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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?"
You're the one who's written the long article about it, so shouldn't we ask the professional - you tell us!
Actually I belief one of two things are happening (or both): 1) God is warning the USA as a nation and/or 2) It is part of the signs of the end-times
(Luk 21:11) "And great earthquakes shall be in different places, and famines and plagues. And there shall be terrors and great signs from Heaven."
You decide...
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I'll probably get marked as a troll for this one, but honestly ...
While Kyoto(sp?) protocols wouldn't have stopped this, it should be taken as a wakeup call for america to stop dicking about with playing wargames in the middle east and getting behind stuff that's real (rather than the imagined WMDs and terrorist training camps) and put its considerable weight into solving the global warming problem.
Shame it'll never happen tho.
Why bother with hurricans when you have shock and awe?
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The Creator? Hell, everytime we put up a brolly we are interrupting rain the Mother Nature "meant" to drop on our heads...
You go to Hell! You got to Hell and you die!
Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.
Aristotele
You missed the point. Global warming is likely the cause of the last hurricanes that hit the US. Sorry, but I have no sympathy for the world's largest emitter of greenhouse gas.
In new orleans, it was mostly the poor. Did they do anything wrong, moreso than the rich who survived?
Ummm, they stayed? Seriously. They could have started walking, looking for a way out of town, hitchhiking,etc by Saturday. Hell, they could have been out of the state before the hurricane hit. But no, they felt they could handle it. It being the most powerful hurricane to ever hit the gulf coast.
Natural selection in action, I say.
It's not true, however. Michael Moore did a spot about it on TV Nation. Black drivers wouldn't pick up the black guy either, even though he was an actor or something like that and the white guy was a convicted felon. I've heard that other places too -- there's a lot of discrimination against black people BY black people (police, etc.). IT's societal.
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Stop watching FOX news.
...or the next thing you know, he will declare "War on Hurricanes", appoint a Hurricane Czar, demand Congress pass his $50B spending bill without review, and immediately start construction on 40 new nuclear submarines to "keep the scourge of Hurricanes from our shores." Anyone criticizing the effort will be attacked ("Why do you want Americans to lose their homes, Congressman? Why do you want them to die?").
Remember, after Katrina everything is different. Now more than ever. We have to take the fight to the Hurricanes or risk facing them on American soil.
Oh, and you'll probably have to give up a few more of your rights. We'll let you know which ones.
"Can I finish? Can I finish?
And you're an elitist with a computer.