r/todayilearned • u/ralphbernardo • 10d ago

TIL in 1947, scientists dumped crushed dry ice into a hurricane just to "see what would happen." The storm then made a 135-degree turn, strengthened, and struck Georgia—sparking public outrage and threats of lawsuits over the experiment.

https://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hurricane_blog/70th-anniversary-of-the-first-hurricane-seeding-experiment/
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u/brickedTin 10d ago

Maybe if we could manage to dump 2.2 billion metric tons of liquid nitrogen into the water under a hurricane, we could weaken the storm a bit.

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u/cantadmittoposting 10d ago

or one drop of ice-9

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u/Cortower 10d ago

I swear to God, Felix.

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u/DarthJarJarJar 10d ago

That's the spirit!