Govt Weaponizing Weather

[radditsu]

Originally Posted by Nuggie [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Bro, the point I was trying to make was that we may not be able to freeze assets of foreigners for much longer. 9% of global transactions is a huge playpen for enemies of the USA to hide in. Also, i don't think China is going to honor requests from the USA to freeze anyone's assets.

The two biggest trade Allies in the world wont find a way to make that happen?

[radditsu]

One more American economic boom due to our oil reserves. Then we can start talking about the fall of empires.

[Nuggie]

Officially, yes. Unofficially, no. The Chinese bite their thumbs at us at every opportunity.

China wants to be the world's reserve currency. If our politicians don't get our economic house in order they will have it by 2050. I hope I'm wrong here.

Also, I'm excited to see where the current oil boom will take us. Hopefully out of debt, but that's probably a stretch.

[Brain]

Originally Posted by moklianne [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

It does make you wonder if the increase in earth quakes or typhoons and so forth are being caused by man-made technology to disrupt the economies their enemies.

Holy shit. No, it definitely does NOT make me wonder. There is literally a 0% chance that any government on Earth has the ability to make an earthquake or typhoon. This is the dumbest thing I've ever fucking heard, worse than global warming.

Originally Posted by Nihilist_santa [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

It would make sense. Weather war would be hard to trace and is far more devastating over a wider area.

A) How the fuck do you know whether it would be hard to trace or not? Humans aren't even close to having the ability to create / manipulate weather in a controlled manner. So again, how the fuck do you know whether it would be hard to trace? Holy shit you're an idiot.

B) Far more devastating? Than what? To what?

Originally Posted by phacemeltar [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

all i know is that the clouds look and behave very differently than i remember from days of old.

Perhaps you should spend less time daydreaming and staring at the clouds and more time reading a fucking science book.
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For the love of god, you fucking idiots read a few articles on wikipedia and are convinced that humanity has the ABILITY TO CONTROL THE WEATHER!!!! Do you know how absolutely ridiculous you sound? Have you guys ever taken a science course in your life (and no, reading about THC and MDMA on wikipedia and naming your character after some hallucinogenic molecule doesn't count). Stop for a second and use your fucking heads. We can't control the weather, and if we can, it won't be in our lifetime.

[phacemeltar]

Originally Posted by Brain [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Holy shit. No, it definitely does NOT make me wonder. There is literally a 0% chance that any government on Earth has the ability to make an earthquake or typhoon. This is the dumbest thing I've ever fucking heard, worse than global warming.



A) How the fuck do you know whether it would be hard to trace or not? Humans aren't even close to having the ability to create / manipulate weather in a controlled manner. So again, how the fuck do you know whether it would be hard to trace? Holy shit you're an idiot.

B) Far more devastating? Than what? To what?



Perhaps you should spend less time daydreaming and staring at the clouds and more time reading a fucking science book.
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For the love of god, you fucking idiots read a few articles on wikipedia and are convinced that humanity has the ABILITY TO CONTROL THE WEATHER!!!! Do you know how absolutely ridiculous you sound? Have you guys ever taken a science course in your life (and no, reading about THC and MDMA on wikipedia and naming your character after some hallucinogenic molecule doesn't count). Stop for a second and use your fucking heads. We can't control the weather, and if we can, it won't be in our lifetime.

please, tell me your opinions on nanotechnology

[Nihilist_santa]

Originally Posted by Brain [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Holy shit. No, it definitely does NOT make me wonder. There is literally a 0% chance that any government on Earth has the ability to make an earthquake or typhoon. This is the dumbest thing I've ever fucking heard, worse than global warming.



A) How the fuck do you know whether it would be hard to trace or not? Humans aren't even close to having the ability to create / manipulate weather in a controlled manner. So again, how the fuck do you know whether it would be hard to trace? Holy shit you're an idiot.

B) Far more devastating? Than what? To what?



