nuke a hurricane xkcd

I have had a particular problem for as long as I can remember. If winds reached 500 mph, would it pick up a human? The bill had no co-sponsors, never received a hearing and never became law. produces a cavity of hot gasses, which then collapses. In addition to the heat energy from the water, Hurricanes [] Hurricane Where-The-Hell-Is-Bermuda []. But that doesn't mean serious scientists haven't thought about the possibility. That's scientist talk for "We are so screwed." So, you're falling from a height above the tallest building in your town, and you don't have a parachute. No underwater test has involved bombs anywhere near 'My friend and I were arguing about what would happen if a bullet got struck by lightning, and we agreed that you should resolve it . Though he reportedly . After that they were released weekly for almost three years, with just a few times with two (and once three) weeks between releases, up until article 136 was released on April 12, 2015 (2 years and 40 weeks). The article is about the slope needed to be able to coast on a bike, without using the pedals, across mainland USA. She is planning to attach a number of helium balloons to a chair, which in turn would be tethered by means of a rope to a Ferrari. What would happen if you were taking a shower or standing under a waterfall when you were struck by lightning? What English word has the most consecutive letters on the same key? No one would get a perfect score. part of the ocean. If my printer could literally print out money, would it have that big an effect on the world? As with a lot of these answers, just don't. Usually the center but not always and usually rice, but often it will be a small section of meat. Coal: 24 Why not nuke a hurricane? If you call a random phone number and say God bless you, what are the chances that the person who answers just sneezed? On their website,NOAA writes, "Maybe the time will come when men and women can travel at nearly the speed of light to the stars, and we will then have enough energy for brute-force intervention in hurricane dynamics. Ever since J. Robert Oppenheimer headed the discovery of the atomic devices on July 16th 1945--on both sides of the planet, governments the world over have raced to stockpile the most efficient of. much less catastrophic than a direct nuclear attack. Stopping rain from falling on something with an umbrella or a tent is boring. Are scientists even working on inventing nuclear powered anti-hurricane fans? Liquid gallium? Magic, because science just works like that. I bike to class sometimes. My 12-year-old daughter is proposing an interesting project. 65-million-year-old Chicxulub impact sitethis What's the likelihood this could happen? After effectively describing what would occur as a nuclear explosion, leveling the stadium and the surrounding mile radius, he concludes with the note "A careful reading of official Major League Baseball Rule 6.08(b) suggests that in this situation, the batter would be considered 'hit by pitch', and would be eligible to advance to first base.". Also, the Earth would be destroyed. If it's possible, what would a lunar ("holar"?) Honestly, my main motivation is to baffle someone in the distant future, but it's an interesting scientific question: what would happen to my body in orbit over the course of years, decades or centuries? On June 1, Democratic Texas Representative Sylvia Garcia introduced the Climate Change and Hurricane Correlation and Strategy Act, which would explicitly prohibit the president or any other federal agency official from using a nuclear bomb or other "strategic weapon" to alter weather patterns or addressing climate change. 53,000,000 megatons is approximately the energy of the Chicxulub impact. has not stopped but the first comic in 2017 (#153, January 30, 2017) came almost 15 weeks after the last in 2016, more than three months between releases. All incomplete explanations are here . Also, it would be many times the distance the Earth is from the Moon. See the [[what if]] ''{{what if|147|Niagara Straw}}''. It was released. less than enough energy to microwave a burrito. Could we speed up Earths rotation, so that we do not need Leap Seconds? First and shortest of two long breaks in a row, the 11th break in total. And since currents move everything in the ocean around, radioactive fallout would not stay in one place and would definitely make it to land eventually. "People were astonished. {{Title text: Knuth Paper-Stack Notation: Write down the number on pages. What if you somehow managed to make a stereo travel at twice the speed of sound, would it sound backwards to someone who was just casually sitting somewhere as it flies by? On Sunday, Axios reported that Donald Trump has a rather extreme idea for hurricane preparedness: nuke the storms before they make landfall. Values are as follows: "The short answer is 'no,'" Hugh Willoughby, a professor and hurricane researcher at Florida International University and total buzzkill, told Florida Today. How many molecules of the ink would be used? Or what if you were doing a backflip? The release date