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Ever hear of pouring oil on troubled waters?
Would vegetable oil work?
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How about detonating a H-Bomb in a HURRICANE?
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carl
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9/22/2005 5:24:15 PM
Here is a link.
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DFM
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9/23/2005 3:11:32 AM
Sure you can...Just build an undersea pipeline...
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Scott Evil
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9/26/2005 3:53:00 PM
Rita's radar with very strange returns on the image loop
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Eric
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9/25/2005 3:55:28 PM
It's not "radar", but still, that's pretty weird.
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jms
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9/26/2005 3:09:27 AM
Messing with hurricanes might not be a good idea anyway.
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Tom Brosz
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9/24/2005 9:51:21 PM
re: Messing with hurricanes might not be a good idea anyway.
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grassbur
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9/26/2005 6:42:09 AM
The only thing that we could do to reduce the intensity of a hurricane
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David F Mayer
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9/23/2005 3:08:34 AM
I think you just gave about fifty enviromentalists heart attacks.
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Tom Brosz
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9/23/2005 4:36:23 PM
re: I think you just gave about fifty enviromentalists heart attacks.
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grassbur
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9/26/2005 6:44:42 AM
Ever hear of pouring oil on troubled waters?
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David F Mayer
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9/23/2005 8:35:48 PM
Would vegetable oil work?
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Lee
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9/25/2005 12:02:15 AM
It occurs to me...
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Tom Brosz
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9/26/2005 6:09:06 PM
Fatty acids form mono-molecular films over water.
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David F Mayer
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9/25/2005 2:20:06 AM
They said the same about going to the Moon 60 years ago.
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Lee
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9/25/2005 7:46:34 AM
That's it!
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Tom Brosz
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9/23/2005 11:01:12 PM
You're alomost there, Tom!
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DL
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9/24/2005 7:23:48 AM
REPOST: Energy of a hurricane
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R.L.
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9/22/2005 9:15:38 PM
Not exactly dwarfs our arsenals
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dtb
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9/24/2005 4:45:15 AM
But if we took one nugget of plutonium and dropped it in the eye
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Davinhannes
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9/22/2005 9:24:12 PM
re: But if we took one nugget of plutonium and dropped it in the eye
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grassbur
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9/26/2005 6:50:18 AM
Which we could then use to fund major research
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DL
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9/26/2005 2:35:38 PM
LOL
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R.L.
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9/22/2005 9:32:14 PM
Detonating a H-Bomb in a HURRICANE would have the same effect as peeing on it -- NONE!
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David F Mayer
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9/22/2005 6:59:29 PM
But if everyone on Earth drank a lot of water and got together and...
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LJK
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9/23/2005 11:58:45 AM
Set the way-back machine for about 3 weeks ago :-)
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McFly
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9/22/2005 5:31:20 PM
never mind
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carl
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9/22/2005 5:42:44 PM
No problem...
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Tom Brosz
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9/22/2005 7:32:36 PM
How about a Giant Space Mirror?
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LJK
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9/23/2005 12:02:10 PM
Evaporation is what fuels it!
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Scott Evil
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9/23/2005 1:55:56 PM
re: Evaporation is what fuels it!
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LJK
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9/23/2005 1:59:40 PM
Use it to terraform mars.
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Scott Evil
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9/23/2005 2:33:22 PM
Just terraform?
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LJK
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9/23/2005 2:55:48 PM
Meanwhile, some people are making serious-ly crazy comments
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LJK
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9/23/2005 2:32:36 PM
The funny thing is that Hurricanes aren't necessarily bad!
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Scott Evil
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9/23/2005 2:38:05 PM
re: The funny thing is that Hurricanes aren't necessarily bad!
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grassbur
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9/26/2005 8:11:18 AM
It's the same with prairie and forest fires.
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Mary Anne
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9/24/2005 10:11:31 PM
HabitableZone — be civil, or at least entertaining.