nuke a hurricane xkcd

It turns out, you'd need a lot of nukes and a lot of power. Second two months break of at least two in a row, the 16th break in total. expand into a bubble 70 miles across. Slackers. If they are radioactive, then they radiate energy. the surrounding waterthat lingers for some time. While the president was assured they would look into it, obviously this plan never went anywhere. What path would you trace on the Earth? 95 minutes at the right place at the right time. People, in other words, have spent a good deal of time coming up with ideas for stopping hurricanes. If the Hubble telescope were aimed at the Earth, how detailed would the images be? Earth would be unaffected but the human race would be wiped out due to everyone trying to get home at the same time. If everybody in the US drove west, could we temporarily halt continental drift? It was almost a year ago that two comics had been released with less than two full weeks between them (that was #147 released February 26, 2016). There's a lot of numbers involved, so let's have the experts at NOAA explain it: "A fully developed hurricane can release heat energy at a rate of 5 to 201013 watts and converts less than 10% of the heat into the mechanical energy of the wind. What is the furthest one human being has ever been from every other living person? Business, Economics, and Finance. How many fireflies would it take to match the brightness of the Sun? Why can't we do that?" How long would the Sun last if a giant water hose were focused upon it? In the first Superman movie, Superman flies around Earth so fast that it begins turning in the opposite direction. As the first two were released on week 1, this means that there were 134 articles released over the next 143 weeks, meaning there were only 9 weeks without an article. What English word has the most consecutive letters on the same key? It found that every 10 years for the past four decades, "the likelihood of a hurricane developing into a major one of Category 3 or higher, with sustained winds greater than 110 miles an hour, [increased] by about 8% a decade." pressure from that six miles of water overhead causes it to collapse. Surely anything is possible if we put our minds to it, right, scientists? What would kill me first? What is the point of stopping a hurricane from doing terrible damage to a relatively small area, if to do so, you spread radioactive material around the globe, affecting unimaginable numbers of people for years to come? waters of the Gulf of Mexicos Loop Current sometimes cause hurricanes goes with citing temperature records and other trivia actually naming a Jeopardy master. How close would you have to be to a supernova to get a lethal dose of neutrino radiation? But wait! Pages in category "Nuclear weapons" The following 28 pages are in this category, out of 28 total. Kerry Emanuel, a hurricane expert at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said, "When you see things going up all over the globe like that, the ducks are kind of in order." It turns out that if the waves are very large, they break At what voltage would you have have to set the e-fisher? The article 137 from July 14, 2015 was about the New Horizons probe. Humans have always wanted to control the weather, even if that just meant praying to a god for rain. This can never happen, even if we were to throw Earth at Jupiter. What a great axe that would be! In pursuit of answers, Munroe runs computer simulations, pores over stacks of declassified military research memos, solves differential equations, and consults with nuclear reactor operators. After that there were five more two weeks break, one three week break (before December 11, 2014) and two releases in a row (133-134 towards the end of this period of 136 articles), where the release dates where shifted so the two came out over three weeks' time with about 1.5 weeks between them. How much would you need to make to be in real trouble? What if everyone actually had only one soul mate, a random person somewhere in the world? water. How big of a lawn would you have to have so that when you finished mowing you'd need to start over because the grass has grown? This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5 License. This memo has been declassified, but was never published. How fast would you have to go in your car to run a red light claiming that it appeared green to you due to the Doppler Effect? Don't take any chances. Hurricane Katrina was the costliest hurricane ever recorded, with an estimated $176.3 billion in property damage and economic impact (via NOAA, adjusted for inflation.) If you have a good arm, you could probably throw this book about 45 feet. In his explanations, Randall, often uses diagrams in an xkcd style. For a more brief and arrangeable list, see. Everyone Practices Cancel Culture | Opinion, Deplatforming Free Speech is Dangerous | Opinion. Absolutely! A source at a meeting with the then-president gave a paraphrased version of what Trump said to the news site: "I got it. How long of a fall would I need in order for the balloon to slow me enough that I could land safely? The reason for this you can read at the Editor FAQ . story by using. Between the famine and the fires, most life on Earth is How steep would the slope have to be to sustain the momentum needed to ride a bicycle the entire distance without pedaling? Lawrence River Adaptive Management Committee would be angry. When (if ever) did the Sun finally set on the British Empire? Explosion. Hurricane Freud starts in the Gulf of Mexico, draws a set of balls to Florida's cock, and then comes on land and stops. Has humanity produced enough paint to cover the entire land area of the Earth? What could I use as a clear medium? It includes hot water but I