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A lot.
Problem is... don't think of a hurricane as "a thing". It's really not, it's a manifestation of a larger system. It's the result of something happening, and that thing that is happening is ongoing.
In the case of a tropical storm, it would depend on when you caught it and how big it was. If it's over warm enough water, then it's constantly being created. If you flipped some kind of magic switch that Thanos-blinked it out of existence, it would start coming back, because what is making it is still there.
To really get rid of it, permanently, you would need to cool the ocean underneath it off. Nukes can't do that. I suppose you could try to boil the whole ocean away with nukes, but I have a feeling that would make the storm far worse.
So you're saying we need a freeze ray for the water
That's exactly what I read. You can even nuke the ice after cuz nukes r fun
I also watched the Well There’s Your Problem on Operation Plowshare.
No we just drop an ice cube into the ocean from time to time. And then the next time we make that ice cube bigger than the on last time. And that will solve our provlems once and for all.
We could start chipping away at that big ice cube in Antarctica. If that slides off into the ocean and heads north we could cool off the ocean and solve hurricanes forever!
Do I need to add a /s here?
Haley's comet would be the best bug free source of ice
Just like daddy puts in his drink every morning!
Then he gets mad...
I’ve heard of systems being developed to quickly cool the water in a hurricane zone by releasing it from underneath as it crosses over. These zones would be built and filled long before a hurricane crossed them, then set off like traps.
I wonder if a large enough bomb, nuke or not, would create enough heat to mess up that balance, or just move enough air in the blast that it dissipates.
Obviously this would have to be a establish hurricane about to make landfall. But it would be cool as hell to watch.
Vote me for president, ill find out
Heat and moving the air out of the way (lowering the pressure) would make it stronger. Those are two of the three building blocks of a hurricane. The third being moisture.
Ah fuck.
So nuking a hurricane would make it stronger?
I still wanna try it
You could maybe try nuking around it, kinda trying to implode it by blasting air towards the center. This would increase the pressure instead of lowering it. tbf I have no clue what would happen. lol
Only one way to find out!
To really get rid of it, permanently, you would need to cool the ocean underneath it off.
Or heat up the upper athmosphere. The hurricane does not feed of the warm ocean per se, it feeds of the temperature difference from top to bottom.
Well, you would still need a ton of nukes to accomplish it, and you would still have massive fallout wherever the system moves, but that way you at least have a chance of accomplishing something.
Right, because as the air cools the moisture condenses. No cooling air, no condensation. Cool stuff, thank you for the correction.
Just blow up the earth, no earth no hurricane.