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		gus_massa 4 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: DARPA program sets distance record for power beami... Nuking a hurricane would not break it because nukes are not big enough https://edition.cnn.com/2019/08/26/weather/hurricane-nuclear... I think it's possible to nuke a tornado, but if someone does it to try to save a city, I expect even more destruction. I don't expect the beam to be energetic enough to change anything. The closest method I can think of is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_seeding but it doesn't distribute energy, just tiny crystals to condense oversaturated vapor.

westurner 4 months ago [–]

Theoretically there is at least one point where a butterfly flapping its wings sufficiently affects seemingly nonlocal global weather.

Presumably it's easier to prevent formation of vortices far before visible formation.

A "cancel vortices" sim table might be more useful than the average CFD simulation.

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