The Hurricane Stopper?

[Loring]

lol intarweb doctorate.

[kenl01]

What a nut ! LOL


You can't stop nature, no matter what we try. Even if that were possible, it would be big mistake to mess with it..........

I often wonder how much more of my tax money is being wasted on such ridiculous projects.....

[BocaGirl]

What a nut ! LOL


You can't stop nature, no matter what we try. Even if that were possible, it would be big mistake to mess with it..........

I often wonder how much more of my tax money is being wasted on such ridiculous projects.....

Personally, I don't see how the product mentioned in this thread is going to stop a hurricane. And of course I recognize the powerful and important force the role these storms have on our planet.

But somewhere along the line, somewhere, somehow, someone is going to figure out how to stop them. Or at least make them more manageable or controllable. It might not be in my lifetime or in yours, but it will happen.

For all the people who say you can't stop nature, or you shouldn't mess with Mother Nature, we're doing it already. We cure diseases, we use genetics to alter crops.......I'll bet the fact that someone "messed with nature" has changed the lives of each person on this board. Most of us in a good way.

My father's brother contracted polio years back when he was a child. Thousands of school age children got polio every year and there was nothing anyone could do to stop the disease. He died in a contraption called an iron lung. Now there's a vaccine for polio - hardly anyone worries about it anymore. Same with chicken pox, measles, mumps.

That's not the same as stopping a hurricane, but it's "messing with nature" all the same. Controlling the weather is just one more scientific frontier. Sooner or later, that frontier will be breached too.

Just something to think about.

BocaGirl
Barbara

[kenl01]

What a nut ! LOL


You can't stop nature, no matter what we try. Even if that were possible, it would be big mistake to mess with it..........

I often wonder how much more of my tax money is being wasted on such ridiculous projects.....

But somewhere along the line, somewhere, somehow, someone is going to figure out how to stop them. Or at least make them more manageable or controllable. It might not be in my lifetime or in yours, but it will happen.

BocaGirl
Barbara

Still a bit far fetched even trying that idea. Doing something like that will seriously backfire in a deadly manner elsewhere. I wouldn't even pay attention to this stuff at all. I believe all that when I see it. Hurricanes in the past have been modified since the 60's with Project Stormfury and maybe even other strange experiments. Even if there's a deliberate modification going on during certain planned scientific events, the result is likely pretty insignificant and microscopic. I really wouldn't put much stake into these experiments (whether ice crystals or microwave energy is being directed towards the eye) unless I see huge results, such as weakening from a hurricane to depression status before landfall with every single storm for many years.

Then I would agree something is working............

[gatorcane]

What a nut ! LOL


You can't stop nature, no matter what we try. Even if that were possible, it would be big mistake to mess with it..........

I often wonder how much more of my tax money is being wasted on such ridiculous projects.....

Personally, I don't see how the product mentioned in this thread is going to stop a hurricane. And of course I recognize the powerful and important force the role these storms have on our planet.

But somewhere along the line, somewhere, somehow, someone is going to figure out how to stop them. Or at least make them more manageable or controllable. It might not be in my lifetime or in yours, but it will happen.

For all the people who say you can't stop nature, or you shouldn't mess with Mother Nature, we're doing it already. We cure diseases, we use genetics to alter crops.......I'll bet the fact that someone "messed with nature" has changed the lives of each person on this board. Most of us in a good way.

My father's brother contracted polio years back when he was a child. Thousands of school age children got polio every year and there was nothing anyone could do to stop the disease. He died in a contraption called an iron lung. Now there's a vaccine for polio - hardly anyone worries about it anymore. Same with chicken pox, measles, mumps.

That's not the same as stopping a hurricane, but it's "messing with nature" all the same. Controlling the weather is just one more scientific frontier. Sooner or later, that frontier will be breached too.

Just something to think about.

BocaGirl
Barbara

Barbara I don't agree with you at all. Stopping a hurricane and curing Polio have only a nominal relationship with mother nature - give me an example of a weather phenomenon that man can stop and I bet you can't give me any examples. We can't even stop an afternoon severe storm from wreaking havok here in South Florida. Hurricanes cannot, will not, and should not be stopped. Period.

One other thing to think about. For those that don't know, the role of a hurricane is to transport excessive heat from the tropics north towards the poles. Even if we found some way to stop them hypothetically speaking, it would mean there would be so much excessive heat that would build up in the tropics that successive hurricanes would have so much energy that we could not stop them anyway.

[jasons2k]

Hurricanes serve a purpose in nature. They evacuate heat from the tropics. It's a natural cyce in which dire consequences would result from changing it. They are an unfortunate, necessary evil.

Curing diseases within the human body is different for three reasons. 1) The body already has natural antibodies that fight off the vast majority of bacteria/viruses/etc. anyway. So by fighting a disease or infection with medicine, in a way it's just reinforcing something that already occurs in nature. 2) Helping the human body is something that occurs on the micro, not macro, scale. Saving a human life is not something that affects the whole cycle of nature. Although some would argue that by doing so, the result may be a severe overpopulation problem in the future. 3) regardless of what we accomplish in medice, Mother Nature still ultimately wins. We all die someday, but in my belief, God made it that way for a purpose.