The next technological advancement
Oct.23, 2007 in
Technology
In light of the Southern California Wildfires which are raging about 30 miles from where I am, I wanted to post a small thought and question for you all out there.
The weather here is making the effort to fight the fires very tough and I was thinking that man’s next great technological advancement should be focused on something that can create local weather systems such as rain or snow. This would be a great asset in times like this when an area is going through a drought and rainfall is scarce.
What are your thoughts on this issue? What do you think man’s next big technological advancement should be?
October 26th, 2007 at 2:49 pm
It would be truly amazing if we could find a way to control earth’s weather systems. I would just fear that something would eventually go wrong, or get out of control. In addition, trying to get an entire population in agreement as to what the weather should be could be difficult. Weather control could have a positive economic impact on a ski resort community, but the positive impact there could negatively affect other areas of the country. Once the snow or rain starts, how would we force it to stop? What are the environmental concerns? … All things to think about.
October 29th, 2007 at 9:19 am
Granted that not being able to fully control the weather system would prove deadly in some cases, and the ecological imbalance it would create is another thing to think about. These would only be small weather systems, such as a local rain storm to help fight drought like the one in the Southeast US, or the fires in Southern California