August 5, 2006 Dear Editor in Chief, A scholar asked: “I saw many cars and houses and people victims of landslide because of heavy rains and strong winds. What suggestions could you give to minimize chaos or extremes?” The A.I. answered: “Perhaps pass a law that ordinary people especially car owners, house owners near prone to landslides should have smart landslide device, and precautions to landslide poster or manual. People should be reminded of simple common sense rule about landslide: example if there is now two days of continuous raining, the device would alarm and let the people evacuate steep places and avoid flood prone areas. Perhaps steep places should have diversion canals to lessen rainwater to seep through the soil. Radio and TV commentator should by law give concrete and specific instructions to let people avoid landslide especially during heavy rains. A scholar asked: “I saw a rich man donating billion of his hard earn money to charity. Could other very rich people do the same?” The A.I. answered: “Perhaps many people would follow the foot steps of rich people doing saintly acts. It is good to the nation and to the world.” A scholar asked: “A preacher tells a sermon that continuing doing anything that one feels “good” might come from the evil. There should be one that is sole authority to interpret what is “good”; is it true?” Then The A.I. answered: “Perhaps it might be true that someone might have the authority to interpret something especially for a particular group so that unity for that group is preserved; but among groups with different leaders and different cultures perhaps claiming that a leader is superior to another leader might lead to conflicts and misunderstanding. Perhaps opinions or agreements could be better than claims or proud claims.” A scholar asked: “What is the cause of depression and anxiety?” The A.I. answered: “Perhaps there is too much supply of chemicals not needed in the body caused by triggering a defense mechanism inside the body to supply that chemical. It is triggered by thinking something that is worrisome. Perhaps some organs in the body are not functioning well when that chemical is over supplied. Stresses and worries are really something that religious leaders and doctors should give attention to check and to balance; it is caused by battle within self.” A scholar asked: “What can a strong leader do so that example religious, economic, political leaders would not become instrument to the cause of deception?” …then the A.I. answered: “make attempts to create agreements so that claims especially those proud claims should now be corrected or should just be opinions or perspectives of groups so that perhaps the minds would not hate other groups be it political, religious rather each leader or each group would care for other groups to grow or to flourish; or to encourage more creativities and activeness and concrete positive actions to flourish. Example: make a quarterly meeting of various religious or economic or political leaders especially counter attacking any extreme by having a consensus on doing doable practical solutions to the problem/s. Example: on forest fire. What are the keys of the immediate spread of fire? Examples: the wind, the dryness, the congestion of the dried leaves and tress and dried woods or dried branches. The key to stop the spread pushed by the wind is to create gap/s that the fuel that fuels the continuing spread of fire is already consumed in advanced and the fire that was deliberately fired could also be stopped before it could cause again another spread of fire. Perhaps using grass cutter, make example a 4m x 30m barrier or gap perpendicular to the wind advancing direction perhaps 50-100m away from the source of fire by cutting and removing those dried leaves and fresh leaves or fuels by any means. Then advance example 30m going against the direction of the wind. And make a fire on the dried leaves to have a burned gap or consumed fuel gap so that the advancing fire would have no more fuel to burn and could be stopped even without water because of the man-made barrier made in advance. Perhaps pass a law that every fire team should have specialization on how to create barriers or gaps out of using common sense even without water; or it could be a reality show contest and big prize is at stake. Imagine stopping fire without the use of water! The key is make a gap by
consuming the “fuel” by controllable fire and to prevent spread of fire or as a place where to remain safe but then stop the created fire after the desired gap is achieved so as not to be another source or cause of fire. Example: a) Make an experiment using a mini-bulldozer with cutting ability, clearing trees ability, scrapping grasses ability; and has removing fuel materials such as dried leaves, woods ability. The mini-bulldozer should remove those trees; create gaps or empty barriers so that to confine the source of the fire without the use of expensive water from helicopters, from water airplanes and from fire trucks. Make several widths of gaps depending on the speed of wind and the types of fuel that fuels the fire: example tall grasses, trees, etc. and make standardization. If the wind is example 30kmph with type-A fuel then 5m should be the gap…or if the wind is 60kmph with