Can't we just nuke the hurricane? Drop a big one right in the eye?

Can't we just nuke the hurricane? Drop a big one right in the eye?

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lol this isn't a video game, the eye isn't a "weak point for massive damage" you idiot.

The nuke needs to roll a critical hit in order to stop it.

I found this on another forum:

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BREAKING, from my friend in DC: Trump has ordered a massive MOAB strike on Hurricane Irma!!!

First of all, let me just get this out of the way: President Trump, you magnificent bastard! MAGA!

Now, for the juicy details ...

"At least a dozen MOABs will be dropped into the eye of the hurricane, with near-simultaneous detonations." However, Mattis and Kelly are supposedly furious about this due to our limited supply of MOABs.

I don't know exactly when this will happen, but my best guess is when Irma reaches the Florida Straits.
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You said that hurricanes aren't like video games but then name a board game? You're a hypocrite, you know that?

You don't comprehend the amount of energy present in a tropical storm cell. For a nuke to be able to disrupt the airflow enough to dissipate the storm, it would have to be so big that it would probably irradiate a quarter of the planet.

A 'cane is an organized structure. Break the structure and it becomes less efficient and declines.

So why wouldn't a nuke be a good idea here? Unless the 'cane just absorbs that energy and gets stronger.

If we drop Michael Moore, pictures of emo sfj fags and the Kardashians into it, it'll become demoralized and lose steam.

Take out Florida AND let Irma spread radiation everywhere
truly the best president

Perfect. Let's load up the B-2s and show that bastard who's boss.

> Unless the 'cane just absorbs that energy and gets stronger.
bingo

you're adding a bunch of heat and evaporating a bunch of sea water. not enough to break it up, but enough to probably bump it up a category.

radioactive hurricane yeehaaa!

MOABs aren't nukes.

Spreading radiation is not a problem. The problem is not radiation but radioactive particles i.e. fallout. And in the middle of a hurricane over open water, there are no particles.

I'm just happy all the hurricanes go to the US and not here.

FAQ: Why don't we just nuke the hurricane:
aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/tcfaq/C5c.html

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If it's enough energy to bump it up a level, it would be enough to disrupt the structure. Remember KE = 1/2 m v^2 and the category is proportional to v.

But you probably just mean to add the incremental energy.

Nigga all you need to stop a hurricane and make it a hurriCANT is some sweet numerals

What the fuck is wrong with you Americans always wanting to nuke everything.

Watch

America is safe from Irma and Katia

Your welcome

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Shitttttt

If singles were safe

Come the fuck on kek this isn't a fucking game

Feels good to be on this side of the Atlantic.

Make a wall of vacuum cleaners, make the hurrikang disappear.

Subject: C5c) Why don't we try to destroy tropical cyclones by nuking them ?
Contributed by Chris Landsea (NHC)
During each hurricane season, there always appear suggestions that one should simply use nuclear weapons to try and destroy the storms. Apart from the fact that this might not even alter the storm, this approach neglects the problem that the released radioactive fallout would fairly quickly move with the tradewinds to affect land areas and cause devastating environmental problems. Needless to say, this is not a good idea.
Now for a more rigorous scientific explanation of why this would not be an effective hurricane modification technique. The main difficulty with using explosives to modify hurricanes is the amount of energy required. A fully developed hurricane can release heat energy at a rate of 5 to 20x1013 watts and converts less than 10% of the heat into the mechanical energy of the wind. The heat release is equivalent to a 10-megaton nuclear bomb exploding every 20 minutes. According to the 1993 World Almanac, the entire human race used energy at a rate of 1013 watts in 1990, a rate less than 20% of the power of a hurricane.
If we think about mechanical energy, the energy at humanity's disposal is closer to the storm's, but the task of focusing even half of the energy on a spot in the middle of a remote ocean would still be formidable. Brute force interference with hurricanes doesn't seem promising.
In addition, an explosive, even a nuclear explosive, produces a shock wave, or pulse of high pressure, that propagates away from the site of the explosion somewhat faster than the speed of sound. Such an event doesn't raise the barometric pressure after the shock has passed because barometric pressure in the atmosphere reflects the weight of the air above the ground. For normal atmospheric pressure, there are about ten metric tons (1000 kilograms per ton) of air bearing down on each square meter of surface. In the strongest hurricanes there are nine.

>in the middle of a hurricane over open water, there are no particles
Except for the millions of gallons of seawater it would flash-boil into a radioactive vapor for the storm to disperse into the atmosphere