[sam_paine]

taken some brains

Weeeeee! Political titties, Sino bahn really got you on that one! Get it? "all ears" he turned that one around on you when you weren't lookin!!! Heehee! Try this...it's a good comeback! "Neener neener!"

Oh wow. Man this is expanding mah mind!

[Siobhan]

Oh wow. Man this is expanding mah mind!

Expanding a null set in a vacuum is not much to exclaim over.

[Simmy2.5]

Hoagland's going to be popping in all night to talk about the Hurricane.

He just mentioned that he used to be an advisor to CBS, and CNN. Anyone here surprised by that? ;-)

[Politicalities]

Look, Siobhan, the point is this: when you see an insect and want to kill it, you don't exercise subtlety. You don't crack open your copy of Sun Tzu for a few hours refresher, then carefully devise a plan of attack that involves lulling the enemy with strategically-placed bait and hitting his flanks. No, you walk up to it and step on it. Your power is so immensely greater than the insect's that subtlety would be utterly wasted, and would serve only to delay your goal. Even assuming that a nation could develop technology several decades or more ahead of ours without us noticing, without any of the thousands of people who'd have to be involved letting the fact slip to any of our spies, the possessor of such technology would have no need to be subtle.

Still waiting to hear even a few of the "variety of possibilities" you claim exist with current technology to induce and control hurricanes.