A Physicist Says He Can Tornado-Proof the Midwest With 1,000-Foot Walls

meghan elizabeth writes: Temple physicist Rongjia Tao has a utopian proposal to build three massive, 1,000-foot-high, 165-foot-thick walls around the American Midwest, in order to keep the tornadoes out. Building three unfathomably massive anti-tornado walls would count as the infrastructure project of the decade, if not the century. It would be also be exceedingly expensive. "Building such walls is feasible," Tao says. "They are much easier than constructing a skyscraper. For example, in Philadelphia, the newly completed Comcast building has about 300-meter height. The wall with similar height as the Comcast building should be much easier to be constructed." Update: 06/28 04:14 GMT by T : Note: originally, this story said that Tao was at Drexel rather than Temple -- now corrected

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Plus bonus....

[Electricity Likes Me]

...kaiju protection.

Re:Plus bonus....

[Anonymous Coward]

But vulnerable to Titans.

Now we know

[Punto]

Now we know why there are no Tornados in Westeros.

Re:Your taxes at work

[C3ntaur]

What happens if somebody decides to fill it with water?

One can only hope.

Did he mention

[Pete Venkman]

That it only works for square tornadoes on an infinite plane of uniform density?