Do you think we can ever develop anit-hurricane missiles?

Question

Check out this article, where China used anti-rain missiles to prevent the weather from upsetting the opening ceremony of the olympics.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080825/ts_afp/oly2008weather

Answer 1

When I was a kid I attended a show at the Planetarium in New York.  They had an animated show of how one day we would have missiles along the coast that would fire chemicals into storms and dissipate them.  It was a view of how technology would improve our lives in the future.  That was 1960.  Still waiting.

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Answer 2

That's a bunch of c**p.

We are not going to be able to control the weather for a long long time......

Answer 3

No, but the day someone invents anti-stupidity missles, I'm buying stock in the company.

Answer 4

2 different anti-rain technologies have been actively used since 1950s I think; the nature of a hurricane (typhoon) is rather different from just a rain; an attempt to use missiles in this case would result in more losses than to be prepared to a hurricane;  

a hurricane has enormous amount of kinetic energy! I think it’s still impossible to fight them with technologies available. And you have to unwind it first of all;

Answer 5

Cloud seeding to make rain has been going on for decades but no kind of device for breaking up a hurricane will ever be possible. They are just too large and powerful for mankind to ever have any power over.

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Answer 6

Do you know how all this works?  Because that is amazing!

Answer 7

Yes, in the future, we can use micro biological technology to gain hypothalmus energies harnessed into an array worthy and grand enough to negate the forces of the hurricane and turn back it on its course.  Then we must reverse the process by forming semi-nuclear gravitons to absorb the hypothermical engineerings of the storm's horrific effects.  

Answer 8

Yes, we are bored today, aren't we.

The anti-rain technology is to dry out the clouds before they hit.  You do this by seeding them with nucleating agents so that the clouds rain before they get to you.  

This has limited effect.  The clouds have to be just right.  The air has to be just beyond saturation. Moreover, you can't have any other changes like winds or pressure or temperature.  You can't control weather, just manipulate it a bit.  A hurricane is a prime example.  

Hurricanes are self-perpetuating.  They use the heat in the water to create the clouds, to create the wind, to cause more water vapor, to cause more clouds.

Hitting land, going over a cold patch of water, or having the high altitude winds chop off their tops are the only thing to slow them down.  Seeding the clouds would not cause much change,  It would be rapidly swamp by all the other forces.  You wouldn't get any more rain.  You wouldn't slow them down.

Kaksi is right about the kinetic energy in a hurricane.  It is equal to multiple nuclear bombs.  They also encompass a large area.  A few missile would do about as much good as giving the hurricane the finger.

Answer 9

I think you look rather ignorant for even posting this question.  But hey, that's just my two cents.