Trump asks at briefing if he can nuke hurricanes to stop them (Not The Onion)

[theeedude]

https://thehill.com/homenews/admini...urricanes-to-stop-them-from-hitting-us-report

"They start forming off the coast of Africa, as they're moving across the Atlantic, we drop a bomb inside the eye of the hurricane and it disrupts it. Why can't we do that?" the source added, paraphrasing the president's remarks.
The source told Axios that the briefer responded with something to the effect of "Sir, we'll look into that."

It's better to stay quiet and be thought of as a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.

 

[snoopy7548]

I mean, on the one hand he's an idiot, and on the other he's a fucking moron.

 

[Sunburn74]

..... not sure what to say. There are so many obvious problems with discharging nukes to try and stop hurricanes that I don't even know where to start.

 

[balloonshark]

It's frightening that people are actually proud to have voted for and still support this human.

 

[Moonbeam]

It should be fine if the hurricane is heading into Trump land. They deserve that kind of rescue.

Just kidding.

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

..... not sure what to say. There are so many obvious problems with discharging nukes to try and stop hurricanes that I don't even know where to start.

The greatest problem is that there aren't enough bombs to do that. It would involve changing the entire planetary weather system in one stroke.

 

[IronWing]

The greatest problem is that there aren't enough bombs to do that. It would involve changing the entire planetary weather system in one stroke.

We'll just have to build more.

 

[NostaSeronx]

If nothing else, at least we can trust Trump in solving the overpopulation problem.

 

[Puffnstuff]

I mean, on the one hand he's an idiot, and on the other he's a fucking moron.

Rex Tillerson was right!

 

[trenchfoot]

If nothing else, at least we can trust Trump in solving the overpopulation problem.

He's already working on that with his ripping the guts out of the EPA. I'm really surprised he hasn't taken to undoing all the work it took to convince people that smoking cigarettes causes cancer yet. You know, to help out those poor distressed mega-wealthy corporate owned tobacco growers in the south.

I'm sure most of his supporters would start smoking their lungs into black coal sacs if he asked them to.

 

[DrDoug]

This is believable from him. Simple mind yields simple solutions because everything is simple. Someone ought to tell him that it's the wind farms that stir up hurricanes just to see him go off again on windmills.

His solution would be to nuke the wind farms.

 

[uallas5]

This is believable from him. Simple mind yields simple solutions because everything is simple. Someone ought to tell him that it's the wind farms that stir up hurricanes just to see him go off again on windmills.

His solution would be to nuke the wind farms.

Even better, someone should tell him that wind farms help with hurricanes cause, ya know, they use up all the wind.

 

[K1052]

Unfit for office. Dangerously so.

 

[brycejones]

Even better, someone should tell him that wind farms help with hurricanes cause, ya know, they use up all the wind.

No, no, no. Tell him we can run the wind turbines in reverse like giant fans and blow the hurricanes away.

 

[VRAMdemon]

He's only planning on nuking a few of them. The rest will get the message...

 

[Meghan54]

Y'all do know that this isn't the first time someone's proposed just this course of action....probably many, many times given that NOAA has a web page devoted to addressing just this question:

Subject: C5c) Why don't we try to destroy tropical cyclones by nuking them ?
https://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/tcfaq/C5c.html

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

Slap a tariff on em, that'll learn em.

 

[DrDoug]

No, no, no. Tell him we can run the wind turbines in reverse like giant fans and blow the hurricanes away.

Even better... one set of fans running backwards to suck up the hurricanes, and a second set behind the first that points up so we can send the hurricanes into space.

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

Build a wall. Africa will pay for it.

 

[Puffnstuff]

Build a wall. Africa will pay for it.

I thought I heard a murmur that space aliens would foot the bill.

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

I thought I heard a murmur that space aliens would foot the bill.

Our Space Marines are on it.

 

[BoomerD]

I read a sci-fi novel maybe 30-40 years ago in which that actually worked for tornadoes...DON'T remember if they were nukes or not.
I can't believe King Donnie the Dotard actually read a book...

 

[Paratus]

Just so folks understand the relative amounts of energy involved here.

• Atomic Bomb (Hiroshima): 6.3x10^13 joules of energy
• Tsar Bomba (largest bomb ever detonated): 2.4x10^17 joules
• Average Hurricane - Rain formation: 5.2x10^19joules/day + 1.2x10^17joules/day of wind kinetic energy.
• Increase in Ocean Heat Content 0-2000m over the last 50 years from global warming: 3.4x10^23joules.

So your average hurricane is putting out the equivalent of about 10 A-bombs a second or 1 Tsar Bomba every 6.5-7.0 minutes.

The increase in ocean heat could provide enough energy for an extra hurricane every day for 18 years. (Or the equivalent of detonating 3+ Tsar Bombas per hour or 205 A-Bombs per minute for 50 years).

(Folks like @SlowSpyder don’t believe that amount of energy will ever make any change whatsoever in the environment because Al Gore is a wizard).

 

[Sunburn74]

Just so folks understand the relative amounts of energy involved here.

• Atomic Bomb (Hiroshima): 6.3x10^13 joules of energy
• Tsar Bomba (largest bomb ever detonated): 2.4x10^17 joules
• Average Hurricane - Rain formation: 5.2x10^19joules/day + 1.2x10^17joules/day of wind kinetic energy.
• Increase in Ocean Heat Content 0-2000m over the last 50 years from global warming: 3.4x10^23joules.

So your average hurricane is putting out the equivalent of about 10 A-bombs a second or 1 Tsar Bomba every 6.5-7.0 minutes.

The increase in ocean heat could provide enough energy for an extra hurricane every day for 18 years. (Or the equivalent of detonating 3+ Tsar Bombas per hour or 205 A-Bombs per minute for 50 years).

(Folks like @SlowSpyder don’t believe that amount of energy will ever make any change whatsoever in the environment because Al Gore is a wizard).

At minimum, discharging nukes over hurricanes repeatedly would cause severe ecological damage, spread radioactive fallout throughout the world through air and water contamination, and potentially create tsunamis and mass flooding in off target coastal areas and islands. I'm not even going to get into the geo-political crap storm it would create (we'd probably be kicked out of NATO and every trade and security agreement we are in today and would essentially release the political shackles on nuclear proliferation throughout the world, which means all it takes is one bad leader or one turncoat banana republic general or renegade terrorist group somewhere with a taste for vengeance to create armageddon).

 

[IronWing]

At minimum, discharging nukes over hurricanes repeatedly would cause severe ecological damage, spread radioactive fallout throughout the world through air and water contamination, and potentially create tsunamis and mass flooding in off target coastal areas and islands. I'm not even going to get into the geo-political crap storm it would create (we'd probably be kicked out of NATO and every trade and security agreement we are in today and would essentially release the political shackles on nuclear proliferation throughout the world, which means all it takes is one bad leader or one turncoat banana republic general or renegade terrorist group somewhere with a taste for vengeance to create armageddon).

Yeah but it would look freakin' awesome! Imagine the Castle Bravo poster inside a hurricane.