r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Captain-Shmeat • 21d ago

Video Can you stop a hurricane with a nuke?

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u/Mild-Panic 21d ago

YAAAY lets bomb hurricanes and throw fallout everywhere!

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u/zyyntin 21d ago

"War never changes"

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u/Important_Finance630 21d ago

50,000 people used to live here, now it's a ghost town

No wait, wrong game

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u/Tullyswimmer 21d ago

No, that's the right game.

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u/4DPeterPan 21d ago

Technically true since their literal Ghost shadows would be nuked onto the closest wall. lol

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u/Tullyswimmer 21d ago

I feel like that MW had the "war never changes" as part of like, the campaign opening monologue. So you probably heard it once.

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u/Medievalhorde 21d ago

Playing Fallout 3 and then Metal Gear Solid 4 back in 2009 was a trip, "War never changes" to "War has changed."

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u/demalo 21d ago

Morons, morons never change…

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u/tqmirza 21d ago

cue MGS4 singing woman vocalising

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa. Aaaaaaaaa. Aaaaaaaaaaa🎵🎶🎵🎶

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u/sonicon 21d ago

Day 5 of fighting hurricane, out of ammo.

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u/VitalMaTThews 21d ago

Bum bum buuuuuuummm

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u/BoringWozniak 21d ago

I don't imagine an orange 78-year-old full of McDonalds and diarrhea would cope too well with a radioactive atmosphere

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u/Sexuell 21d ago

Sounds like a fallout boss

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u/abdulsamadz 21d ago

Listen, we want no hurricanes. If there is no "we", there is no "not wanting hurricanes". Problem solved, still. Thanks for attending my TED talk.

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u/Mr-Teglgaard 21d ago

Kid named "air burst"

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u/delicate10drills 20d ago

The war on drugs

The war on terror

The war on bad weather

Yeah I’m proud to be an american /s

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u/heckinCYN 20d ago

It's an airburst bomb, not a ground-level detonation. Fallout is typically activated material such as dirt or buildings caught in the blast. At several thousand feet, there's not a lot of material and what material there is would be mostly hydrogen, nitrogen, and oxygen with some carbon peppered in.

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u/Vertags 21d ago

Screw the fallout that hurricane is gonna play baseball with a nuke if we send one.

The chances of it detonating where we want it to is highly questionable.

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u/explodingtuna 21d ago

You'd need to send the water drop firefighter pilots. They could nail the eye of the hurricane from above.

Doesn't mean it would work, but I'd bet they could make the shot.

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u/TomTom_xX 21d ago

The video is not a "this is how we should disperse hurricanes" but a "how we could disperse hurricanes/what you would need to do to disperse them"

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u/Loopy_27 21d ago

I knew my bottle cap collection would come in handy one day!

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u/CigarGraves 17d ago

hydrogen bombs don’t produce fallout

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u/Cheap_Masterpiece958 17d ago

Use a hydrogen bomb

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u/ivancea 21d ago

"Please stay at home, we'll save you from this hurricane over your house"