Ivan to be seeded?

#1 Postby **MGC** » Mon Sep 13, 2004 12:47 am

Driving home from work this evening I was listening to Art Bell on Coast to Coast and he said that Dyn-o-mat was planning to charter a 747 tanker and seed Ivan with its product in an effort to reduce Ivan's intensity. Has anyone else heard this?.......................MGC

Matthew5 · #2 Postby **Matthew5** » Mon Sep 13, 2004 12:48 am

That has to be a sicking joke! In its against the law to fly a plane in drop crap into the ocean!

bahamaswx · #3 Postby **bahamaswx** » Mon Sep 13, 2004 12:50 am

Certainly hope they don't try anything stupid.

Website · #4 Postby **FritzPaul** » Mon Sep 13, 2004 12:53 am

Don't ever believe anything you hear on coast-to-coast am.

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Sean in New Orleans · #5 Postby **Sean in New Orleans** » Mon Sep 13, 2004 12:53 am

This would be a good storm to try, IMO.

ConnMan · #6 Postby **ConnMan** » Mon Sep 13, 2004 12:54 am

http://www.nbc-2.com/articles/readartic ... 386&z=3&p=

JACKSONVILLE — A South Florida businessman says he's going to try to reduce the strength of Hurricane Ivan by flying a Boeing 747 into the edge of the hurricane and dumping thousands of pounds of an absorbent material into the storm.

Peter Cordani of Jupiter plans to try to knock the storm down by one or two categories by dropping tons of powder that absorbs 3-thousand to 4-thousand times its weight.

Cordani is chief operating officer of Dyn-O-Mat, a company that sells environmental absorbent products such as mats for mechanics. He believes his product, SK1000, would cause a shearing action and a 15 degree cooling of the storm.

Cordani has been working on his plan for five years. He has assembled a team of experts, including two former astronauts, moonwalker Edgar Mitchell and Scott Mac Leod, who tested the lunar module.

Cordani is in contact talks to lease a 747 tanker from Evergreen Aviation in McMinnville, Oregon.

Matthew5 · #7 Postby **Matthew5** » Mon Sep 13, 2004 12:54 am

If they try to drop this crap into the ocean. They need to be shot down! :grr:

#8 Postby **Pebbles** » Mon Sep 13, 2004 12:59 am

It's such a publicity stunt.... and one in poor taste at a time like this *sighs and rolls her eyes* this has been talked about a couple of days now... Too bad his sick tactics succeeded...cause everyone now knows what Dyn-o-mat is... *stomps away grumbling*

SwampDawg · #9 Postby **SwampDawg** » Mon Sep 13, 2004 1:02 am

Yep...just trying to drum up business

ohiostorm · #10 Postby **ohiostorm** » Mon Sep 13, 2004 1:04 am

Like I said... dont mess with Mother Nature!

AggieSpirit · #11 Postby **AggieSpirit** » Mon Sep 13, 2004 1:09 am

I would just wait for the future, and what according to Gene Rodenberry, will be the 'Weather Net' that will control and alter storms across the planet.

Beam me up Scotty!

EarthStormFire · #12 Postby **EarthStormFire** » Mon Sep 13, 2004 1:23 am

I think it is a good idea. It has a chance of working. Remember it absorbes 4000 times it weight. So just 100 tones will absorbe 400,000 tons of moisture. That is a lot of water vapor that this will absorbe from the storm. That has to weaken the storm.

Matthew5 · #13 Postby **Matthew5** » Mon Sep 13, 2004 1:25 am

It is wrong! It will $#$@# Up are Planets in ways we don't went to know. This guy drops this in the oceans he needs to be tooken out. Like no other terroist. This guy is a joke!!!!!

EarthStormFire · #14 Postby **EarthStormFire** » Mon Sep 13, 2004 1:27 am

I fail to see what harm this will do to the environment. This product only absorbes moisture. A lot of moisture. 4000 times its weight to be exact.

Matthew5 · #15 Postby **Matthew5** » Mon Sep 13, 2004 1:29 am

This guy needs to be shot down! In believe me you have no idea... :grr:

Website · #16 Postby **FritzPaul** » Mon Sep 13, 2004 1:30 am

What new molicules will form from the reaction between the chemical and moisture?

Something toxic could result.

VERY BAD idea... agree w/ pebbles: PR hype.

Greg · #17 Postby **Greg** » Mon Sep 13, 2004 1:32 am

Let's put it in perspective. Look at the satellite image and pick out your favorite airport (You see it right?) Now look at the 747 on the runway (You see that too, right?). Now follow the plane in the satellite photos, and watch it drop the goop somewhere on the hurricane, which is approximately the size of the gulf of Mexico. Watch it magically shrink to the size of that dudes brain.

Matthew5 · #18 Postby **Matthew5** » Mon Sep 13, 2004 1:32 am

We should let the Atmosphere keep us alive in not try to distroy it! 4,000 gl? That is 1/1,000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000th of the misture in a tropical storm!

EarthStormFire · #19 Postby **EarthStormFire** » Mon Sep 13, 2004 1:35 am

100 tons of this stuff will remove between 70 million and 100 million gallons of water from this hurricane. That is a lot of water that goes back into the ocean instead of falling on land.

Matthew5 · #20 Postby **Matthew5** » Mon Sep 13, 2004 1:37 am

If I remember right each thunderstorms is 10,000,000 Gl of water each. You really don't went to mess with god?

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