I live right next to the most avalanch prone montains in sweden. And they have a whole bunch of remotely activated propane canons on the mountainside wich they use to trigger avalanches before they grow to big.
Reminds me of setting forest fires to avoid larger ones. So much of modern disaster prevention seems to be setting up controlled incidents rather trying to avoid the phenomenon all together!
That’s because, despite how much control over the environment we may think w shave, cannot stop disasters from happening. They are part of earth’s cycle going back billions of years and they’ll either happen in a way that we can mitigate damage or in a way that will wipe us out
@@psychlops924 i agree. They may be natural disasters but the reason why theyre unavoidable is because they ARE "NATURAL" disasters. something that must happen as part of the earth's systematic order of nature.
Every single one of these Overview episodes is outstanding. They showcase such unique perspectives and educate on the dangers and beauties of our planet! SO COOL!
This is a great video. I’ve been skiing since I was 3 and I’ve seen areas where they do this avalanche blasting in Colorado. They also use howitzer guns sometimes, which is awesome!
I'm guessing someone would be thinking about using Drones to deliver the explosive triggers, instead of having to risk lives? Or would that not be viable?
@Felipe Reigosa Drones are already used to deliver explosives in a military capacity. And they don't need to "suicide bomb" in either circumstance, just drop a payload. I would think wind would be a bigger obstacle to their adoption in this use, along with the varied elevation creating reception issues for control.
Explosives are probadefinitely the cheapest option here for the desired effect, but the pure "what-if" part of me wonders if installing permanent thumpers in evenly-spaced locations would make it possible to remotely trigger avalanches without sending crews up as often to do so manually. I can also see plenty of drawbacks to the idea, of course, like maintenance at high altitudes and potential for a thumper to break its own anchor point and become part of the avalanche it caused. Interesting to me doesn't usually mean practical.
"Researching in the back country", "ski cutting to trigger avalanches"... sure, sure - we all know you're really just having fun skiing fresh powder with your friends :-P
Sounds like this could be automated with drones. Equip them with explosives, use AI to identify areas of danger, then trigger them to do cleanup operations at a set time when people aren't on the mountains (probably at night)
There are so many goofy recruiting slogans to be plucked from this you know, to get more people interested in the science and in the prevention of avalanches because I can't imagine that they're NOT understaffed for these tasks... "Fall for the Mountains Again and Again" "Snowpack, Can You Dig It" "Explosions for Safety" (which sounds a lot more like an Aperture Science thing but hey) The last one that came to mind is kind of nsfw though.
Sorry I'm black, my people don't ski... Lol.. Idk why though tbh.. Man, I need to find out why we don't actually haha... This is why I love different cultures.. We are all the same, human, but we do so many different things it's so awesome to learn those different things to me..
Its culture + opportunity. You have to live close enough, rich enough to pay those prices, and have family/friends who want to go and not do something else.
@@th3oryO You're absolutely spot on.. I stopped and thought about it.. Growing up, my community, no pool.. But if I went to my school friends homes that were white, Parks that had pools and that's why I swim like a fish.. But, I didn't learn to play basketball at my friends house, never ever saw a park with a rim but I did on mine, like everywhere.. Being in my early 40's I now realize, WE don't separate from each other, those that WE put in charge do. That's why we think we are so different, we don't have much in common.. I'm proof that we do.. My family, about 12yrs old, had money so I was around snorkeling, swimming, skydiving, it was normal.. Go to see my cousins and they even thought computers were something CRAZY AND WEIRD!! I had already had them for like 4yrs when they finally touched one... It's where they put us is why people think one is beneath the other..
It's not a problem now. Ski resorts have been using this method of Mitigation and using WW2 Army Howitzers to fire shells on the mountain peaks for decades.
I'm confused at why we don't consider avalanches part of nature? Is it just that skiers are more important than nature? Or should I just accept that this is Humanity's Planet, and we should just be considering this "smart management"?
It's is possible again I'm not a buzz kill I was raised by a no-nonsense WW2 veteran he had quite the sense of humor who was the humblest man and world best mechanic ever to us kids so say his daughter me this my southern name I gave myself, The satellites are much better
