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BigPapaSmurf
SFN Die Hard
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 Posted - 09/23/2005 : 12:08:54
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http://www.journalnet.com/articles/2005/09/23/news/local/news05.txt
Weatherman quits job to explore his "theory" that the Yakuza with help from the russians have sicked Katrina on us as revenge for Hirosima. The media are drooling over eachother to get his important story on...
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"...things I have neither seen nor experienced nor heard tell of from anybody else; things, what is more, that do not in fact exist and could not ever exist at all. So my readers must not believe a word I say." -Lucian on his book True History
"...They accept such things on faith alone, without any evidence. So if a fraudulent and cunning person who knows how to take advantage of a situation comes among them, he can make himself rich in a short time." -Lucian critical of early Christians c.166 AD From his book, De Morte Peregrini |
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Siberia
SFN Addict
Brazil
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Posted - 09/23/2005 : 12:50:16 [Permalink]
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| Uh... ok... Yakuza... Russians... provoking great natural catastrophes... riiiiiight. |
"Why are you afraid of something you're not even sure exists?"
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Dr. Mabuse
Septic Fiend
Sweden
9688 Posts |
Posted - 09/23/2005 : 13:25:30 [Permalink]
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Well, why not? NASA uses the Space Shuttle to artificially create earthquakes in Turkey.
Edit: Get the inside story here. |
Dr. Mabuse - "When the going gets tough, the tough get Duct-tape..."
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"Equivocation is not just a job, for a creationist it's a way of life..." Dr. Mabuse
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| Edited by - Dr. Mabuse on 09/23/2005 16:01:26 |
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
14408 Posts |
Posted - 09/23/2005 : 13:30:33 [Permalink]
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quote:
Originally posted by BigPapaSmurf
http://www.journalnet.com/articles/2005/09/23/news/local/news05.txt
Weatherman quits job to explore his "theory" that the Yakuza with help from the russians have sicked Katrina on us as revenge for Hirosima. The media are drooling over eachother to get his important story on...
From the article:quote:
Since Katrina, Stevens has been in newspapers across the country where he was quoted in an Associated Press story as saying the Yakuza Mafia used a Russian-made electromagnetic generator to cause Hurricane Katrina in a bid to avenge the atomic bomb attack on Hiroshima. He was a guest on Coast to Coast, a late night radio show that conducts call-in discussions on everything from bizarre weather patterns to alien abductions. On Wednesday, Stevens was interviewed by Fox News firebrand Bill O'Reilly.
Ye gods, the media is feeding this woo-woo! But O'Reilly interviewing him is not too suprising. He's from the idiot fringe as well and the two should get along nicely. Birds of a feather, and all that rot.
Ok, here's the shoot-down: if some country or other actually could control the weather, even a little, do these nincompoops really believe they'd be wasting their resources on this revenge nonsense, Hiroshima and Nagasaki not withstanding, that could only bring them pain when found out?
Certainly not! They'd use it to make their country a year-'round tourist trap that would never have to worry about crop failure again.
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ktesibios
SFN Regular
USA
505 Posts |
Posted - 09/23/2005 : 13:34:36 [Permalink]
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If we're gonna talk about highly implausible causes for hurricanes, I keep imagining a butterfly in New Zealand giggling hysterically...  |
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GeeMack
SFN Regular
USA
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Posted - 09/23/2005 : 14:21:47 [Permalink]
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If I'm properly interpreting the information in the article I linked below, the per-day energy released by a hurricane is over 200 times all the electrical generating capacity on Earth. If any organization had the ability to create and/or control that much energy, there would be nearly unlimited possibilities for exploiting it, either for productive or destructive purposes. Using this energy to take revenge for an event that occurred over 60 years ago would likely be one of the least reasonable considerations. I think Mr. Stevens is all wet and his theory is easily blown away.  quote:
How Much Energy Does a Hurricane Release?...
Hurricanes can be thought of, to a first approximation, as a heat engine; obtaining its heat input from the warm, humid air over the tropical ocean, and releasing this heat through the condensation of water vapor into water droplets in deep thunderstorms of the eyewall and rainbands, then giving off a cold exhaust in the upper levels of the troposphere.
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