It would be dangerous to feed a hurricane more heat, that is exactly what they require to get stronger. If they fed a hurricane more heat, from some sort of microwave satellite they could potentially bring it beyond a category 5(worst case scenario, in my own personal opinion). At the very least though, who knows: miscalculate and accidentally steer it right into a heavy populated city along the coast and/or/maybe make it stronger. The idea for cooling the hurricane might be a little safer, or might feed it more dust to throw at things. Of course it could also be that nothing happens(nothing happening is much less likely), but either way the risk is too great. I don't know the results, these are just a couple of (at least to me) reasons not too even try it in the first place
Anyways, I agree with you. They still have enough trouble accurately predicting the weather as it is, and an old saying I heard somewhere. Just because you can do a thing, doesn't mean you should.
The Boy Scout motto is: Be Prepared. Which includes being prepared for emergencies. And I am certain that the Bible teaches being prepared too. One thing I have been taught all of my life is to prepare for emergencies. Get a emergency 72 hour food and supply kit ready in a water proof/airtight container. Along with more then enough water. And then build up a 1 year supply of food and water, in stages like 2 or 3 months first, then building beyond that to a full year supply or longer. And the food supplies don't need to be anything fancy, just cans of food, and other storage solutions, I know many people in several parts of the US alone that can/bottle their own food for food storage. Also rotating food supplies so it stays good is necessary as well. I know some people personally that while rotating food supplies use some of the oldest food supplies first, like one meal a day. Just to keep the supplies fresher.
http://lds.about.com/od/preparednessfoodstorage/a/72hour_kit.htm This site has 72-hour emergency kit information freely available for download in pdf format, that you are free to print out and give copies to your friends and family as you wish. That's the way LDS are with information like that. It's good solid information, and deserves to be checked out fairly, and with an open mind.
And no, I am not starting a religious discussion, I am doing my best to stay on topic, and give some freely available related information, that could benefit people for the better.
Of course I am always willing to work with other companies, friendly competition, deals that are mutually beneficial, etc. I will not limit myself or my future businesses to a single supplier though.
My businesses will also use Linux on all computers internally, right now I am helping people with their computer problems in my spare time.
That is something I've been saying over the past few years or so, if M$ started purchasing open source companies, that would happen, one or more companies that work with open source would pop up to replace it. M$ is foolish(and/or scared/dumb/stupid/take your pick/substitute other words/etc) if they think that it can make a difference for even a day. They could be panicking already, and using that as a "scare" tactic. To slightly misquote The Joker(r) from Batman(r)(c)(?) movie: "Microsoft this, Microsoft that, Who's afraid of the big, bad Microsoft"
Not me, I plan on opening up a computer business in the future, here in SA(city), USA, if M$ ever approaches me with an offer, my response every time will be: No Deal! (I'm keeping my businesses off of the stock market too) I have several ideas, and I will not bow to some measly company that forgot, or never knew how to compete fairly(or any other company for that matter).
I don't like M$, but one of the main things they had going for them early on was marketing(they were good at that for a while, and I disagree with some/many of the techniques they used, install win9x/me/nt/xp/etc in all of the computer's you're manufacturing or ELSE, etc). Now it looks like they are even losing their marketing edge, and probably a few other edges too. What would that be, a double edged dull sword(as opposed to a double edged sword) or maybe a dull sword with a dagger as a handle? (that last one could work as a topic icon or a slightly modified icon here at slashdot, perhaps?)
I know not everyone agrees with me, just expressing my opinion.:)
PS: companies that might get bought out are probably already using a forked version of an open source project anyways(in response to other posts before I posted this one)
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It would be dangerous to feed a hurricane more heat, that is exactly what they require to get stronger. If they fed a hurricane more heat, from some sort of microwave satellite they could potentially bring it beyond a category 5(worst case scenario, in my own personal opinion). At the very least though, who knows: miscalculate and accidentally steer it right into a heavy populated city along the coast and/or/maybe make it stronger. The idea for cooling the hurricane might be a little safer, or might feed it more dust to throw at things. Of course it could also be that nothing happens(nothing happening is much less likely), but either way the risk is too great. I don't know the results, these are just a couple of (at least to me) reasons not too even try it in the first place
Anyways, I agree with you. They still have enough trouble accurately predicting the weather as it is, and an old saying I heard somewhere. Just because you can do a thing, doesn't mean you should.
The Boy Scout motto is: Be Prepared. Which includes being prepared for emergencies. And I am certain that the Bible teaches being prepared too. One thing I have been taught all of my life is to prepare for emergencies. Get a emergency 72 hour food and supply kit ready in a water proof/airtight container. Along with more then enough water. And then build up a 1 year supply of food and water, in stages like 2 or 3 months first, then building beyond that to a full year supply or longer. And the food supplies don't need to be anything fancy, just cans of food, and other storage solutions, I know many people in several parts of the US alone that can/bottle their own food for food storage. Also rotating food supplies so it stays good is necessary as well. I know some people personally that while rotating food supplies use some of the oldest food supplies first, like one meal a day. Just to keep the supplies fresher.
http://lds.about.com/od/preparednessfoodstorage/a/72hour_kit.htm This site has 72-hour emergency kit information freely available for download in pdf format, that you are free to print out and give copies to your friends and family as you wish. That's the way LDS are with information like that. It's good solid information, and deserves to be checked out fairly, and with an open mind.
And no, I am not starting a religious discussion, I am doing my best to stay on topic, and give some freely available related information, that could benefit people for the better.
Of course I am always willing to work with other companies, friendly competition, deals that are mutually beneficial, etc. I will not limit myself or my future businesses to a single supplier though.
My businesses will also use Linux on all computers internally, right now I am helping people with their computer problems in my spare time.
Hello Folk's.
That is something I've been saying over the past few years or so, if M$ started purchasing open source companies, that would happen, one or more companies that work with open source would pop up to replace it. M$ is foolish(and/or scared/dumb/stupid/take your pick/substitute other words/etc) if they think that it can make a difference for even a day. They could be panicking already, and using that as a "scare" tactic. To slightly misquote The Joker(r) from Batman(r)(c)(?) movie: "Microsoft this, Microsoft that, Who's afraid of the big, bad Microsoft"
Not me, I plan on opening up a computer business in the future, here in SA(city), USA, if M$ ever approaches me with an offer, my response every time will be: No Deal! (I'm keeping my businesses off of the stock market too) I have several ideas, and I will not bow to some measly company that forgot, or never knew how to compete fairly(or any other company for that matter).
I don't like M$, but one of the main things they had going for them early on was marketing(they were good at that for a while, and I disagree with some/many of the techniques they used, install win9x/me/nt/xp/etc in all of the computer's you're manufacturing or ELSE, etc). Now it looks like they are even losing their marketing edge, and probably a few other edges too. What would that be, a double edged dull sword(as opposed to a double edged sword) or maybe a dull sword with a dagger as a handle? (that last one could work as a topic icon or a slightly modified icon here at slashdot, perhaps?)
I know not everyone agrees with me, just expressing my opinion. :)
PS: companies that might get bought out are probably already using a forked version of an open source project anyways(in response to other posts before I posted this one)