amicus
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Apocalypse
The book of Revelations describes the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse as Conquest, Famine, War and Death, if I interpreted it correctly. Pestilence, Plague, wild beasts, earthquakes, floods and persecution are also mentioned.
In the late 19th century, science provided mankind with the knowledge of how he could use both biology and chemistry as tools of war.
But it wasn’t until science gave us the Manhattan Project; that a few begin to realize that it was within mans power to destroy civilization as we know it..
Many of us lived through the 50’s and 60’s and further, with that nuclear threat always in the back of our minds.
But in recent years, science as a fear factor has truly outdone itself.
Nuclear Winter, a Carl Sagan favorite. Global Warming/Greenhouse effect, the bailiwick of dozens of science oriented folks all over the world; not excluding the Narderites.
But, politics aside and The Bullet notwithstanding, science postulates the possibility of a ‘natural’ change in earth’s climate; a change or diminution of the flow of the Gulf Stream current that could drastically affect weather in Europe.
A flip/flop or change in the earth’s magnetic field that could change how the magnet aura of earth deflects harmful solar radiation.
A cyclical ‘ice age’ that some say is due, mile high glaciers all the way down to St Louis and covering much of northern Europe.
Then of course there is Deep Impact and Armageddon, a meteor from space bringing about an ‘Extinction Level Event’ ELE; that may have decimated the dinosaurs 60 million years ago.
And of course, the sun will become a red dwarf in about 4 billion years, or so they say.
With many of these calamities, it is not a matter of ‘if’, but when.
With all that in mind from time to time…the thought came to me as to whether ‘man’ could actually mitigate one such disaster, namely, a new ice age.
The ‘Snowball effect’ was a recent science channel program…about how once an ice age began, the amount of sunlight reflected by the white ice, would dictate that the entire globe would eventually be incased in ice. The program even implied that such an event had occurred before and they went to some lengths to prove that.
I wonder if it is worth a ‘Sci Fi’ story, of an encroaching ice age, if man undertook means to reverse the effect…to somehow raise the temperature of the earth so as to halt the onslaught of an ice age…I thought about spray painting or covering vast glaciers with black paint or plastic to absorb sunlight, melt the ice and warm the atmosphere.
There is a caveat.
Amicus…
The book of Revelations describes the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse as Conquest, Famine, War and Death, if I interpreted it correctly. Pestilence, Plague, wild beasts, earthquakes, floods and persecution are also mentioned.
In the late 19th century, science provided mankind with the knowledge of how he could use both biology and chemistry as tools of war.
But it wasn’t until science gave us the Manhattan Project; that a few begin to realize that it was within mans power to destroy civilization as we know it..
Many of us lived through the 50’s and 60’s and further, with that nuclear threat always in the back of our minds.
But in recent years, science as a fear factor has truly outdone itself.
Nuclear Winter, a Carl Sagan favorite. Global Warming/Greenhouse effect, the bailiwick of dozens of science oriented folks all over the world; not excluding the Narderites.
But, politics aside and The Bullet notwithstanding, science postulates the possibility of a ‘natural’ change in earth’s climate; a change or diminution of the flow of the Gulf Stream current that could drastically affect weather in Europe.
A flip/flop or change in the earth’s magnetic field that could change how the magnet aura of earth deflects harmful solar radiation.
A cyclical ‘ice age’ that some say is due, mile high glaciers all the way down to St Louis and covering much of northern Europe.
Then of course there is Deep Impact and Armageddon, a meteor from space bringing about an ‘Extinction Level Event’ ELE; that may have decimated the dinosaurs 60 million years ago.
And of course, the sun will become a red dwarf in about 4 billion years, or so they say.
With many of these calamities, it is not a matter of ‘if’, but when.
With all that in mind from time to time…the thought came to me as to whether ‘man’ could actually mitigate one such disaster, namely, a new ice age.
The ‘Snowball effect’ was a recent science channel program…about how once an ice age began, the amount of sunlight reflected by the white ice, would dictate that the entire globe would eventually be incased in ice. The program even implied that such an event had occurred before and they went to some lengths to prove that.
I wonder if it is worth a ‘Sci Fi’ story, of an encroaching ice age, if man undertook means to reverse the effect…to somehow raise the temperature of the earth so as to halt the onslaught of an ice age…I thought about spray painting or covering vast glaciers with black paint or plastic to absorb sunlight, melt the ice and warm the atmosphere.
There is a caveat.
Amicus…
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