Thanks, I see that now there are people associating the weather with "Geoengineering". Sure there are megalomaniacs and psychopaths who suffer from delusions of grandeur and are convinced that they are as powerful as our creator.
They acolytes believe that we puny humans have the "Technology" to control weather and the environment and therefore the Biosphere. We are blessed to poses the skill of being able to measure some of the forces of nature, but to control the forces of nature, I have serious doubts.
I like what you said about the crust being a piffling fraction of the earth, and we are simply speckles of dust scattered on the crust in comparison. How arrogant we are.
Dunno where piffling came from, but it captures the scale.
People speak of "destroying the planet". This is impossible. We can heavily degrade the biodiversity of the biosphere, but the planet. Nuh. The planet will survive the red giant phase of the sun in about 2 billion years, though the biosphere wont. The planet is here to stay for a very, very long time. So tells us physics and astrophysics. Purely the energy contained in the rotation of our planet laughs at us.
Piffling from your text. "The largest radius of the earth, from the centre to the equator is 6 370 Km. Our "solid" crust is a piffling fraction, but it is on this boundary between solid and air where our oceans and land surfaces occur. "
Ha ha. I meant I am not sure where in my subconscious the term "piffling" emerged from. Its not a term I've used in years. But, it seemed to fit, and its nice to employ a terms one does not see often used. :)
I question what is really a “natural” disaster these days. Plenty of technology to “ control the weather.”As for NATO, they should be there helping!
Thanks, I see that now there are people associating the weather with "Geoengineering". Sure there are megalomaniacs and psychopaths who suffer from delusions of grandeur and are convinced that they are as powerful as our creator.
They acolytes believe that we puny humans have the "Technology" to control weather and the environment and therefore the Biosphere. We are blessed to poses the skill of being able to measure some of the forces of nature, but to control the forces of nature, I have serious doubts.
I like what you said about the crust being a piffling fraction of the earth, and we are simply speckles of dust scattered on the crust in comparison. How arrogant we are.
Dunno where piffling came from, but it captures the scale.
People speak of "destroying the planet". This is impossible. We can heavily degrade the biodiversity of the biosphere, but the planet. Nuh. The planet will survive the red giant phase of the sun in about 2 billion years, though the biosphere wont. The planet is here to stay for a very, very long time. So tells us physics and astrophysics. Purely the energy contained in the rotation of our planet laughs at us.
Piffling from your text. "The largest radius of the earth, from the centre to the equator is 6 370 Km. Our "solid" crust is a piffling fraction, but it is on this boundary between solid and air where our oceans and land surfaces occur. "
Ha ha. I meant I am not sure where in my subconscious the term "piffling" emerged from. Its not a term I've used in years. But, it seemed to fit, and its nice to employ a terms one does not see often used. :)