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Controlling Hurricanes?

Posted by Zonk on from the messing-with-mother-nature dept.

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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  1. Re:Easy way to control hurricanes: by N8F8 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    One reason why Modders on Slashdot suck. This is not a troll but a valid retort to a half-baked rant.

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    "God fights on the side with the best artillery." - Napoleon, Marshal of France - speaking truth to power
  2. Weapons of war ... by Alain+Williams · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    This property gives rise to the proveriable butterfly flapping it's wings in China could cause a hurricane in the US.

    You got the butterfly's location wrong:
    In other news: Bin-laden claims that a specially bred butterfly raised on a farm in Afghanistan caused the hurricane as part of his war against the West. He warns: Blair & Chirac that he is breeding British & French varients.

  3. Re:Global Impact by SatanicPuppy · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Looks like I didn't fully explain premise 1:

    God's omnibenevolence rests on humanities paramount importance, because if the good of other things weighed as highly as our personal good, god would not be omnibenevolent from our perspective.

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    ad logicam Claiming a proposition is false because it was presented as the conclusion of a fallacious argument.
  4. Re:Global Impact by SatanicPuppy · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I live around Baptists every day, mind you, crazy southern baptists. If you're a more sedate/normal northern baptist, this doesn't apply so much.

    You're full of it with regards to the bible however:

    And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
    Genesis 1:26

    I can imagine you are a Baptist, because A) You seem to believe the bible=the old testament and B) You don't even know crap about the old testament.

    You just got schooled in the bible by an agnostic. How does that make you feel?

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    ad logicam Claiming a proposition is false because it was presented as the conclusion of a fallacious argument.