What would Happen??

[flxnimprtmscl]

Originally posted by: Vich

Originally posted by: Hayabusa Rider
What would happen is that people would still ask this friggin question whenever a hurricane was around.

An asteroid a mile wide MIGHT disrupt one if it collided with the earth at 30 miles a second.

BTW, that's a much bigger BOOM! than a nuke.

no sh1t and alot scarrier

Says you. I've been waiting for one for years.

 

[Biggerhammer]

I would think that it would tend to disrupt the hurricane, at least temporarily, by derailing the circular motion at the center. Even if it did stop the hurricane, it'd be like popping your zits with a .44 magnum- you get to trade tempoary destruction for a long half-life- but I would expect it to disrupt the hurricane and perhaps change it back to a tropical depression (which might respawn into another hurricane- I don't know all that much about meteorology, just one long dull class in college)

 

[Mickey Eye]

Originally posted by: Nitemare

Originally posted by: godmare

Originally posted by: xSauronx
radiation everywhere the storm went afterwards?

lol, but I actually expect there wouldn't be a lot of storm left....

That's like throwing a baby in front of a speeding train to stop it....

Only thing it would do is spread radioactivity wherever it went

As opposed to spreading bits of baby wherever it went.

 

[TStep]

a technical explaination

 

[Biggerhammer]

Originally posted by: TStep
a technical explaination

Bravo for Tstep and Google!

 

[CtK]

if heat is powering the hurricane and makes it stronger cant we just throw a lot of liguid nitrogen or something in the water to weaken it??

 

[CraigRT]

Originally posted by: knyghtbyte
like Bush is dumb enough to nuke Rita.....

I think he's dumb enough to do anything, it's the other not so dumb people that keep him in line.

 

[Mill]

Originally posted by: knyghtbyte
hmm..that is an interesting thought, is the power of a nuke enough?

after all, when you see how big an area a hurrican covers, would the nuke be able to generate enough wavefront to disrupt it completely?

personally, i reckon it couldnt stop the largest hurricanes......but possibly the smaller ones.....

mebbe im wrong...

who knows......who cares...like Bush is dumb enough to nuke Rita.....

mebbe i shouldnt say that...lol

Why would a wavefront disrupt a hurricane?

 

[Mill]

Originally posted by: CraigRT

Originally posted by: knyghtbyte
like Bush is dumb enough to nuke Rita.....

I think he's dumb enough to do anything, it's the other not so dumb people that keep him in line.

Funny, Canadians and Brits asking why we don't "nuke" a hurricane -- yet calling our President dumb. POT KETTLE.

 

[AdamSnow]

Originally posted by: FoBoT
"clouds are water vapor"


your ideas intrigue me and i would like to subscribe to your newsletter, ryan

Same here :laugh:

 

[HardcoreRobot]

a cat 5 hurricanE disperses the equivalent energy of a 10 megaton nuke every 20 minutes

 

[eakers]

u crazy americans, always wanting to blow everything up.

 

[43st]

Originally posted by: eakers
u crazy americans, always wanting to blow everything up.

Haven't you heard? It's how we solve the world's problems!

 

[AccruedExpenditure]

According to the 1993 World Almanac, the entire human race used energy at a rate of 10^13 watts in 1990, a rate less than 20% of the power of a hurricane.

 

[txrandom]

Someone called into to this hurricane expert on my local tv station Wed night and asked why we couldn't just nuke the hurricane.

 

[hevnsnt]

I think we should make a giant ducted fan turbine that takes the air in and forces it back on itself, therefore killing the spinning motion. And then when we are done with the turbine we can nuke it just for fun.

 

[casper114]

I wouldn't think it would effect it, It might add to the debree that is being thrown around by the hurricane, but really all you would do is kick up some sand, water, and maybe pollute some air and water.

 

[Ipno]

I think we should build better levees.

 

[Rubycon]

Imagine chasing a train and grabbing on the rail of the caboose using your feet to slow down the train. That won't do sh!t. Ditto for a nuke in a cane. It's a silly idea and must come to an end now. Even Rush on EIB net is talking about this.

 

[knyghtbyte]

Originally posted by: Mill

Originally posted by: knyghtbyte
hmm..that is an interesting thought, is the power of a nuke enough?

after all, when you see how big an area a hurrican covers, would the nuke be able to generate enough wavefront to disrupt it completely?

personally, i reckon it couldnt stop the largest hurricanes......but possibly the smaller ones.....

mebbe im wrong...

who knows......who cares...like Bush is dumb enough to nuke Rita.....

mebbe i shouldnt say that...lol

Why would a wavefront disrupt a hurricane?

sorry, by wavefront i meant the pressurewave from the explosion, not a tsunami type wave..........and just in case you need it explaining further, i mean that the sheer pressure generated by the blast could be enough to disrupt the circular flow of the hurrican enough to disband it.......

oh and as for calling your head honcho dumb.......er, the guy makes up words on the spot, on a regular basis......need any more?....lol

oh and i havnt asked why dont you nuke the hurricane, i was commenting on an already raised subject....bleah....

love forums

 

[Gooberlx2]

Originally posted by: computeerrgghh
Well, I looked on Wikipedia and interestingly enough, a hurricane is powered by the heat of condensation of water vapor. So the shockwave wouldn't effect the water vapor in the air (after all vaporize = to convert to vapor and you can not make vapor a vapor because it is already a vapor). But the shockwave would vaporize water particles. The particles could condensate again and then actually strengthen the hurricane or become scattered and weaken it. Granted, I am not a meteorologist so what I say might be totally wrong.

Along those lines, hurricanes gain energy via heat/warm ocean water.....perhaps introducing even more heat (on a nuclear scale) to a hurricane would be a horrible idea.

Maybe it'd turn Rita into the next "great big global storm" ala Jupiter's eye.....though Jupiter's eye alone is like 10x the size of earth.

 

[ruffilb]

You'd get a radioactive hurricane.

 

[So]

Originally posted by: Auryg

Originally posted by: FoBoT
aside from making it a "dirty hurricane/radiological nightmare" , nothing

the power of a fusion bomb compared to a hurricane is nothing

Fission. Fission.

And like I said in the other thread...a small thunderstorm has the power of about 40 1950 era nukes. Hurricane? Dun even think about it.

Not Fission. FUSION.

Fission bombs are small potatos compared to a Fusion bomb (also known as a Hydrogen Bomb)

 

[SVT Cobra]

Originally posted by: FoBoT
aside from making it a "dirty hurricane/radiological nightmare" , nothing

the power of a fusion bomb compared to a hurricane is nothing

 

[jjzelinski]

Originally posted by: Nitemare

Originally posted by: godmare

Originally posted by: xSauronx
radiation everywhere the storm went afterwards?

lol, but I actually expect there wouldn't be a lot of storm left....

That's like throwing a baby in front of a speeding train to stop it....

Only thing it would do is spread radioactivity wherever it went

LOL!! Somehow that was funny as al fvck