On Fri, 30 Nov 2007 09:29:05 -0600, Curtis wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Are we a bunch of old cranky developers (it looks that way sometimes!) :-) ..delurking... ;o) > inching along at a snails pace, or are we a dynamic exciting group with fast > paced development continually adding new and exciting features ..one such feature could be SG or FG modelling the sea level rise from carbon emissions, we would need adding sea floor data to the scenery, and modelling water as a fluid rather than an ellipsoid surface. ..to model all known sea levels possible, we need "tide water" rising and dropping 150 meters above and below todays current sea level and todays tide water. Ties nicely in with weather modelling too. ..going beyond this, we could model carbon sinks like the oceans, the woods, marshland and farming. Some believe the Amazonas jungle is pre-columbian slash-n-char wood based farmland, you find pockets of nice fat farmland soil, way rich in carbon and known as "terra preta" and with pieces of old charcoal in it. Some suggest this kinda farming was done for between 6000 to 20000 years. ..some suggest Maya "milpa" agriculture is a response to the European invasion, dispensing with soil production from charcoal in favor of slash-n-burn and mobility by shortening the cycle from 20 years to 2, 5 or 7 years. .."yanking" down the 350 gigatons CO2 since AD 1600, "out of thin air", and put it into soil to produce new farmland soil, will do 3 things I find important, 1 provide an actual viable control response to the global heat-up instead of todays politically correct emission rate "reduction" joke, and 2 triple the volume of farmland soil worldwide which, 3 will allow us feeding another 15 billion people on this planet Earth. ..so, we _can_ show a viable alternative way forward. We have all the skills we need to do it. And, us cranky old hobbyists doing a cranky flight sim isn't as likely to land nice fat funds as a bunch of cranky developers doing a flight 'n climate sim with real weather because we hate todays politically correct stupidity like "cut emissions to 1990 levels." Etc. ..the only other viable option is, really, carry _on_ with the demand cut scheme started on 9/11-2001, and take it beyond _all_ conspiracy theories. ..for that, there is no need to even do tide water in FG, nor to ditch the 0.9.11 or 0.10.0 or 1.0 or whatever. (Nor would there be a need or point in tying keys to check list style menus to dodge keyboard layout etc issues. Or even try evade Microsoft litigation trap tactics.) > and aircraft? We've been at this 10 years, have we really only managed a > 0.9.xrelease in all that time? Again, not that version number really > mean anything, other than to project our image to the world. > > I say it's "go time". :-) > > Curt. .. ;o) GPL sea floor map data, anyone? -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt... ;o) ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenarios always come in sets of three: best case, worst case, and just in case. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: The Future of Linux Business White Paper from Novell. From the desktop to the data center, Linux is going mainstream. Let it simplify your IT future. http://altfarm.mediaplex.com/ad/ck/8857-50307-18918-4 _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
