On Sun, Feb 27, 2005 at 05:53:29PM -0600, Bryan Newell <bryann at bryann.net> wrote: > Eruptions, tornadoes, earthquakes, etc, are "instantaneous" phenomena > (although to be fair, both eruptions and earthquakes are the result of > thousands of years of build-up--I'm not really sure how one would go about > preventing them), whereas preventing a drought might require nearly complete > and continuous climate control over the whole of the Empire. > > If the Orb is capable of *that*, I'd think it could do something about the > overcast. How do you know that the overcast isn't what the Orb is doing to prevent drought? -- Matthew Hunter (matthew at infodancer.org) Public Key: http://matthew.infodancer.org/public_key.txt Homepage: http://matthew.infodancer.org/index.jsp Politics: http://www.triggerfinger.org/weblog/index.jsp