Monday
Today’s Awesome:
Last week we talked about predicting the weather. What about controlling it? Let’s dive in. This part is wild.
Weather modification can also have the goal of preventing damaging weather, such as hail or hurricanes, from occurring; or of provoking damaging weather against the enemy, as a tactic of military or economic warfare like Operation Popeye, where clouds were seeded to prolong the monsoon in Vietnam. Weather modification in warfare has been banned by the United Nations under the Environmental Modification Convention.
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Tuesday
Today’s Awesome:
Probably the biggest, most well-established modification: cloud seeding.
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Wednesday
Adventure:
Hey! We got to head deep into Star Wars fights. I put C-3PO back together. That was fun.
Today’s Awesome:
Not exactly awesome, but interesting. Weather warfare.
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Thursday
Today’s Awesome:
Beyond causing rain, we also want less rain at times. Behold, storm prevention.
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Friday
Today’s Awesome:
If you’re going to change weather, you may also need to change the climate. There is, of course, controversy about doing this if it doesn’t get to the root problems of human irresponsibility in nature. Still, what is called “geoengineering” might be needed as a way to at least halt disastrous consequences as we adapt. The most commonly considered, carbon removal.
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Saturday
Today’s Awesome:
A little more wild way to geoengineer? Send things into the atmosphere to block the sun. Could there be unintended consequences? Seems rife for them, TBH.
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Sunday
Today’s Awesome:
Finally, how about sending things to block the sun, IN SPACE.
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Fitness Update!
Well, I did great right up until the weekend and went over on my Weight Watchers points by a ton, so, I ended up losing a full week’s worth of progress. Dang. Although my moving average started at 188.8 and ended at 188.2.