Wow. I consider myself pretty open minded but the idea that trees are releasing chemicals to seed clouds with is more amazing than I could've envisaged.
unrelated to the broader tree discussion, but i find this comment incredibly indicative of the type of forum this is. only with engineers do you have to state your point and enumerate through all edge cases around how your idea can be interpreted even though GP PROBABLY didn't mean go back and live there until the end of his life. But even so, that's a derailment of the entire discussion anyway. You always have a person that needs to point out something inane like that which ends up causing a tangent discussion. On a forum, it's fine, you have threads, you can just ignore it and move on, but a lot of meetings & real conversations end up this way. there has to be a name for this because I want to call it something and then coach people out of it
> On a forum, it's fine, you have threads, you can just ignore it and move on,
I should note that ^ -- but it also proves my point. Digressions have gravity. And now this digression has created a complete fork of the original intended post.
Have you ever seen The Truman show ? Your comment reminds me of that movie.
I said that I want to visit. Not stay forever.
On the other hand, I’m not sure what it is but people seem to always have to point this same thing out. Actually seems like it’s a more common thing to say nowadays. It comes across as insecurity to me.
“You wouldn’t want to go back to simpler times they are just awful, run along now…”
I grew up around my great grandparents and grandparents. I never heard them say anything horrible about the past. I heard a lot of beautiful things though.
Well I don’t think so, some people lived through terrible things. Half my family lost their entire life’s worth due to WW2 and had to leave Europe. Another relative was in one of the worst battles in known history in Asia and had life long problems from that. He would never get on a plane again and was terrified of them.
The original sin of farming, or hierarchy, or city dwelling. Problem is that the dividing line between our hunter-gatherer ancestors and civilization are murky and spread out over millennia, and across the planet in varying degrees.
Except your injecting all this into the conversation right ? I never said it’s “wrong” for anyone to build a dam. I’m saying I’d like to see a world without mega dams, is that ok ?
No 300 would be fine. I’m ok with fire stick farming, it makes forests beautiful, visit North Western Austalia during the dry season if you want to see a truly beautiful landscape shaped by indigenous fire stick farming.
There are a lot of places that need rain that don’t have the climate to support a forest. Further, if this effect scales with quantity you can seed areas experiencing droughts.
Essentially the same reason we’ve been researching cloud seeding to date.
