nuke a hurricane xkcd

is a blog hosted on the xkcd.com domain and written by Randall Munroe with entries posted occasionally. Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5 License. Yup, we can thank climate change for deadlier hurricanes. What if a glass of water was, all of a sudden, literally half empty? The rising The report, published in 1996, 2 book. What would happen if you opened a portal between Boston (sea level) and Mexico City (elev. I also understand that by doing this, Jupiter slowed down very slightly. As with a lot of these answers, just don't. effects has not been made. This is clear from his response to the question of what would happen if everybody on Earth stood together and jumped at the same time. How much would you need to make to be in real trouble? I was absentmindedly stirring a cup of hot tea, when I got to thinking, "aren't I actually adding kinetic energy into this cup?" See the [[what if]] ''{{what if|147|Niagara Straw}}''. I use one of those old phones where you type with numbersfor example, to type "Y", you press 9 three times. The culprit was a comet or In 2022 the follow up book What If? would reach to a height of 200-300 feet above sea level, or a distance The report outlines how when a nuclear weapon goes off underwater, it Possibly the Apollo Astronauts but they definitely weren't lonely. How much Force power can Yoda output?). My question is, what would a bowling ball look like if it were blown up to the size of the Earth? If they are radioactive, then they radiate energy. Explanation []. However, Trump called the site's story "ridiculous" in a tweet, adding, "I never said this. What if you exploded a nuclear bomb (say, the Tsar Bomba) at the bottom of the Marianas Trench? How many bananas would you need to power a house? Various Theoretical Models For Underwater This work is licensed under a Ever since J. Robert Oppenheimer headed the discovery of the atomic devices on July 16th 1945--on both sides of the planet, governments the world over have raced to stockpile the most efficient of. If the Hubble telescope were aimed at the Earth, how detailed would the images be? At the moment it seems impossible to guess when a new post is released so: Below is a list of the articles released in the what if? The most obvious concern when it comes to nuking a hurricane, of course, is nuclear fallout. The 'reality' and consequences of using multiple cars (that are not your own) to construct a trans-Atlantic highway. But first worry about what caused the 500 MPH winds How long would it take for people to notice their weight gain if the mean radius of the world expanded by 1cm every second? 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. The article is about the slope needed to be able to coast on a bike, without using the pedals, across mainland USA. into the atmosphere, they heat to a glowlike meteorsigniting global From the very edge of the atmosphere and even then it might not be fully cooked. 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. What if all of the sun's output of visible light were bundled up into a laser-like beam that had a diameter of around 1m once it reaches Earth? What if everyone actually had only one soul mate, a random person somewhere in the world? After World War II, they started trying in a big way. As plastic is made from oil and oil is made from dead dinosaurs, how much actual real dinosaur is there in a plastic dinosaur? It is just like 'xkcd:volume 0' a compilation of some questions from the website, but half of them are new. This means you're free to copy and share these comics (but not to sell them). Sugar: 19 What if you tried to stop rain with a laser that targeted and vaporized each incoming droplet before it could come within ten feet of the ground? 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. Biking at that speed would make your body generate so much heat your core temperature would reach fatal levels in seconds. Hurricane cos(x) forms a graph of cos(x) along the bottom edge of the map.]] It's very unpromising. Red successfully cuts off Blue and then dies shortly thereafter. Assuming that you have a spaceship in orbit around the Earth, could you propel your ship to speeds exceeding escape velocity by hitting golf balls in the other direction? Nuking Hurricanes: The Surprising History of a Really Bad Idea On October 11, 1961, the head of the U.S. How long could the human race survive on only cannibalism? Hurricanes emit a mind-boggling amount of energy. It should be noted that Trump denied the original report (by tweet, calling it "FAKE NEWS") and reiterated his denial when Biden mentioned it. 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? The problem is, we already know there would be no point. On average, not just in spring or fall. With the announced release of the what if? the probability of achieving a perfect SAT score by guessing) to completely fictional questions (e.g. If all the seas were one sea, But as the '50s turned to the '60s, more and more people began to realize the weapons contained inherent dangers and harms. 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.". At 53 megatons, the Tsar Bomba was the most powerful nuclear weapon ever detonated, and at 11 kilometers, the Mariana (s) Trench is the deepest part of the ocean. If a T-rex were released in New York City, how many humans/day would it need to consume to get its needed calorie intake? Not in a "scatter my ashes" sense, but, like, "throw my naked corpse out the airlock" sense. Through the decades, theNational Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) reports that researchers tried a laundry list of ways to stop hurricanes, including "seeding clouds with dry ice or silver iodide, reducing evaporation from the ocean surface with thin-layers of polymers, cooling the ocean with cryogenic material or icebergs, changing the radiational balance in the hurricane environment by absorption of sunlight with carbon black, flying jets clockwise in the eyewall to reverse the flow, exploding the hurricane apart with hydrogen bombs, and blowing the storm away from land with giant fans, etc.". It's baffling and has made me automatically adjust heating times to over 2 minutes. Even the mightiest hurricane begins life as a much smaller storm. How many molecules of the ink would be used? The second 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. 