Hurricanes Helene and Milton made the 2024 North Atlantic hurricane season a particularly destructive one. Helene and Milton made landfall at a politically sensitive time, with the high-tension US presidential election only a month after Milton struck Florida’s west coast. Against that backdrop, some commentators speculated that the hurricanes were…
I mean… I’m pretty sure we could if we tried. It just wouldn’t be able to manipulate them much.
Like… what if we built, like, a really big wall to stop the wind? Used lasers to heat it up? Throw thumbtacks into it to make it SPIKY?