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China Modifies Weather For 2008 Olympics
BRock97 writes: "An article in the August 5th issue of Newsweek describes the steps the Chinese are taking to ensure a perfect forecast for the 2008 Olympics. This includes shutting down factories that are pumping pollution into the atmosphere to increasing the number of trees planted to reduce dust and erosion (need to spread these kind of ideas world wide!). The interesting aspect, though, is all the research and development into using rockets and furnaces to modify the atmosphere and create the weather that would be optimal for the games. By heating the air or dumping cloud condensation nuclei into the atmosphere, various types of weather can be achieved. Seems that they have had success as far back as 1987, creating rain to help put out a raging forest fire. Cool stuff from a weather nerd standpoint."
The problem is not technological, it's a problem of politics and distribution.
;-) Maybe tps12 is just a very specific and thorough crapflooder.
You left out "economic."
The problem of starvation is partly, slightly technological. Some foods, particular vegetables, don't travel well, and as such are difficult to transport to the more remote parts of the world. Shipping avocadoes to Ethiopia would be a dicey project at best.
But other foods, of course, can be transported easily. Grains, for example, are practically indestructable, as long as you keep them dry, free of vermin, and not stolen. So it's only slightly and insignificantly a technological problem.
This post of yours is even worse than that one you made about the giant squid.
"...in this brave new world we still know so little about what lurks beneath the indigo waves of the oceans that cover 80% of our planet."
Ah, yes. Purple prose, indeed.