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Speaker 1: Welcome to Stuff from the Science Lab from how stuff

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Speaker 1: works dot com. Hey guys, and welcome to the podcast.

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Speaker 1: This is Alice and I don't like, the science editor

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Speaker 1: at how stuff works dot com. And this is Robert Lamb,

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Speaker 1: science writer for how stuff works dot com. Today we're

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Speaker 1: talking about killing hurricane at the very least kind of

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Speaker 1: remaining edge. Right. It's uh, it reminds me a lot

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Speaker 1: of the Godzilla movies. Have you seen any of the

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Speaker 1: Godzilla movies? I have not seen a Godzilla movies. I'm sorry. Well,

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Speaker 1: generally the whole idea is that a giant monsters rising

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Speaker 1: out of the ocean lizard right, Well, yeah, in the

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Speaker 1: case of Godzilla, giant lizard, this giant lizard is rising

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Speaker 1: up out of the ocean and coming towards the city,

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Speaker 1: and when he gets there, he's going to destroy lots

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Speaker 1: of stuff. And the movie comes down to can we

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Speaker 1: stop this monster from from carrying out this attack? Okay, Well,

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Speaker 1: a hurricane kind of similar Godzilla. Okay, yeah, it's that

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Speaker 1: you know, giants, salonic storm that spins out from the tropics,

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Speaker 1: feeding on warm ocean waters, and a lot of the

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Speaker 1: time ends up coming closer and closer towards major centers

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Speaker 1: of population UHA in coastal areas, right, and then they

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Speaker 1: also have that low atmospheric pressure that's trademark the high winds,

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Speaker 1: the heavy rain, and all that stuff that's associated with

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Speaker 1: the hurricane. Yep, if they they're they're spinning feeding off

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Speaker 1: all that warm water and warm air, is is is

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Speaker 1: being sucked towards that low pressure center and rising up

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Speaker 1: at the eye of the hurricane and basically like a

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Speaker 1: big column of low pressure air rising into the sky

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Speaker 1: where then disperses in in storm activity. Yeah, I just

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Speaker 1: think of that quintessential shot on the weather station that

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Speaker 1: we've all seen with the hurricane spiraling in and you know,

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Speaker 1: headed ominously for some coastal destination near you. So hurricane

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Speaker 1: season runs, just to give you us some quick facts,

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Speaker 1: that runs from June through November in the northern Hemisphere

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Speaker 1: and then down in the southern hemisphere obviously runs from

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Speaker 1: January to March. Right. In the Godzilla movies, they tend

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Speaker 1: to try and uh slow down the mon stop the

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Speaker 1: monster one way or another. With hurricanes, we really haven't

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Speaker 1: had many options as far as stopping the hurricane goes. Generally,

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Speaker 1: it's more battened down the hatches or evacuated. Just evacuate

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Speaker 1: out of there. Just get get the heck out of dogs.

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Speaker 1: That's all you can can really do. However, that there

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Speaker 1: have been plenty of of times where people come up

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Speaker 1: with sort of hair brained schemes to try and stop

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Speaker 1: the hurricane or like I say, slow it down right right,

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Speaker 1: I mean, because hurricanes can be pretty crazy. I mean,

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Speaker 1: they can kill a lot of people. I think the

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Speaker 1: biggest one on record in terms of loss of life

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Speaker 1: back in nineteen hundred in Galveston, Texas and Costlius. Of course,

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Speaker 1: um is a hurricane Katrina, which resulted in about eighty

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Speaker 1: billion in property damages. So slowing a hurricane down or

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Speaker 1: stopping it, I mean, it makes sense in terms of

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Speaker 1: of human life and damage. Yeah, So what are there

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Speaker 1: are were just some of the ideas that people have

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Speaker 1: put forth on the table. Well, Um, under under natural circumstances,

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Speaker 1: hurricane is not going to stop until basically it runs

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Speaker 1: out of food. It until it it no longer has

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Speaker 1: warm water to uh to feed off of, which generally

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Speaker 1: means that it either ends up going into cooler areas

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Speaker 1: and uh and just disperses into more manageable storm activita,

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Speaker 1: more manageable storm activiation, more manageable storm activity, or it

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Speaker 1: actually makes landfall, um, and of course it's on land

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Speaker 1: there and then it disperses as well. But if it

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Speaker 1: makes landfall, obviously you've kind of lost if it hits

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Speaker 1: the city. So one way is to simply take away

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Speaker 1: one method of trying to do that sticking a giant

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Speaker 1: that yeah, sticking a giant water pump on the bottom

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Speaker 1: of cool water, because underneath all that warm water that

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Speaker 1: the hurricanes speeding over, there's plenty of cool water. It's

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Speaker 1: just a matter of can we get it up bring

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Speaker 1: it to the surface. And that the only problem there

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Speaker 1: is that that would entail a whole lot of effort.

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Speaker 1: We're talking like man sup pump system, a lot of

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Speaker 1: that we're not really looking at too closely anymore. Another is,

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Speaker 1: instead of coming in underneath the hurricane, coming in from

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Speaker 1: above and dropping powder, absorbent powders and super observants, super

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Speaker 1: absorbent powers. A lot of this is uh, pretty much

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Speaker 1: the same idea as cloud seating, of which the US

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Speaker 1: We've written our to cloth at it. Can China control

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Speaker 1: really want clouds over Beijing or in the Olympics, and

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Speaker 1: if they are clouds over farmlands, they kind of want

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Speaker 1: water the crops. So the idea is basically a hurricane

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Speaker 1: legs of the hurricane. Sure. Sure, so you're sucking the

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Speaker 1: moisture out right. So you know we're talking, uh, dropping

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Speaker 1: silver iodine crystals, dropping those into the hurricane. And again

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Speaker 1: this would be a massive undertaking. The guy is a

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Speaker 1: gentleman by the name of Peter cor Danny if if

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Speaker 1: of this super observement powder. Um and then you know,

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Speaker 1: just flinging it. How do you get it up there?

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Speaker 1: I guess just lift plain after a plane or not clear,

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Speaker 1: he was clear on it either, because he said, and

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Speaker 1: I quote to the Chicago Tribune, the only thing we

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Speaker 1: the after effects. So we just don't know if it'll

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Speaker 1: I do like the idea of the super observent powder.

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Speaker 1: interesting approach, is, um, why don't we just you know,

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Speaker 1: so all we've finentially done is made a already dangerous

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Speaker 1: fully developed hurricane can release heat energy at this crazy rate.

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Speaker 1: So that's totally unquantifiable to to do anybody listening, even

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Speaker 1: so we're not even talking like dropping a singular nuclear

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Speaker 1: So how would this work exactly? Well, Uh, supersonic hurricane

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Speaker 1: Is that that's the idea pretty much. And the guys

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Speaker 1: So the idea as you fly these planes in going clockwise,

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Speaker 1: because that's always a good idea. We'll not sticking it

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Speaker 1: that that turning entirely. Let's say, that's a pretty awesome

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Speaker 1: task for them to to undertake. Yeah, but the key

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Speaker 1: I would do the trick for regular hurricane. Okay, so

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Speaker 1: the same thing as the pumping of the water pumping unfit.

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