Weather Control Kurt Feltenberger (19 May 2018 04:23 UTC)
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Re: [TML] Weather Control
Richard Aiken
(19 May 2018 04:54 UTC)
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Re: [TML] Weather Control
Rob O'Connor
(21 May 2018 08:55 UTC)
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Re: [TML] Weather Control
Richard Aiken
(21 May 2018 20:04 UTC)
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Re: [TML] Weather Control
Bruce Johnson
(21 May 2018 21:11 UTC)
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Re: [TML] Weather Control
Richard Aiken
(21 May 2018 22:48 UTC)
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Re: [TML] Weather Control
Bruce Johnson
(21 May 2018 21:04 UTC)
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Re: [TML] Weather Control
Rob O'Connor
(22 May 2018 09:19 UTC)
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Re: [TML] Weather Control
Richard Aiken
(24 May 2018 03:37 UTC)
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Weather Control Kurt Feltenberger 19 May 2018 04:22 UTC
This past week has been pretty rainy with some nasty storms in my neck of the country (PA's lower Susquehanna valley) and it started me on the path of thinking about weather control. At higher tech levels, there are varying degrees of weather control, with "advanced weather control" showing up at TL 12. While I'm sure that when it was in use, that it would be to make the world more hospitable, both for the population and any agricultural endeavors, what has me intrigued is what would happen if the ability to control the weather was suddenly lost? Would the weather slowly revert back to the pre-weather control behavior or would it whipsaw back and forth, going from what it was (before the loss) to something far worse than it ever was, then back to something almost as good as it used to be to something far worse but not as bad as the last cycle, etc.? Or would something else happen entirely? I'm picturing an Earth-like world that stabilized the weather patterns to ensure widespread weather patterns that kept temps in the 70s (22C-25C) with regular fronts that brought gentle precipitation, and pretty much turned it into an Eden with a year round growing season...and then for whatever reason (unforeseen single point of failure, terrorists, conflict, etc.) the apparatus that controls the weather suddenly stops. Or, to really make things hellish, malfunctions with the setting set to "FUBAR". Kurt -- Kurt Feltenberger xxxxxx@thepaw.org/xxxxxx@yahoo.com “Before today, I was scared to live, after today, I'm scared I'm not living enough." - Me