Dutch Uncle
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We’d have a better one…and it’s probably confused with UFOs.
Trump inquired if China could make hurricanes to harm US, ex-officials say
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I can't seem to find out any info on that hurricane gun that China has. Is it super duper top secret?
I think mankind has very little to do with the thoroughly hyped "climate change". Governments have been trying to control the weather for a while now. I am certain they have many successes most do not know about.
You can quit groveling now. Seriously.
AProudLefty
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Wrong about what?
Dutch Uncle
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causing a hurricane (typhoon) requires controlling the climate even if just locally.
Remember Trump’s idea to nuke a hurricane to kill it? It wouldn’t work because of the power required as noted below. To believe the Chinese had the power to create a hurricane is to believe they have the power to control the weather and, therefore, the climate in the long run. They’re all related.
https://www.livescience.com/24383-can-you-stop-a-hurricane-by-nuking-it.html
Chris Landsea, science and operations officer at the National Hurricane Center, posted an explanation when he was a research meteorologist with NOAA.
"The main difficulty with using explosives to modify hurricanes is the amount of energy required," Landsea wrote.
A hurricane gets its energy from warm ocean water, and in the process of water vapor condensing into rain droplets. The heat released during condensation serves to continue to warm the surrounding air, which causes more seawater to evaporate, condense, and continue the cycle.
A fully developed hurricane releases 50 or more terawatts of heat energy at any given moment, only about 1 percent of which is converted into wind. The heat release, Landsea wrote, "is equivalent to a 10-megaton nuclear bomb exploding every 20 minutes." The entire human race in 2011 used about a third of the energy present in an average hurricane.
So bombing a hurricane might be about as effective as trying to stop a speeding Buick with a feather.
World wide the military has had successes in changing weather patterns. AI is speeding things up with that. It is only a matter of time before someone perfects it if they have not already.
Oh, Lordy and people actually think he’s smart…
Dutch Uncle
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I haven’t heard of that. If we could change the weather then why not make it rain in Texas? Or over the New Mexico forest fires? Rain should be a lot easier than a hurricane.
AProudLefty
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Cloud seeding.
The same reason we rarely hear about any real technology. It is generally not developed to help save mankind. Just kill it when necessary.
Dutch Uncle
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Results are sketchy and require something to work with. The link below notes that it can enhance(“turbocharge”) snow but not cause it.
https://www.science.org/content/art...t-above-idaho-suggests-humans-can-turbocharge
Cloud seeding—sowing clouds with small particles to make them rain or snow—has a reputation as dodgy as the weather. That's because even though scientists have been seeding clouds since the 1940s, there was precious little proof the technique worked. Now, researchers flying two small planes through a bank of clouds in Idaho have shown, for the first time outside the lab, that humans can artificially turbocharge snowfall.
Dutch Uncle
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Disagreed. Military secrets never last long.
Most military R&D is through civilian corporations. Example: Lockheed’s “Skunk Works”.
While the military would certainly weaponize weather/climate control if possible, the civilian applications would add trillions to our economy such as in agriculture and eliminating the destructive forces of severe weather.
Consider that the common lawn mower was originally one of Leonardo’s weapon designs as a People Mower.
As the link below points out, there are many other civilian applications of military tech:
https://www.usatoday.com/story/mone...l-products-invented-by-the-military/39465501/
15 commercial products invented by the military include GPS, duct tape and Silly Putty
PostmodernProphet
fully immersed in faith..
I hope we had someone smart enough to answer him.....
Why would this question be "stupid"?
Why would any question be stupid.
If you assume the answer to be obvious and therefore are constrained by conventional wisdom from asking the question, you don't ask the questions that very smart people ask.
Quantum Physics is based on asking questions that defied conventional wisdom of the day. So are most ground breaking techy discoveries and innovations.
When I was working, asking the question was usually the first step in getting the answer. In most cases, it still is. In some cases, the answer is not the one assumed to be obvious.
The truth, though, is that you never know unless you ask.
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Dutch Uncle
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In general you are correct about the idea of “no such thing as a stupid question”.
However, if a CEO asks someone at a board meeting regarding finances “What’s a ‘financial loan’?”, would that not indicate a fundamental lack of background for the job?
Asking about a Hurricane Gun indicates Trump lacks a fundamental knowledge of both weather and weapons. Same goes for his question about using a nuke to destroy a hurricane.