Is this guy serious?!?

[golter]

If the guy can develop this, think what insurance companies would be willing to pay for it. Dont discount the idea, remember when IBM told bill gates "what would and individual want with a computer??"

[Raebie]

What happens to the stuff after the moisture is absorbed? I'm trying to decide which would be worse - a Cat 3 hurricane, or the equivalent of a 2 mile wide diaper landing on Tampa...

[notgroovy]

The hurricane is Earth's natural way of transporting excess heat from the tropical regions to the polar regions to keep the climate in balance...start screwing with it, and Mother Nature will find another, perhaps equally violent, way to do the same thing. No good could come of this.

[MBryant]

The storm they tried to affect was in the 50s oe early 60s and they used silver iodide chrystals in an attempt to enhance the rain and hopefully "rain itself out"

The flooding from the system caused an outcry about messing with the systems as some thought they had been succesfull only in enhancing the rainfall totals without a decrease in intensity.

I think both experiments drastically underestimate the magnitude of energy in these systems and their affects are insignificant to the big picture.

[kevin]

Totally crazy. I don't understand the mathematics or physics of what he is trying to do. I don't believe he does either. This is a publicity stunt that will probably work because, the storm is FORECAST to weaken.

The public is stupid.

[Anonymous]

This guy is a piece of work and has been bragging about this product for awhile. He claims it disapates thundershowers in the Atlantic. Which may or may not be true seeing how these type of showers are very short lived at best 20 minutes or so.

Regardless I am surprised he would be allowed to do this in American Waters because the product isn't tested and if the EPA doesn't jump him they will with complainments coming in.

Not that his idea isn't without merit, it would be nicer to somehow direct hurricanes into a open water area so they would be fish. I know thats sci-fi.

The truth is as sad as it is, we don't fully understand the complex role that the hurricane plays in maintaining our atmosphere. Certainly the act as a exshaust expelling a lot of heat energy which who knows what would happen if tropical cyclones were controlled by decaying them. Possibly the effects to the planet and US would be far worse over time. I have seen nothing in weather that doesn't have a cause and effect for a direct end result. Hurricanes as destructive as they are play a important role in ventalating heat from our equator. Messing with them could result in something far worse than the greenhouse effect.

Mike

[das8929]

This is stupid. Not only does it screw up the environment, it can seriously affect other factors and throw off the natural cycle. Our planet needs hurricanes.

[melhow]

"What happens to the stuff after the moisture is absorbed? I'm trying to decide which would be worse - a Cat 3 hurricane, or the equivalent of a 2 mile wide diaper landing on Tampa... "

Holy Crap, that cracked me up...

[dhweather]

Next product - super X super glue, to hold the New Madrid fault stable.

[jlauderdal]

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.

may i suggest he flies this 747 when the cane is directly over cooba...that will quickly end this nonsense and save our govt the trouble of dealing with him.

[Brent]

Well it was nice knowing the guy.

[FritzPaul]

Definite Darwin Award potential nominee.

Whoops nevermind: He can only be nominated for the award if he takes himself out of the gene pool.

He stands a good chance of taking others with him either by short or long term consequences of his actions.

[Matthew5]

This would mess up are Atmosphere even more. I thought we where trying to save "our" planet not distroy it? Hurricanes/tropical cyclones are very impartant to this planet. Every planet that has a really Atmosphere has some kind of hurricane like system. We yes we have built where they make landfall. This is a sad day.

[TSmith274]

So not only will the poor people in the path of this hurricane be dealing with devastating winds and rain, but their houses and property will also be covered in a gooey wet toilet paper-like mess. Good job.

[alicia-w]

First of all, you have to file a flight plan for a plane that size. No one in their right mind is gonna allow someone to fly into a hurricane with a 747. If this material absorbs 3000 to 4000 times it's weight, where exactly does he think it's gonna go? Mars? How does he know where to target it for maximum efficiency? Is he just gonna fly an ellipse through the storm and dump this stuff out a door? What a lunatic? I cant imagine the FAA would EVER let him off the ground.

[Pebbles]

What happens to the stuff after the moisture is absorbed? I'm trying to decide which would be worse - a Cat 3 hurricane, or the equivalent of a 2 mile wide diaper landing on Tampa...

OMGGGGG too funny!

[Hou~TX~Mama]

Dropping a 747 full of Tampax into the hurricane would probably work just as well too. LOL

[quickychick]

Dropping a 747 full of Tampax into the hurricane would probably work just as well too. LOL

Gawd, can you IMAGINE the commercials that would come afterwards if it was successful? A sea of tampons swirling around in the ubiquitous blue water. They'd change the absorbency ratings to Cat 1, Cat 2, etc.

-qc

[Hou~TX~Mama]

"They'd change the absorbency ratings to Cat 1, Cat 2, etc."

Too FUNNY!

[ExtinctionEvent]

Hou~Tex, are you suggesting that Ivan is a transves-hurricane? Seeing you would use tampons to stop his heavy flow LOLOLOL.