Sounds like we just need to mass produce a zillion plastic versions of these:
Posted on 05/20/2013 2:45:28 PM PDT by 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?
If they fired a sailor at the waterspout it might have been more effective. At least it’s worth a try.
That you should read up and educate yourself on these types of weather systems?
Maybe this is a crazy idea (yes it is) but after today's massive, devastating tornado in Oklahoma it's worthy of consideration.
No, no it’s not. You would be better to look into donating money to assist the people of Moore OK than you would fantasizing about launching missile/bomb or EMP’s.
While nature abhors a vacuum, I’m certain nature is indifferent to Helen Thomas. When I said Kansas, I meant all of it; thousands of square miles. The sun is heating the Earth unequally. (The Obama administration has complained bitterly about the inequality of heating, but has no connections with God. The Pope refused to discuss it with Obama.) So the area across which you’d have to equalize the pressure is HUGE...monumental...GIGANTIC. The only thing approaching this scale is the National Debt; the equalization of which will produce a different sort of storm. Any affects we humans could introduce would be, necessarily, human in scale. The area we’re talking about is national in scale.
The political solutions are: Obama didn’t know about the pressure difference until he read about it in the paper, just like you. The pressure difference happened a long time ago, what difference now does it make? It’s Bush’s fault.
Just listening to TWC reporting on Moore. They said the school, which looks pretty flimsy built had “cinderblock hallways, which were very strong”. BS, cinderblocks are strong for load bearing, but they are relatively easy to knock over.
In the Caribbean where they know hurricanes they build of poured concrete walls and ceilings, which withstand any wind.
These Taj Mahal schools are rarely built strong, just pretty for taxpayers to see where their money went.
At least the hallways in Tornado Alley schools should be made of reinforced concrete that will protect the students and teachers.
No.
But people don’t build these because they know John Q. Taxpayer will rebuild their houses for them. Moral hazard.
When a storm cell wants to make a tornado, it makes a tornado. If you were able to destroy the tornado, the storm cell would immediately remake the tornado. If you want to permanently destroy a tornado, you would have to destroy the storm cell.
The problem is...
When a front wants to make a storm cell, it makes a storm cell...
On reconsideration: Nature has intervened to protect Helen Thomas from rape, conversation and snuggles.
Imagine your tornado was instead an iceberg. The iceberg is formed due to the failure of global warming to keep the ice from melting. If you were to modify the USS Missouri with a huge, spring-loaded Samurai sword so that it could, in one swipe, knock the head off the iceberg, what would happen? It would simply bob up again. The same is true about anything you do to a tornado. The cause of the iceberg is the huge cold zone at the poles, which will continue to produce icebergs. The cause of the tornado is the huge imbalance in pressure (heat) that is spread across hundreds of miles. The tornado, like the iceberg, is a local manifestation of a global phenomenon. Disrupting, or even destroying one iceberg or one tornado does nothing to remedy the global situation that produced them.
An easier solution...
Don’t put any houses and mobile home parks in their path, and they won’t show up.
Block walls can be very strong indeed. Just insert steel rods in the cells and fill with concrete.
And even ordinary block is a whole lot stronger than wood frame, plywood and drywall.
They’re also bulletproof, and pretty resistant to fire and explosives. I remember reading about some fugitive that holed up in a concrete earth berm house, and the Feds had to pretty much incinerate the thing to end the standoff.
Yes, I think you’re on the right track. You can’t get rid of a hurricane or tornado by adding more energy to the atmosphere, but you might be able to sap it if you can find a way to suck energy out of the atmosphere.
Maybe we need more bird-killing giant windills?
I had a friend who had a berm house in the woods. Its was great. Very easy to heat with wood (get a fire going and let it burn out and you were fine for another 48 hours). The temperature never got much below 50 degrees and it was nice and cool without air conditioning. It was great for sleeping too.
Sounds like we just need to mass produce a zillion plastic versions of these:
Well, the cinderblocks sure didn’t hold up today!
Agree on hardened block, although not quite the same as 12” concrete envelope to protect the kids.
An F4 storm will pull up a concrete highway.
Slip form concrete highway is no more than a concrete carpet strip just laying on the ground.
I’m talking about a school hallway size bunker pier anchored into the ground. It and the kids would still be standing F5 or F9.
In earthquake country public buildings and schools are code built for earthquake protection, why not similar for especially schools in parts of the country prone to big tornados?
Thank you. That’s a start! Now I’m wondering if they can be started as well.
If so it may make sense ... it would be the equivalent of planned tree burning to prevent larger forest fires.
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