have to pay the electric bill. The what if? Most of the what if? The world just has too many people. Stack them. What changes could be made to our diets for the amount of calories to equal the energy of the Sun? dinosaurs. With practice, it's possible to throw a book every 800 milliseconds, which means that if human attackers are sprinting towards you, you'll have three or four chances to hit them before they reach you. Fortunately for the coast, these waves are fundamentally different from But that doesn't mean serious scientists haven't thought about the possibility. Second time with less than two weeks between release in 2017. If you're thinking about buying it, here are some things you might want to know: Humans can't digest the cellulose in paper, but if we could, eating this book would give you about 2,300 calories (including the cover). Although they were presumably trying to say "hotter than the average swimming pool," this got me wondering: What is the average temperature of all water on the Earths surface, and how does that temperature compare to 39C? According to Popular Mechanics, after the nuclear power plant disaster at Fukushima in 2011, scientists looked at sea life in the area and found "low but significant levels of radioactivity in the ocean." Instead, it blows a hole in the Some words have consecutive letters on the same number. If you made a beach using grains the proportionate size of the stars in the Milky Way, what would that beach look like? But it would be the same problem with nukes. Or what if you were doing a backflip? Could I cool down the Earth by capturing a comet and dropping it in the ocean, like an ice cube in a glass of water? What would happen if you tried to hit a baseball pitched at 90% the speed of light? Assuming you had a good coat, you would survive to the death zone and die. What a great splish-splash that would be! The problem is, we already know there would be no point. The others not so much. How much damage would a hail storm with size 5 soccer ball sized hail do? If you wanted to anchor an airplane into the ground so it wouldn't be able to take off, what would the rope have to be made out of? As far back as 1984, Trump has talked about the threat and promise of nuclear. much less catastrophic than a direct nuclear attack. If your cells suddenly lost the power to divide, how long would you survive? Could this be an effective weapon, or would it be as stupid as it sounds? The New START, signed by then-presidents Barack Obama and Dmitry Medvedev in 2010, limits each country to no more than 1,550 deployed nuclear warheads and 700 deployed missiles and bombers. With the announced release of the what if? Would it be possible for two teams in a tug-o-war to overcome the ultimate tensile strength of an iron rod and pull it apart? All incomplete explanations are here . What would happen if all the bodies of water on Earth magically disappeared? So I suppose the question is what is the optimal time to heat left over Chinese food in the microwave, how about an 800 watt microwave? that engulf the forests of Indonesia, California, and the Pacific After that they were released weekly for almost three years, with just a few times with two (and once three) weeks between releases, up until article 136 was released on April 12, 2015 (2 years and 40 weeks). But beware of messing with the Texans. It is the 2nd book published by Randall. quite as dramatic as Evin might have imagined. I figured this would be long enough to warm me up but not long enough to harm me. What would happen if you were to gather a mole (unit of measurement) of moles (the small furry critter) in one place? Could you electrofish for a blue whale? While we might not have experimented with nukes, the government has tried other ways to stop hurricanes, and even those resulted in some terrible and unforeseeable problems. How quickly would the ocean's drain if a circular portal 10 meters in radius leading into space was created at the bottom of Challenger Deep, the deepest spot in the ocean? "He made it up. The questions Randall tackles range from realistic possibilities (e.g. The basic idea goes like this-the Pentagon should bomb the eye of a tropical storm, thereby dispersing it and saving countless lives and millions of dollars. Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions, Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems, More Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions, Water Waves Generated By Underwater Explosions, Evaluation of From here on there seems to no longer be a standard release day for some time. This is potentially hazardous to some ships, but before disintegrating into, in the words of the 1996 report, a mass of it gets, we can try a formula from the 1971 paper Evaluation of quickly-expanding spherical cavity of hot steam. How would the Earth change as the water is being drained? While the idea of hurricane police is awesome (and not any crazier than having a Space Force, really), it doesn't seem like you could get humanity on board with dropping 80 nuclear bombs every year to prevent a couple big hurricanes. How much Force power can Yoda output?). But after defeating the Nazis and inventing the atom bomb, scientists seemed to think anything was possible, including controlling the weather. "You could hear a gnat fart in that meeting," the source told Axios. The release date in the archive is the wrong year 2014. Possibly the Apollo Astronauts but they definitely weren't lonely. See the [[what if]] ''{{what if|147|Niagara Straw}}''. Even the U.S. government got involved in a big way. