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Juli's musings the night before had left her unsettled still and her sleep had been restless. As such, teaching was just about the last thing she wanted to do today. Unfortunately, she rather doubted that she could just... not show for a class.

Either way, she was there, so it was a moot point.

Feeling slightly more forgiving of the whole desert-adventure from the weekend and it helped that she was genuinely glad that everyone had been retrieved, didn't mean that she was all that pleased with it still. Juli was still going to talk about it--albeit in a roundabout manner.

"This world," she said, once her students had seated themselves, "wanders the extremes in temperature--at least as far as this planet is accustomed to--from scathingly hot to bitingly cold. This is the way it was intended to be. By nature. Without modification."

"However, we've taken what wits we were given and made many areas--starting with, for example, this very building--and made it so that we can control the temperature as we will, for our own purposes. Now, admittedly, many of these purposes we'd find hard to argue about--these modifications, build-arounds, and clever manipulations give us heating in the winter and cool air in the summer."

"Nevertheless," Juli said, "today I want each of you to try and come up with three reasons and discuss them with your classmates as to why weather manipulation, from large to small, might not always be the best idea. Or is it? Warfare? It's negatively effecting the agriculture? What would you say? Where would you draw the line?"

This was, in her own way, Juli giving them an easy class after the stress of last week. Not that she'd admit it.

[~~Wait for the~~ OCD is up! Go to it!]

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Like it's summer already!

Sky Tate

Bridge Carson

Z Delgado

Jen Scotts

Yakushi Kabuto

Zack Addy

Anemone

Edward Elric

Naminé

Peter Parker

Read, sleep, chat, ask Juli a question.

Sky was actually rather upbeat as he listened and took notes, unusual for him in this class. He was happy to see Bridge, and couldn't help but be relieved that for once, the topic for today's discussion didn't greatly upset him in some way.

Group together however you will and dicuss ways that manipulating the weather might not be the smartest thing to do--or perhaps why you think it would be the best thing to do.

"While there's a difference between terraforming a planet and heating a room, there's still side effects," Anemone said. "Are you killing off the indigenous wildlife? Are you mutating the flora? What level of pollution are you outputting? Even air conditioning kills a planet bit by bit, and if you're not careful, you're just going to make the problem worse. If you piss a planet off enough, Nature always finds a way to strike back." Not that she has any experience with this. Nope. Not at all.

"When I lived in Millennium City, everything was weather-controlled," Jen said. "I had a hard time getting used to the climate in Silver Hills when I first ended up back in 2001. It was too hot during the day and too cold at night, and I was miserable when it would get humid or whenever it was about to rain. I don't know too much about agriculture -- it wasn't really something I studied and most stuff was grown in controlled environments by then anyway because there wasn't much undeveloped land left at all, but I think I can definitely say that it makes the human . . . and probably other non-human species too, definitely Xybrian at least, body pretty unprepared to handle actual weather extremes."

She paused. "Which is actually a huge tactical vulnerability; if someone --" assuming there was anyone with suspected criminally violent tendencies left in the year 3000 who hadn't been rounded up and incarcerated by now -- "were to attack the weather control systems, they could pretty much render the entire metropolis defenseless."

Once he's pinged, yes.

Kabuto was bored. But after the last week...he was okay with bored, actually.

Who is very glad indeed to be out of the desert.

Up a wee bit earlier than normal ‘cause I’m not going to be around during the day. I’ll be around 5-7 am and then 5:30 pm onwards, CDT. Why can’t my workplace have internet? Whhhy?

You could be in my workplace where our computers have everything but the FedEx web site blocked.

...There are no words for how sad that'd make me. :x

I admit, a major reason that I adore my new phone is the fact that I can check my flist from it. And post! And make comments! My old phone seized and died whenever I tried to check the flist, and wouldn't let me login.

Technically my work has internets, but the only computer in the store is also our cash register. I'd probably look suspicious if I just stood at the cash register all day ;)

...what phone and what provider? :D
My phone dies, too. Woe. :(

Blackberry Pearl and Telus Mobility.

Actually, my job is the same way. Except that the team I'm on has internet access...

...Except that, being a call center, we are constantly monitered so I can only check LJ on break D:

Ye Shall Be As Gods? – Class 10, Period 3

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