Waging (Nuclear) War on the Weather.....

[PfNJ]

http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/tcfaq/C5c.html

:nuke:

:crazy:

I don't recall ever seeing this posted here, courtesy of May's Harper's Magazine.....

I wonder if these "suggestions" come from freepers?????

[Deja Q]

1. Oh come on, what's a little radiation to ensure that Sandals Beach remains

sunny and clement? :eyes:

Sandals openly discriminates against homos anyway.

[LastKnight]

2. possibly the most idiotic suggestion ive ever read...

sure, thiers a shockwave, and it will jostle the storm a bit, but not enough to do anything but that...

not to mention the RADIATION...

that and this article was poorly written, its measuring energy in watts. (watts is power... energy is joules, sorry, physics geek here, one of the few things that pisses me off.)

-LK

[PfNJ]

3. not sure if you noticed, but.....

this is actually taken from a US government website, the Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory, which is a part of the US Department of Commerce.....

[LastKnight]

4. haha didnt see that...nt

[KamaAina]

5. Oh crikey. Now Al Roker is gonna have little mushroom clouds on the map.

along with the H's and L's and those pointy little front thingies.

"Look out, Kansas City, Omaha, Lincoln! Looks like a little fallout may be headed your way... Moving towards the Great Lakes, a fabulous day in store for you..."

:-)