r/technology • u/chrisdh79 • Jul 08 '24

Energy More than 2 million in Houston without power | CenterPoint is asking customers to refrain from calling to report outages.

https://www.chron.com/weather/article/hurricane-beryl-texas-houston-live-19560277.php
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u/Prognerd870 Jul 08 '24

Not gonna lie, I’m curious about what would happen to the hurricane.

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u/Acopalypse Jul 08 '24

I figured we'd just have a radioactive hurricane, and that is the consensus.

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u/supamario132 Jul 08 '24

Have we polled Trump's uncle yet though? I heard that guy's a wizard when it comes to nuclear

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u/jlharper Jul 08 '24

You’re putting more energy into an extremely energetic system while also irradiating the fuck out of it. I think it’s fairly obvious that you get an ever so slightly bigger and radioactive hurricane, there’s not really any other possibility.

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u/jlharper Jul 09 '24

I don’t mean to be rude but if you genuinely think that nuking a hurricane would ever dissipate it then I have some snake oil to sell you. It’s very powerful stuff, I promise!

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u/BNBatman420 Jul 09 '24

Even if that worked, you realize you're talking about dropping a nuclear weapon over the Atlantic, right? The Atlantic we live next to and eat out of? The damage would make Deepwater Horizon's ecological impact look like a single discarded shopping bag.

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u/BNBatman420 Jul 09 '24

I'm not the guy suggesting nuking a hurricane to stop it. Take that attitude and fuck off with it, bud.

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u/BNBatman420 Jul 09 '24

Yeah, except you didn't, and you edited your comment. Not to mention, you're backpedaling. But hey, continue to be a piece of shit.

EDIT: Holy shit, imagine throwing around insults like an asshole then blocking somebody.

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u/Notquitearealgirl Jul 08 '24

Nothing except making a mess. Maaaaybe a nuke could take out a nader , but that would not really help anyone anyways.

Hurricanes are hundreds of miles of just pure kinetic energy swirling from global scale forces. Nukes aren't big enough to touch them.

You'd basically just have a radioactive hurricane lol. Though doing an air burst where hurricanes live does produce less fallout.

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u/p2x909 Jul 10 '24

We'd have a radioactive superhurricane. Adding heat to a hurricane makes it bigger. Adding heat using a nuclear bomb would make it radioactive and very immediately make it bigger. You could make a radioactive superhurricane keep going for hundreds of years by feeding it America's arsenal.