As these are low pressure systems couldn't a sustained laser raise an existing storms pressure and slow it down or, adversely, by heating a column of air and cutting off the energy create a low pressure system that could create a cyclonic event?
weeder1
Orbiting bombs? What an idiotic thought! Lets fast forward to today, put the satellites where the solar panels can gain maximum energy and use them the way Arthur C Clarke envisioned them, as multi-use instruments of VERY selective weapons of surgical destruction. It's all pretty doable now,
The enemy fires a missile, it's heat signal is detected and it is decommissioned in flight with a megawatt laser. Why destroy the gun, just make it electric and utilize alternative effects the rig could be capable of. Those west coasters would like a bit of rain, I bet the fire fighters sure would.
A hurricane wall is a higher pressure than the eye, what if that wall could be sliced like a watermelon and its two halves collide into each other while still a few hundred miles from land-fall.
Don't get stuck in the cold-war era, ioerr,
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Satellites nor lasers can alter a tornado.
Anonymous
reagan never deployed any space based lasers. the idea that was looked into was to orbit a nuclear weapon that would power a bunch of rods independently targeted at various missles, destroying the missles and the space based laser satellite at the same time. it was a one shot system, and they never got it work well anyway. aside from the tiny issue that it would require orbiting nuclear bombs
Ray;mond
The tornado would be altered very little.