Bob Cain wrote:

If you try to do that with a non-linear recursive system
like the one we breathe from, live on and swim in you will
wait forever before acting.

Bob

Well said. One of the duties of being a scientist is to act when the
world situation calls for you to act. And example of this is evident
with the rebuilding of New Orleans in that the science community should
be out front and center by informing the politicians that it is insane
to rebuild old New Orleans on the same plot of land. And that given the
present circumstances, that a science leader would build a Newest
Orleans on ground above sea level and on ground for which building
foundations can reach solid bedrock. If Baton Rouge fits that
description then the answer is simply to make Baton Rouge twice its
size. And the only thing worth building in old New Orleans would be
au-naturale without any levees or pumping but a American style Venice
with canals and transportation by boat.

There is a old saying in finances, which I suppose transfers to
economics. And the saying is "don't throw good money after bad money"
or "don't chase bad money with that of good money". Same can be said of
New Orleans in that if rebuilt and a month later or a year later
another hurricane destroys New Orleans, a lot of politicians are going
to look very foolish.

As I said before, there should be a Federal Zoning code. Local zoning
forbids us to build on swamps. Forbids us to build on land where
bedrock is unreachable. So the entire city of New Orleans fails all
building codes of this entire nation and because it fails, the federal
law should forbid us to rebuild on the same plot of land. It is
commonsense that if you have a city so vulnerable to storms, because it
is below sea level, that no politician should be left with the guilt
that when the next storm strikes and thousands are drowned that those
politicians who rebuilt New Orleans are directly responsible for that
future tragedy. A tragedy of stupidity.

Another poster named Per said that Holland has lived with underwater
building for centuries. That is true and admirable. But there is a big
difference between New Orleans and Holland. Holland has no choice but
to turn back the tide. Here in the USA we have ample choice of higher
dry land where only the insane would build below sea level. The sane
people of New Orleans would have put their house up for sale, just as
the sane people of Florida would be putting their house up for sale and
finding a job elsewhere because the entire Coast due to Global Warming
causing killer hurricanes is uninhabitable, and they would have done
this sometime between 2000 and July of 2005. I myself had a piece of
land in northern Florida circa 2001 but sold it. I did not sell it
directly because of Global Warming causing killer hurricanes. But that
reality faces nearly everyone living on the coast now. The reality is
that killer hurricanes are making every Gulf Coast state almost
uninhabitable, at least for the summer months but who wants to visit a
state that has rubble all over.

The answer to all of these problems is Earth Air-Conditioner of putting
Aluminium Sequin into orbit so that the Gulf waters cannot form
hurricanes.

I wonder if aluminum sequin placed in orbit can be made to stay in a
restricted orbit of about the equator latitudes so there would be a
band of sequin mostly in the equator region. Because the equator of
Earth is mostly water and not land. Because if in orbit the sequin can
be confined to a latitude, means that we can control the climate and
weather of Earth even more so.

Archimedes Plutonium
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whole entire Universe is just one big atom
where dots of the electron-dot-cloud are galaxies