| Cacique Caribe | 02 Oct 2015 9:05 a.m. PST |
Any suggestions? Thanks, Dan |
| Rich Bliss | 02 Oct 2015 9:06 a.m. PST |
Would imagine, a lot of sattelites and, on he ground, a number of redundant control stations with several dish antennae. |
 Extra Crispy  | 02 Oct 2015 9:33 a.m. PST |
Given the enormity of the syste you are trying to control, it would have to be the size of a small city, not a "tower." Probably space based in any case. |
 miniMo  | 02 Oct 2015 9:46 a.m. PST |
Why wouldn't it look like Galaxy's lair and machinery from Our Man Flint? |
 Parzival | 02 Oct 2015 10:19 a.m. PST |
A giant mirrored space parasol, made up of multiple independently focusing polarized lens capable of going from full EM-spectrum transparency to full reflection. It would be located in the Sun-Earth L1 Lagrange point, but be capable of independent movement (probably just as a solar sail). While probably not capable of full Earth shielding, such a system could be used to alternately reduce or focus solar output on broad regions of the Earth's surface, thus altering air temperatures and currents, potentially provoking or reducing storm action. And yes, such a system could be used as an extremely powerful weapon of mass destruction, Mr. Bond. |
| Cacique Caribe | 02 Oct 2015 11:40 a.m. PST |
Wait, what? Did I miss some inappropriate photos? I guess I'll go through them again. Now you're making me look. Dan |
| Cacique Caribe | 02 Oct 2015 11:43 a.m. PST |
Lol. I thought you said semi-nude! Geez. That's what I get for not wearing my glasses. Yeah, it takes all kinds of crazy to make the planet revolve. I guess that makes us a revolting planet! Dan |
| Random Die Roll | 02 Oct 2015 4:22 p.m. PST |
I am thinking that a weather control device would be something that is already in orbit….so some type of large antenna or dish array |
| napthyme | 02 Oct 2015 4:46 p.m. PST |
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| Micropanzer | 02 Oct 2015 4:54 p.m. PST |
I found one of these at the thrift store with out snake part but thought cobra weather station all the way
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| Mako11 | 02 Oct 2015 5:00 p.m. PST |
Yep, I was gonna say, those "top-secret" antennae arrays in Alaska. |
| skippy0001 | 02 Oct 2015 6:29 p.m. PST |
Why not the reverse? In the film 'Twister' you saw a small caravan of storm chasers with sophisticated scientific equipment. Envision a military version of that which can generate, hold, scale up and down in strength and guide a tornado through the Forward Edge of a Battlefield or behind the enemy's lines. The Long Range Tornado Group:motto, "We Spin Wind". You'd have a mix of civilian and military vehicles or just take all those new 6 or 8 wheeled afvs and cover them with weird science antennae, phase-array modules, twirly wind doohickys and a Close-In Defense Module.
They cruise behind the lines, send up 'sounding' rockets to plaster a cloud area to create the condition they need, use Tesla-Tek to create a coriolus, use another rocket to launch mini-telemetry golf balls, use them to calibrate the right EMP burst they need and scale the tornado from F1 to F5. Maneuver by EMP push/pull bursting.
Add a hot looking female SciTech in a uniform two sizes too small who gets wet a lot. Now you have something to hunt with those .50 Barret and Beowulf rifles. It would entail a kitbash of 7 vehicles: Spotter/Command car
Nav/orienteering car
sensor/comm car
Scientific instrument car with APU's
Rocket battery car
field bivouac car
Guard fireteam car. And a great soundtrack as they scream down the road-Fast, Furious and a F5! YouTube link Peril/halo2 soundtrack |
| Cacique Caribe | 02 Oct 2015 6:51 p.m. PST |
Wouldn't it be more like an Anti-Terraforming factory, with tall stacks pumping tons of good "Earth-friendly" gases into the atmosphere or something? Or as giant filters to suck up all the bad gases, right?
link Well, that's almost what I was expecting to see in the 2013 film "The Colony". Instead … they made each of the global weather control/modification stations in the international global cooling effort look more like two giant horizontal Stargate rings – actually very Tesla-esque:
Dan |
| Lion in the Stars | 02 Oct 2015 7:13 p.m. PST |
One early suggestion I saw was a large array of solar concentrators hooked to heat pumps. Heat pumps pull heat from the local environment and send it to the concentrators, which beam the IR out into space. (Yeah, I know the atmosphere would absorb the heat, but you'd get a nice big convection current going.) But for militarized stuff, gotta be Tesla towers. |
| Mako11 | 02 Oct 2015 7:51 p.m. PST |
Small, nukes could probably wipe out hurricanes, if detonated in the right spot and altitude. |
| Cacique Caribe | 03 Oct 2015 4:21 p.m. PST |
Aye. Nuke the hurricanes from orbit. It's the only way to be sure!
Dan :) |
| capncarp | 11 Oct 2015 6:39 a.m. PST |
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| TheBeast | 12 Oct 2015 10:30 a.m. PST |
Nah, you're all thinking too _now_. And YOU believe all those ground-penetrating radar actually showed nothing underneath the circle… ;->= Small, nukes Aye, would disrupt the flow, but not sure ADDING energy would stabilize for long. Lol. I thought you said semi-nude! Geez. That's what I get for not wearing my glasses. Whereas, the rest of us knew it was wishful thinking. No, you're all forgetting the answer to everything, at least a few years ago. Nannites. Doug |
