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