If you try to modify the weather without permission, there is a chance that you will have to surrender to a gun-wielding federal officer wearing a NOAA patch.
So, unless your weather modification activities are also violating laws or treaties regarding the use of and access to fisheries, you probably won’t be encountering any NOAA fuzz.
--Probably a career NOAA vet
Coming from a country where only the military and a few police are armed, the concept of armed meteorologists was quite something.
I thought this might have been in response to the Weathermen (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weather_Underground)
1) Army
2) Marine Corps
3) Navy
4) Air Force
5) Space Force
6) Coast Guard
7) Public Health Service Commissioned Corps (aka the Surgeon General)
8) NOAA Commissioned Officer Corps
Apparently this has to do with the fact that both NOAA and PHS commissioned officers operate according to military rules (but are not generally subject to the UCMJ), while USPS employees (even in the Postal Inspection Service) do not. (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniformed_services_of_the_Un...)
Specifically, the NOAA Commissioned Corps has its antecedent in Army (never returned after the Civil War) and Navy commissioned officers that worked with its predecessor civilian workers until 1900. There was a couple decades with no uniformed component, but a new and separate uniformed component was created in WWI, because part of the agencies work was battlefield survey, and under the law of war non-uniformed personnel captured doing that job would not be entitled to treatment as POWs, and would likely be executed as spies.
The PHS Commissioned Corps seems to have come about originally because the PHS had an ex-military leader who thought military discipline was a good idea, but it does (among other functions) supply medical officers to serve with both the Coast Guard and the NOAA Commissioned Corps, neither of which (unlike the other uniformed services) have their own, so, I guess that provides some nexus.
Somebody ought to make a film, serious or funny I don't care...
I had to laugh at your wording :) I am picturing someone with a drone carrying a sack of silver iodide suddenly having a very bad day.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28491494
Are they only outputs, or could they be GPIO? What would happen with a giant prism above a cloud?
A very pretty cloud, for sure, Somewhere Over the Rainbow. I just wonder whether the ice crystals could be persuaded to melt quicker, and drop their rain. Cheaper than silver iodide for cloud seeding. I have no idea who to talk to about this, or any clue how to simulate it in a lab.
It's quite unlikely that it would disrupt cyclone, but someone with better fluid mechanics knowledge can probably do such calculation.
So, what is the real answer? I'm not advocating the idea, but why is it not feasible?
2. The heat energy used by a hurricane is roughly equivalent to one Hiroshima per second, which at least reduces the impact of 1., but tells you how large the scale difference is
3. Explosions produce shockwaves which only change instantaneous pressure, and are totally ineffective at changing barometric pressure, the one thing you want to increase, because barometric pressure is the weight of all the air above the ground
4. The storm is now radioactive
I was thinking that a powerful enough explosion may disrupt the winds. And it seemed to be that a disruption of the winds may dissipate a storm. I suppose that the concept of "what a storm is" may not be very clear to the layman, including myself. Until a few minutes ago it seemed to me that a hurricane is just winds going around in a circle.
Ahh got it
For real though, if there was a real problem like that the NOAA would get military backup. The American approach to an immediately urgent problem is to just hurl massive resources at it and (maybe) ask questions later.
Then we can have new conspiracy theories about how real disasters are just being passed off as cool disasters and the rotating cast of supervillains are actually a puppet show from the real villains in the federal reserve.
The speaker finished up with a screenshot from a youtube video where an UFO enthusiast actually followed the aircraft by car and came to the airport to look at it. It didn't help that the aircraft was rented from a company that usually rents to military.
40k views on a video that claims they released radioactive insects on that flight. (It was a spectrometer onboard...) The video is gone now, and we can only speculate what the people behind it think about that. How does one deal with this in a satisfying manner?
40k views on a video about methane emission detection would be amazing! A fraction of those 40k people in the area with knowledge of the problem and the same enthusiasm could probably easily stop all these emissions as well.
(Apart from that.. if anyone wonders.. talk to us! (and please don't seem like a nutjob..) This is research paid by your taxes and on your behalf, and if you come with journalistic interest we might just open the doors and, y'know, let you have a very close look at things.)
They like to portray local vs federal in Hollywood as a trope, but in reality, inter-agency cooperation is (supposed to be) the norm.
BLAM! BLAM!
- I guess you could say he got...blown away ⌐■_■