Scientists have made a breakthrough in man's desire to control the forces of nature ? unveiling plans to weaken hurricanes and steer them off course, to prevent tragedies such as Hurricane Katrina....
Scientists a step closer to steering hurricanes - Telegraph
It sounds like it could be an amazing thing, but imagine the consequences.
You steer a hurricane away from some mainland somewhere, and it wipes out a boatload of people who are in the new path, and now the families are suing for wrongful death.
Or an island is about to get whacked, and their scientists try to veer it away from them, but the result is that it's going to whack another island, and now the other islanders are so pizzed off, that they declare war.
Or maybe both countries/islands have scientists, both trying to steer the storm away from their island, but in so doing so, sending it to the other, so the scientists are trying to outsmart the others, and.....
Well, you get the picture.
And even if they didn't try to steer them, but just weaken them, as the art became standard fare, you'd have people wanting to sue the government for not doing enough, if one did hit mainland and caused a lot of damage and loss of life.
Progress has it's price, and the more that we mess with nature, the more we seem to mess up the planet.