Perhaps you should spend less time daydreaming and staring at the clouds and more time reading a fucking science book.
- - - - - -
For the love of god, you fucking idiots read a few articles on wikipedia and are convinced that humanity has the ABILITY TO CONTROL THE WEATHER!!!! Do you know how absolutely ridiculous you sound? Have you guys ever taken a science course in your life (and no, reading about THC and MDMA on wikipedia and naming your character after some hallucinogenic molecule doesn't count). Stop for a second and use your fucking heads. We can't control the weather, and if we can, it won't be in our lifetime.

This genius cant even read the link to the international treaty from the 70s but thinks he knows it all. International bodies don't dedicate time to drawing up formal policies for complete science fiction.

But please tell us more of this inside information you are privy to. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[myriverse]

Originally Posted by Nihilist_santa [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

This genius cant even read the link to the international treaty from the 70s but thinks he knows it all. International bodies don't dedicate time to drawing up formal policies for complete science fiction.

But please tell us more of this inside information you are privy to. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Bwahahahaha... you think that means anything. International bodies dedicate time to meaningless crap all of the fucking time. It's practically what they do.

Drop the tin foil.

[Brain]

Originally Posted by Nihilist_santa [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

This genius cant even read the link to the international treaty from the 70s but thinks he knows it all. International bodies don't dedicate time to drawing up formal policies for complete science fiction.

But please tell us more of this inside information you are privy to. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

There's a big difference between controlling the weather patterns and doing something that AFFECTS the weather. Let me explain (I'll try to use analogies that you can relate to).

1. Affecting the weather

One day Nihilist_santa wakes up and goes through his normal routine: he slowly lifts his face up so as to not remove any of his keyboard's keys, rolls over to his sink, gargles some listerine, swallows it because he is sick and read on yahooanswers that the alcohol in it will kill all his bad germs coursing through his veins. Next, he goes to his 3rd (and final) meat freezer where he keeps his stockpile of frozen delectables - unfortunately it's empty. "FUCKKKKKKKKK!" says he. Although Nihilist_santa could quite possibly live years off his own in vivo food stores, he decides to make his biannual trip to Wal-Mart where he buys thousands of dollars worth of hot pockets, Eggos, Ding-Dongs, Star Crunchs, and Smucker's pre-made PB&J sandwiches (with wheat bread, because he also read that was good for him).

Now (and this is where it gets interesting), before he actually leaves his home to go shopping, he manages to stand up and open the top shelf in his bathroom cabinet where he picks up a very old, dusty bottle of hair spray made in the 70's. He sprays a generous amount of it on the front of his head, so as to allow him to form "the wave" because he read on eHarmony that women like this hairdo.

Fast-forward a thousand years and a few molecules of the harmful chemicals in his hair spray bottle have managed to reach the ozone layer, knocking off an insignificant amount of ozone (where exactly this occurs we have no way of knowing), which in turn creates an insignificant sized hole (a size of which we have no way of knowing), which allows an insignificant amount of extra UV radiation (the amount of which we have know way of knowing) pass through to sea level where it burns your descendants while they are working as slaves. You have successfully affected the weather.

In other news, last time I was on a beach I took a piss in the ocean and I'm pretty sure I caused a Tsunami in Japan.

2. Controlling the weather

Do you know how many difference forces affect the weather? How many different variables there are in the world that control the things you're talking about (i.e. tornadoes, hurricanes, earthquakes, floods, landslides, etc...)?

If you answered yes, you're a fucking idiot. The correct answer is: no one does. We may have barely scratched the surface on little things (like the wind currents surrounding a tornado) but in the grand scheme of things, humanity is fucking clueless. We have NO idea how to manipulate weather in this manner and are a LONG time away from having the capability/power to do so.

[Frieza_Prexus]

Originally Posted by Nihilist_santa [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

International bodies don't dedicate time to drawing up formal policies for complete science fiction.

They actually do. It's mostly unemployed lawyers / fringe kooks who manage to get into international practice, but they have a shit load of sci-fi contingencies. The debates about the most miniscule of points are actually extremely fierce. It's pretty hilarious.

Source: am aerospace lawyer in my spare time getting laughed at by real lawyers.

[Brynnag]

lots of butthurt in this thread