Posted by Larry Hoover on December 17, 2005, at 10:52:31
In reply to Re: A colossal sized umbrella, posted by alexandra_k2 on December 16, 2005, at 2:19:57
About the umbrella....I'd sure hate to live where the stuff what was on the umbrella came sliding off to. You ever had someone give you a soaking with their umbrella runoff? Imagine a city's worth of snow.
TV announcer: "New York's snow umbrella worked perfectly during the last winter storm, but avalanches have interrupted communication with 2/3 of the communities on Long Island. Rescuers expect it will be August before they reach some of the more isolated regions. Stay tuned for further updates."
> i think they need a really big fan and then they could just turn it on and blow those clouds away :-)
Except mass increases as the cube of size, so to increase length by some increment, width and depth must go too. Or, be compensated for by increased strength from other factors. Frankly, that's why dinosaurs are so amazing. They broke the size rule. I guess they were too stupid to notice. A whale on land is crushed by the bulk of his own mass, having lost the buoyancy of water. But dinosaurs....I dunno.
> i wonder what will happen in the future...
> when we can't live outside anymore (cause of the ozone layer and stuff)The ozone layer thing seems to be fixing itself, as these things tend to do. Eliminating fluorocarbon production altogether would really speed things up, but there's still a black market for it.
> whether we will build big tall buildings
> whether we will start building them under the ground.That's the most reasonable thing to do, given the temperature stabilizing qualities of soil. And rock, for that matter. But from a practical perspective, underground is totally out of the question. What would you do with the stuff you dug up making the holes you'd need?
I think we'll be humbled by the tiniest of God's creation, the virus. Population won't continue to increase exponentially.
> i wonder if people will figure out a way to survive when the sun goes out.Well, that's a ways off, you know. If all time since the big bang was condensed to a 24 hour period, I think mammals (they came around with the dinosaurs) are in the last four minutes. Modern man, the last 4 seconds? Something like that.
Continuing with that same clock, the sun goes out, I'm really not sure if it's 20 hours or 30 hours from now. Dinosaurs four minutes ago. Sun dies 20 hours from now.
I think you're giving new meaning to worrying about future events. ;-)
> could we make enough energy to keep us warm?
No problem there. E = mc˛
And besides, before the sun goes out, it will expand. We'll be inside the sun long before it gets too cool for our liking.
> (without harvesting poeple / animals matrix like???)
They've actually almost got synthetic meat figured out. Cell culture from muscle cells. No need to slice it. It forms in sheets. I can hardly wait to try some. <sarcasm>
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> maybe i do have a little too much time on my hands ;-)You think with your hands? How, uhhhh, unuuuusual.
Lar
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