Bill Gates targets hurricanes

[weathernms]

Microsoft's Bill Gates, one of the best-known entrepreneurs of the personal computer revolution, has now set out on a new venture, to fight hurricanes.

Bill Gates to attempt to control the weather

Bill Gates targets hurricanes

[PJgunner]

As a retired meteorologist, that was good for a laugh.
He'd have to put out so many barges to pull it off that shipping would be totally disrupted. Just where is the best place to put 'em? Most tropical systems begin life off the coast of Africa and work their way toward and gaining strength, as they head for the East Coast.
Guess he figures he can play God and control the weather. Fat chance!
Paul B.

[Skinny Shooter]

Yeah but Bush did it with Hurricane Katrina, right?

[Seawolf1090]

Bubba Gates has picked a mighty big windmill to tilt at.......

Even poor old Sancho's burro knows that's a bad idea.

[buckhunter]

Paul, I'd love to be a meteorologist. You can be wrong 80% of the time and still get a pat on the back . Being a bean counter that wouldn't work for me.

[Rapier]

May I subcontract this deal?

I can do it real cheap.... say 10 mil. Before you spend a hundred mil on the deal send me a check Bill. In 3 months I will send you a notice that the project failed and we all go home happy. You save 90 mil and I make a buck.
Ed

[jplonghunter]

Not sure but I think God is not compatible with microsoft.

[PJgunner]

Originally Posted by buckhunter

Paul, I'd love to be a meteorologist. You can be wrong 80% of the time and still get a pat on the back . Being a bean counter that wouldn't work for me.

You know? My boss once chewed me out because he overheard a comment I made. We just both happened to be at the same store and I was talking to someone I'd just been introduced to. he personasked what I did for a living and I said, I'm a weatherman, you know a paid liar."
The next day at work I got one of the worst reamings I'd ever had. When he got through, I looked at him and said, "You know? That's how people think of us anyway so why not make a joke of it and beat them to the punch?" That really sent him off and for the next 5 years he tried every which way to fire me. Turns out he got fired for moral turpitude when he got arrested and convicted for raping his stepdaughter. All the judge gave him was probation but the Weather Service did fire his sorry arse.
On another note,for the most part our forecasts have been quite accurate. At the time of my retirement, out hitting our forecasts was about 85 to 90 percent depending on where you lived. The mountainous west can be difficult due to terrain but once past the Rocky mountains it's usually not all that hard to follow a front and predict where it will be in the future. If it's say at Dodge City at 10 AM and is moving at 20 miles an hour, in 10 hours it will be about 200 miles further east. Sometimes they stall which can complicate things but that using happens where there is a lot of friction, like going through mountainous territory.
Stuff like global warming is creating problems but there are other factors screwing up the works. It would take up way too much space and get a tad technical but I do have my theory on part of whats causing much of this screwy weather. Global warming is part of it and it exists. However, it damn well is not man made. If so, how come the surface temperture on mars, Pluto and Neptune has also risen? Ain't no SUVs up there. No coal fired power plants. No man made global warming is a farce, a lie and sham that was foisted upon the world by a few greedy people like Al Gore whose personal fortune has risen from a net worth of $3 million to a net worth of $30 million since this global warming crap got started.
Dunno if you'e much of a reaer but get the book "State of Fear" by Micheal Chricton which somewhat addresses the global warming thing. It is a work of fiction but there is one small part in the book which is too long for me to type out concerning how governments use fear to control the people. The Cold War is a good example. Remember the duck and cover kids did in school. Betcha a fiver that the Russians were doing the same thing. I have to wonder just how serious that bird flu thing was? Now it's global warming.
If you liked Jurrassic Park, or the Andromeda Strain by Chricton and BTW the books are a hell of a lot better. You can add State of Fear to that list but I'' bet money Hollyweird will never make that one into a movie. Funny thing but Chricton passed away some time after State of Fear came out. Coincidence? I wonder?
Oh BTW, my record for correct forecasts over a 33 year period was in the low 90's.
Paul B.

[buckhunter]

Our guys and gals do pretty well. Ususally in New England you can see it coming and predict it pretty. Hang in there Paul I just couldn't resist. Global warming. We humans did some of it but I believe that its just the natural course of action.

Not be a alarmist but I believe in another 300 or 400 years this rock may actually be a rock with little if any inhabitants. Then it will regenerate and Darwin will be shown to be right. Yes I have my religion but science is science. JMO.

[Rapier]

Unfortunately for slick Billy Gates, hurricanes do not do what they are supposed to do, have an eye about 100 miles wide and the eye wobbles as they move, by 50 miles or so. The idea that you can ambush a hurricane by putting barges across the path and change the water surface temperature enough to effect the engine (the eye), at the right time, right temperature and exact spot, is a fool's errand.
Ed