Do you think we will ever be able to conquer Natural Disasters?

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i was just thinking to myself, and i hear that there have been shock absorbed buildings and bridges etc to prevent earthquake damage and it seems to have worked.

i was also thinking that buildings and homes could be built to withhold hurricanes, and more underground bunkers be made for emergencies. and on the note of tsunamis build like a massive wall barrier on the coasts (5 miles out or so).

http://www.worldvision.com.au/onebigvillage/content.asp?topicID=37

and increasing natural disasters are blamed on the way us humans live. carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, deforestation.. where trees and forests are cut down to make way for urban areas.

is there anyway we can reduce global warming at all? hydrogen cars by any chance? thoughts?

i also think humans need to think of ideas on how to prevent asteroids, as the next one is due to hit us 2024 or something... (probably bs), but anyhow...
 
Yes well, other don't seem to believe in global warming, but, the only people who will conquer Natural Disasters are survivors who can adapt and change the way, as you say, humans live.
 
The nearest asteroid will have a flyby in 2029, Londoners will be able to see it, and then may hit us, extremely unlikely, in 2035 or something in that range. The only way to stop hurricanes and the like would to have a technology that allows one to control weather systems. Possible but we aren't near that yet. When it comes to global warming don't say logging. For every acre one cuts down you have to replant the whole thing. Logging companies now have a pattern where they cut down one acre, replant there, and move on the the next. The next time they get to their starting acre the trees are back, cut down, replant, move on.
 
we are at the mercy of this universe, we keep trying to overcome this fact, but i'm pretty damn sure we can't, something will wipe us out, and this whole global warming because of man alone thing still sounds like bullshit to me, if there's global warming it's probably mostly due to a natural change in the earth's atmosphere that we have no control over
 
do you think whatever we do, were all doomed at the end of this century anyway?
 
Icarusintel said:
we are at the mercy of this universe, we keep trying to overcome this fact, but i'm pretty damn sure we can't, something will wipe us out, and this whole global warming because of man alone thing still sounds like bullshit to me, if there's global warming it's probably mostly due to a natural change in the earth's atmosphere that we have no control over
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As much as I agree that the idea that mankind solely seems far fetched, the amount of pollution created by mankind is certainly a good portion of the problem.

And I think whatever we do, someday yes, we are doomed, end of the century? Maaaybe not... maybe a bit further, but it's impossible to predict that kind of thing. Best thing that can be done is an educated guess.
 
yeh i agree, were getting rid of the countryside and making cities. changing the balance of oxygen/carbon dioxide.

isnt the atmosphere filled with nitrogen gas anyways? but i think were using up all the oxygen and making excessive amounts of carbon dioxide. which could heat up the globe
 
If our civilization would spread throughout the Solar System we wouldn't have to worry about species extinction from a single asteroid. Global warming is no more than evironmental hysteria, the climate changes and we will simply have to adapt.
 
TheAmazingRando said:
If our civilization would spread throughout the Solar System we wouldn't have to worry about species extinction from a single asteroid.
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I think they're working on that, ;)
 
why dont we just load like 500 747's with tampons and drop them into the hurricane to soak up and absorb the hurricane's water content?
 
Icarusintel said:
i don;t think we'll last til then
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No, I highly doubt it too...


gh0st said:
why dont we just load like 500 747's with tampons and drop them into the hurricane to soak up and absorb the hurricane's water content?
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I must say, that's the most ingenuiosly simple but sweet plan, i've ever heard.
 
MrWhite said:
I must say, that's the most ingenuiosly simple but sweet plan, i've ever heard.
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They have to be used tampons, so they rain down on New New Orleans and splatter on everybody. :|

Or we could just nuke the hurricane.
 
gh0st said:
They have to be used tampons, so they rain down on New New Orleans and splatter on everybody. :|

Or we could just nuke the hurricane.
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Erhm... used tampons...? Oh my... I shudder to think.

And I don't think nuking anything, especially not a compilation of high speed wind and water and such, will help. Anyone, ever.
 
the biggest question of all folks:

Is natural disasters a bigger threat than terrorism?

my answer would be 'yes'
 
gh0st said:
why dont we just load like 500 747's with tampons and drop them into the hurricane to soak up and absorb the hurricane's water content?
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Because then it rains heavy wet tampons instead of regular rain. Unless you have 500 more 747's flying below to catch them.
 
KoreBolteR said:
the biggest question of all folks:

Is natural disasters a bigger threat than terrorism?

my answer would be 'yes'
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I agree, terrorism is/was a rather small scale, its been forced into a larger problem by pushing-and-shoving of both sides.

But, it comes down to, a terrorist suicide bomber can kill anywhere from 10-100 people max (on average, some have done more, like 9/11, some have done less, like the idiot that flew a plane into a building for terrorism... and there was no one in it). A good sized tsunami... welllll...

