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Set the way-back machine for about 3 weeks ago :-)

McFly — 9/22/2005 5:31:20 PM (archived)

I think it was both RL and Tom who gave us a peek at some numbers right after Katrina. It looked like the act of flinging a nuke at a hurricane would be equivilent to doing nothing at all.

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

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