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  1. Green Baron
    Latest predictions seem a little more relaxed for Florida.
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    Seems to be a thorough article i'd say. Though i wouldn't go so far to say "we all are screwed" i fear that more than anticipated actually may be. Looking forward to adjustments in the models to account for accelerating thawing, warming and level rise we have seen lately.
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    It is generally a bad idea to stick to an erroneous assumption too long and then try to catch up with reality. After we have seen what happened to the poor Caribbean islands, poor Cuba next in line and Florida queuing up i would, if the weather services advises me to run, not ask to where. That must be clear by then. A refractory mother will be converted into baggage.
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    Geomagnetism doesn't cause earthquakes. I assume you mean power lines / transformers influenced by a magnetic storm as suggested in one of the comments, yeah, that exists and is rare.
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    I can't see the image you embedded ... might be an error on my side. Well, the effect of a momentary event on geology (here: sedimentary geology) is limited if at all visible. Solar activity rather not. Some tsunamis do, or debris flows. OTOH cycles that result from orbital parameters are visible. They are called Milankovitch - cycles. Whether a speculative sun spot cycle has a representation in deposits ... hmm, i don't know, never heard of, but that doesn't mean it doesn't exist if the sun spot cycles exist.
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    Why Bermuda ? The Bermudas are, if at all on the course of Jose, far in the future and probably it has lost its power until then. It is the poor northern Leeward Islands that will receive the rest ...
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    This one got a little lost between Irma and real life star destroyers. Thanks for the info :-)
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    One moment, is the linked site really the official American patent office's blabla website ? If so, i am deeply disappointed.
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    Space Balls Megamaid
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    If you don't already know it, there's a stunning video of the eye of irma from an ISS outboard camera on the NASA page.
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    Chinese immigrant ? What will you do with him ?
  12. Green Baron
    Healing the headache with an axe ? :-)
  13. Green Baron
    What people do who have too much time (*looking around*): analyse others :-) Here: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1301.1656.pdf Furthermore he was uncomfortable with the idea that the universe could be open, a cosmological constant > 0 wasn't exactly his thing. The universe ought to be static and solemn (does that smell German ?). But then Hubble discovered another galaxy outside ours, that stirred things up. Man, don't take me too serious here, i have too much time as well :-)
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    You need to fill the low pressure up. A shockwave from a plane makes a noise but adds 0. Fantastillions of explosive devices that generate gasses from solids might help fill up, but it'll smell :-) Surrounding high pressure and a breaking force at the base, but in an undisturbed system air masses only rotate around the center of high or low, but do not exchange. If an obstacle at ground level brakes the rotation, then exchange starts.
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    Oh, yeah, generally - easy solutions to complex problems don't exist - if someone says "the professionals ignore me" that is a sign that he has no arguments - if you find texts in internet magazines, titled "scientists have found out", that is most surely bogus It has a local (meters) effect, and it moves too fast for the pressure behind and in front of the glass to equalize. After it is through, everything is as before. Except for the letter to the insurance. The schockwave doesn't move air away, like a waterwave doesn't move water.
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    Shockwaves don't change anything. They just go through, pressure rises locally and drops again. There are lines of thunderstorms, each bolt releases a shockwave. How many in a hurricane over its lifetime ? Millions ? The guy you mentioned should concentrate on "popup devices to scare of an attacking bear" or "bookmark to open a book at a selected page". Physics wise, he is a nut. Like me. Sometimes. :-) ... a million splattered ants. :-)
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    Lol ! Nuke a hurricane, this is so cute. American style, eh *devilkerbal* ? Yep, the barometric pressure doesn't change no matter how juicy the explosion. Oh, i wasn't aware that the E-kin is only 10% of the hurricanes energy, yet enough to level islands. Thanks !
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    As a general rule, and after having heartily smiled over the guy's other inventions, simple solutions to complex problems don't work. Hundreds of others have probably thought of it before. The energy that drives a tropical storm is by magnitudes too high to be influenced by any human means, other than stopping global warming but that's not going to happen. The rotation is caused by Coriolis force and the the energy is driven by ocean surface temperature. Just try to guess what the kinetic energy of the rotating air and water is, we are talking about trillions of tons of water of air rotating with high speed. Harvey vomited 9 trillion(*) tons on Texas i read somewhere ... but this should be checked. Only the cut off from warm water supply (moving over colder water) or the filling up with surrounding higher pressure (moving over land, kindly ask to search the explanation yourself) can end the life of a hurricane. American trillions: 10^12t
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    I should think i can't even if i tried hard :-) Was thinking more of a practical application, like spilling things to the floor rather than the ceiling :-)) Edit, well, on second thought, exothermal reaction, the stains on the ceiling or probably as numerous as those on the floor. Ok, you win !
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    "Leonov says "the professionals" in this area have "simply ignored me. " Remark mine: Professionals where MIT or NHC scientists. Might that be for a reason ?
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    Now how does a chemist avoid gravity ? :-)
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    Wilco :-) Three big ones that could have had global impact during the past 2.1 million years. At least the last one 640.000 years ago should have a representation in the records, but it hasn't. As to the effects of ashes, sulfuric acid, etc., it'll surely be noticable, but it is not that trivial to quantify. What you could do if interested is use the info from USGS (there's a lot of it on the page i linked above) and go for a search. Edit: and use historic eruptions for comparison, Tambora comes to mind, though it was a magnitude lower.
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    Combustion or electric ? 30 years ago we used a servo for the carburettor of a combustion engine, or a control unit (simplest way: adjustable resistor) for an electric one ... Have things changed :-) ?
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    It is disinformation. Being alert and curious drives science. And thus some things are known about Yellowstone, others are not. For example the major past eruptions during the Pleistocene are known. Now, to check whether there is any possible scientific information connected to the claim "99% of humanity", one could simply check if any of these eruptions have a representation in the records (try EPICA) or in biodiversity. That so ? (in know the answer but i am not telling ) I think the same. And money. Money. Money. Get a grip on public funds. Asteroids are out of style since most of the big ones are apparently known by now, no immediate risk observable at the moment. The general public these days changes minds quickly. Asteroids today, eruptions tomorrow, storms after that. Real threats drown in the noise or aren't momentarily that evident (like climate change). The disaster (a supereruption) will most probably cover large parts of the US in ashes and so will have a huge impact on biodiversity there. One can speculate about the details, and about the impact on the rest of the world, definitely know it is not. Rather millions. The chamber is huge and being fed from below (>600km), though maybe not from way down below (core/mantle border). Humans don't concentrate that long .... :-)
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    Islands razed, Barbuda reported to be uninhabitable, coastal areas drowned, and the next Hurricane on the way ... looks like a damaged launch facility is a minor problem me thinks ...
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