Tornado Buster Missile.. Can a Tornado be Disrupted? [VANITY}

http://www.freerepublic.com ^ | May 20, 2013 | GeorgeWashingtonsGhost

[GeorgeWashingtonsGhost]

Why hasn't a tornado buster missile or bomb been developed or at least tried? I realize that tornadoes are large and quick moving, but if there's enough time to prepare for one there should be enough time to attempt to stop one.

Could a shock wave or some sort of electrical pulse wave from a strategically placed missile/bomb launched from a fighter jet stop a tornado, or perhaps disrupt its balance successfully enough to stop it's devastation on the ground?

[Ray76]

I think this a bad idea. Atmospheric energy must be released; there would be unforeseen consequences.

[GeorgeWashingtonsGhost]

Projectiles that pin-wheel.. Hmmmm.. You’re onto something.

[Norm Lenhart]

Like bigger tornadoes.

[Norm Lenhart]

You have to disrupt the upper atmosphere, not the funnel. Otherwise it reforms. That is hundreds of miles of sky, thousands of feet ‘deep’.

[lacrew]

1) Hard to predict location more than 15 minutes ahead of time

2) The energy in the thunderstorm, and its physical size, are beyond comprehension. These things are 50,000 feet tall.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

If I remember Jules Verne wrote a si-fi novel in which they destroyed waterspouts with canon fire.

I don’t remember if it was THE MASTER OF THE WORLD or ROBUR THE CONQUEROR, or a different novel.

[Bubba_Leroy]

We cannot stop one little tornado with a nuclear bomb, but we can change the entire world’s climate by driving around too much in our cars.

[Brad from Tennessee]

Website below has ideas on tornado resistant houses:

http://www.tornadoproofhouses.com/

[dhs12345]

And maybe something that doesn’t fly very efficiently, too but would have to survive the beating. And the energy would have to go somewhere. Converted to heat from friction and wind resistance?

A ton of energy though.

[Uncle Miltie]

I’ve been around tornadoes.

Unless you’re willing to go nuclear, I’m sure there is not enough energy to disrupt one.

I’ll bet they have megatons of energy.

[Nifster]

Work was done at NASA Ames on the subject of disrupting twisters back in the 1970s.....takes a lot of energy to disrupt a single touch down when you have multiple outbreaks it doesn’t work. Plus the damage by effort to eliminate the tornado is most likely worse than the tornado it self

[Durbin]

I’m kind of on the lines of not trying to alter mother nature.

[Vendome]

that’s why I ended my response with the requisite “/s”

[cripplecreek]

Here is a good daily global view. (Launch worldview)

http://earthdata.nasa.gov/data/near-real-time-data/visualization/worldview

[Lurkina.n.Learnin]

If I lived there I would at least have a 20 ft shipping container buried,

[kaehurowing]

In the 1800s and before, sailing ships used to fire cannonballs at waterspouts in the hope of disrupting them before the got close enough to do damage. Waterspouts are generally much weaker and smaller than a full-on tornado though. And modern day analyses seem to conclude that such a tactic would not have worked in any event.

[dhs12345]

Lol. Ya.

[cripplecreek]

In the 1800s and before, sailing ships used to fire cannonballs at waterspouts in the hope of disrupting them before the got close enough to do damage. Waterspouts are generally much weaker and smaller than a full-on tornado though. And modern day analyses seem to conclude that such a tactic would not have worked in any event.

But the sailors were bored and full of grog. Plus it was a lot more fun than the buggery.

[buffaloguy]

You do not want to add energy to a tornado. The twister is just the part that you can see.

[zencycler]

If it can't be easily disrupted, how about finding a way to start it earlier - when the equalization needed would be less intense and/or when the zones pass over a less populated area.

.But if you really want to stop it in its tracks, then perhaps flying overhead and dropping a picture of Helen Thomas into the vortex would do the trick.