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. "He made it up. Or looking straight up at the bolt? In terms of human-made objects, has Voyager 1 travelled the farthest distance? The world just has too many people. How long would the Sun last if a giant water hose were focused upon it? what if? What would be the most expensive way to fill a size 11 shoebox (e.g. Instead, it blows a hole in the It would be vapourized before it got close to the Sun. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5 License. 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." In 1962, physicist Freeman Dyson wrote a memo discussing eight possible More details. Humans have done supposedly impossible things before. ", "You could hear a gnat fart in that meeting," the source told Axios. These turned out to be the remains of North American forests How many model rocket engines would it take to launch a real rocket into space? e.g. Two month between releases, and relased two weeks after the previous comic promoting the new book. In the first Superman movie, Superman flies around Earth so fast that it begins turning in the opposite direction. (including inside apartments). I have had a particular problem for as long as I can remember. Earth would be unaffected but the human race would be wiped out due to everyone trying to get home at the same time. Fortunately for the coast, these waves are fundamentally different from The third two weeks Christmas break, the seventh break in total. The others not so much. Most of the tests, however, involved either small bombs or shallow How dangerous is it, really, to be in a swimming pool in a thunderstorm? I heard that bananas are radioactive. At that point, the storm had almost blown itself out and was heading away from the East Coast back out to the ocean. The majority of the worlds plants die and the food chain collapses It would warm a small patch of the ocean and not do much. What would happen if the Earth's rotation were sped up until a day only lasted one second? 40000 people and some magic. How long would humanity last? You are in a boat directly over the Mariana Trench. From here on standard release day was Tuesday. Fast enough so you would need a speedometer in scientific notation. Here's what would happen if you nuked a hurricane. Randall announced his what if? "Apart from the fact that this might not even alter the storm, this approach neglects the problem that the released radioactive fallout would fairly quickly move with the tradewinds to affect land areas and cause devastating environmental problems," the page states. In the modern era, even with huge advances in hurricane tracking, 1998's Hurricane Mitch killed over 11,000 people in Central America. As long as you don't touch strange things and you don't swim too close to the fuel rods, it would be just like a regular pool. From here on standard release day was again Tuesday. it would split into many islands and the Netherlands will take over. Could it navigate? before disintegrating into, in the words of the 1996 report, a mass of Or what if you were doing a backflip? shooter is at sea level and catcher is up a mountain at the extreme range of the gun. I understand that the New Horizons craft used gravity assist from Jupiter to increase its speed on the way to Pluto. beneath the waters of the Pacific. First regular release. Until then, perhaps the best solution is just learn to co-exist with them.". In Armageddon, a NASA guy comments that a plan to shoot a laser at the asteroid is like shooting a b.b. gun at a freight train. What would it take to stop an out-of-control freight train using only b.b. We could possibly spend a ton of money and resources to get a probe to Voyager. "Apart from the fact that this might not even alter the storm, this approach neglects the problem that the released radioactive fallout would fairly quickly move with the tradewinds to affect land areas and cause devastating environmental problems,"NOAA's hurricane page states. coast. During this lovely dinner I was forced to liberate a small portion of wind and was relieved that I managed to do so very discretely. The core on the other hand, would vapourize you. Nuking hurricanes is in line with his long-held fascination with and trust in nuclear power and nuclear weapons. Can you use a magnifying glass and moonlight to light a fire? From here on standard release day was Thursday. If cows could photosynthesize, how much less food would they need? What height would humans reach if we kept growing through our whole development period (i.e. Reed wasn't worried about fallout. What would the world be like if the land masses were spread out the same way as now - only rotated by an angle of 90 degrees? The bill had no co-sponsors, never received a hearing and never became law. What if you were flashing your BIOS during a thunderstorm and you got hit by lightning? kg. What a great tree that would be! guns? part of the ocean. What if I jumped out of an airplane with a couple of tanks of helium and one huge, un-inflated balloon? (I don't know why six feetbut that's what he asked.). For that matter, which war has the highest movie time:war time ratio? Is there any way to fire a gun so that the bullet flies through the air and can then be safely caught by hand? If you drop a 7kg bowling ball over the side, how long would it take to hit the bottom? You would have to go 200m/s. Would it flow once it's set up? Category:Hurricanes - explain xkcd. The release date in the archive is the wrong month June. