Bill Gates vs. the Weather: Your Thoughts

[L1Technician]

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Million years ago no one expected nga ang puthaw mo lupad (airplane) ug mo langoy (barko).

[Tin_Tin]

never know tilll you try!

[jamesmusslewhite]

yup! it even existed in the time of Noah...
what I am referring is the root cause of these strong typhoons nowadays,
Im sure you know what/who I am referring to. anyway, why dont we give the man(Gates) a chance.


(If I am a bakya maker for almost 30 years, does that mean that I cant make a good pair of shoes?).
di mn sd cguro kay bate ang windows(w/c is true), buot pasabot wala nay nindot na mahimo c Bill Gates,
og di mn sd cya ang mangunay og himo anang project nya.

Yes but if your shoes proved to not be as good as you had planed, they probably would not destroy everyone's food supply and disrupt the world's weather for the next 1000 years or so.

[Tarmac]

Yes but if your shoes proved to not be as good as you had planed, they probably would not destroy everyone's food supply and disrupt the world's weather for the next 1000 years or so.

Besides, the gulf between making software and controlling weather is like the gulf between making bakya and building a nuclear reactor--an infinitely more complex task.

What I'm trying to put across is this: What Bill Gates is proposing to do doesn't really stop at the utterly noble goal of minimizing hurricane damage. What he is proposing has myriad consequences--many of them negative--that he and his research people must weigh and account for very carefully.

[Tarmac]

yup! it even existed in the time of Noah...
what I am referring is the root cause of these strong typhoons nowadays,
Im sure you know what/who I am referring to. anyway, why dont we give the man(Gates) a chance.

Has it occurred to you that the "strong typhoons nowadays" may be nature's way of combating global warming? Cyclones/Hurricanes/Typhoons draw their energy from warm sea surface temperatures. That's a way of drawing heat from the oceans and pumping them wholesale into the upper atmosphere or transporting them elsewhere. So if the oceans are starting to get warm because of global warming, typhoons are a necessary relief valve.

[ethzneuron]

Has it occurred to you that the "strong typhoons nowadays" may be nature's way of combating global warming? Cyclones/Hurricanes/Typhoons draw their energy from warm sea surface temperatures. That's a way of drawing heat from the oceans and pumping them wholesale into the upper atmosphere or transporting them elsewhere. So if the oceans are starting to get warm because of global warming, typhoons are a necessary relief valve.

could be..

humans cause the global warming
global warming causes strong cyclones
strong cyclones cause global heat balance
global heat balance causes earth to be more livable

earth is pretty doing good things while humans dont..

[rodsky]

I really wish we could at least test this system, if only to save life and property...I mean, if this system was in place out in the eastern Philippines, before Ondoy came, would it have had the capability to at least diminish (if not totally stop) its wrath? Again, the only way to find out is to try it. Now after seeing what Ondoy has done, I really want to push for this system to be at least tried out.

-RODION

[romano2717]

mao jd boss rodsky, unsaon mn nga ang uban kay negative mn.

[Tarmac]

mao jd boss rodsky, unsaon mn nga ang uban kay negative mn.

As if anything we say or do here will make Bill Gates change his mind.

Or make the idea more or less feasible.

[romano2717]

at least we tried to get out of our caves and live in the city. rather than cower underground fearing that
a large bakunawa beast will devour us.