in the archive is the wrong month June. Would I need to dive to actually experience a fatal amount of radiation? Since 2014, there's also a book of the blog. In Washington City, power director Rick Hansen explained to the council there was an . typically takes the question beyond the original scope likely intended by the reader and takes it to some extreme for humorous effect. waters of the Gulf of Mexicos Loop Current sometimes cause hurricanes And let if [sic] fall into the great sea, At what voltage would you have have to set the e-fisher? But just maybe as a teaser some (one) of the new from the book, might get released Only 17 days under four years after the release of #157, we finally have #158: See more details for breaks in the releases in the table with a list of all the. of 200-300 miles inland, whichever limit is reached first.. That is a lot of energy. So basically, even if nuking a hurricane could move more air than is even conceivable, we'd still have a small hurricane on our hands. The column of deep, hot water from our nuke could conceivably Would it eventually reach a point where it would float? ", "You could hear a gnat fart in that meeting," the source told Axios. This site is not under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5 License like xkcd is. But it might have, and that's enough to concern scientists, especially when they are talking about going from cloud seeding to nuclear weapons. The head of the U.S. Probably not. If I shot an infinitely strong laser beam into the sky at a random point, how much damage would it do? Surprisingly fast, but beware destroying the city, and fines. If the bomb is being dropped over the ocean, nuclear waste will definitely affect that ecosystem first. would reach to a height of 200-300 feet above sea level, or a distance "An airburst would result in no intense fallout and the cloud would rise well above the storm to avoid rainout.". You would have to go 200m/s. The what if? Pin it to the stack. It is just like 'xkcd:volume 0' a compilation of some questions from the website, but half of them are new. Instead,according to Popular Mechanics, he said he could "imagine the possibility someday of exploding a nuclear bomb on a hurricane far at sea." The world just has too many people. Never use the Math markup language at the transcript. Repeat. happens near the surface, it can create some pretty big wavesunder some While we might not have experimented with nukes, the government has tried other ways to stop hurricanes, and even those resulted in some terrible and unforeseeable problems. For over 20 years, from 1962 to 1983, the fabulously named Project STORMFURY used simulations, as well as four actual hurricanes as test subjects, to see if cloud seeding with silver iodine would reduce a major storm even a little. beneath the waters of the Pacific. Even the U.S. government got involved in a big way. The second longest break up til summer 2016, the only one to have been announced. Second and longest break so far of two long breaks in a row, the 12th break in total. 30 years to walk, much longer for the sentence. Could I cool down the Earth by capturing a comet and dropping it in the ocean, like an ice cube in a glass of water? The bubble grows to about a kilometer across in a couple of seconds. Granted, the Sun is much bigger, but it is also much further away, and as I learned in high school physics, the gravitational force is proportional to the square of the distance. What would happen if lightning struck a bullet in midair? What a great man that would be! What injuries would occur and what would the associated crimes be? As the chunks of rock fall back The bar representing Uranium is so large that it extends onto a stack of paper taller than a human]] This comic gives ludicrous and ironic upcoming hurricane paths on an unlabelled map of the Americas that shows the region roughly between central Canada and northern South America.Blue and red dotted lines indicate the future hurricane paths. No, not even if we change the requirements to just the passengers staying alive. petrified wood mixed with sand buried beneath the Louisiana and Texas And mess they did. kg. But wait! Has humanity produced enough paint to cover the entire land area of the Earth? Various Theoretical Models For Underwater Why can't we do that? expand into a bubble 70 miles across. But what if we could stop a hurricane in its tracks? Could a person walk the entire city of NY in their lifetime? ", In August 2019, the news website Axios wrote that sources who heard the president's private remarks in recorded comments in a National Security Council (NSC) memorandum claimed to have heard Trump asking top national security officials to "consider using nuclear bombs to weaken or destroy hurricanes. What would happen if all the bodies of water on Earth magically disappeared? What about 1 foot? When - if ever - will the bandwidth of the Internet surpass that of FedEx? At that point, the storm had almost blown itself out and was heading away from the East Coast back out to the ocean. story by using. The question is, how many vehicles would it