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Cookiely
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Does anyone have any links on possible experiments done to "destroy" or change the course of hurricanes?
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http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/tcfaq/C5d.html
Dyn-O-Gel... the physics just aren't there for being able to destry or even redirect hurricanes. Too much energy invested.
Dyn-O-Gel... the physics just aren't there for being able to destry or even redirect hurricanes. Too much energy invested.
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HAHA Not laughing at the first post...a good question..Some of the replys are funny though 
My first thought on this is I have never heard anyone being able to change a single thunderstorm cell. Thus changing a hurricane in my book is not possible. Though many things have been considered not possible..who would of thought 200 years ago that we would fly to the moon...walk on it and send machines to Mars and other planets? Never know maybe 500 years from now we will be able to!
My first thought on this is I have never heard anyone being able to change a single thunderstorm cell. Thus changing a hurricane in my book is not possible. Though many things have been considered not possible..who would of thought 200 years ago that we would fly to the moon...walk on it and send machines to Mars and other planets? Never know maybe 500 years from now we will be able to!
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Believe it or not, there was an actual government program carried out in the 60's and 70's in an attempt to modify hurricanes by seeding some of the outer bands. This was Project Stormfury. Here's a link:
http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/hrd_sub/sfury.html
As the web page shows, the basic idea was to try to enhance the convection in some of the outer bands of a hurricane in an effort to "choke off" the inflow into the eyewall. The hope was that the eyewall would weaken and the outer bands would become the new dominant eyewall. Since the new eyewall would have a much larger radius and be already in a region of weaker winds, the hope was that this would weaken the system significantly. Results were, not surprisingly, inconclusive, and virtually no one considers such an undertaking to have any chance of success anymore.
http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/hrd_sub/sfury.html
As the web page shows, the basic idea was to try to enhance the convection in some of the outer bands of a hurricane in an effort to "choke off" the inflow into the eyewall. The hope was that the eyewall would weaken and the outer bands would become the new dominant eyewall. Since the new eyewall would have a much larger radius and be already in a region of weaker winds, the hope was that this would weaken the system significantly. Results were, not surprisingly, inconclusive, and virtually no one considers such an undertaking to have any chance of success anymore.
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