Week 4 - Mt. Etna - Erick Martinez-Ortiz

 

 My family and I went on a short trip to Mountain Etna, Sicily, Italy. 

Flames and smoke billowing from a crater. AP Photo/Salvatore Allegra

Although due to the recent activity, it was hard to observe the past activity. Based on the current activity, the volcano's eruptions are explosive. 

Lava and smoke are belched out from a crater. AP Photo/Salvatore Allegra. 

The Magna sprays into the air as a cloud of very small hot particles called volcanic ash. This fine rock powder can remain in the atmosphere for days. These can be observed in the picture. 

Glowing lava is seen from the north-east side of the Mt Etna
volcano engulfed with ashes and smoke near Milo, Sicily. 
AP Photo/Salvatore Allegra.

The volcanic ash can remain in the air for months, even travel to other places, and/or affect the metrological conditions. At this time, the Mt. Etna volcano lava rolls down the mountain's eastern slope towards the uninhabited Bove Valley, which is five kilometers wide and eight kilometers long. 

Mt Etna glowing lava flows on the north-east side of the mountain.
Both Pictures by AP Photo/Salvatore Allegra. 

The volcanologists who work at the Etna Observatory stated that there is no telling how long this round of exciting activity will last. 

Week 8- Global Warming

 

This week I decided to take a trip into the future to New York City. The first thing that I notice is all of that the city consists of newer more modern buildings. However, these buildings were built thousands of years ago and now in the year 7010 much of the city is completely underwater and uninhabited. Global society saw the dangers of the rising sea levels however failed to take the measures to prevent this from happenings. Fossil Fuels were not eliminated as early as they should have been and the planet continued to suffer as a result. The repercussions of our actions in the past are felt worldwide, however I believe that society has taken steps to strive for sustainability and protection of the planet. Unfortunately global warming has had severely detrimental affects on the world. 

Week 8 - William Moran - Global Warming

 I traveled 5,000 years into the future and am currently floating over what was Los Angeles, California. I never thought we would be living in such a dystopic future. There isn't enough land for everyone to comfortably live on anymore so most people live in floating cities. The closest comparison to what I'm currently viewing is the movie Water World. Since the onset of the Industrial Revolution in the 1900's the world has been in a slow decline. Very few governments had Carbon reduction plans in place and by the time they did, it was too late. The greenhouse gasses caused such a significant rise in temperature that the polar caps are almost nonexistent in 7010. If leaders of the free world 5,000 years ago could see what 7010 looks like maybe they would be in more of a rush to fix the damage that we have done.

Week 8 - Joshua Rosson - Global Warming

 In the year 7010 the sea levels have risen since we were late to adapt to understanding the impact that global warming will have. Although we tried to fix these issue with agreements like the Paris Accord where some countries mitigated the impact of emissions we were giving off, other countries increased their emissions as they went through their own advancements. However, we have learned to pivot in how we live as a society. There were several occasions that we learned that many jobs can be done from home thus reducing individual emissions. As more sustainable farming practices have been implemented we used less land for farming as well as reduced emissions. However, we have not forgotten the repercussions of our actions. The coast line of Florida is completely submerged, and all that are left are crumbling sky scrapers that are homage to a time when the land was once a tropical paradise.

(Photo Source: Mike Vogel)

Ricardo Aguilar Travel journal, global warming in the year 7010

The three laws of the robotics and the enhancement of the human soul,

A combination that saved humanity in the year 2067

Ricardo Aguilar 

Travel journal, global warming in the year 7010

 

In contrast to ancient human civilizations that presumably ended up by natural disasters, our present human civilization is undeniable approaching to its own annihilation under its own doomed destine. Fortunately, contamination, pollution unregulated industries waste supported by under a triumph era end up being just another chapter of a classical novel from the XV century, that could have been easily added as the 10th circle of hell in Dante Alighieri “the divine comedy”. Fortunately, the human impact activities, that could have ended our civilization mainly by a self-inflicted Global Warming right by the mid 21th century, was superseded by the human soul. It was an outstanding step in humanity’s consciousness development. It was also the result of a need for survival from humans own doomed creation, global warming and the AI, (Artificial Intelligence). near to its own annihilation by the years 2067   after an epic battle to regain earths’ out-space colonies’ control against “cyborgs” or human bio-mechanical androids, humans regained control of a super computer called: M-A&O, MotherA&O (alpha and omega) such program was created observing the robotic laws (Isaac Asimov., 1950). Conversely, in violation of the third law of the robotics, rule #3, (a robot must never harm and protect humans), moderato decided to end a threat that could signify the end of humans. Hence, this program decided the annihilation of the most brilliant human minds which according to M-A&O would represent a thread for the rest of our kind.  Although originally both humans and cybors were organized and perfectly working to inhibit nuclear and human activity against earth’s environment, at certain point the machines developed pragmatic consciousness beyond human knowledge as they argued. Humans on their own account also evolved to a spiritual level that later was enhanced to a universals harmony, learned through their own past errors. Consequently, machines behavior towards humanity changed. In the end, earth was saved by a universal thought of an elevated spiritual intelligence, a quality that programmed machines were never able to reach or destroy based on their own programmed survival codes and software.  Finally, they worked along to humans for earths survival and we prevail.    

 

 

 

Week 8 - Global Warming

 

We've decided to go ahead to the year 7,010, and we have traveled to the city of Houston, Texas. We can see what humanity has done to continue to combat global warming. Many of the buildings we knew were renovated to provide ample electricity, and all of the solar panels on top of them help to obtain renewable energy. Cars we've been driving are now working on electric energy, getting rid of global warming emissions. Talking to residents, we've heard that the planet has come together to try to tackle global warming so that our kids and their kids have a place to live. The ocean level has risen somewhat since we began the process later than everyone had anticipated. It really was a comfortable temperature of 70 degrees and a fun little visit with my family. It is nice to see that humanity has been able to come forward and do everything it can to combat global warming. Some of the changes could not be alleviated since it was too late, but the adjustments that were introduced could make a big change.

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Week 8 - Tyler Osterberg

 We step foot in the year 7020 A.D. to observe the future state of our environment.  I am happy to announce that things are looking surprisingly good.  The human population on earth has stabilized around 9 billion, and the technological advances over the past five millennia have put humanity in control of our atmosphere and environment in a way we could only imagine in 2020.

Downtown Paris 7020

Heating and cooling for a human dwelling have become a symbiosis of plants being integrated with architecture, and paramagnetic paints that change the albedo of the area in response to sensor data.  A.I. and predictive analytics now predict weather disasters with enough advance warning that we can introduce nanomachines into the air to lessen the impact.  Earthquakes that had been incredibly hard to predict can now be forecasted to the hour eighteen months out, with volcanic eruptions being only slightly behind being forecasted within a day of the eruption.  It is an amazing time for humanity as we become better and more conscientious stewards of our planet.

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