I'm pretty sure Westwood Studios figured this out back in 1995!
Posted on 08/25/2019 4:30:17 PM PDT by Ennis85
I think Fox Business still thinks Axios (Comcast) is credible.
Shakin’ head.
There have been and always will be crazy ideas which, for one reason or another, sometimes HAVE to be tried..
Back in WWII the US had a secret base in New Mexico that was capturing and training bats to drop incendiary devices on Mainland Japan with the assumption being with all the thatched etc roofs, the whole island would burn to the ground.
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(Supposedly)On a test run over Southern California, some woods got set on fire and it was blamed on Japanese Saboteurs or even a Submarine...
The idea was conceived by a Dentist friend of Eleanor Roosevelt and ‘sold’ to FDR....
It was ‘exposed’ in a book called ‘Bat Bomb’ written by Jack Couffer 1992.
Where’s the crime if he did ask this?
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None at all. I agree with your post in #8.
According to media reports, G. W. Bush had a device that steered Katrina right into New Orleans. Why not just use that to steer hurricanes into other “blue” areas?
It’s Trump’s duty to let hurricanes hit the US so that the media can use them to attack him—no matter what he does, it won’t be enough.
I ask more questions on this board that would be considered stupid than anyone else :)
I don’t give a ....
I learned a lot from the stupid questions.
If someone wants to think less of someone because of that, it’s their problem.
I find a new reason to like Trump every day.
He may be a billionaire but he’s a Queens suburbs boy and i’m a staten island suburbs boy and I think he has more in common with the average Joe than any politician I have ever known.
It would not work.
All it would do is very effectively spread radiation.
The amount of energy produced by a nuclear bomb is insignificant compared ot the vast quantities of energy released by a hurricane. It might make the hurricane wobble a bit but it would probably reform.
Our class did the math for that in my undergrad met class.
As an old-school newspaperman, now retired, this story sends my BS meter going “beep, beep, beep, beep, BEEP!”
Only when they made a left turn in the Atlantic.
Killing hurricanes is possible. The problem isn’t technical, it’s legal. If you change the weather for the better in one place, you’ll be accused of changing it for the worse in another, and be sued for the damage.
The sharks in the Sharknado will just mutate and grow like Godzilla and other creatures that grew huge from the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and destroyed parts of Tokyo and Japan in the Japanese monster movies of the late 50’s and early 60’s.
Who was the source, Scaramouche?
It was a crazy way to win World War II in the Pacific— All the United States had to do was to attach small incendiary bombs to millions of bats and release them over Japan’s major cities. As the bats went to roost, a million fires would flare up in remote crannies of the wood and paper buildings common throughout Japan. When their cities were reduced to ashes, the Japanese would surely capitulate... The plan made sense to a handful of eccentric promoters and researchers, who convinced top military brass and even President Roosevelt to back the scheme. It might have worked, except that another secret weapon—something to do with atoms—was chosen to end the war. Told here by the youngest member of the team, this is the story of the bat bomb project, or Project X-Ray, as it was officially known. In scenes worthy of a Capra or Hawks comedy, Jack Couffer recounts the unorthodox experiments carried out in the secrecy of Bandera, Texas; Carlsbad, New Mexico; and El Centro, California, in 1942-1943 by “Doc” Adams’ private army. This oddball cast of characters included an eccentric inventor, a distinguished Harvard scientist, a biologist with a chip on his shoulder, a movie star, a Texas guano collector, a crusty Marine Corps colonel, a Maine lobster fisherman, an ex-mobster, and a tiger. Not to be defeated by minor logistical hurdles, the bat bomb researchers risked life and limb to explore uncharted bat caves and “recruit” thousands of bats to serve their country. Through months of personality conflicts, military snafus, and technical failures the team pressed on, certain that bats could end the war with Japan. And they might have—in their first airborne test, the bat bombers burned an entire brand-new military airfield to the ground. For everyone who relishes true tales of action and adventure, Bat Bomb is a must-read. Bat enthusiasts will also discover the beginnings of the scientific study of bats.
https://www.amazon.com/Bat-Bomb-Jack-Couffer-ebook/dp/B008CFN68I
No idea. My guess is there is a germ of truth in these fake stories and then they start free style rapping to distort it and fit their narrative.
They haven’t quite devolved to Weekly World News level but they are getting close.
Space force would be a better option, space mirrors could heat up the cold parts of hurricanes robbing them of energy.
I’d wager it was a tongue-in-cheek remark made because someone else went a bit overboard and he wanted to keep the talk real...
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