This is just a thought I've had since I was in middle school learning about Earth Science. My Dad always had an interest in the Unknown. Shows like Art Bell's Coast to Coast were a daily discussion. This was a time before Ancient Aliens was a show. We talked about Jesus being half Angel/Alien and the North Star being a UFO back in the 80's and early 90's. Just wondering if anyone else has thought about life existing in an abundance out there. This is how I always imagined it to be.
I mean, there could be life within the Sun and other Stars for all we know, and we don't but Science should leave room for imagination and theory. Seems like the Institution of Science discourages free thought more then it encourages Out of the Box thinking. Love to hear people's thoughts..
According to this website, it will take 1000 years with the help of physical means.
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It is the company that should meet customer standards, if they want the customers to pay.
The "It's free" mentality that I see on posts as rebuttals to genuine constructive feedback are ridiculous like the shop prices. If a game is a completely new IP then sure I agree that we can't really complain because there is no set precedence. But for a pre-existing franchise like Halo, the standard has already been set.
Sometimes changing that standard/ benchmark could be good or bad. At the end of the day it's the companies decision to change things but ultimately it's about satisfying the customers otherwise what's the point? Even if the game is "Free", it is still designed to make money, believe it or not. In fact, free to play games make more money than some one-time purchase games. So I hope 343 listens to us (the potentially paying customers) to improve the game for (mostly) everyone.
Speaking as a US citizen (NY), if that helps for geography purposes.
What I know is that the American SW and into Northern Mexico is arid desert. Even so, people farm there. There is conflict brewing over the trading of water for irrigation across the border.
With irrigation, people have made livable places out of the desert before, like with Salt Lake City; we've also maintained a freshwater lake in the region before, the Salton Sea. Although this ecosystem eventually collapsed, with good management it could have been maintained. I've also heard about how riverbed grasses in a particular river delta (forget which one) filtered the water such that saltwater became freshwater downstream, even though the river was fed by the ocean.
In my local history there's a very famous canal (the Erie Canal) that runs from the Atlantic Ocean, across the state to Lake Erie on the Great Lakes. This was first built in the early 1800s, with a few thousand dudes armed with shovels, pickaxes, and mules.
So, to summarize, we have the technology to build long, huge canals, and potentially the knowledge to naturally (or, all else failing, artificially) desalinate seawater.
In order to solve the water problem in the southwest, why not cut a canal from the Pacific to somewhere in Arizona or New Mexico, either desalinate the water or seed the riverbed with life that will do it for us, fill a few desert basins with the water, and then now have enough water to fulfill regional needs?
Alternatively, we could copy over much of the same infrastructure used in oil transportation and refinement (namely, pipelines) to pipe seawater inland, desalinate it, and then dump it into a suitable reservoir.
How 'pie in the sky' is this?
