Her first name is actually Hadley.
So, I get these crazy ideas, right? What is a hurricane? It's ma nature's way of dispersing energy. What is the fuel of a hurricane? Warm water. So, I came up with an idea, that if money and energy were no object, would probably work to kill a hurricane.
All right, there's this huge, huge plane / dirigible, ok? Completely forgetting the lessons of the Hindenburg, it's bladders are full of hydrogen, which is produced from solar cells cracking water from the atmosphere. In addition to being a huge flying bomb, it also has gigantic compressors, maybe even a nuclear reactor.
Ok, any ways, it's hurricane season. Hurricane Fuck-up-Miami, Florida is on its way to, well, you know its name. The beast floats over it, dropping altitude due to the fact that a huge amount of its hydrogen is being liquified. The beast dumps millions, maybe hundreds of millions, of liquid hydrogen over FUMF, and blammo, Miami's biggest worry is if The Carver will return.
All right, so, does anyone have a trillion dollars to see whether or not my idea could ever happen?
Discordant thought; hurricane seasons are thought to run in roughly thirty or forty year cycles... geuss where we are at?
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.
- President Dwight D. Eisenhower
Friday, March 03, 2006
Mariel Hemingway
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with this administrations commitment to science and to helping people in need, I am SURE you will have NO TROUBLE finding funding for your experiment.
there is one TERRIBLE FLAW in your thinking. in order to truly dissipate a hurricane you'd have to drop the atmospheric pressure inside the eye by about half. the something like 100million cubic feet of air... so... you'd need a derigible roughly the size of the hurricane itself to create said drop and sustain it for a long enough period to actually affect the change. but, that's just my two cents.
If you are talking about the pressure differential between the eye and the bands...
IF THERE IS NO "FUEL" THE DIFFERENTIAL WILL NATURALLY DECAY.
A hurrican is a heat engine. Take away the heat, and the engine collapses.
you are oversimplifying. yes, it is a an engine that is turbo charged by warm water, but the true motivating factor is a low pressure system. it's a pressure machine. and to get going they DO require warm water of around 80degrees farenheit to a depth of about 150feet. so, all over the world there are those water conditions, but it's when the low pressure zone builds itself into a tropical wave of low pressure that it becomes a hurricane. you could freeze the water and it would still be hurricane, it would just slowly loose strength. i mean, shit, newfoundland has been hit by hurricanes before. and you don't get much colder water than around the northeast coast of north america. so, while heat gives it it's strength, low pressure is the deciding factor on whether or not it keeps going. i mean, popeye without spinach is still popeye. blowing up his spinach only gets rid of the spinach. you need a bullet to his head to bring the salty bastard down.
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