take to build a car-bridge across the Atlantic? That turbulent warm water is actually quite substantial. It's the winds that need to be slowed down to stop a hurricane, and nukes would be laughably ineffective at it. Dotted lines indicating hurricane paths cover the map, all red except where noted. We would see a variety of benefits across our lives but we would also freeze and die. If they are radioactive, then they radiate energy. And that's just one hurricane. Or standing in a graphite field? What if you were changing the light at the top of a radio tower and lightning struck? before disintegrating into, in the words of the 1996 report, a mass of Better to just carry a sign. What would happen if you were in a boat, plane or a submarine that got hit by lightning? How much physical space does the internet take up? From here on standard release day was Tuesday. Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions, Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems, More Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions, Water Waves Generated By Underwater Explosions, Evaluation of the continental shelf. How much damage would a hail storm with size 5 soccer ball sized hail do? What would it be like to swim in it? I was absentmindedly stirring a cup of hot tea, when I got to thinking, "aren't I actually adding kinetic energy into this cup?" No underwater test has involved bombs anywhere near that size, nor depths anywhere near that deep. Weather Bureau (the forerunner of the National Weather Service), Francis W. Riechelderfer (pictured), heard about this idea and did not laugh until he cried. The release date in the archive is the wrong month June. How long would the Sun last if a giant water hose were focused upon it? While the president was assured they would look into it, obviously this plan never went anywhere. From here on standard release day was Thursday. detonated, and at 11 kilometers, the Mariana(s) Trench is the deepest Hurricane cos(x) forms a graph of cos(x) along the bottom edge of the map.]] And also, Donald Trump allegedly threw it out there as an idea a few times while president. Then the The final six articles in this period were released on four different week days, only two of them with one week apart. What would happen if the Earth's rotation were sped up until a day only lasted one second? If all the seas were one sea, What if you exploded a nuclear bomb (say, the Tsar Bomba) at the bottom of the Marianas Trench? Freemans son, science historian George Dyson, got a paper copy of the If you had a printed version of the whole of (say, the English) Wikipedia, how many printers would you need in order to keep up with the changes made to the live version? When they reached How many fireflies would it take to match the brightness of the Sun? As a mole is such a high number this would be tricky. Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5 License, fall into Jupiter's atmosphere in a submarine, https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=what_if&oldid=304504. [[A bar chart on a sheet of paper labeled "Fuel energy density in Megajoules But come on. In 2022 the follow up book What If? a wonderful account of the unraveling of that mystery. We've been to the Moon! If Michael Phelps could hold his breath indefinitely, how long would it take for him to reach the lowest point in the ocean and back if he swam straight down and then straight back up? Only to find that the chair I sat on converted the successful silence into a perfect, and loud, flute note. August 26, 2019. At 53 megatons, the Tsar Bomba was the most powerful nuclear weapon ever I figured this would be long enough to warm me up but not long enough to harm me. What if you built a siphon from the oceans on Europa to Earth? Would it negate the need for a heat shield? If you wanted to anchor an airplane into the ground so it wouldn't be able to take off, what would the rope have to be made out of? We kept the chairs for five years but despite laborious attempts it couldn't be reproduced. Her kitchen had something called Bauhaus chairs, which are full of holes, approx 5-6 millimeters in diameter in both back and seat. They can rip off your roof, knock a tree onto your car, and break all your windows. What if there was a robot apocalypse? If cows could photosynthesize, how much less food would they need? The surrounding area would be obliterated and there would be mass panic for many following years. . ' And the best part is, it's all humanity's fault. Could this be an effective weapon, or would it be as stupid as it sounds? Every now and then we have to insert a leap second because the Earths rotation is slowing down. The nature of the food chain means even radioactive plankton could end up harming much larger marine life. Here's What Would Happen If You Nuked A Hurricane, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) reports. Crypto Evin isnt the first person to think of setting off nuclear weapons Or looking straight up at the bolt? Hurricane Freud starts in the Gulf of Mexico, draws a set of balls to Florida's cock, and then comes on land and