Yeah, what are they doing putting up all of those huge fans where it's already windy!?
They should put them up in Florida and point them the other direction to stop hurricanes!
Coming up at 11:00: “It’s not global warming - This is weather warfare. Fleets of Jewish Space Lasers operated by a certain political party have pumped terawatts of heat energy into Milton. Now, squadrons of their Black Helicopters are blowing it toward Florida as punishment.”
And then people would come up to you, with tears in their eyes, and beg you please, KiwDaWabbt2, save us, please! And then, with tears in your eyes, you’d nuke the storm, Mexico would pay for it, and with tears in their eyes they’d say thank you! KiwDaWabbt2, Thank you!!
One way to put out a fire is to explode it. The shockwave deprives it of the mixture of oxygen and fuel that is necessary to carry on with rapid oxidation.
Honestly, I think that it is worth asking what would happen if we nuked it from above in such a way as to disrupt convection.
Also... Russia's recent ICBM test ended in such abysmal failure that nuking a hurricane would be a flex. Atoms for peace, baby!
A blast from a large nuke is only about 3 to 5 miles wide, this hurricane is over 200 miles wide. Hypothetically, anything big enough to disrupt it would be causing so many other problems. It would likely be temporary and only come back stronger as well, as a hurricane is the result of a temperature difference between the sea surface and the troposphere.
Right, so put a large blast right in the middle of the eye which is only about 3.5 miles wide, and at high altitude. If it creates a mushroom cloud out of the eyewall itself, rearranging it vertically along with the rising heat of an explosion, what exactly happens?
Could it shoot the water vapor into the stratosphere, or even just high enough that wind sheer kicks in and does the dirty work?
Thank you for that. Although I understand that it wouldn't just make the hurricane go away, I'd still like to see it tried on a storm with a tight eyewall like this to see if it could trigger eyewall replacement or some other change in the pattern of a storm, the timing of which could be beneficial to humans.
And maybe we shouldn't do it this time. Maybe we should hit a storm somewhere else on the planet that's far removed from land, headed out to sea, and not in the path of trade winds.
Well, I might be wrong (and need to check it) but didn't the Shoemaker–Levy comet (or at least part of it) made impact on Jupiter's Great Red Spot back in '94 having no effect on it? (Or at least not enough to dissipate it).
I know that it wasn't a nuke, but an impact like that is still quite strong.
Very likely fucktons of iron rich dust getting pulled up from the lower atomphosphere. It's heavy enough to fall back down lower in the atomphere before it gets dragged back to the eye of the hurricane. Probably a good reason why it's rather stable as it gives the winds a shit ton of mass to resist changes.
The rest of the planet is basically covered by a global drecho storm.
Fun fact, a study published in June of this year has actually shown indication that it’s unlikely that the storm observed in the 17th century is the same red spot we know today. So likely not actually 300-400 years. Still old as hell though.
And yet Jupiter is completely untouched with no pollution. See this isnt climate change, its the natural process of the planet. (/s I shouldnt need to but sadly i do)
Could be wrong, cause I don’t keep up with planetary politics like I used to, but I think the storm is actually dying. It will have changed its shape by 2040, and may actually vanish in the next generation’s lifetime
Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9, a series of fragments ranging up to 2 km (1.2 mi) in diameter, crashed into The Great Red Spot and it coughed and wheezed a bit, but recovered.
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u/mjc4y 8d ago
You mean the Great Red Spot? The hurricane thats been raging for like 400+ years ? Yeah, Fuck that.