If you could change anything about the earth, what would it be?
I thought of this while I was reading the answers to another thread, people really seem to not be screwed with. Anyway, what would you change?
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Consideration and tolerance.
Rain in the form of marshmallows? : )
This is going to be another ridiculous answer but I wish that everytime MAN cuts a tree without replacing it, ( especially in the Amazon rainforest ) he would turn into a tree himself!
I would clean up the oceans.
I’d square off the edges ;)
People throwing their trash everywhere really irks me
Using oil for energy caused the human population to expand too rapidly. I’d like us to go back in time and have used those resources more wisely.
I would want the environment cleaned up. Also I would like to strike a perfect balance so that wildlife and human civilization can live and thrive without it being at the expense of the other.
Well, at the moment I would return the rain patterns of central Texas to something closer to normal.
We need some water down here folks!
The end of the human species.
More ways to produce oxygen.
I’d quie like to control the weather. I mean, it’d be nice to go out in England Town without wearing a bloody scuba diving kit!! Just once in a while :¬(
I would like it to be a lot bigger, with 30 continents or so. The surface area would be a lot greater but the density a lot less so gravity would be much the same. It would take us longer to mess it all up.
No more hurricanes and earthquakes.
Natural resources more evenly distributed, hoping that people would have less need to resort to conflict in order to flourish (or survive), and that regions would be more equal in wealth.
Enough of the noble answers. I’m voting for unlimited hedonism, no STD’s, and fat free bacon.
Not a thing…… it’s us humans who need to change in how we live upon it :-/
I’d bury an immense quantity of high-quality petroleum in Upstate New York… as soon as I’ve purchased the mineral rights to a few hundred square miles.
Honestly, I’d probably exterminate the human species.
I would increase the gravity 5%.
I would color everybody beige, and equip them all with the same level intellect.
I would eliminate global contrary actions.. No more could the planet blow AND suck at the same time.
@krrazypassions ..it would make things much more fun. Weee. Oh wait, he said increase, nevermind. Thud.
@PluckyDog thats fine, we will decrease gravity by 10% each.. so weeeee :)
@krrazypassions You can do that?
I kinda wanted to be heavier so I could be stronger and lose weight
@wundayatta Yes but i will need help. We can do it by increasing the earth’s rotational speed somehow thereby increase the outward throw (centrifugal force) that will act against gravity, thereby making us feel lighter. Now, tell me some means of tinkering with earth’s rotation.
Lets see- if we all run from west to east, will the earth roll faster under our feet?
Watch out for unintended consequences, @krrazypassions and @wundayatta. If you increase the Earth’s rotational speed, then you may also be messing with the Coriolis Effect and thereby increase the severity of every storm that develops from that point forward. I’d sure hate to have that on my conscience. But on the other hand, I mostly enjoy storms, so… bring it!
@WasCy We had a houseshaker of a storm last night. You could see the rattles from the thunder.
okay.. then lets not mess up with rotational speeds…
Lets remove some mass from the earth and dump it in outer space.. that will reduce the gravitational pull… though i fear even that might have some negative effects on some other things knowing how delicately balanced our climate system n ecosystem is…
I want a slingshot that we can put the earth in and send us flying to other stars. I want a “no unintended side effects” machine that will keep everything as we have known it. I want an individual gravity changer so that I can be heavier and @krrazypassions can be lighter. Oh. And I want to be the sea otter god.
Right, no half measures, I want a hollow planet the size of the solar system with the sun in the middle. Gravity is created by centrifugal force and diminishes towards zero at the poles. The surface area is that of half a trillion planet Earths. There would be no stars and there would be no night.
@flutherother Phillip Jose Farmer and Dyson sphere stories tickle your fancy?
@wundayatta I don’t know those books. I had Larry Niven’s Ringworld at the back of my mind. Is there nothing new under the sun?
What if they gave a war, and nobody came?
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