Come on, folks. This is a crowd that casually discusses melting planets over school vacation and who will bring the dip to a party 10 billion years from now. Rise to the challenge.
Hal has suggested a strategy for gradual weather modification. Can anyone add some numbers? How do you actually introduce the counter-air streams?
Anders wrote: "What about a planet-encompassing Utility fog?". How would this help?
Number crunchers: What effect would a 165 mph wind have on a diamondoid beanstalk? What about a 70-foot wave?
What about earthquakes? I remember talk from when I was a kid about dissipating earthquakes with strategically placed underground nukes. The project was undoubtedly killed in the general anti-nuke sentiment that swept through. But was it sound geophysics?
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