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Photo of Earth by Nasa? Nope. Astroengineering.
Is this a photo of Earth by Nasa? Nope. In this artist’s conception, the Moon is geoengineered/astroengineering by an advanced civilization to be more like Earth. Will inducing artificial earthquakes through geoengineering or someday save lives, or is it too dangerous? Will we someday geoengineer the and the stars, as discussed on recent science documentaries? These were discussed in our earlier blog post on fracking and geoengineering, for which this was the featured image. Photo Credit: Daein Ballard/WikiMedia/CC-BY-SA-3 Post and some comments below may be synced from our original Instagram version. Instagram likes: (more…)… Read the restSocial Progress Index and Big Data Analytics: government by computer?
Data driven governance via metrics like the Social Progress Index? In his recent op-ed, NYT managing director and Pulitzer Prize-winner Nicholas Kristof essentially argues that a metric such as the Social Progress Index rather than GDP should be used to guide US public policy. The Harvard economist that created the Social Progress Index (whom Kristof feels the need to immediately point out is a Republican) says he became increasingly aware social factors (which we should call social investments) support a country’s long-term economic prospects. We couldn’t quite resist the big analytics aspects of all this. Analytics ultimately will produce metrics that are better than short-term GDP, together with models that can optimize public policy. Policy wonks have doing this on a small scale for years, but new technologies, related new insights from industrial applications, and perhaps the related development of better metrics make this possible on a larger scale than previously thought.… Read the restGeoengineering and Terraforming Artificial Earthquakes Through Fracking to Save Lives?
Geoengineering Artificial Earthquakes to Save Lives? This blog has focused primarily on practical solutions to the problems of PM2.5 air quality pollution. Things like inexpensive dust particulate sensors for your home, ultra-cheap DIY air purifiers made from duct tape. We’ve run a fashion section with inexpensive masks that are handy to keep stockpiled not only for air pollution and wildfires but also in case of Ebola and Bird Flu panics (both happening at this writing). We just wrote a blog article on big data analysis of earthquakes, and recommended only the cheapest and most-practical immediate crowdsourcing solutions. Can Artificial Earthquakes Save Lives? Click To Tweet But frequent readers will not that we have not been afraid to speculate or address controversial topics. We know of no other corporate blogs that discuss geoengineering, astroengineering, or terraforming. (If you know of one, get in touch.) If we don’t do it, who will? Cosmos and Sagan on Astroengineering A re-make of the Cosmos TV series is currently being aired.… Read the restCrowdsourced seismic sensors might save your life someday.
Crowdsourced Seismic Sensors? A frequent topic on this blog is the use of Arudino and crowdsourced technologies to address air quality issues. Can similar technologies be used adopted from air quality technologies to improve seismic predictions? It turns out the answer is yes. Unless you’ve been living under a large rock these last few days, you’ve probably heard that Los Angeles was struck in the last two weeks by what the USGS describes as a “moderate” 5.1 earthquake with “light” fore and aftershocks of around 4.5. (The Saint Patrick’s Day foreshock trembler prompted our earlier article on robot-written newspaper articles , music, and movies.) During that same period, there were similar or slightly quakes in Chile, Alaska, Greece, and Japan. And let’s not forget the 5.7 quake that struck DC back in 2011 to much mirth on Facebook. There was a significant difference between these quakes and the ones in Los Angeles: (1) they didn’t occur underneath a megapolis of some 13+ million people, and (2) they didn’t occur under one of the world’s major media capitals, where celebrities and publicists are conditioned, like Pavlov’s dog, to associate earthquakes with the salivating opportunity to tweet against a trending hashtag, emergency smartphone power at the ready, and (3) they didn’t have 100 aftershocks within a 24 hour period.… Read the restRecent Comments
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