Posted on 09/22/2005 11:46:25 AM PDT by Diogenez
For so many years we thought Cheney was pulling the strings. It's good to know the truth.
It might cost several trillion dollars but you could build a giant nuclear ice maker ( or several ) that will continuously create icebergs in the hurricane alley which will cool the ocean temp to a point where it becomes inconducive for hurricane formations.
How exactly do you build a home to resist a 20 foot wave surge and 165 mph winds?
Better not to fool with Mother Nature.
Actually the right kind of contruction is comparable in cost and far superior in strength to the square framed buildings of the past. I have no association with this outfit, but I do recognize it as a superior building.
Skip talking about surviving hurricanes and start discussing the 300 mph winds of tornados.
http://www.monolithicdome.com/plan_design/survive/index.html
IT'S BUSH'S FAULT!!
Since George is obviously able to direct the path and intensity of these storms he had best get on the stick and send this one back out into the Gulf.
Cooling the ocean surface temp in the path by only a few degrees would do it, maybe.
The law of unintended consequences, I fear could raise it's ugly head here.
Can anyone imagine an "Ice Hurricane"?
Highly unlikely I know
But in a world where Carpenters come back from the dead, anything is possible.
You build it at 20+ feet of elevation, use a high volume drainage plan, and put in solid reinforced concrete walls and roofing. It is very doable; that is the way most professionally made homes have been traditionally put together in the Caribbean. Just fly over to one of the islands and take a look. The concrete homes there, even the modest ones, usually do well with hurricanes.
"would that be an act of war?"
Mother nature has some very dangerous phenomena, like meteors, plagues, famine, earthquakes, solar storms, hurricanes, and volcanoes that periodically rid her of the majority of life on earth. Wouldn't you think that if a civilization develops the capability to prevent it's destruction that it would?
Not all concrete homes are created equally, and you have to put them above the storm surge.
This guy was actually on a couple radio stations in the past two weeks. I learned about him a few nights ago when he was on Rusty Humphrey's show....which I thought was Art Bell until I heard the show ID.
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How exactly do you build a home to resist a 20 foot wave surge and 165 mph winds?
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Moveable pilings, like my house.
To further connect your reference and this thread, ever read "Cat's Cradle"? Maybe a chip or two of Ice-Nine would help.
IS the bottom right of the pictures Huck Finn carrying his wraped clothes and tobacco on a stick?
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