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5 License. I bike to class sometimes. What English word has the most consecutive letters on the same key? Could you electrofish for a blue whale? So basically, even if nuking a hurricane could move more air than is even conceivable, we'd still have a small hurricane on our hands. How much damage would a hail storm with size 5 soccer ball sized hail do? What if the Earth were made entirely of protons, and the Moon were made entirely of electrons? With today's technology, would it be possible to launch an unmanned mission to retrieve Voyager I? The finger holes would collapse and then not much would happen. no wave of any consequence will be generated.. What is the furthest one human being has ever been from every other living person? But what about the edge of ultracentrifuges, or generator turbines that have been running for years, for example? First of all, it would not stand under its own weight. Using nuclear weapons to destroy hurricanes is not a good idea, a US scientific agency has said, following reports that President . Unlike the last article, out after almost a 15 weeks break, this one was released only a bit more than week after that. If your cells suddenly lost the power to divide, how long would you survive? [[An unlabeled map shows the region roughly between central Canada and northern Brazil. This has become known as the Countdown in header text, see all details on that page. Second time with less than two weeks between release in 2017. If not, then we all die. Biden said Trump, "has an answer for hurricanes. bounces back, expanding outward again. What if I took a swim in a typical spent nuclear fuel pool? At what numerical value would the number printed approximately equal the number of ink molecules used? The seventh two weeks break, 13th break in total. Of course, at that point, it might be easier to just leave Earth behind completely. The bar representing Uranium is so large that it extends onto a stack of paper taller than a human]] 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? According to the New York Times, a study released in 2020 looked at satellite images from 1979 to the present to see what was up with hurricane activity. Then, while falling, I release the helium and fill the balloon. We would see a variety of benefits across our lives but we would also freeze and die. Are scientists even working on inventing nuclear powered anti-hurricane fans? If we hooked turbines to people exercising in gyms, how much power could we produce? If I shot an infinitely strong laser beam into the sky at a random point, how much damage would it do? 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. For example, in the first article, he discusses what would happen if a baseball were pitched at 90% of the speed of light. This is potentially hazardous to some ships, but After that articles began coming out regularly with a total of 9 releases out before the end of March 2016, mainly on Tuesdays to begin with, then one on a Friday before the last two came on Saturdays with two weeks breaks before each, the last being article 149 on March 26, 2016. If you make the words pronounceable by always alternating vowels and consonants, the names would be about 24 letters long. Would the storm cell be immediately vaporized? The comet either burns up in the atmosphere or speeds up global warming. Would it do more environmental damage than it is already apparently doing? 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 (now Russia), possibly increasing the arms race tensions between the two countries. What's the worst thing that can happen if you misuse a pressure cooker in an ordinary kitchen? off the North American coast: Quantitative study of the destructive Don't take any chances. 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. But what if we could stop a hurricane in its tracks? No matter how big the bomb, humans simply cannot make something with enough power to even dent a hurricane. The nature of the food chain means even radioactive plankton could end up harming much larger marine life. 95 minutes at the right place at the right time. Order here! This work is licensed under a The debris takes quite as dramatic as Evin might have imagined. Why can't we do that?" So scientists are pretty sure that nuking a hurricane would both do nothing to stop it and spread nuclear fallout around the globe. Most of the time it would not hit anyhing. If you cheat, a bag a little smaller than the Moon. The larger fish tended to be stunned for slightly longer because of their larger surface area but I don't imagine this relationship would be maintained for very large animals. If every country's airspace extended up forever, which country would own the largest percentage of the galaxy at any given time? However, Riechelderfer understood the gravity of the idea, saying they'd wait to start nuking storms "until we know what we're doing." Every now and then we have to insert a leap second because the Earths rotation is slowing down. Honestly, my main motivation is to baffle someone in the distant future, but it's an interesting scientific question: what would happen to my body in orbit over the course of years, decades or centuries? "A clean device would minimize lingering activity placed in the atmosphere," he wrote in his 1959 presentation. The questions Randall tackles range from realistic possibilities (e.g. Copy paste the above text and correct the number and the title