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Dan Fournier's avatar

Haha, I've been just thirsting for this post I knew was coming!

About an hour into it and I am already glad to see and better understand the much needed clarifications surrounding the NEXRAD hoopla. So, thanks for clarifying these and sharing those great resources like the anomalies one.

I'll finish watching the rest this weekend so as to try to digest the technicalities of it (which is definitely beyond my pay grade).

Glad to have you back brother!

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Obsolete Optics's avatar

You may have recently seen some wild theories and speculation regarding mankind’s ability to create and control hurricanes. The truth is that there is no technology in the known universe that can do this. It is flat out impossible, and when you dig into the science, it's honestly quite absurd.

Allow me to explain.

Every second, Hurricane Milton's wind field is currently releasing 23 terajoules of energy. How much energy is that? It's more than the entire energy consumed by all of mankind every second across the globe. It's equivalent to releasing all the energy from the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima every 3 seconds. And that's just the energy from the wind! The heat energy released every second by a hurricane is roughly 4 times the amount of the wind energy! We can't control something with this much energy, and we certainly can't create something with this much energy.

"But what about the patents filed for controlling hurricanes?"

There are also patents filed for time travel. Bringing it into actual reality are two very different things.

"But what about cloud seeding?"

Cloud seeding (injecting sliver iodide into an *existing* cloud to make it rain or snow) is real. Cloud seeding does not create nor control hurricanes. The U.S. government experimented with cloud seeding hurricanes in the 1960s to see if they could WEAKEN the storms. It was called Project STORMFURY. It did not work.

All of these weather conspiracies that have been flooding social media platforms the last two weeks are both exhausting and distracting from the main focus right now: Helping people get out of harm's way from the planet's most dangerous storms and then helping them recover once they pass.

Keep on using your good judgment and critical thinking skills!

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