Ah, but what if we replaced the solar panels on the satellite with butterfly wings? Hurricanes on demand every time you flap 'em.

Ok mugaliens, but tell us what you really think.

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I think that practice was outlawed under US Code Section 132 Para 1158: Anti-Cavitation Law

What? Diddle I?

(btw, diddle: 2: to waste (as time) in trifling - source: Merriam-Webster)

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If I set the budget, we'd have Ares and more. Unfortunately, I don't set the budget, and Ares is just too expensive and too far out for us to accomplish our goals within the budget we were given.

If we halt the ISS, all versions of Ares, and transport Orion and Altair aboard DIRECTv3's Jupiter family of Shuttle-Derived Launch Vehicles, we just might make it back to the Moon by 2020.

I believe that the satellites were supposedly able to heat the waters infront of a hurricane with microwaves or something to direct the hurricane into a specific path. But I thought they were doing this with submarines or HAARP?

Are you serious or are you being funny?

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How so? Satellites are already bombarding the earth with microwaves. If it was to affect water then then it would need a fair old bit of power. My question earlier. What power required?

So, imaginary worlds, any satellite configuration from a magic wand in a magic configuration. 100 watts? 1gigawatt? What do you need to heat the water if that is a way to affect a hurricane that contains shed loads of energy. Big sheds and all. Or butterfly wings

Back in the real world the satellite needs power. To generate the power required to do that does appear to me to be beyond the realms of reality?

I believe that the satellites were supposedly able to heat the waters infront of a hurricane with microwaves or something to direct the hurricane into a specific path.

Nope. No such thing, and the energy requirements to heat even the topmost meter or so of a decent-sized chunk of ocean would be staggering.

But I thought they were doing this with submarines or HAARP?

Nope, and nope. (HAARP can "heat up" a relatively small patch of ionosphere over Alaska. That's it, and it's not even close to what you mentioned.)

There is no weather modification done by satellite, and for practical reasons there almost certainly never will be.

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I don't know about the rest of you but whenever I encounter the phrase a high level xxxx scientist in a thread OP, I usually stop reading.

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Frankly, whenever I read something like "There is substantive proof of a long history of..." I assume there won't be any proof...