Stopping Hurricanes with Nukes and Giant Fans?!?! WTF!!!

[Lovecrafty]

http://www.cnn.com/2004/WEATHER/09/12/hurricane.cure.ap/index.html


JACKSONVILLE, Florida (AP) -- Amateur hurricane-busters have come up with any number of crackpot ideas to spare Florida from ferocious storms. Among them: blowing hurricanes away with giant fans or blowing them up with nuclear warheads.

Even the federal government got into the act, with three decades of ill-fated research called "Project Stormfury" before shelving the idea of weather modification in the 1980s.

But dozens of ideas -- part hope, part fantasy -- continue to crop up among weather wonks, Internet bloggers and others who think they have come up with a way to spare coastal residents the misery of hurricanes.

Suggestions have included coating the surface of the water with olive oil; towing an iceberg down to Florida to cool down the water temperature; or building large fans on the coast to blow away approaching storms.

"And then there was a guy who called and said he could pray them away," said Hugh Willoughby, a research professor with the International Hurricane Center at Florida International University.

By far the most outlandish proposal, and one of the most recurrent, was the idea to use a nuclear warhead to blow a hurricane out of the water.

"Hurricanes are bad enough without being radioactive," Willoughby said. "Put that genie back in the bottle. Nuclear weapons are more dangerous than hurricanes."

[Maple]

1. Well you could stop hurricanes

but not with fans and olive oil...cripes!

[peekaloo]

2. Everyone line up on the coast and blow real hard!

I saw a LTTE today, in a central Florida town, that proposed using "nuclear technology". A small one, mind you, just to collapse the eye. :eyes:

[Lovecrafty]

3. Suppose it DIDN'T collapse...what then?! Radioactivity spread EVERYWHERE!

[Lady Effingbroke]

4. Gee, I bet they could stop the proliferation of increasingly intense

hurricanes by addressing the problem of global warming and actively developing alternative fuel sources and mass transportation, but NO, they gotta keep dodging THAT bullet and keep that 'awl' money coming in, while simultaneously continuing to trash the planet with outlandish, ineffective, and dangerous pseudo 'solutions'. These people are really smart! :silly:

[Lovecrafty]

6. Well it's on CNN!!

[tridim]

5. How about dropping a giant plexiglass bubble over it?

I can't believe people actually think a fan will blow away a hurricane.

[Spinzonner]

7. The problem today isnt Nuclear Proliferation

it's Idiocy Proliferation

[DS1]

8. Why don't we just tow the country out of harm's way while we're at it?

:eyes:

It's what Bugs Bunny would've done

[Lady Effingbroke]

edit: self delete

accidental double post! :silly: <- this smilie rules!

[Lady Effingbroke]

9. Yeah, we'll just get 'ol Bugs and Wile E. Coyote right on it

They'll have the problem solved in no time! :+ :crazy: :silly:

Although I must admit, Bugs has a lot better record when comes to getting things done - Wile E. never does ANYTHING right!

[peekaloo]

10. lol....or supersize Moe Howard and have him poke it in the eye!

That'll learn ya herrican.

[lapfog_1]

11. Try "The WeatherMakers" by Ben Bova (1967)

I think the plot was space based lasers to heat certain parts
of the ocean, used to steer hurricanes and other weather
systems.