And if they are to only get worse?

But I say both are a big problem that have to be dealt with. Neither one gets more of my attention than the other.

DreadLord1337 said:
Because then it rains heavy wet tampons instead of regular rain. Unless you have 500 more 747's flying below to catch them.
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I say we all join together and conduct tests to see how badly a heavy wet tampon flying at 60-100 mph hurts when hitting the body. Then sell the idea to the government.
 
KoreBolteR said:
i was just thinking to myself, and i hear that there have been shock absorbed buildings and bridges etc to prevent earthquake damage and it seems to have worked.

i was also thinking that buildings and homes could be built to withhold hurricanes, and more underground bunkers be made for emergencies. and on the note of tsunamis build like a massive wall barrier on the coasts (5 miles out or so).

http://www.worldvision.com.au/onebigvillage/content.asp?topicID=37

and increasing natural disasters are blamed on the way us humans live. carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, deforestation.. where trees and forests are cut down to make way for urban areas.

is there anyway we can reduce global warming at all? hydrogen cars by any chance? thoughts?

i also think humans need to think of ideas on how to prevent asteroids, as the next one is due to hit us 2024 or something... (probably bs), but anyhow...
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No we can't conquer them..we can move to mars though. :)

We live in a chaotic universe. Resistance is futile (and no I'm not a trekie...). I'm sure we will beable to soften Natural Disasters (as in save many people), but were stuck with them.
 
TheAmazingRando said:
When it comes to global warming don't say logging. For every acre one cuts down you have to replant the whole thing. Logging companies now have a pattern where they cut down one acre, replant there, and move on the the next. The next time they get to their starting acre the trees are back, cut down, replant, move on.
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Unfortunatly, this does not work for rainforests. Because they are so dense, it is difficult, if not impossible to replant rainforests to the scale they once were. Also, there is the problem of unauthorized cutting, both for building farms and for lumber. In these cases, the rainforest that was cut tends not to be replanted. That is why we are seeing a drastic decrease in the amount of rainforests throughout the world, which is a very bad thing concidering that they absorb a massive amount of carbon dioxide.
 
One day, there will be weather control!:naughty: :naughty:

But, that's only the rain and stuff, so we'd have to worry about other shit from outer space and earthquakes etc.
 
only short recoil can defeat natural disasters.
 
theres a pretty simple solution. you know those noise cancelling devices, they emit the opposite of what sound is being emitted, cancelling it out? well we just have to make one that does that to hurricanes. voila!
 
If we can control it, I woudn't want them too.
 
Danimal said:
If we can control it, I woudn't want them too.
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The U.S. to adopt WCW - Weather-Control-Weapon.
The rest of the world is ****ed.
 
I guess I'm the only person in the world that wants to actually die inside a tornado. Granted, I'll last not long AT ALL, but I'll get a glimps of what it looks like in there...*thinks Twisters crazy ass theory* Then die, and never tell my story. Oh well..I was always fascinated by Tornados. I've always wanted to chase them, but I'm not smart/rich enough to :(

On Topic. I don't know that we'll die to an asteroid or something. I'm sure there is going to be a leading chain of events that takes place, and the world goes to war with itself...and we kill each other, and the human race = kaput.
 
While a lot of things I don't think we'll ever be able to combat, there is hope yet in the weather control department:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haarp

In April 1997, the then U.S. Secretary of Defense William Cohen publicly discussed the dangers of HAARP-like technology, saying "[o]thers are engaging even in an eco-type of terrorism whereby they can alter the climate, set off earthquakes, volcanoes remotely through the use of electromagnetic waves...
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Of course, this kind of stuff will probably do more harm than good.
 
Gigantic vacuum cleaner. Suck up hurricanes, asteroids, burgers. You name it.

For tsunamis, get the all the silica gel in the world and dump it in the oceans. It will disappear and then we never have to worry again! :D
 
I believe we're going to blow ourselves up far before our entire existance is threatened by nature.
 
The more advanced we get the more natural disasters we can scratch off as being a problem. If we conquer all the terrestrial based natural disasters then our attention will turn to space based natural disasters. Things like supernova, singularities, the collapsing sun, and various other potential problems we probably don't even know exist yet.
 
Jintor said:
I believe we're going to blow ourselves up far before our entire existance is threatened by nature.
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yeah, because of Iran and N Korea.

the 'menaces'
 
Don't think 1 tyrant is any different then 536 tyrants. We already nuked one country twice.
 
No
You will NEVER truly conquer nature. never.
The day that a Volcano erupts in 5 miles from a city and no one is hurt is the day I turn into a woman.
Besides, its highly likely the entire human race will wipe itself out within 1000 years
 
History tends to repeat itself, young padawan.
 
Especially as the original nukes were unjustified, and the new America has a tendecy to do un justified things *cough*iraq*cough*...looks like Judgement day wont be to far from now
 
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