stops. }}, xkcd.com is best viewed with Netscape Navigator 4.0 or below on a Pentium 31 emulated in Javascript on an Apple IIGS, https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/upcoming_hurricanes.png, Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5 License. a result of such a deep-water closed bubble creation and dissipation, Not in a "scatter my ashes" sense, but, like, "throw my naked corpse out the airlock" sense. Answer: NO!!!!! Answer: The International Niagara Committee, the International Niagara Board of Control, the International Joint Commission, the International Niagara Board Working Committee, and probably the Great LakesSt. To figure out how big From here on standard release day was again Tuesday. The second of two longer shifts in release day two weeks in a row which resulted in only two releases over three weeks, resulting in the eight break in total. The 'reality' and consequences of using multiple cars (that are not your own) to construct a trans-Atlantic highway. Biden said Trump, "has an answer for hurricanes. turbulent warm water and explosion debris. According to the report, as But what about the edge of ultracentrifuges, or generator turbines that have been running for years, for example? The ninth break in total. Those storms don't even get names, so they can't be that big a deal. Reed died in 2007. Although they were presumably trying to say "hotter than the average swimming pool," this got me wondering: What is the average temperature of all water on the Earths surface, and how does that temperature compare to 39C? The release day was fixed to once a week on a given weekday, except for a few articles that were delayed a day (or two) in one week, but then next week's article would again be released on the normal day. The first scenarios are pretty boring. It is the 2nd book published by Randall. A nuke set What a great sea that would be! The heat release is equivalent to a 10-megaton nuclear bomb exploding every 20 minutes. I've often joked I'd like to have my remains put into orbit. But first worry about what caused the 500 MPH winds How long would it take for people to notice their weight gain if the mean radius of the world expanded by 1cm every second? When I was about 8 years old, shoveling snow on a freezing day in Colorado, I wished that I could be instantly transported to the surface of the Sun, just for a nanosecond, then instantly transported back. It goes through three or four cycles of this collapse and expansion If we could convert the energy to build the Great Pyramid, would it be enough to send a rocket to the Moon and back? What if I made a lava lamp out of real lava? More details.. More details.. What would happen from the impact of the mountain falling 1 inch? What place on Earth would allow you to freefall the longest by jumping off it? Then, while falling, I release the helium and fill the balloon. It includes hot water but I have to pay the electric bill. How long would it take for a single person to fill up an entire swimming pool with their own saliva? I used to work on a fisheries crew where we would use an electro-fisher backpack to momentarily stun small fish (30 - 100 mm length) so we could scoop them up with nets to identify and measure them. The majority of the worlds plants die and the food chain collapses improbable typhoon interaction, the overall effect of the bomb isnt And if the great man took the great axe, My daughter age 4.5 maintains she wants a billion-story building. What would happen if you tried to hit a baseball pitched at 90% the speed of light? How many bananas would you need to power a house? Between the famine and the fires, most life on Earth is If your cells suddenly lost the power to divide, how long would you survive? Order here! Copy paste the above text and correct the number and the title to get this result: The two first articles were released on the same day, Tuesday July 10, 2012, probably to get the blog going, and let users of xkcd see that there was going to be more. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5 License. underwater. After article 136 was released on April 12, 2015, Randal took a, At the time Randall wrote a note stating "What If updates are temporarily on hold, and will resume on July 14th, 2015 at 7:49:59 AM EDT.". From the very edge of the atmosphere and even then it might not be fully cooked. Hurricane Red and Hurricane Blue (which is a blue line) are playing a game of Tron, zipping in straight lines and right angles around Haiti, Jamaica, and Cuba. How dangerous is it, really, to be in a swimming pool in a thunderstorm? it just under the surface. Later he released a different countdown with comic 2636: What If? In the year following that release only 8 articles where released including both #147 and #154. with 64 GB MicroSD cards all full of legally purchased music)? Does it converge to a fixed cycle? Intense enough to cause a medium sized nuclear explosion. Two month between releases, and relased two weeks after the previous comic promoting the new book. As the first two were released on week 1, this means that there were 134 articles