[extropy-chat] Re-save the world

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I saw a preview for some Al Gore movie about climate change. In the preview there was a scene where they showed a computer animation of how the coastlines would shrink with rising sea levels. I presume (which maybe I shouldn;t) that they used actual elevatin maps to create the animation. I was wondering if anyone knew if there was an online simulator somewhere where you could maybe adjust a sliding scale and see the areas that would flood as the sea level increased. It seems like it would be a logical and fairly straightforward thing to create - no more complicated than a flight simulator. But I can't find anything like this. Does anyone know if such a thing is available and if not, maybe someone here is capable of designing it????


  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Morris Johnson 
  To: extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org 
  Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2007 9:57 PM
  Subject: [extropy-chat] Re-save the world


  Yes I did think that the dark sails was one of the most dangerous and idiotic things one could do 
  with those resources ... but the old solar power satellite  concept might be scaled up to a network of collectors....beaming light or energy to modify short, medium and long term meterology.

  In a post singularity world we might have the computational power to not worry about global warming or cooling because what we really need is controlled global warming and cooling or terraforming and  complete meterological control over the major baselines of climate.

  A dynamic biosphere that is carefully managed can have the best of both.. no polar caps, marginal desert area, snow in a few arctic preserves like everest and all the carbon and water
  tied up in materials or biosystems.

  However, for now I think the global warming/cooling debate is based on millions of tunnelvisions
  and narrow self-centered opinions.

  Perhaps all those 750 billions USA invested into the military  in 2006 will be managed under the advice of Raymond Kurzweil and the singularity dividend will occur.

  Saving the world could be a heck of a lot of fun though.

  So I'll repeat the shocker one liner I like to lighten up  conversations with..
  "I'm all for global warming but................................".and so forth.

  Morris







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