[HN Gopher] Poseidon's Wrath
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Poseidon's Wrath
Author : diodorus
Score : 37 points
Date : 2021-08-06 22:38 UTC (2 days ago)
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| legrande wrote:
| > men were frightened of celestial phenomena such as thunder and
| lightning ... and imagined that the gods were responsible for
| these things
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| That's understandable, although today conspiracy theorists are
| more likely to blame bad weather on Geo-engineering and fake man-
| made weather.
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| Look at Dubai for example: https://nypost.com/2021/07/21/dubai-
| making-its-own-rain-to-b...
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| > Officials in Dubai are using drones to artificially increase
| rainfall as the city grapples with oppressive heat, video this
| week shows.
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| Geo-engineers are the new 'gods'
| azalemeth wrote:
| That's a very HN take on a tale of what might be a real life
| near-Atlantis! For me, the thing I love about the classics is
| that _people are still people_ , just with a lot less knowledge
| of science and engineering than we have, a lot more knowledge
| of things we are trying to discover about _them_ , and a rather
| different moral philosophy. The fact that neighbouring villages
| sent scouts to investigate the disappearance and discussed it
| at length is interesting, for example -- some times the deaths
| of thousands warrant at most a cursory sentence along the lines
| of "Thebes was plagued".
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| The geography really has moved a surprising amount since those
| days too -- e.g. Rome's ancient harbour is now decidedly
| inland. I wonder if a combined large-scale geophysical search
| together with airborne ground penetrating radar is remotely
| feasible over the sort of huge area they might consider.
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