Friday, July 17, 2009

Control-Alt-Delete Katrina

I think it'd be a positive thing to cut down on hurricanes. There might be a downside to it but I don't know what it'd be.

According to this article, Bill Gates has an invention in the works to pump cold water from the ocean's bottom to change conditions at the surface, thereby killing hurricanes in the cradle.

It sounds ambitious. It's dreaming on a huge scale.

But I hope that it's something that works without a lot of flaws. If it's anything like Internet Explorer, look for one disaster after another. Someone will load a virus into the hurricane killer and we'll have hurricanes in Arizona. And if it works like my computer, the operator will be pushing the ESC key till he's blue in the face and it won't ever accomplish anything.