Can giant walls protect the USA from tornadoes?

ABQCOWBOY · Feb 27, 2014

Snake Plissken..... I heard you was dead!

FiveRings · Feb 27, 2014

If the wall didn't work, it'd magnify the damage x1000, not to mention the ridiculous cost for a "maybe" idea. Seems like a dialogue you'd find in the deleted scenes of the Wizard of Oz...

Route 66 · Feb 28, 2014

All I see that would be beneficial is free raquetball for everyone!

Kristen82 · Feb 28, 2014

Ntegrase96 said:
Not to steer the thread too far off course, but why not just have all the robots sit around that hole they were coming out of instead of spending tons of money on walls that didn't work?

Maybe the pilots would get bored sitting there underwater for days, not to mention the BO after a while.

iceberg · Feb 28, 2014

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20071010125718AAkaE8V

i LOVE the 1st answer. seems i wasn't the only one to ever ponder this tornado issue in such a manner.

jobberone · Feb 28, 2014

joseephuss said: ↑
The walls would need to be about 1,000 feet high and 150 feet wide, he said.

ChldsPlay said:
Oh, is that all?

Don't be so picky. Minor details. It's only 150 feet wide.

Roadtrip635 · Mar 1, 2014

But can it stop a Sharknado?

iceberg · Mar 1, 2014

oh my god, and there was a sequel to that...

casmith07 · Mar 2, 2014

joseephuss said:
http://www.usatoday.com/story/weather/2014/02/25/giant-walls-tornado-alley/5808887/

Can giant walls protect the USA from tornadoes?

Forget the Great Wall of China. How about the Great Wall of ... Kansas?

One scientist thinks we can protect parts of the central USA from ferocious tornadoes by building several gigantic walls across Tornado Alley:

"If we build three east-west great walls in the American Midwest .... one in North Dakota, one along the border between Kansas and Oklahoma to the east, and the third one in south Texas and Louisiana, we will diminish the tornado threats in the Tornado Alley forever," according to physicist Rongjia Tao of Temple University.

The walls would need to be about 1,000 feet high and 150 feet wide, he said. Tao is presenting his research next week at the annual meeting of the American Physical Society in Denver.

1,000 feet is a huge, huge wall.

I think the better technological advance would be some sort of weather balloon or weather machine that reduces or increases ambient air temperature in high-risk zones to match the natural air temperature to avoid the vortex effect of warm air clashing with cool air, the birth of a tornadic system.

But sure. Let's build ugly walls.

DFWJC · Mar 3, 2014

Not suggesting it, but giant walls placed somewhere else could save the US more lives and infinitely more money (potentially 100s of billions) than the ones discussed.

ABQCOWBOY · Mar 4, 2014

Roadtrip635 said:
But can it stop a Sharknado?

Get real. Nothing stops the Sharknados!

iceberg · Mar 4, 2014

ABQCOWBOY said:
Get real. Nothing stops the Sharknados!

wrong. dolphinados would do it.

ABQCOWBOY · Mar 4, 2014

iceberg said:
wrong. dolphinados would do it.

Bring your money. I'll book this bet!

iceberg · Mar 4, 2014

ABQCOWBOY · Mar 4, 2014

Come on.... seriously, Dolphnado?

That guy hasn't made a movie in like a hundred years.

picture-of-dolph-lundgren-in-one-in-the-chamber-2012--large-picture.jpg

I don't think so.

iceberg · Mar 4, 2014

well killer whales are actually dolphins, so we can include them too.

DallasCowpoke · Mar 4, 2014

iceberg said:

pffft...Any kid that's watched more than 4-5 episodes of "Flipper" knows this.

BrAinPaiNt · Mar 4, 2014

DallasCowpoke said:
pffft...Any kid that's watched more than 4-5 episodes of "Flipper" knows this.

Think it was on Hulu but can't remember where I saw it. Early 2000s or so they did a remake of the flipper series. Of course it was cheesy and did not last long. Interesting part of it was that one of the main characters was played by a young Jessica Alba.

And they did a movie with a Paul Hogan and a young boy named Elijah Wood.

Roadtrip635 · Mar 4, 2014

ABQCOWBOY said:
Come on.... seriously, Dolphnado?

That guy hasn't made a movie in like a hundred years.

I don't think so.

He was in a Universal Soldier sequel about a year ago, he was also in The Expendables. I met Dolph a few months ago, he was a real nice guy, very funny.
Dolph just might be able to figure a way to stop a Sharknado, he's a bonafide genius.... has an IQ of 160!....... Yes that Dolph Lundgren!

Rack · Mar 5, 2014

DFWJC said:
Not suggesting it, but giant walls placed somewhere else could save the US more lives and infinitely more money (potentially 100s of billions) than the ones discussed.

Exactly. Plus it gets really sunny and hot over there, they'd welcome the shade of a wall that big...

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