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Has Man Found a Way to Stop Storms and Hurricanes?

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Powder Dries Up Fla. Thunderstorms

WEST PALM BEACH (Think they know what this: -----> 0 means yet?? 😉 ), Fla. (AP) - A powder touted as a potential way to weaken hurricanes sucked the moisture out of a thunderstorm Thursday in its latest test.

An airplane dropped $40,000 worth of the Dyn-O-Gel granules into a cloud 10 miles offshore. A television station's weather radar confirmed the cloud then lost moisture.

``The people in the tower visually confirmed that there was a tall buildup and the next moment it was gone,'' said Kevin Sullivan, control tower supervisor at the Palm Beach International Airport.

The granules, made by a company called Dyn-O-Mat, fell into the ocean as a gel-like substance that dissolves in salt water.

Company chief executive Peter Cordani said he hopes to sell the product to the federal government after more tests. The product is dropped in a line from the outer portion of the hurricane to its eye. The company contends that by dropping moisture out of the swirling mass, the storm is weakened.

The company said a granule absorbs 2,000 times its weight in water.

Hugh Willoughby, hurricane research director at the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in Miami, was skeptical that the powder could reduce a hurricane's strength by more than a few mph in wind speed.

``It might be that this stuff would be great for making it rain,'' he said Wednesday.

On the Net: http://www.dynomat.com/index.shtml
 
LOL....There's no way that that stuff would work to stop a hurricane. First, the scale of a hurricane is so large compared to the space a cropduster (which was used to distribute the 'miracle gel') that covering the whole hurricane would be nearly impossible.
Second, I don't care how many droplets you disperse into the hurricane, you're not going to absorb enough moisture to dissipate the hurricane. Doing this would probably strengthen the hurricane.
This is a nice promo for this guy's 'as seen on TV' product
 
What if the plane crashed into the ocean on the way to the hurricane? Would the magic crystals suck up the whole ocean?
 
Even better. How about flying a plane full of Jello powder over the thing and dumping it? Then you'd get one huge glob of cherry or lime dropping out of the sky.
 


<< What if the plane crashed into the ocean on the way to the hurricane? Would the magic crystals suck up the whole ocean? >>



LOL...

&quot;Could you imagine how much water would be in the ocean if there weren't any sponges?&quot;

-Richard Wright


(Or something along those lines...)
 
What is the name of the fairy tale where an old guy can hold the whole ocean in his mouth while his kid goes out and gathers up fish?
 


<< You know the end of the world is near when man begins to control nature. >>

We've been controlling nature for years. Creating dams is the only example I can think of right now, but nature has been our bitch for quite some time, and will continue to be so, end of the world or not.
 


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<< You know the end of the world is near when man begins to control nature. >>

We've been controlling nature for years. Creating dams is the only example I can think of right now, but nature has been our bitch for quite some time, and will continue to be so, end of the world or not. >>


Earthquakes, Tornado's, Volcano's. You sir, are nature's bitch.
 
Weather modification has been around since the 1940's....Seeding clouds with silver iodide has been shown to increase precipitation by 10%....Though the field of weather modification has been largely discredited since the 1980's
 


<< Even better. How about flying a plane full of Jello powder over the thing and dumping it? Then you'd get one huge glob of cherry or lime dropping out of the sky. >>

LMAO!!!!!
 


<< What if the plane crashed into the ocean on the way to the hurricane? Would the magic crystals suck up the whole ocean? >>



YES! Don't you see?!


&quot;D
 
launch a missle at the storm and blow it up?
HA
A hurricane has something like 10x the power of a modern nuclear bomb (most likely more, I can't remembe the exact ammount)!

The other way I've heard they can stop hurricanes is by dumping sh!tloads of oil in the water. It sits on the surface and prevents water from evaporating and reaching the storm, and since that water is where it gets its energy from, it would fizzle out and die. But dumping a couple million gallons of oil into the ocean would cause its own problems.
 


<< Weather modification has been around since the 1940's....Seeding clouds with silver iodide has been shown to increase precipitation by 10%....Though the field of weather modification has been largely discredited since the 1980's >>



Yep, the public outcry was overwhelming. Kind of like the genetic engineering we're doing now, we have a habit of playing around with things that we don't fully understand, only later to experience the consequences.
 


<< Even better. How about flying a plane full of Jello powder over the thing and dumping it? Then you'd get one huge glob of cherry or lime dropping out of the sky. >>

And we could solve world hunger! Jello for everyone!
 


<< &quot;Could you imagine how much water would be in the ocean if there weren't any sponges?&quot;

-Richard Wright

(Or something along those lines...) >>


Hmmm, sounds more like Steven Wright (the comedian) than Richard Wright (the author of Black Boy and Native Son).

😉
 


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<< i wonder what they'll do to control earthquakes >>

maybe really super glue >>



More like super lube. You don't want to stop plate movement, just keep it steady and don't let it jerk.
 
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