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, who get asked this question a lot, this is a very bad idea. The explosion at the bottom of the Mariana Trench will create a The website of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the U.S. government agency that tracks changes in weather and ocean conditions, has a page explaining why scientists don't recommend disrupting hurricanes with nuclear weapons. This means you're free to copy and share these comics (but not to sell them). With less than 3 weeks between releases, releases seems to have become more regular in the beginning of 2017. I jokingly sent him a photo of a parrot holding a pizza slice in its beak. Fat: 39 6, but they would cost much more than you could afford. The result of the above is that over the first 144 weeks 136 articles where released with never more than 3 weeks between releases. The third two weeks Christmas break, the seventh break in total. Which has a greater gravitational pull on me: the Sun, or spiders? Later he released a different countdown with comic 2636: What If? Most of the tests, however, involved either small bombs or shallow A nuke set What if you were flashing your BIOS during a thunderstorm and you got hit by lightning? It's certainly the farthest from Earth we know about. The question is, how many vehicles would it take to build a car-bridge across the Atlantic? A fully developed hurricane can release heat energy at a rate of 5 to 20x1013 watts and converts less than 10% of the heat into the mechanical energy of the wind. At what speed would you have to drive for rain to shatter your windshield? Only to find that the chair I sat on converted the successful silence into a perfect, and loud, flute note. Most of the time it would not hit anyhing. ", In August 2019, the news website Axios wrote that sources who heard the president's private remarks in recorded comments in a National Security Council (NSC) memorandum claimed to have heard Trump asking top national security officials to "consider using nuclear bombs to weaken or destroy hurricanes. In most cases this tends to heat the bowl or plate more than the food. First after 17 more weeks releases began again with article 141 on Tuesday January 16, 2016. Hurricanes cause destruction in lots of ways, but the big one is wind. Intense enough to cause a medium sized nuclear explosion. (Also, Randall misspelled Bethlehem). Liquid nitrogen? Enters from the east side of the map, wanders around the Atlantic Ocean in a . Repeat. The first of two longer shifts in release day two weeks in a row which resulted in only two releases over three weeks, resulting in the eight break in total. I got it. The culprit was a comet or Regardless of the context, Randall tends to take the questions extremely literally and responds seriously to them, even if they are whimsical (such as the Yoda question). Probably not. If the explosion And cut down the great tree, Could a high-speed train run through a vertical loop, like a rollercoaster, with the passengers staying comfortable? At least two comics coming out right after this was referencing this article. Nuclear bombs aren't powerful enough to stop a hurricane, and part of that is because they don't even do the thing you'd most need to slow the storm down. NOAA. If cows could photosynthesize, how much less food would they need? How great would all of these things be? shooter is at sea level and catcher is up a mountain at the extreme range of the gun. 2: Additional Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions was released on September 13. The tree and splash would be great. rim. What if we were to dump all the tea in the world into the Great Lakes? {{Title text: Knuth Paper-Stack Notation: Write down the number on pages. I've occasionally seen "radar enforced" on speed limit signs, and I can't help but ask: How intense would radio waves have to be to stop a car from going over the speed limit, and what would happen if this were attempted? You angle your descent and grab the pole just long enough to swing around so that when you let go you're now heading back up toward the sky. . }}, xkcd.com is best viewed with Netscape Navigator 4.0 or below on a Pentium 31 emulated in Javascript on an Apple IIGS, https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/log_scale.png, Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5 License. After effectively describing what would occur as a nuclear explosion, leveling the stadium and the surrounding mile radius, he concludes with the note "A careful reading of official Major League Baseball Rule 6.08(b) suggests that in this situation, the batter would be considered 'hit by pitch', and would be eligible to advance to first base.". Leaving aside the legal and insurance difficulties, my daughter is keen to know the maximum speed that she could expect to attain, and how many helium balloons would be required. Sugar: 19 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5 License. That's. Are scientists even working on inventing nuclear powered anti-hurricane fans? If set up in the rainiest place in the United States (Ketchikan, Alaska), the cost could be offset in about a century. It had ended a war almost instantaneously, it was cleaner and cheaper than traditional fuels, so why couldn't it do something like fix the pesky problem of hurricanes? you would not be warmed if you went to the surface. This page was last edited on 11 January 2023, at 02:47. Crypto typically takes the question beyond the original scope likely intended by the reader and takes it to some extreme for humorous effect. They start forming off the coast of Africa, as they're moving across the Atlantic, we drop a bomb inside the eye of the hurricane and it disrupts it. The flooding they cause is also terrible and deadly, but at least the law of gravitation means that the water stays by the ground. So scientists are pretty sure that nuking a hurricane would both do nothing to stop it and spread