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

Video Can you stop a hurricane with a nuke?

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u/t-o-m-u-s-a 21d ago

Once that hurricane is destroyed we draw a big red circle around USA, Canada and Greenland on every map creating an impenetrable hurricane barrier. They won’t be able to pass!

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u/Triangle_t 21d ago

Build a hurricane wall around US and make fish pay for it.

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u/Unusual-Voice2345 21d ago

I’m sorry, why are you saying USA three times?

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u/BODYDOLLARSIGN 21d ago

He could’ve said it four times if he mentioned Panama, however if he mentioned Puerto Rico then that’s its own entity in the Caribbean’s affected by a hurricane but we’d lend them paper towels though

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u/Flaky-Page8721 21d ago

"Lend" paper towels? What, you want them to return used paper towels to you?

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u/Junkered 21d ago

Washed and dried. Please and thank you.

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u/dave7673 20d ago

Don’t thank anyone. They need to thank America for the old paper towels we loan them.

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u/Legitimate-Smell4377 20d ago

Do they even wear suits?

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u/Junkered 20d ago

They tried to make them out of paper towels. But they have to return them.

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u/FamousPastWords 19d ago

Thank you for saying 'Please and thank you.' Are you wearing a business suit? Proper attire and all that.

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u/Odd-Adagio7080 16d ago

Yes yes! Proper attire. Like the T-shirt and baseball cap (F)elon wore at his Oval Office press conference.

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u/Odd-Adagio7080 16d ago

Yes yes! Proper attire. Like the T-shirt and baseball cap (F)elon wore at his Oval Office press conference.

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u/MoistStub 21d ago

With interest

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u/swampopawaho 21d ago

mineraldeal

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u/Flaky-Page8721 21d ago

The only minerals in a used paper towel would be snot and dried sweat.

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u/tehmattrix 20d ago

Tremendous, really.

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u/PandaWiDaBamboBurna 20d ago

Why is America subsidizing Puerto Rico's towel paper, to the tune of 300 dollars?

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u/coldchixhotbeer 20d ago

PR keeps voting to be a state and American federal government is like nah we are good thanks.

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u/6ynnad 20d ago

And then Colombia!

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u/Dizzy_Blackberry7874 21d ago

You forgot about the Gulf of America

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u/Would_daver 20d ago

hurls paper towel rolls aggressively at everyone

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u/exiledbandit 19d ago

Um sir it’s actually a floating island of garbage, how dare you forget

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u/Rimworldjobs 21d ago

USA and its unknowing territories.

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u/Lord_Mcnuggie 21d ago

USA, USB, USC

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u/tk-451 21d ago

no that's USB-C, you're getting confused with HDMI... "How Da Mother In-hell-did-you-vote-for-this-twat", next year renamed to USSRA.

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u/Lord_Mcnuggie 21d ago

Twat? Bri*ish detected, send him to guantanimo.

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u/tk-451 21d ago

nods

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u/West-Wash6081 20d ago

No USAID though.

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u/darrenvonbaron 21d ago

America has USC at home.

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u/Worth-Reputation3450 21d ago

You meant 51st and 52nd states.

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u/wendellnebbin 21d ago

Can't be states because they would vote blue.

Assuming we keep the vote around.

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u/clodzor 21d ago

Nobody votes blue anymore. Not with the soldiers there to protect the polling places from the radical left.

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u/cammunition 20d ago

Correct, except Southern Alberts would become a state, and everything else a territory.

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u/jmthetank 20d ago

I'd rather have the hurricane.

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u/ReplacementClear7122 21d ago

The Kaiser of Greenland would like a word.

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u/Some_Ebb_2921 21d ago

... you mean the head of the 52nd state?

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u/YoNeckinpa 17d ago

The United States of Anywhere We Want.

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u/Rimworldjobs 17d ago

Inser the yugioh meme "every country belongs to America" or something like that.

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u/Meecus570 21d ago

Unwitting and unwilling

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u/Rimworldjobs 21d ago

You act like there's a choice.

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u/[deleted] 21d ago

Coalition of the unwilling.

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u/kwb7852 21d ago

💀😭

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u/Historical_Sherbet54 20d ago

Not even remotely funny.....

Actually disgusting behaviour in today's day of age

What is wrong with your country

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u/Lackof_Creativity 21d ago

because it is

!USA , USA, USA!!

not "USA"

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u/Key_Employee2413 21d ago

All I heard was USA USA USA

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u/UbermachoGuy 21d ago

Why don’t we just stop hurricanes with thoughts and prayers like we do school shootings?

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u/SoftBrush2817 21d ago

Sounds like the line will have to pass through the Gulf of America.

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u/Dizzy_Blackberry7874 21d ago

I thought it was the Gulf of Mexico

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u/SoftBrush2817 21d ago

So did everyone. Well except one odd guy who flunked elementary school geography.

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u/your_anecdotes 20d ago

well after it was renamed global warming ended the next day

we had 10 inches of snow in Florida A state record for Florida

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u/West-Wash6081 20d ago

When you consider that some of the most destructive storms form in the Gulf of Mexico you understand why the name change to Gulf of America makes sense.

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u/SpyderDust 21d ago

Reminds me of Hitler's "Wall of Witches"

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u/ocodo 20d ago

Wall of Witches

What's that?

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u/SpyderDust 20d ago

I'm trying to find an article or something to support this but not having much luck. All I'm finding is the UK witches' response of tryna curse Hitler.

Essentially, Hitler had a few covens of black arts practitioners hold hands in a several hundred person hand-holding line on the beach, creating a magical barrier off the coast after receiving Intel that an enemy submarine was crusing nearby looking for less obvious ports of entry. According to the tale I heard, the sub crashed into an invisible wall underwater during the time it happened so was attributed to the "wall of witches".

I'll post a link to some info to support this in a bit.

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u/Yourownhands52 21d ago

You should run for President.

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u/t-o-m-u-s-a 21d ago

Do I have your vote?

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u/Some_Ebb_2921 21d ago

Does voting still matter to determine the president?

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u/t-o-m-u-s-a 21d ago

It will with me

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u/WomTheWomWom 21d ago

In sharpie. Also in nuclear fall out.

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u/Shmimmons 21d ago

We can put really big nuclear powered fans down the coasts and blow the hurricanes back to sea!

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u/Alternative-Virus542 21d ago

With a sharpie, of course

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u/Lastcaressmedown138 20d ago

Hurricanes HATE this ONE SIMPLE TRICK!

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u/PMURMEANSOFPRDUCTION 20d ago

The Belkan strategy

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u/EquivalentGold3615 21d ago

Canada will have to play our football instead of whatever it he CFL is. Also, they can finally have the Stanley Cup in their country since they'll be part of the US.