Posted on 05/14/2007 12:53:43 AM PDT by neverdem
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Reminds me of the Quantum Weather Butterfly from Pratchett’s fantasy novels:
The Quantum Weather Butterfly is a butterfly which has evolved the curious trait of weather control. This is used as a defence mechanism and a sexual characteristic. The insect is yellow, with Mandelbrot patterned wings: these wings have an infinite wing perimeter, but only a finite area. Its classification is Papilio tempestae, and it appears mainly in Interesting Times. It is based on the illustration of chaos theory that the air movement caused by a butterfly flapping its wings in America could eventually cause a storm in China.
Somebody call Owlgore, Hitlery, the ACLU, the enviro-nazis. We must ban lightning or we’ll all die!
What creates an Atlantic hurricane? The most devastating ones are spurred by intense thunderstorms in the Ethiopian highlands, according to new research.Ah, but the Ethiopian thunderstorms are caused by smokestacks and auto exhaust in North America, so you see, heads they win, tails we lose. Global warming is the new Lysenkoism. Thanks NeverDem.
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I'm confused. I thought it was Bush's fault.
Lightning spurs hurricanesI'm confused. I thought it was Bush's fault.
LOL!But you see, it was - Rove knew this all along, and he created the humongous African thunderstorm which spawned Katrina. And how did he do that? SunkenCiv has it right: "Ethiopian thunderstorms are caused by smokestacks and auto exhaust in North America."
Rove, the SOB, drove an SUV!
Shouldn't this be in breaking news?
Oh man !!!! Say it ain’t so. I so expected it to be blamed on all those helicopters we’ve got in the military!
We must demand reparations!
The butterfly theory does not apply to a sufficiently damped system such as earth’s meteorological system. It might apply to an unstable system such as a star or a nuclear explosive device at the point where the reaction blooms into the new regime. That point might be called the critical point or the tipping point. The Mandelbrot butterfly theory might be applied to the coastline of Alaska, which I maintain is infinite or perhaps indefinite down to the Planck length. The Universe itself appears to be finite and unbounded, which might be confusing Poincare topology with Mandelbrot iteration.
thats easy for you to say...
The butterfly effect?
Hmmm. OK. Let’s see now - lightening creates ozone. We have severely limited or outright banned ozone-depleting substances here in the U.S. Therefore, if hurricanes are on the increase it is directly the fault of those who pushed for the ban on ODS’s...
Once upon a time they caused the Nile to flood in the summer, now they cause hurricanes. Dang those SUV-driving Ethiopians!
“give researchers a heads-up about when a nasty hurricane might form, weeks before it could make landfall in the United States”
Heh. It’s not like the strike us by surprise, you know.
The stock market is accused of predicting more recessions than occur. Can you imagine getting hurricane warnings ‘weeks before’ based on a lot of lightning in Ethiopia? Har.
Thanks for the ping.
Speak for yourself. Phoenix is anything *but* damp! ;-)
Seriously, what is being damped here, and what is doing the damping?
(...by analogy to driven pendulums w/friction, etc.)
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