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re: What would happen if you dropped a nuclear bomb inside a Cat 5 eye?
Posted on 9/6/17 at 3:04 pm to Chad504boy
Posted on 9/6/17 at 3:04 pm to Chad504boy
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if flash can run 185mph, would he even make it in a circle?
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Posted on 9/6/17 at 3:05 pm to Cocotheape
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Mutant Florida People.
Can you even imagine?
You honestly think we'd notice a difference?
Posted on 9/6/17 at 3:06 pm to MorbidTheClown
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we could get The Flash to run around in circles in the opposite direction inside of the storm .
I know it's a tongue in cheek comment, but this seems crazy. The eye of Irma is up to 30 miles across. Even if you had a vehicle that could be both stable and fast enough to "unwind" it, how big or fast would the vehicle need to be to have any effect?
Could you do other things to disrupt it's structural integrity though? Fly thousands of drone bombs (non nuclear) down the eye and detonate them at strategic points like you're taking down a building?
Posted on 9/6/17 at 3:06 pm to Chad504boy
Why not just dump a bunch of bags of Sonic ice in the ocean
Posted on 9/6/17 at 3:07 pm to DownshiftAndFloorIt
how can a bomb take away the energy and or vaporize all the moisture... hmmm
Posted on 9/6/17 at 3:07 pm to LSU alum wannabe
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We'd be better off trying to make a wind shear machine.
Or, try what bill gates patented to lower the intensity of large hurricanes:
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Not content with being the world's richest man, Bill Gates is planning on extending his power to control the weather. More specifically, he has filed a patent for a system that he hopes will prevent the next Katrina.
Along with ex-Microsoft CTO Nathan Myhrvold, Gates has applied for five patents that call for a fleet of specially equipped vessels to be deployed in a hurricane's path—vessels that are capable of reducing the surface temperature of the ocean by mixing in colder water from greater depths. This would reduce the heat-driven condensation that fuels hurricanes.
Of course, significantly altering the surface temperature of a large body of water is going to require many, many ships...a reality that is not lost on Gates. In the patent filings, there are a few proposals on how an endeavor like this one could be financed—including selling insurance policies in areas that are prone to major storms. While I seriously doubt the plausibility of such a scheme, if anyone can pull it off it would be Bill Gates. Besides, even if this doesn't work out he always has his important work with high tech kegs to fall back on. [Patent via Tech Flash via Slashdot via PopSci]
This post was edited on 9/6/17 at 3:08 pm
Posted on 9/6/17 at 3:08 pm to TigerinATL
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how big or fast would the vehicle need to be to have any effect?
gravy sized?
Posted on 9/6/17 at 3:08 pm to Tyga Woods
We could call Superman and have him blow his super cold breath into it...
Posted on 9/6/17 at 3:09 pm to Chad504boy
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if their wasn't radioactive distribution taking place, i would love to know the actual impact it'd have on the storm itself.
Zero. The hurricane would laugh off the bomb and just keep trucking - the power of the hurricane greatly dwarfs the power of the highest-yield bomb ever detonated.
Posted on 9/6/17 at 3:12 pm to Chad504boy
It doesn't take any energy away. It adds it. If it was a big enough bomb for the hurricane to change anything measurably, it'd just make it stronger. Lots of heat and lots of added updraft to the eye wall.
Like I said, a bomb powerful enough to blow the thing apart would probably be significantly more powerful than what wiped out the dinosaurs.
ETA: I just read that only 0.25% of the energy pulled by a major hurricane is converted to mechanical energy
Like I said, a bomb powerful enough to blow the thing apart would probably be significantly more powerful than what wiped out the dinosaurs.
ETA: I just read that only 0.25% of the energy pulled by a major hurricane is converted to mechanical energy
This post was edited on 9/6/17 at 3:19 pm
Posted on 9/6/17 at 3:23 pm to Chad504boy
If Kim Jong Un launches a nuke at us and it misses us but hits Irma and breaks it up, do we still nuke the piss out of him in retaliation or let him slide on that one?
Posted on 9/6/17 at 3:23 pm to Chad504boy
quote:The main effect would just be spreading nuclear fallout.
Kind of being serious here, there has to be SOME type of effect right of the nuclear explosion with the storm?
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But that's not all, we're just getting started. A hurricane also releases energy through the formation of clouds and rain (it takes energy to evaporate all that water). If we crunch the numbers for an average hurricane (1.5 cm/day of rain, circle radius of 665 km), we get a gigantic amount of energy: 6.0 x 10^14 Watts or 5.2 x 10^19 Joules/day!
This is equivalent to about 200 times the total electrical generating capacity on the planet! NASA says that "during its life cycle a hurricane can expend as much energy as 10,000 nuclear bombs!" And we're just talking about average hurricanes here, not Katrina.
Posted on 9/6/17 at 3:51 pm to Chad504boy
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where at? anything intelligent said?
Here? ON THE OT?!
Posted on 9/6/17 at 4:13 pm to SECretariat
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Of course, significantly altering the surface temperature of a large body of water is going to require many, many ships...
or how about many many nuclear bombs exploded at great depths.
Posted on 9/6/17 at 4:20 pm to Chad504boy
Hurricanes get their strength from warm water and warm fronts as well. It's on that basis as to why you shouldn't do something so stupid like make it a thousand, even a million times hotter and stronger with a goddamn nuclear weapon.
It's like blasting the sun at Superman who gets his powers from the sun. This is what nuking a hurricane would look like.
It's like blasting the sun at Superman who gets his powers from the sun. This is what nuking a hurricane would look like.
Posted on 9/6/17 at 4:26 pm to Chad504boy
If you could tow a bunch of massive icebergs in the hurricanes path that might weaken it.
Posted on 9/6/17 at 4:29 pm to Black n Gold
Posted on 9/6/17 at 4:29 pm to Chad504boy
Typical chad
Posted on 9/6/17 at 4:31 pm to GumboPot
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If you could tow a bunch of massive icebergs in the hurricanes path that might weaken it.
This would work. Cooler water would greatly weaken the storm.
A nuclear bomb is just a full retard thought.
Posted on 9/6/17 at 4:33 pm to LCA131
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The OT can do the math on it.
There better be parenthesis
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