[extropy-chat] Re-save the world

[Brian J. Shores]

Well, I used to use a program called Vistapro which used actual USGS maps in
DEM format that when imported into the program, you could adjust the "sea
level", terrain elevation scales, etc. and make it look however you wished
before rendering the scene. DEM's are probably still available as well as
presumably more advanced programs than ye olde Vistapro.
 
The Al Gore movie is called "An Inconvenient Truth", and I wish everyone
would watch it and take it seriously. I used to think that global warming
was one of Al's "pet projects" for some kind of election ploy, but after
watching the movie I could tell how serious and involved he has been for a
good part of his career.

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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????
 
 

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From: HYPERLINK "mailto:mfj.eav at gmail.com"Morris Johnson 
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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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