If we pull the plug so that water drains, a whirlpool appears with a funnel-shape, just like a tornado. If we stick our finger in the funnel, it collapses.
We know we can’t stick our finger in the wall of a tornado and cause it to similarly collapse. But, a concussion bomb, or, several, with a disrupting blast of sufficient size, cannot help but do to the structure of a tornado what our finger does to the whirlpool in our sink drain.
Those who need problems to justify funding rely on any and all destructive forces they can say are caused by a lack of funding for their pet projects. Any disaster, from earthquake to hurricane to tornado is quickly said to be responsible for global freezing, warming, and change. Such people can only make a living in a society that’s so productive that millions of people have endless time on their hands to make such prognostications.
If any of that sort of people were to be asked if it wouldn’t be a good idea to try to bomb any given tornado into collapse, they would look very serious, saying something like, “It might do more damage. We can’t take that chance.”
In the past two weeks, more than 400 Americans have been killed by tornados. “Still, we don’t dare to fight with Mother Nature.”, they say, glad to have more destruction to help fund their livelihoods of fear-mongering lies.
Catholic Fundamentalists can’t help but wonder why there can’t be missiles loaded with dry ice or liquid nitrogen that would explode when they entered a tornado’s funnel. Or, high altitude “bombers” could supply the same rapid drops in temperature to destroy air flows. It’s entirely possible that huge containers of chipped dry ice could be put in front of tornadoes to be drawn up into them, and, freezing, disrupt the funnel.
However they are provided, sudden bursts and blasts of cold could not help but have a definite impact on disrupting the organized airflow that causes so much death and destruction.
No one with the authority to attempt such a thing would dare to try. No one in any government agency is ever allowed to solve any problem that would interfere with any funding for any agency. If some idealistic “tornado freezer” sought permission to destroy a tornado, the Federal and State agencies that need budget-increasing disasters to which they can respond would quickly allege greater “possible” dangers from the solution, solemnly intoning, “The cure might be worse than the disease.”
The fact that tornadoes continue to destroy our lives and property is about the only kind of government “service” we can reasonably expect.