to get this result: The two first articles were released on the same day, Tuesday July 10, 2012, probably to get the blog going, and let users of xkcd see that there was going to be more. First and shortest of two long breaks in a row, the 11th break in total. She is planning to attach a number of helium balloons to a chair, which in turn would be tethered by means of a rope to a Ferrari. First after 17 more weeks releases began again with article 141 on Tuesday January 16, 2016. I've often joked I'd like to have my remains put into orbit. So, you're falling from a height above the tallest building in your town, and you don't have a parachute. What would kill me first? They would not be able to pay off the debt, even if they forced humanity to work as slaves. Also, the Earth would be destroyed. ocean waves created by nuclear explosions. Evin isnt the first person to think of setting off nuclear weapons Does it converge to a fixed cycle? A nuke set How much would the sea level fall if every ship were removed all at once from the Earth's waters? You just might not be prepared for how big you will need to be dreaming. But why would you. How much volume would they take up and what would they look like? Actually, it would be more clean than it is currently! What if I tried to re-enter the atmosphere in my car? More details. What if the mountain's base were raised to the present height of the summit, and then the whole thing were allowed to drop to the earth? But come on. How fast can you hit a speed bump while driving and live? This book can't stop most bullets; if you want to use it for armour, you may want a lot more than one copy. He said, 'Maybe we should drop a nuclear weapon on them.'" The column of deep, hot water from our nuke could conceivably What If We Nuked A Hurricane? If it feels like there are more hurricanes these days than there were when you were a kid, and that they cause more damage, that's not you looking back on the past with rose-colored glasses. My daughter recently received her driver's permit in the US, and aspires to visit mainland Europe someday. If everyone put little turbine generators on the downspouts of their houses and businesses, how much power would we generate? The very first what if? Aim carefully. circumstances, they can be hundreds of feet high near ground zero. Were they lonely? What would happen if a hair dryer with continuous power was turned on and put in an airtight 1x1x1 meter box? My boyfriend recently took a flight on a plane with wifi, and while he was up there, wistfully asked if I could send him a pizza. "By the way," he continued, gesturing to Trump, "he has an answer for hurricanes. NOAA, who are so obviously at the end of their rope on this subject, explained how radioactive fallout making it to land after we nuke a hurricane is less than ideal. Hurricanes cause destruction in lots of ways, but the big one is wind. The flooding they cause is also terrible and deadly, but at least the law of gravitation means that the water stays by the ground. What would happen if everyone on earth stood as close to each other as they could and jumped, everyone landing on the ground at the same instant? 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. The eight two weeks break, 14th break in total. Those storms don't even get names, so they can't be that big a deal. The second longest break up til summer 2016, the only one to have been announced. 8000+ feet)? When completed, six small reactors to be built in Idaho could be powering homes in Southern Utah by 2030. Then the And that's just one hurricane. 6, but they would cost much more than you could afford. By Luke Darby. If our Twitter timelines (tweets by the people we follow) actually extended off the screen in both directions, how tall would they be? There's not really any question anymore: This is happening because the planet is getting warmer, and the planet is getting warmer because of humans. This means you're free to copy and share these comics (but not to sell them). Hurricanes are extremely powerful: A fully developed hurricane releases the same amount of energy as the explosion of a 10-megaton nuke every 20 minutes, the NOAA article says. How far would a tungsten countertop descend if I dropped it into the Sun? off deep underwater acts a bit differently. The heat release is equivalent to a 10-megaton nuclear bomb exploding every 20 minutes. How many perfect scores would there be? Probably not. Would I need to dive to actually experience a fatal amount of radiation? When (if ever) did the sun go down on the British empire? What If? How big would the teams have to be? And if the great man took the great axe, He served in the Philippines in 1946 and rode eight missions through typhoons inside . It now has 600,000 to a million page hits daily. For the answer, the universe would be destroyed. Hurricane Florence battered the US East Coast last year. The The bubble grows to about a kilometer across in a couple of seconds. This was announced on xkcd on January 31st when the comic 2575: What If? This means you're free to copy and share these comics (but not to sell them). Tropical cyclones derive their energy from vertical temperature differences, are symmetrical, and have a warm core. Using only pronounceable letter combinations, how long would names have to be to give each star in the universe a unique one word name? Before these massive storms had names and categories, they were still wreaking havoc. Most of the what if? underwater. Okay, so we can't use nukes, ice, cloud seeding, or anything humanity has invented yet. till late teens/early twenties) at the same pace as we do during our first month? I know that stirring does help to cool down the tea, but what if I were to stir it faster? 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