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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>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????</FONT></DIV>
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<A title=mfj.eav@gmail.com href="mailto:mfj.eav@gmail.com">Morris Johnson</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A
title=extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, February 13, 2007 9:57
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [extropy-chat] Re-save the
world</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>Yes I did think that the dark sails was one of the most
dangerous and idiotic things one could do <BR>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.<BR><BR>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.<BR><BR>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<BR>tied up in materials or biosystems.<BR><BR>However, for
now I think the global warming/cooling debate is based on millions of
tunnelvisions<BR>and narrow self-centered opinions.<BR><BR>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.<BR><BR>Saving the world could be a heck of a lot of fun
though.<BR><BR>So I'll repeat the shocker one liner I like to lighten up
conversations with..<BR>"I'm all for global warming
but................................".and so
forth.<BR><BR>Morris<BR><BR><BR><BR><BR>
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