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Poland5495 Posts

11 hours ago

#99041

On May 04 2025 00:42 Billyboy wrote:

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It is very hard to wrap my head around how he can possibly believe it, but I saw the interview and my take was as well that he actually does. I just can't figure out how people are seeing what I'm seeing and thinking he is some super smart guy. Maybe he was? But clearly he is just clueless on so much now.

How he can believe that? He's just stupid and has zero media literacy. Many people who worked with him are of the opinion that he doesn't understand how anything works.

I have family in the US. University professors with PhDs in STEM. My aunt frequently shares some shoddy AI generated videos of animals interacting with humans. Very obviously fake. She thinks they're real. The family votes for Trump. ;-)

Zambrah

United States7188 Posts

11 hours ago

#99042

On May 04 2025 00:53 micronesia wrote:
The "why not nuke hurricanes" debacle actually kind of annoys me for a different reason. One the one hand, Trump doesn't deserve the benefit of the doubt at all based on his behavior and what he's said over the past decade or so. On the other...

I've studied both weather and nuclear physics. I actually find the question somewhat interesting: What would it really take to disrupt a major weather phenomenon using technology? What would happen to a tornado if you detonated a tsar bomb right above it? What would happen if the USA detonated its entire arsenal in the eye of a hurricane?

We've done enough nuclear testing to understand the environmental/human impacts. We also know how dangerous weather and other natural disasters can be. Is it possible there's some way we could use one or more nuclear weapons, in certain limited circumstances, in some very specific ways, to actually improve overall outcomes for human life? Probably not, but it's not 100% obvious to me that the answer is guaranteed "no".

Still, I feel much better with Trump asking such questions when he doesn't also have the nuclear button and a team of yes-men below him.

I cant remember where I saw this, maybe it was the subreddit where people do real world calculations to test these sorts of things for fun, but if I recall correctly, the energy a nuclear bomb releases isnt nearly enough to disrupt a hurricane because hurricanes are outputting too much energy themselves, I think youd need to not just nuke a hurricune, but nuke the shit out of it, to disrupt it.

Vivax

21939 Posts

10 hours ago

#99043

Even a hurricane would think twice about visiting the US today. Trump would just have to fart in its general direction to shoo it away.

Should be interesting to see where his policies take the country and possibly others.

I‘m disappointed that a google bomb doesn‘t exist yet of the kind:

‚how to book a flight to the US‘

‚Did you mean: How to book a flight to El Salvador‘

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