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By Dan Vergano, USA TODAY
Good news, folks. Microsoft founder Bill Gates has turned his attention to controlling the weather.
Five U.S. Patent and Trade Office patent applications, made public on July 9, propose slowing hurricanes by pumping cold, deep-ocean water in their paths from barges. If issued, the patents offer 18 years of legal rights to the idea for Gates and co-inventors, including climate scientist Ken Caldeira of the Carnegie Institution of Washington.
Hurricanes, most famously demonstrated by the deadly intensification of Hurricane Katrina before its landfall in 2005, draw strength from warm waters on the ocean's surface. The patents describe a system for strategically placing turbine-equipped barges in the path of storms to chill sea surfaces with cold water pumped from the depths.
USA TODAY GRAPHIC: Hurricane tracking, science, and history
First requested by Gates and colleagues last year, the patents describe methods "not limited to atmospheric management, weather management, hurricane suppression, hurricane prevention, hurricane intensity modulation, hurricane deflection" to manage storms
I think his plan will mess with the natural order of things.
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mattyrm wrote:i like the idea of a woman with a lobster claw for a hand touching my nuts. :-)
Before people bring in the whole MS is evil thing, he is a great guy though when it comes to charity and some forms of research. I like his way of thinking, he might be portrayed as greedy, but he also thinks of others.
Well good thing is that half of the stuff in the ocean... we already killed, and the other half has nothing to eat. So, all in all I think the creatures of the sea have seen this coming and are not taking it personall; it would be like getting angry at a baby monkey.
No one knows how much craziness we have inflicted on the planet yet, so instead of doing the smart thing and observing more, we are going to install some sort of giant washing machine in the ocean... I hope that asteroid hits only bureaucrats and guys like Bill gates.
Bill gates is still a bad guy in my book, regardless of him sharing the leftover wealth with some of the poorer people in the world. Bill knows there is a lot more where that cam from, and if he is going to rule the world a hundred years from now as a brain in a jar, he needs to get the good publicity now. Brain in jars never seem to do well in the "Not pure evil" department.
Well I was thinking that messing with the water period would do something to the moon... you know since the moon effects Earth's water gravitationally... EDIT: took out the stupid parts.
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BrookM wrote:It's a piercing actually. Stylish one at that.
Its a very cute piercing.
Automatically Appended Next Post: So anyway... the Bill Gates weather changing magic thingie... do you think it would eff up the oxygen levels of the planet?
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We should dump warm water in the path of hurricanes going towards our enemies.
Anuvver fing - when they do sumfing, they try to make it look like somfink else to confuse everybody. When one of them wants to lord it over the uvvers, 'e says "I'm very speshul so'z you gotta worship me", or "I know summink wot you lot don't know, so yer better lissen good". Da funny fing is, arf of 'em believe it and da over arf don't, so 'e 'as to hit 'em all anyway or run fer it.
I'll just be like "feth you!" and kick her in the face with my ENERGY LEGS!
Anuvver fing - when they do sumfing, they try to make it look like somfink else to confuse everybody. When one of them wants to lord it over the uvvers, 'e says "I'm very speshul so'z you gotta worship me", or "I know summink wot you lot don't know, so yer better lissen good". Da funny fing is, arf of 'em believe it and da over arf don't, so 'e 'as to hit 'em all anyway or run fer it.
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