Kyle Mcallister wrote:
If during this financial mess we can monitor volcanoes (which we can do NOTHING about) . . .
As I wrote repeatedly, we can LOTS about volcanoes. We can't stop them, of course, but we can prevent them from killing people or damaging equipment unnecessarily. We can mitigate the danger and financial loss. Horace Heffner also reiterated this.
The notions that volcano monitoring is only good for doomsday prediction or that the intention is to "do something" to stop the volcano are ludicrous, and unscientific.
We should also keep an eye on asteroids, and possibly develop a method of deflecting them. Cold fusion and antigravity would be a great help in deflecting them.
- Jed