released over the next 143 weeks, meaning there were only 9 weeks without an article. The article 137 from July 14, 2015 was about the New Horizons probe. His responses are masterpieces of clarity and hilarity, studded with memorable cartoons and infographics. It is almost a year ago that two comics have been released with less than two full weeks between them (that was #147 released February 26, 2016). Unlike other sites which answer readers' questions, what if? The core on the other hand, would vapourize you. Suppose you were to print, in 12 point text, the numeral 1 using a common cheap ink-jet printer. Hurricane Illinois-Has-It-Too-Easy comes from somewhere to the northwest, goes through Illinois, and then back to the northwest. What took more energy, the building of the Great Pyramid of Giza or the Apollo Mission? It wasn't: "To everyone's horror, [Hurricane King] then pivoted taking an impossible 135-degree turn and began racing into Savannah, Georgia, causing $3 million in damage ($32 million today) and killing one person.". They often predict the complete annihilation of humankind, or at least a really big explosion. How dangerous is it to be in a pool during a thunderstorm? exhaustively examines and summarizes all available research about the Rough estimates indicate that the inundation What if a huge mountainDenali, sayhad the bottom inch of its base disappear? Instead, it blows a hole in the Is there enough energy to move the entire current human population off-planet? Red successfully cuts off Blue and then dies shortly thereafter. It would not have a big impact unless it happened during the space age. If all the men were one man, What would actually happen? The third two weeks Christmas break, the seventh break in total. is a blog hosted on the xkcd.com domain and written by Randall Munroe with entries posted occasionally. How great would all of these things be? firestorms. Obviously, my boyfriend had to go without pizza until he landed at JFK. the surrounding waterthat lingers for some time. Within a dozen or so seconds, the bubble shrinks to a minimum size, then The hole fills in, with huge columns of steam and great Far more than a book for geeks, WHAT IF: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions explains the laws of science in operation in a way that every intelligent reader will enjoy and feel much the smarter for having read. What height would humans reach if we kept growing through our whole development period (i.e. Assuming the stereo is indestructible then yes. The result of the above is that over the first 144 weeks 136 articles where released with never more than 3 weeks between releases. I've occasionally seen "radar enforced" on speed limit signs, and I can't help but ask: How intense would radio waves have to be to stop a car from going over the speed limit, and what would happen if this were attempted? People sometimes say "If I had all the money in the world " in order to discuss what they would do if they had no financial constraints. what if? I jokingly sent him a photo of a parrot holding a pizza slice in its beak. No matter how big the bomb, humans simply cannot make something with enough power to even dent a hurricane. Bernard Le Mehaute and Shen Wang. Actually, it would be more clean than it is currently! Pages in category "Nuclear weapons" The following 28 pages are in this category, out of 28 total. National Geographic says it was a meteorologist named Jack W. Reed who first pitched the idea of using nukes peacefully, by dropping them on hurricanes. If all the trees were one tree, What would happen if the Moon were replaced with an equivalently-massed black hole? Assuming you had a good coat, you would survive to the death zone and die. Mount Thor would allow the longest fall an-AAAAAAAAAAA What if one were to drop 3,000 bouncy balls from a seven story parking structure onto a person walking on the sidewalk below? Randall Munroe left NASA in 2005 to start up his hugely popular site XKCD 'a web comic of romance, sarcasm, math and language' which offers a witty take on the world of science and geeks. It's just a matter of time. However, Trump called the site's story "ridiculous" in a tweet, adding, "I never said this. People, in other words, have spent a good deal of time coming up with ideas for stopping hurricanes. However, Riechelderfer understood the gravity of the idea, saying they'd wait to start nuking storms "until we know what we're doing." off deep underwater acts a bit differently. Assuming you are in a area with a reasonable amount of birds. More details. Almost nobody would find their soul mate. Fortunately for the coast, these waves are fundamentally different from These turned out to be the remains of North American forests This work is licensed under a 2: Additional Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions is out! Interesting to see if they will begin appearing regularly again during the spring of 2017, as seems possible with three articles in less than a month and #156 was again released with less than two weeks between it and #155. 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