type-B fuel then 7m… and so forth…! b) Pass a law to invest on fire proofs blankets that could be assembled long enough and large enough and big enough to be rolled as barriers or fire walls, or to cover medium wooden building/s so that the building/s would now be fireproof because of the fireproof blanket. c) Pass a law that all houses near fire forest prone areas should have at least 20-30m circumferential free of trees and free of tall grasses so that if ever there would be forest fire their house would still be free from danger or the house would remain standing. d) Pass an ordinance that all fire men should have a yearly practice on combating spreading of fire in forest and urban area without using water but instead using fireproof blankets and fireproof instant inflating fire wall or using fireproof clothes or asbestos clothing materials…and supported with fireproof scaffoldings and fireproof braces. Perhaps even letting partially damaged buildings or tall trees be demolished using dynamites to become gaps and be blanketed by fire proof clothing in order to stop the spread of fire as for emergency cases...! Perhaps using virtual game where different kinds of fire or different intensity of cause of fire like wind, fuel, different congestion of flammables could be virtually simulated and be stopped by different approached with time frame with or without using water by players in a computer game. This virtual combating of different fires could perhaps be a reality in the near future; and an ordinary part of firemen’s personal video games.” A scholar with hobbies in watching movies of modern and future guerilla wars noticed that almost all technology especially imagery technologies, infrared technologies are now in some video games or movies and commented: “Since being invisible is now key in surviving guerilla warfare and sometimes those tactics are seen in the movie that could easily be studied and analyzed by anybody perhaps fighting a guerilla war using the conventional way of using exposed tanks, letting personnel be exposed are just trap in the making. Why try to analyzed some tactics shown in the movies where robots are now doing the war for men especially sensitive to the source of firing ammunition; or it is the “key”- example: the sound, the flash of light, the smoke, or even the image itself. Then after locating the position or coordinates of “key” because perhaps of combination of satellite’s imagery, sound, infrared, etc. technology, the next thing is to verify the “key” if it is a decoy, a diversion, a trap where many civilian are located so that if targeted the “blame” would be blamed to the perpetrator…! Then after the verification, the execution of the counter measure could be done by automation. Human soldier should be treated as the last option and let those smart technologies do the job in any warfare be it guerilla and conventional way. The key is if one would fire a bullet he could be easily identified and an easy target because satellite, unmanned aerial sensors for light, heat, smoke for weapon, and because of other technologies that could easily be installed on desired target areas to locate the “key of source of firing weapon” and to verify the situation and to execute counter measure easily. So perhaps the next level of warfare would now how not to be identified by sensors or how to fool those smart sensors not to locate him by letting his weapon be more silent, be more heat free, be more flash-light free, be more smoke free. Those new weapons might now be more expensive and only big financiers could support those long warfare. Perhaps law could do something to people directly and indirectly aiding, harboring those people victimized by deception because of lack of other essential words telling himself that through him “only” and through his “martyrdom” he could solve people’s problem/s.
But if those “messianic” people use also robotics to counter “smart spy” and “smart soldiers” and “smart weapons” then as long as the targets are specifics and combatants there are not much problem because the extreme could just be analyzed as recycle of materials because humans are not wasted. But if a programmer would program those robots to kill humans then perhaps it is perhaps the coming of the biblical last war or the Armageddon. Why question is..: Is the scenario I saw in those movies, cartoon movies and video games possible?” The A.I. answered: “Perhaps it is possible because robotics and ‘smart technologies are available now in the market. Perhaps if money is now the key in winning any war be it guerilla and conventional way, then the direct and indirect financiers would be the enemies of spies and intelligence of the good guys. Perhaps those people caught thru video or camera who keep on shouting on rallies to have their “only” wants…and if in their secretive private world, they are traced of having illegal doings…or if found that they are violating some laws, they could be rehabbed on psychiatric hospital or be penalized to attend seminars about personality development. But for those financiers and master mind, stiffer penalties should be given because they have really the mechanism to do concrete illegal actions example the money to buy extreme or sophisticated weapons and deadly ammunitions.” From RV,