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   From: nognog@adelphia.net   
      
   "LawsonE"  wrote in message   
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   > "Barbara Schwarz"  wrote in message   
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   >>A hurrican can be broken up with a strong laser from a weather   
   >> satellite via a remote control from somebody on earth. Nobody has to be   
   >> in harms way.   
   >>   
   >> That laser either circles the hurrican and keeps it in place till it   
   >> loses strenght in the ocean or it cuts through it and breaks it up in   
   >> less powerful storms. It is also possible to push a hurrican away from   
   >> land with such a laser.   
   >>   
   >> Those NASA and Homeland Security "scientists" and officials take home a   
   >> huge salary but they don't come up with that solution? What is the   
   >> matter with them? Am I the only one thinking or what?   
   >   
   > That's been the subject of science fiction for many decades. The problem,   
   > of   
   > course, is that in order to test the theory, you need a super-strong laser   
   > mounted on a satellite. Either we don't have lasers that strong mounted on   
   > satellites, or their existence is classified. Either way, they're not   
   > likely   
   > to be involved in any public testing of anti-hurricaine procedures.   
   >   
    A satellite is kind of far away to shoot at a hurricane. Why not mount it   
   on a ship?   
      
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