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    It Could be Possible to Stop Hurricanes with Supersonic Jets

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    Image of FrankenPC FrankenPC
    12/04/08

    In reply to It Could be Possible to Stop Hurricanes with Supersonic Jets
    10$ says one of the jets will go back in time.
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    Image of Rabid Penguin Rabid Penguin
    12/04/08

    @FrankenPC:

    I'll take that bet.


    Since I'm the pilot of the plane it's win-win for me. I either "lose" and go back in time, in which case I can change my bet, or I "win" and die, and you can't collect.

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    Image of sir_pantsalot sir_pantsalot
    12/04/08

    In reply to It Could be Possible to Stop Hurricanes with Supersonic Jets
    There is a slim chance this could work. Hurricanes need just the right conditions and enough sonic booms could throw off those conditions. That weather system would still make land fall just not as a hurricane. You still get a storm possibly like topical storm Allison but at least it is not a hurricane. What if you are only able to decrease a hurricane from category 3 down to a category 2. Would it be worth it?
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    Image of Geisrud Geisrud
    12/04/08

    In reply to It Could be Possible to Stop Hurricanes with Supersonic Jets
    Flying through hurricanes at supersonic speeds can't be good for planes.
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    Image of Curves Curves
    12/04/08

    In reply to It Could be Possible to Stop Hurricanes with Supersonic Jets
    Captain Kirk could do it.
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    Image of sir_pantsalot sir_pantsalot
    12/04/08

    In reply to It Could be Possible to Stop Hurricanes with Supersonic Jets
    What is wrong with you people? What about the looters? What will they do if there are no more hurricanes?
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    Image of sir_pantsalot sir_pantsalot
    12/04/08

    In reply to It Could be Possible to Stop Hurricanes with Supersonic Jets
    Why not combine our technologies of those small remote control planes and cruise missiles to create something specifically for this. Or is the human sacrifice part of the hurricane prevention?
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    Image of swifty949 swifty949
    12/04/08

    In reply to It Could be Possible to Stop Hurricanes with Supersonic Jets
    turbulent wind speed at around 150mph, yeah like an airplane can fly through that with ease.
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    Image of admoseremic admoseremic
    12/04/08

    @swifty949: Considering many planes fly 3 times faster than the speed of sound, I don't think 150mph is going to make that much of a difference.
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    Image of Pope John Peeps II Pope John Peeps II
    12/04/08

    @admoseremic: Yes, but they don't fly sideways.
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    Image of se7a7n7 se7a7n7
    12/04/08

    In reply to It Could be Possible to Stop Hurricanes with Supersonic Jets
    Wait, is it the New York Jets or the 80s pop band the Jets who can stop a hurricane?
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    12/04/08

    @se7a7n7: The pop band. They're only good until the terrorists unleash the Scorpions to counter the counter.
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    Image of everfade everfade
    12/04/08

    In reply to It Could be Possible to Stop Hurricanes with Supersonic Jets
    I love the human desire to control everything, even nature! America F*ck Yea!
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    Image of admoseremic admoseremic
    12/04/08

    In reply to It Could be Possible to Stop Hurricanes with Supersonic Jets
    If that doesn't work, maybe we can slow them down by having Michael Phelps swim clockwise in the Gulf.
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    12/04/08

    @admoseremic: thats only if we can get him away from the Rosetta Stone commercials.
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    Image of Jason Jason
    12/04/08

    In reply to It Could be Possible to Stop Hurricanes with Supersonic Jets
    At best this MIGHT deflect a storm if started early enough and continued long enough.


    But my gut tells me this is more like flinging rubber bands to stop a truck.

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    Image of ripfire ripfire
    12/04/08

    @Jason: Depends. How big is the rubber band?
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    Image of nutbastard nutbastard
    12/04/08

    In reply to It Could be Possible to Stop Hurricanes with Supersonic Jets
    wait wait wait hold up this makes no sense.


    i mean, if HARP is going to go through all that effort to generate the damn things as part of a masonic conspiracy, why would another arm of the same shadow government send jets in to negate it?


    no sense whatsoever.

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    12/04/08

    @nutbastard: Don't blame me i voted for Ron Paul edition: because the government is in on it, and its part of the conspiracy that they will be launching fighter jets into the area. What they are not telling us is that the jets will fly in such a manner as to accelerate the hurricane, and then they will seed the clouds with special missals that also create "extra hurricane shrapnel"tm FOR MASSIVE DAMAGE!
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    12/04/08

    @nutbastard: When you make a virus you've got to make sure you have an antidote.
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    Image of Lite: hates Illinois Nazis Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
    12/04/08

    @iGo: Wake me when we get to the part where intentionally actively fucking with the weather is a GOOD thing.


    These storms happen naturally for a reason, and altering it alters part of our water shed. Considering MANY places in the US are in extended drought conditions, I fail to see the "good" in this.


    Save property? Look, we live on a planet with weather hazards. Shit happens. Then you have things like New Orleans where people actively build homes in places both below sea and lake level in a swamp.


    Kind of like people who farm the desert.

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    Image of nutbastard nutbastard
    12/04/08

    @Lite:


    but it seems you are mistaking "natural" for "good for humans".


    most of the stuff that's good for humans isn't natural (in the traditional sense) - it's artifice.


    dogshit is natural, but LSD, that's man-made!

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    12/04/08

    @nutbastard: Don't blame me i voted for Ron Paul edition: HAARP
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    Image of nutbastard nutbastard
    12/04/08

    @Crescent:


    (whoops, thanks for the correction)

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    Image of Sortafast Sortafast
    12/04/08

    In reply to It Could be Possible to Stop Hurricanes with Supersonic Jets
    I have to wonder what effect this might have on global weather systems.
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    12/04/08

    @Sortafast: I agree...weather happens, trying to change it is a whole other mess to deal with...
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