Will we ever be able to control the weather?

[moshquerade]

Huge line of thunderstorms with hail, high winds, and downpours moving in here and gonna RUIN MY AFTERNOON PLANS! :|

 

[JohnCU]

i'd say we'll be able to manipulate it one day, not sure about 100% control.

 

[Woosta]

I hope not

 

[Sea Moose]

global warming = environmental control?

We are slowly warming the planet

 

[ScottMac]

Originally posted by: Sea Moose
global warming = environmental control?

We are slowly warming the planet

NO, we're not. That's theory at best, most likely junk science.

Stop confusing money-making and power-building opportunities with actual science.

 

[se7en]

I control it now I thought everyone could?

Edit: perhaps I have said too much.

 

[darkxshade]

I don't see why not, we already control the women... right Mosh... right?

 

[MotionMan]

Chaos Theory says "NO!".

MotionMan

 

[Zeeky Boogy Doog]

Yeah, it's really easy to control the weather in biodomes.

 

[SunSamurai]

lol We arnt warming the planet. Do research and turn the TV off.

 

[DivideBYZero]

Originally posted by: Zeeky Boogy Doog
Yeah, it's really easy to control the weather in biodomes.

LOL, yeah, imagine THAT!

 

[smack Down]

Originally posted by: MotionMan
Chaos Theory says "NO!".

MotionMan

No it doesn't.

 

[MotionMan]

Originally posted by: Zeeky Boogy Doog
Yeah, it's really easy to control the weather in biodomes.

That is controlling your environment, not the weather.

MotionMan

 

[nanette1985]

Of course we can control the weather. All you have to do is plan an outdoor party, invite lots of people, and VOOM! Guaranteed rain.

 

[moshquerade]

Originally posted by: princess ida
Of course we can control the weather. All you have to do is plan an outdoor party, invite lots of people, and VOOM! Guaranteed rain.

you win this thread :thumbsup:

 

[ConstipatedVigilante]

You can encourage it to rain by putting condensation particles into clouds, but beyond that we don't really know how to do much. If we actually figured out how to manipulate it in a big way though, we'd probably just fuck things up royally.

 

[Rastus]

Originally posted by: moshquerade

Originally posted by: princess ida
Of course we can control the weather. All you have to do is plan an outdoor party, invite lots of people, and VOOM! Guaranteed rain.

you win this thread :thumbsup:

Washing your car to make it rain doesn't work.

 

[marvdmartian]

I have control. I proclaim it will rain here sometime this year. Now watch.....it'll happen!

 

[Rubycon]

How can something be controlled before it can be predicted with 100% accuracy?

 

[Sea Moose]

Originally posted by: ScottMac

Originally posted by: Sea Moose
global warming = environmental control?

We are slowly warming the planet

NO, we're not. That's theory at best, most likely junk science.

Stop confusing money-making and power-building opportunities with actual science.

hahaha and you would believe that the y2k bug was fake!

 

[91TTZ]

Originally posted by: Rubycon
How can something be controlled before it can be predicted with 100% accuracy?

That logic doesn't really work.

If you had a farm and you let seeds get planted naturally, there's no way you could predict what would grow there with 100% accuracy. Some seeds would blow in from the wind, some would be planted from bird droppings, some small ones may be transported by insects, it would be fairly random.

However, it is easily controlled. You till the land and manually plant what you want to grow. You're controlling the crop even though you wouldn't have been able to predict with 100% accuracy what would grow there naturally.

 

[OUCaptain]

Originally posted by: Rubycon
How can something be controlled before it can be predicted with 100% accuracy?

Well I would guess prediction would have to come a little bit before control. Then we would most likely have to find a near limitless supply of energy. I've got my money on 99% percent control around 2250.

 

[iGas]

It is possible to control the weather if we can control the sun, however controlling the sun is impossible.

 

[91TTZ]

Originally posted by: OUCaptain

Originally posted by: Rubycon
How can something be controlled before it can be predicted with 100% accuracy?

Well I would guess prediction would have to come a little bit before control. Then we would most likely have to find a near limitless supply of energy. I've got my money on 99% percent control around 2250.

You can't always predict what something is going to do, but you sure can control it. I can't predict what you're going to do today, but if I put you in a jail cell I sure could control you.

I don't know what an individual horse is going to do today but if I put a saddle on it (or threw it in a horse trailer) I could control it.

In other words, if you let an unknown or unpredictable system/entity operate on its own accord you may lack the understanding necessary to predict its actions. However, as long as you possess the capability to manipulate it you can control it.

 

[h8red]

I think this is part of the definition of Type I Civilization so I imagine that yes eventually we will be able to control weather unless we kill ourselves first (or an asteroid gets us). Right now we are about a Type 0.7 Civilization so we have a few hundred years to go probably before that becomes reality.