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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=171594519-15022007>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.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=171594519-15022007>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.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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face=Tahoma size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B>
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[mailto:extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org] <B>On Behalf Of
</B>kevinfreels.com<BR><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, February 14, 2007 10:39
PM<BR><B>To:</B> ExI chat list<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: [extropy-chat] Re-save
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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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style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=mfj.eav@gmail.com href="mailto:mfj.eav@gmail.com">Morris
Johnson</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A
title=extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org
href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</A>
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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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