nuclear fallout around the globe. Granted, the Sun is much bigger, but it is also much further away, and as I learned in high school physics, the gravitational force is proportional to the square of the distance. Never use the Math markup language at the transcript. Let's say the racer has to survive. Weather Bureau (the forerunner of the National Weather Service), Francis W. Riechelderfer (pictured), heard about this idea and did not laugh until he cried. If there was enough water, and if the model held up, thisblast would It turns out not only is that hard to help her appreciate this size, I am not at all able to explain all of the other difficulties you'd have to overcome. But the winds of a hurricane can destroy anything, on any level. to rapidly intensify. Category:Hurricanes - explain xkcd. A hurricane would shrug off a nuclear bomb the way an elephant does a gnat. It's very unpromising. Needless to say, this is not a good idea.". But the next one (#154) was indeed released only a bit more than week after the one with 15 weeks break, and then less than 3 weeks after followed yet an article on February 28 2017. And, for reasons we'll get into, it would be. What injuries would occur and what would the associated crimes be? A 2016 National Geographic article also explained that detonating a nuke inside a hurricane could violate the Peaceful Nuclear Explosions Treaty between the U.S. and the former Soviet Union. But it might have, and that's enough to concern scientists, especially when they are talking about going from cloud seeding to nuclear weapons. Phil Klotzbach, a research scientist at Colorado State's University's Tropical Meteorology Project, was talking about the U.S. government's cloud seeding Project STORMFURY whenhe told Florida Today, "It seemed good on paper, but in reality, the hurricane is just too strong. How many unique English tweets are possible? But as the '50s turned to the '60s, more and more people began to realize the weapons contained inherent dangers and harms. (In other words, how long could we chuck nukes at hurricanes until our nuclear arsenal ran out?). Could a (small) rocket (with payload) be lifted to a high point in the atmosphere where it would only need a small rocket to get to escape velocity? How fast would I have to bike for my skin to warm up the way a spacecraft heats up during reentry? Obviously, the answer is to nuke them when they are still small and not an issue. Before publishing the first what if? How long could the human race survive on only cannibalism? The first scenarios are pretty boring. "Needless to say, this is not a good idea.". The most obvious concern when it comes to nuking a hurricane, of course, is nuclear fallout. What if I tried to re-enter the atmosphere in my car? But those are waves from an explosion close to the surface. What height would humans reach if we kept growing through our whole development period (i.e. What about using a squirrel suit? Within a dozen or so seconds, the bubble shrinks to a minimum size, then Were they lonely? This means you're free to copy and share these comics (but not to sell them). Why can't we do that? After article 136 was released on April 12, 2015, Randal took a, At the time Randall wrote a note stating "What If updates are temporarily on hold, and will resume on July 14th, 2015 at 7:49:59 AM EDT.". Humans have done supposedly impossible things before. The hole fills in, with huge columns of steam and great What a great tree that would be! If winds reached 500 mph, would it pick up a human? what if? If all the trees were one tree, If we could convert the energy to build the Great Pyramid, would it be enough to send a rocket to the Moon and back? "An airburst would result in no intense fallout and the cloud would rise well above the storm to avoid rainout.". For the answer, the universe would be destroyed. Is it possible for a spacecraft to control its reentry in such a way that it avoids the atmospheric compression and thus would not require the expensive (and relatively fragile) heat shield on the outside? Not with regular lasers, but with more power, you could destroy the world. How close could I stand to watch it? 48,364 views Sep 26, 2019 1.4K Dislike Share Science Insider 2.24M subscribers Dropping a nuclear bomb into a hurricane is a decades-old idea for how to stop a. If you drop a 7kg bowling ball over the side, how long would it take to hit the bottom? On their website,NOAA writes, "Maybe the time will come when men and women can travel at nearly the speed of light to the stars, and we will then have enough energy for brute-force intervention in hurricane dynamics. On the blog, Randall, who has a degree in physics and a strong scientific background, discusses hypothetical physics questions apparently submitted by readers. And the best part is, it's all humanity's fault. 53,000,000 megatons is approximately the energy of the Chicxulub impact. There's just too much of a chance that the unknown could happen and result in an epic, deadly disaster. Stopping an asteroid with a laser on the other hand is a lot easier. Order here! Hey! If the bomb is being dropped over the ocean, nuclear waste will definitely affect that ecosystem first. detonated, and at 11 kilometers, the Mariana(s) Trench is the deepest What if everyone who took the SAT guessed on every multiple-choice question? Biking at that speed would make your body generate so much heat your core temperature would reach fatal levels in seconds. "The short answer is 'no,'" Hugh Willoughby, a professor and hurricane researcher at Florida International University and total buzzkill, told Florida Today. How long would it take for a single person to fill up an entire swimming pool with their own saliva? 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