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Controlling Hurricanes?
Phil Shapiro writes "With the cost of hurricane Katrina running as high as $100 billion, the thought of trying to control the severity of hurricanes should be mulled. Dissipating the energy of hurricanes as they're forming might be within the range of the feasible.
Scientific American tackles this topic in an article last year, as does this crank. (I admit the crank is me.) Is this type of thing feasible, or is it best not even tried at all?"
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This strikes me as the perfect segue from Bad Science in the Press.
-ShadowRanger
How about a hurricane *generator*.. but make it go in the exact opposite of the target storm.. now that'd be something I'd wanna see
Ever hear of Chaos theory . .(warning :Sarcasm soon to come) ..A small change in a dynamic systems initial conditions can result in a wide variations later in the cycle . .. we shoot all the butterflies in the world.
the butterfly effect in specific
Well to summarise
Edward Lorenz's theory was beautifully analogised to the butterfly effect .
so as a more sensible solution , I advise that if we want to stop hurricanes
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No little wind farm, or even (on our scale) massive wind farm is going to change this.
Wouldn't you just have to find the right butterfly, then swat the little bugger before if flaps it's wings?
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That'll keep Bush busy forever...
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You, sirruh, are a genius. A genius.
Why is this man being moderated funny? He's informative, dammit, informative!
"I've got more toys than Teruhisa Kitahara."
According to this story, the Japanese can already control hurricanes.
(And no, I don't take this seriously.)
Ben Hocking
Need a professional organizer?
The Kyoto agreement is, hopefully, the first small step in a long process which will fundamentally change the way in which we as a species interact with our environment. Now I'm not niave enough to believe that Kyoto will solve much, if anything, itself. I'm well aware that in evolutionary timescales the industrial revolution occured just 10 minutes ago and that it will take time for us to learn how best to use our marvelous (and I really mean marvelous) new technologies. However, if nothing else the Kyoto agreement stands as a acknowledgement of responsibility and a commitment for change.
The US (however it chooses to govern itself) has repeatedly failed to engage on this issue. As the supposed most powerful man on the planet, the failure of the US president even to acknowledge the problem doesn't represent much progress. Then again, I watch for 3 or 4 days as a quite horrific looking weather system closed in on the poor souls living in the Missippi delta and president Bush did precious little to save them. What chance then, that he will act on some less imminent or specific, but far more devistating scientific predictions?
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I say we skip trying to find the individual butterfly responsible and eradicate the entire lot of them.
They are an Order of hate.
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