Massive delusion or the future?
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Todd Renshaw
EF2
No way. Beautiful website like that? Has to be legit. 
Dave Kaplow
EF4
Look closely at what's written on that 1st page right above the "enter the site" button... The emphasis is mine, but I think that line says it all as far as how seriously one should take this site. I mean really, stopping tornadoes with laser beams??? This is simply not real science, folks. It's a bad B movie at best, or maybe I should say C or even D movie, because I highly doubt he's ever gonna sell that script. But I'd say selling the script is what it's all about, not stopping tornadoes. I do give him props for coming right out and saying so, though.
J Tyler
EF3
I'm from Texas, so of course I carry a handgun. When I get close to 'naders, I always fill them full of lead. You know, in the Texas tradition. I figure if these 'ol boys will add their lazers, we just might be able to bring a tornado down.
Keith Wilson
EF2
I think I saw this on the SciFi channel a few nights ago.
Some folks just have to much time on their hands.
Some folks just have to much time on their hands.
CGardner
EF0
Where I work in the Army, we kinda make all the bombs. So this website makes me laugh, because we (my command) saw first hand what an F-2 can do to a TNT line. The video I can not post for obvious classified reasons, but I can tell you. Not even 2000lbs of TNT detonating can stop a twister.
mkavulich
EF0
From the sidebar link "Rockets Tornado Control":
Clearly not the words of someone who knows too much about meteorology and/or dynamics.
But if you're really my honest opinion about disrupting tornadoes with explosives, I'll say it's 100% impractical and incredibly irresponsible. Even if you managed to move enough explosives in time to produce a large enough explosion to disrupt a funnel before it impacted a populated area (otherwise risking an incredible amount of collateral damage), there's no way to predict what adding that much energy to such a dynamic environment would do; you could make the tornado worse!
Clearly not the words of someone who knows too much about meteorology and/or dynamics.
But if you're really my honest opinion about disrupting tornadoes with explosives, I'll say it's 100% impractical and incredibly irresponsible. Even if you managed to move enough explosives in time to produce a large enough explosion to disrupt a funnel before it impacted a populated area (otherwise risking an incredible amount of collateral damage), there's no way to predict what adding that much energy to such a dynamic environment would do; you could make the tornado worse!
David Wolfson
EF5
One fact says it all. The explosive energy released in one lightning bolt is equivalent to several hundred pounds of TNT. They don't affect storms' wind fields in the slightest.
Sean Ramsey
EF4
Maybe if they build a bunch of structures to get in a tornadoes way, say like houses and barns and large buildings, etc. the structures would then interfere with the tornadoes rotation thus stopping the tornado from existing. Or they could just nuke the crap out of it. Either way it will get rid of most of the tornadoes in 30 minutes or less.
David E. Young
EF0
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That's right. Don't do anything and most of them go away in under 30 minutes!
Jody Radzik
EF2
Last year, a friend insisted that the Mississippi/Alabama outbreak of April 25-28, 2011 was caused by a "U.S. government weather-controlling installation" in Alaska called HAARP (http://www.haarp.alaska.edu/). This is a bit of the same craziness in the other direction. Needless to say, I'm not following this friend's Facebook updates anymore.
Robert Balogh
EF0
Massive delusion if you ask me. I think recruiting Muslim suicide bombers is a much more practical and feasible solution
Bob Hartig
EF5
A website with the name Tornadofighters just does not intrigue me enough to even bother looking. But after reading a few of the comments here, I figured I'd poke around in it a bit so I can respond to what I've seen firsthand. Good grief. Another fruit has ripened on the weirdness tree. Blow the tornado up by cutting it in half with explosives, and maybe enhance the results by using a radar beam to "ruin the magnetic lattice of the tornado," whatever the heck that is. Yep, that oughta work just fine.
Just for kicks, let's say it actually succeeds. A honking HUGE amount of high explosives detonates inside a tornado and actually succeeds in blowing it to smithereens. Guess what? The conditions that produced the tornado are unimpressed. Overhead, the jet is still screaming along. The moisture transport is intact. Instability is unaffected. And in five minutes, another tornado is in progress. Bring on your next batch of TNT...and your next...and your next...and stick with it for the next four or five hours. And you'd better plan for multiple storms in diverse locations. You'll need plenty of Tornado Fighters to tackle the job.
Sign me up. And while we're at it, I say it's time that we take an aggressive approach to locust plagues. How? Military vehicles equipped with giant flyswatters.
Just for kicks, let's say it actually succeeds. A honking HUGE amount of high explosives detonates inside a tornado and actually succeeds in blowing it to smithereens. Guess what? The conditions that produced the tornado are unimpressed. Overhead, the jet is still screaming along. The moisture transport is intact. Instability is unaffected. And in five minutes, another tornado is in progress. Bring on your next batch of TNT...and your next...and your next...and stick with it for the next four or five hours. And you'd better plan for multiple storms in diverse locations. You'll need plenty of Tornado Fighters to tackle the job.
Sign me up. And while we're at it, I say it's time that we take an aggressive approach to locust plagues. How? Military vehicles equipped with giant flyswatters.
Shane Adams
Crazy is sooo boring. Although, the guy seems like, if taken out of the context of being the latest nutjob thinking man can alter Nature, he'd be cool to sit and have a morning cup of coffee with at some small town diner.
Karen St John
EF3
I would be very concerned that the high explosives would be tossed by the storm into a populated area...adding to its destruction.
