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Comment: do something about hurricanes (Score 1) 108

by Max_W (#44046961) Attached to: With an Eye Toward Disaster, NYC Debuts Solar Charging Stations
Drive less, walk more. Dry clothing outdoors as opposed to in an electrical drier.

Wear shorts in hot weather and consequently use less air-conditioning.

Buy smaller houses or apartments.

Eat mostly vegan food.

And there will be less hurricanes, as less energy released into atmosphere. Those that come will be less severe.

Comment: Re:Something really usefull for Earth (Score 1) 212

by Max_W (#43709199) Attached to: Astronaut Chris Hadfield Performs Space Oddity On the ISS
Perhaps. But the space junk is already very serious problem.

Maybe instead of many satellites it would be better to have one powerful robotized HD telescope on the moon. Nowadays the satellite imagery of Earth is not good at all. It is often outdated by years (two weeks is nothing in comparison), sometimes misaligned by hundreds of meters, or nonexistent at all for some areas..

In this case we will know the telescope-digital camera location precisely and the automatic alignment of images to the Earth surface coordinates should be possible.

The Moon is also drifting but it is negligible. Satellites however do require the fuel constantly to stay in more or less precise orbit. Satellites are and always will be temporal poor-man solution.

Comment: Re:Something really usefull for Earth (Score 1) 212

by Max_W (#43707467) Attached to: Astronaut Chris Hadfield Performs Space Oddity On the ISS
I mean we use daily maps which are built on satellite imagery 3 - 5 years old. And even this is only in large cities and in industrial countries.

Since the orbit of satellites are unstable the imagery is hard to connect with geographical coordinates precisely.

I do not think humanity can live in space. We on Earth are protected from deadly radiation by the massive iron-nickel rotating planet's kernel.

So let us place the HD telescope-digital camera on the surface of the Moon and direct it not to the remote stars, but the the Earth for a change.

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