Why
tornado control will work - the self-exploding
precise distance rocket is the genius of tornado
control.--Well maybe not as original or as genius
as I thought. (12-22-04) Back in the 1950s radar
guided missiles were the hot technology and men
like Colonel Rollin H. Mayer USAF, and physicist
Fritz O. Rossmann suggested using them to destroy
tornadoes. However they may have used the
"N" word as an explosive. The American
tornado dilemma is chronicled in Keay Davidson's
book "Twister". You can get it here-http://www.tornadoproject.com-.
But a lot has changed in 50 years. One, tornado
genesis is better understood including the
importance of the jet stream position and two, a
Particle Beam may be available in the near future.
And add Laser Distance Finder and Global Position
Satellite, etc.
As Professor
Howard B. Bluestein mentions
in his book "TORNADO ALLEY" tornado modification
is possible but there could be collateral damage.
For instance, seeding the clouds could lead to
flooding or large hail. And placing a bomb in its
path could be disastrous, but would add buoyancy
(imagine scientist can put a mathematical equation
to the amount of heat rising in a thunderhead...http://www.cimms.ou.edu/~doswell/relbuoy/relbuoy.html...)
to the mix. This is all
conjecture, as is this website. If you want to try
seeding, go ahead. (1) But
the bomb would displace the funnel cloud locally.
Try this logic, imagine a tornado that's 6 ft.
tall and 2 ft. around with rotation speeds
say, 25 mph. Now place a board in it cutting it in
two. The upper half would continue but the lower
half would dissipate due to loss of internal core
pressure and centrifugal grip. This is the effect
I would hope rocket blasts could do. ( I don't
know if tornadoes are subject to centrifugal laws.
The components in a funnel cloud may be reacting
to aerodynamic vacuum lift laws. Only going
sideways.)
(5-02-05) Joseph H. Golden of N.O.A.A. proposed
studies that could lead to shortened tornado life.
Computer models suggest "seeding" could
start gust fronts that could subvert tornado
genesis or structure. Who is this brash scientist
that would dare speak of tornado mitigation? This
would be a multifaceted study because tornados
can form through at least 3 distinct processes:
The mesocyclone dynamic pipe, scraping fronts and
updraft. Each would require a distinct mitigation
process. You would be flying around the storm
encountering micro burst that could crash you.
Personally I wish all you N.O.A.A., N.S.S.L. and
N.W.S. guys would just back away from the tornado
mitigation equation because you're not wartime
"Dons". Especially since your severe
storm specialist thinks there's only 15 minutes
of warning time. And if a surface vehicle mitigation
process did work only one vehicle would
attempt to quell Tornado Alley. (no foresight)
Heck, "Tornado Attack" has intercepted
56 in their short existence.
Put your ideas on the web, broken
down, so laymen can understand. Link to the
specifics. I 'm tired of you hiding behind pseudo
intelligence!
The
tornado is air and water (cloud material) there's
nothing solid to trigger the conventional rocket.
Upon deeper analysis, the wall of a tornado with
wind speeds >100 mph would effectually be
solid. People have critiqued this site with good
logic, and I respect that, but whether it's the
updraft or the downdraft that's powering the
tornado at which stage of its life is debatable...
But make a rocket that travels an exact distance
and immediately explodes and you've solved the
problem. We'll make a rocket that travels 3300 ft.
then explodes (a safe distance to operate from a
tornado, yet close enough for
rocket accuracy ). Let the solid fuel
burning inside the rocket burn through a thin
protective membrane and detonate the explosive.
Since tornados are large in diameter + or - 50 ft.
should be accurate enough. We'll also make one
that travels 5280 ft. Our current knowledge of
tornado structure should be
drawn but isn't.(2)
We'll use the Laser Distance Finder to accurately
set the range. More than one salvo may be
needed to stop a tornado. If rocket integrity
dictates a remote detonation so be it. Add
smoke rockets to the mix so we can see what's
doing.
Several people have told me
they've seen tornadoes forming before the tornado
touched earth. They saw the big circular opening
in the clouds and it would be moving around. This
tells me the last progression in forming a tornado
is dropping to earth. From the bottom of the
clouds to earth could be any where from 200 ft. to
1000 ft. and it takes some doing on the tornados
part. Finally, it is heavy enough to drop from its
thunderhead womb. If we can break it off here with
pyrotechnics, damage on earth would cease almost
immediately!! And we'll baby-sit it until it's
exhausted.
Please work with me, The F0-1 tornado is
the thinness and weakest of the tornado group.
Maybe 100 ft. across at best.
[size has little to do with effective Fugita rating
, I'm generalizing] As listed, our
dainty blast might require 3 hits to make it
disperse. My thoughts are the resultant heat and
updraft caused by the blasts may completely relax
this "Tornado Cell". ( This may be all Mother Nature
needs to redirect her energy force. I'm not buying
she needs to maintain some kind equilibrium of
moisture or power between hemispheres. If she
does, she can do it over a wheat field not
somebody's house.) It's
been suggested that adding heat to the storm would
exacerbate it. Because tornados usually form over
warm areas with rising thermals, cold might be
anti tornadic. No, it takes two to tango. This
conundrum leads me to my "Truth o Meter". Or how
absolutely correct is a statement? In how many
tornadic scenarios would a 400-1000 degree
fireball, rising up the funnel cloud be tornadic?
If 51% of the time it's true then it's a viable
statement. But we're talking about the breeze
which can change direction whenever it wants. If a
tornado can be on the ground from 1 to 60 minutes,
this doesn't mean the triggers that started it are
there 1 minute after the tornado hits
earth.
But lets take this to a
worse case scenario. The same tornado drops again
to earth within minutes. We blast it again 3 more
times. It comes back a third time, we blast it 3
more times before it's gone for good. We used 9
rockets and were successful. Now we try a F2 size
tornado.
This
healthy lad may be 500 ft. across(?). Let's say it
takes 27 of our reverent blasts to make it
disperse completely. I can see an error already,
we're going to need more rockets. Now we try a F3
tornado. This bad boy may be 1500 ft. across! We
give it 60 blasts of our safety conscience rockets
and it still doesn't go away, that's when we call
in a "jump jet" to shoot at the top of the drain!
Or reach for the particle beam or the water vapor
tuned emitter.
Thank you, now apply this logic to F4 and F5 size
tornados.
And just so we are not squabbling over
technicalities a 100 ft. across tornado that buzz
saws a community does F3 to F5 damage. As with a
half mile wide one that only wrecks one farm is
F0-F1 rated.
(1) Search "cloud
seeding" for that saga. Try and find Chuck
Doswells' info. And I like http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/nhurr97/CSEED.HTM
(2) This site shows tornado structure,
V.O.R.T.E.X.
-- http://www.nssl.noaa.gov/noaastory/booklo.html
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