Re: Nanotechnology and earthquakes

From: Denis Loubet (dloubet_at_io.com)
Date: 01/04/05 

Date: 4 Jan 2005 03:33:27 GMT

"Bootstrap Bill" <wrcousert@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:cr2j2i0q4i@enews4.newsguy.com...
>
> This may seem like a silly question, but it's one that's been on my mind
> for
> the past few days.
>
> Will Nanotechnology give us the ability to rebuild Earth's crust so that
> violent earthquakes are a thing of the past? Will we be able to prevent
> future Tsunamis like the one that hit Southeast Asia a few days ago?

Ok, how's this:

Create a world-wide atmospheric utility fog. Such a thing would amount to
total weather control. It would be able to absorb or reflect sunlight as
needed, and so dampen out hurricanes, tornados, and many other atmospheric
effects. It should also be able to sense a tsunami, and act to dampen it out
as it travels across a sea by simply pressing on the wave, or creating a
counterwave to cancel it out. If a utility fog can operate underwater, and I
don't see why not, then tsunamis would be a thing of the past.

Such a utility fog would not be able to do much about volcanoes or
earthquakes, but might be able to provide temporary external structural
support to endangered buildings during and after a quake.

Of course, in addition, you get all the benefits of a ubiquitous utility
fog.

How's that for insane? 

-- 
Denis Loubet
dloubet@io.com
http://www.io.com/~dloubet