Would detonating the most powerful nuclear warhead we have available in the eye of a hurricane disrupt it *at all*?

Or would it simply turn the hurricane into a RADIOACTIVE hurricane?

It would make it into a super-intelligent predator hurricane, bent on destroying democracy, hating freedom, kidnapping our daughters, infecting our dogs with west nile virus and burning our flag.
Bill O'Reilly said so on Fox.

Most likely, it would wake Godzilla from his hibernation beneath the ocean.

So then you would have a RADIOACTIVE HURRICANE and GODZILLA to worry about.

And anyone who has ever played Call of Cthulhu knows that if you nuke Cthulhu, he just regenerates 30 minutes later, mad as hell, and now radioactive to boot.

Nuke a hurricane. Get real. A nuke wipes out what, a city? Go look at a weather satellite map and tell me how much bigger a hurricane is than a city.

Katrina's eye had a 30 mile radius. Wikipedia says about Atomic Bombs:

A ten-megaton weapon can destroy an entire city. A hundred-megaton weapon (although judged impractical) would set wooden houses and forests afire in a circle 60-100 miles (100-160 km) in diameter.

Sounds *possible* to make an explosion big enough, but what would happen to the hurricane itself? The Republicans should be all over this one.

Actually, 30 mile diameter.

The odds are even better! :D

>Would detonating the most powerful nuclear warhead we have available in the eye of a hurricane disrupt it *at all*?
No. They even seriously considered this 40 years ago. The energy needed to disrupt a hurricane would be on the order of 10s to 100s of the largest (read: 50 megaton, of which I think we only made one) bombs. Although setting off nukes in a hurricane would be a very effective way to kill off millions of people in your target's country: just think of all the fallout that you can spread in a huge area, instead of a plume downwind. Like their whole country becomes "downwind."

Yeah, the eye. Where it's relatively calm. That's where you need to blow shit up. Because that'll disrupt the wind that rotating around it.

"A nuke wipes out what, a city?"

Remember what size nuke we used on Hiroshima/Nagisaki, and then compare them to modern warheads.

Hiroshima's Little Boy was only a 13kiloton warhead producing 5.5×10^13 J (55 Terajoules) of energy. In comparison, Russia's Tsar Bomba 50 megatons produced 2.1x10^17 J or 3818 times larger than Little Boy.

Don't underestimate the power of a big nuke.

Underestimate? Even if I overestimate, it's still small compared to a hurricane.

You're misunderestimating. The power to disrupt a hurricane is nothing compared to the power of the...

Oh never mind.

Aaron - I think you'll find Azathoth is a lot more similar to a hurricane than Cthulhu with all his tentacles and shit.

Yeah, but the center of the unoverse is so much harder to get to than R'Lyeh.

%#$TQER#$ damn spelling.

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You obviously never tried to cast Summon Azathoth. Now *that* would probably take care of a hurricane.

I always loved how Summon and Bind were two different spells. It was awesome when a party member found that out the hard way once.

"I Summon a nightgaunt!"
"Ok, there's a great whooshing and flapping of wings and..."
"And I tell it to carry off the bad guy!"
"No, you don't."
"Huh?"

The Call of Cthulhu universe is a pretty unfair and dark place to be. But I can imagine under your shepherdship, Aaron, it would be downright nasty.

Heh.

Actually, I was a player that time. New to the game as everyone else in the room, save the GM. It was hilarious. You could tell by the way the character's laughs faded off into the distance.

I do run a grim game, though, you're right about that.

The D&D adventurers soon learn not to go charging into dark places. Even if they survive, the SAN loss can be pretty brutal =)

You D&D dorks ought to get in on the made by monkeys collaborative MUSH I'm working on starting.

:-)

working on starting...heh.

I love that. It's so...muppet.

Heh.

Actually I'm creating a Souls of Glass environment right now, but since it all has to be canon, I can't do some of the MUD-type things I'd like.

All of the miscellaneous ideas are going into the Made By Monkeys MUSH, which should be up sometime this weekend.

So, it'll actually BE started pretty soon.

I just don't want to hear on Monday about how much trouble you had getting it up.

I never have trouble getting it up.

Unoverse for the win.

http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/tcfaq/C5c.html

Silly Me