If we had prepared a rocket whose cargo contained aluminium sequin and
emptyed the cargo in orbit overhead of Katrina and Ophelia we would
have broken apart those hurricanes by starving them of heat energy.
They would have been downgraded.

And it is curious that Katrina headed for a fresh water entry onto land
where the Mississippi is the largest fresh water entry. Now Ophelia is
repeating that entry in the Carolinas, seeking a entry of fresh water.
Why fresh water is a magnet is a mystery. A few days ago it was the
Savannah River of Savannah Georgia. Today it is the rivers around
Wilmington North Carolina.

If we had been prepared, we would have set up rockets with cargo of
aluminium sequin and as the hurricane season approached, we would have
readied ourselves for launches and that as Katrina formed we would have
launched a rocket and put aluminium sequin in orbit above Katrina path
and the resulting cooling by starving of sun rays would have downgraded
Katrina and spared the coast of destruction.

It is probably too late for Ophelia and for the rest of 2005. But there
is no excuses for 2006. We have the technology to halt hurricanes and
if the current government continues to ignore this technology that we
should impeach this government and install a government that does act
to prevent destruction. Remember California and the nonacting governor
who was recalled. Well, we can apply a similar mechanism for the
recalling of the President of the USA to put someone there in the White
House who does act to avert destruction.

Archimedes Plutonium
www.iw.net/~a_plutonium
whole entire Universe is just one big atom
where dots of the electron-dot-cloud are galaxies

wrote:
If we had been prepared, we would have set up rockets with cargo of
aluminium sequin and as the hurricane season approached, we would have
readied ourselves for launches and that as Katrina formed we would have
launched a rocket and put aluminium sequin in orbit above Katrina path
and the resulting cooling by starving of sun rays would have downgraded
Katrina and spared the coast of destruction.

Does anyone else remain unconvinced that halting hurricanes -- in
particular, via this method -- would be of net benefit to the environment?

--
St. John

St. John Smythe wrote:

Does anyone else remain unconvinced that halting hurricanes -- in
particular, via this method -- would be of net benefit to the environment?


Yep! Totally!

writes:

And it is curious that Katrina headed for a fresh water entry onto land
where the Mississippi is the largest fresh water entry. Now Ophelia is
repeating that entry in the Carolinas, seeking a entry of fresh water.
Why fresh water is a magnet is a mystery. A few days ago it was the
Savannah River of Savannah Georgia. Today it is the rivers around
Wilmington North Carolina.

How dumb. There are lots of rivers along the east coast so saying that a
hurricane striking the east coast is attracted to rivers is kind of like
saying that if someone fired a shotgun at the broad side of a barn, the
shotgun pellets are attracted to cracks in the barnboards. No matter
where they hit, a crack is nearby. (Katrina crossed the Mississippi at a
right angle anyway)

If we had been prepared, we would have set up rockets with cargo of
aluminium sequin and as the hurricane season approached, we would have
readied ourselves for launches and that as Katrina formed we would have
launched a rocket and put aluminium sequin in orbit above Katrina path
and the resulting cooling by starving of sun rays would have downgraded
Katrina and spared the coast of destruction.

Hurricanes are powered by the heat of the warm water they're over. That's
why they grow stronger in tropical water and fall apart over land.
In fact, aluminum sequins might cool the upper atmosphere and (because
hurricanes are a giant heat engine) the cooler atmosphere might make
the hurricane MORE powerful by increasing the temperature difference that
powers them.

Not to mention all the other problems with orbiting aluminum sequins
that others have mentioned, which you ignore.

acj

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If we had prepared a rocket whose cargo contained aluminium sequin and
emptyed the cargo in orbit overhead of Katrina and Ophelia we would
have broken apart those hurricanes by starving them of heat energy.
They would have been downgraded.

And it is curious that Katrina headed for a fresh water entry onto land
where the Mississippi is the largest fresh water entry. Now Ophelia is
repeating that entry in the Carolinas, seeking a entry of fresh water.
Why fresh water is a magnet is a mystery. A few days ago it was the
Savannah River of Savannah Georgia. Today it is the rivers around
Wilmington North Carolina.

If we had been prepared, we would have set up rockets with cargo of
aluminium sequin and as the hurricane season approached, we would have
readied ourselves for launches and that as Katrina formed we would have
launched a rocket and put aluminium sequin in orbit above Katrina path
and the resulting cooling by starving of sun rays would have downgraded
Katrina and spared the coast of destruction.

It is probably too late for Ophelia and for the rest of 2005. But there
is no excuses for 2006. We have the technology to halt hurricanes and
if the current government continues to ignore this technology that we
should impeach this government and install a government that does act
to prevent destruction. Remember California and the nonacting governor
who was recalled. Well, we can apply a similar mechanism for the
recalling of the President of the USA to put someone there in the White
House who does act to avert destruction.

Archimedes Plutonium
www.iw.net/~a_plutonium
whole entire Universe is just one big atom
where dots of the electron-dot-cloud are galaxies


And what do you suggest we should do after a large meteor wipes out a major
U.S. city? Why did not the government have a system in place to divert it o
r explode it ? And can you imagine what would happen to the astronomy
newsgroups if this happened when GWB was president?

Alexander The Great
Nothing is something.