Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Cryptoengineer Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written Subject: =?UTF-8?Q?Re=3A_=E2=80=9CDid_Hurricane_Milton_Have_Help_in_Suddenly?= =?UTF-8?Q?_Becoming_One_of_the_Most_Powerful_Storms_in_History=3F=E2=80=9D?= Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2024 14:27:25 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 67 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2024 20:27:26 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="5ee7e72f6bfd4f4ef08da197ffdfb755"; logging-data="3431056"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18aeKT+/elhuwujiNbRHv9YgsxTfrtyVkM=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:v+y1jkbt1RzIrbPT4ZScqvQQWNI= Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: Bytes: 4258 On 10/10/2024 12:05 PM, James Nicoll wrote: > In article , > Cryptoengineer wrote: >> On 10/10/2024 1:56 AM, Bobbie Sellers wrote: >>> On 10/9/24 18:30, Scott Dorsey wrote: >>>> Lynn McGuire  wrote: >>>>> “Did Hurricane Milton Have Help in Suddenly Becoming One of the Most >>>>> Powerful Storms in History?” >>>>> https://thelibertydaily.com/did-hurricane-milton-have-help-suddenly- >>>>> becoming-one/ >>>>> >>>>> OK, I have heard it all now.  Apparently the USA government has a storm >>>>> enhancer machine using lasers and has used it to accelerate hurricanes >>>>> Helene and Milton from a Cat 1 to a Cat 5 and targeted red areas to >>>>> suppress the votes in the upcoming presidential election. >>>> >>>> It's not the USA government, it's Sony Pictures, and it's not red areas, >>>> it's the Vatican. >>>> --scott >>> >>>     When I was much younger the Hearst Newspapers frequently published >>> claims that the Russians or the Communist Chinese had >>> learned to control the weather. They also worried about an impending >>> ice age or any other matter than might rouse the sleeping >>> mass man into buying more newspapers, "lest doom creep upon them >>> unknowing". >>>     Hearst also though made public the results of scientific >>> investigation which foretold long droughts in California's past >>> and in our future. >> >> If "the Joos" could control the weather, Israel would be a much >> greener place. >> >> If a nation secretly gained the ability to control the weather, >> then we might notice that nation NOT having droughts, hurricanes, >> and blizzards. >> >> The absence of such good weather leads me to believe no one does. > > Interesting trivia: Santa Catarina Island (also known as the Magic > Island) has only ever been hit with one hurricane in all of recorded > history. Just as well, as I sat out a tropical storm there and that > was pretty terrifying. > > (Ontario is almost as lucky but sometimes hurricanes don't quite get used > up on Americans) > > I wonder how long it would take to discover steering bad weather away > has undesirable secondary effects along the lines of what happens if > you stop all forest fires long enough for deep piles of kindling to > pile up. That last is an interesting question. One difference is that forest fires are linked to the fuel load; after a fire, that area is unlikely to burn again for a long time. Its a negative feedback loop, and creates a semi-regular periodicity to fires, if humans don't interfere. Plants and animals can adapt to that. Hurricanes aren't sensitive to a 'has this area had a hurricane lately?' test. We're seeing this in Florida right now. They hit a give area pretty randomly - a hundred year gap might be followed by a two week one. I don't know if the current ecology would drift without occasional random hurricanes. Perhaps its would. pt