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Lucien: 1 year ago

Would it be possible to stop a hurricane by using a bomb to scatter the clouds?

Given how much destruction they cause, why hasn't the government attempted this? Seems to me it'd likely be cheaper and certainly safer than cleaning up the mess afterword.

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cookieroma: 1 year ago via iPhone

Why? Let's see, if it worked the population would be safe from the storm but then again they would be in the path of a BOMB!!!!

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stefan.leung: 1 year ago

a hurricane easily posses more than 1mil atomic bomb energy, how many nuclear bomb your wanna throw? and you escape the hurricane but then nuclear disaster....

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Fitzwilliam: 1 year ago

No never

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emilylovesu: 1 year ago via iPhone

Probobly not

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stonebrla: 1 year ago via iPhone

Most hurricanes develop over water, so the other respondents' fears of population exposure are, for the most part, unfounded. And a bomb can be exploded in mid-air, not necessarily on contact with land or water (and does not necessarily mean that a nuclear bomb would be the explosive of choice). I'm not an expert on the use of bombs to disrupt weather patterns, but I have lived though several major hurricanes (Camille, Andrew, Katrina, Gustav, Rita, Ike, to name a few).

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Lucien: 1 year ago

My thoughts exactly. Using a bomb in the air so that the shock-wave could scatter the clouds. I was born not long after Hugo hit Virginia and grew up really poor because of it (parent's working on a mortgage for the first 12 years of my life). It does seem like it's something worth attempting.

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stonebrla: 1 year ago via iPhone

There is nothing sad about it. You couldn't meet anyone more anti-war, anti-ballistics than I. I think the point of the question is valid: whether explosives can be used in a preventative capacity. I'm sure no one would authorize mass explosives if human lives would be endangered. Talk about a political and/or P.R. nightmare.

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chclark: 1 year ago via iPhone

The last time scientists tried to destroy a hurricane they made it worst. I think it was Betsy. They tried seeding the clouds to make it drop the water before it got on land. They turned it into a category 5 by doing that. I think scientists should study and warn people but actually leave the storms themselves alone and quit trying to play God.

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brimy: 1 year ago | Last edited at 12:39PM on 7/1/2011

Their is research right now into dropping a chemical into storms to essentially "dry them up".

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