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Jul 17, 2009 at 11:54 AM
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Jul 17, 2009 at 12:07 PM Anonymous Says:
What does he think he will play G-D he could loose is whole furtune in a few minutes
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Jul 17, 2009 at 12:15 PM Anonymous Says:
will i be able to download his new program on my windows?
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Jul 17, 2009 at 12:30 PM .........the checkbook Says:
if i had as much mony as him, i could control the whether too....gevaldig
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Jul 17, 2009 at 12:29 PM Anonymous Says:
whoa! I hope the new "system" doesn't crash (like windows) and cause a tsunami... hahahaha
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Jul 17, 2009 at 01:05 PM Anonymous Says:
Maybe we can avoid the usual dumb comments that "only hashem can control the weather" or that "no yiddin should be inolved in this effort since it is contrary to daas torah to try to change what hashem wants to happen". With that logic, every yiddeshe scientist or engineer who has contributed to positive change in the world would be guilty of apikorsus. Sometimes, we can improve on the Ebeshter's work....its called "tikun olam".
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Jul 17, 2009 at 12:26 PM Anonymous Says:
anyone who thinks THEY could control the weather is ABSOLUTELY out of their minds.
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Jul 17, 2009 at 12:25 PM Eizeh Chacham Says:
Why did I not think of that? I threw ice cubes into the water and it changed a storm from a Catagory 5 to a 3. If only I thought of the pumps ! Maybe he can figure out why my Windows crashes too. Oh I forgot. He never could figure out how to make windows work !!!
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Jul 17, 2009 at 02:21 PM chaim Says:
Can someone explain why this is called playing G-D but taking a vaccine to prevent an illness, for exapmle, does not.
If a hurricane is en route to new york, and we have a way to prevent it, would u say: Wait, aren't u guys playing god here? maybe we should just let the hurricane kill us all?"
Men may -- and should -- try to prevent anything from killing humans.
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Jul 17, 2009 at 02:20 PM Anonymous Says:
אין עצה ואין תבונה ואין חכמה נגד ה
אזוי זאגן חז"ל
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Jul 17, 2009 at 01:24 PM yholtz Says:
i think that g-d gave him the wisdom and money, to help mankind!
and this is exactly what every one should try to do is help each other.
the more money and power g-d gave you, the more he will demand of you to return to others, that are looking out for it .
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Jul 17, 2009 at 04:45 PM Raphael Kaufman Says:
The sevarah makes sense. Warm ocean water is what powers hurricanes. If you could cool enough water to lower the water surface temperature under the storm it would certainly weaken the storm it if not cause it to dissipate entirely. The devil, as they say, is in the details. The key word is "enough" and that is the engineering problem. How do you design and build the system to pump "enough" cold water to cool the surface temperature "enough" to have an effect. I don't doubt that it could be done, heck, I could do it myself given unlimited funds, material and time. It remains to be seen, however, whether or not it can be done under practical circumstances. It does appear to be worth the effort to find out. If it works it would not only be a boon to mankind, it would also probably make a ton of money from government contracts from all the countries that are affected by tropical cyclonic storms.
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Jul 17, 2009 at 03:34 PM bar yoichui Says:
all u have 2 do is press alt+control+del. and the whole hurricane will shut down
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Jul 17, 2009 at 03:17 PM bar ilan Says:
it might be a shaila of mechitzas gvul since the weather is not in his hands as mentioned in the ramban on this weeks parsha
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Jul 17, 2009 at 06:28 PM Anonymous Says:
Anyone who thinks we can go to the moon is crazy. Oh, wait...
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Jul 17, 2009 at 06:41 PM Monsey Man Says:
He cannot even create safe and reliable operting systems
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Jul 17, 2009 at 05:47 PM Anonymous Says:
I don't buy this from someone who calls Vista a upgrade of XP
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Jul 17, 2009 at 05:18 PM Load o Lox Says:
Gevaldig. If only he could cool off the Mikvah abisselle Lkovod Shabbos, i'd really appreciate it. Can't wait for hurricane 3.1 or thunderstorm 4.2
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Jul 18, 2009 at 03:21 PM Anonymous Says:
הכל מין השמין חוץ מצינון ופחים כמבואר במסכת ברכות
אולי הכוונה בצינון זה הרעיון הזה?
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Jul 18, 2009 at 09:27 PM Anonymous Says:
“ What does he think he will play G-D he could loose is whole furtune in a few minutes ”
How about a lightining rod
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Jul 18, 2009 at 09:46 PM doctor evil Says:
I will freeze the catskill region for the summer unless i get ---------1,000,000 dollars!
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Jul 18, 2009 at 11:03 PM Anonymous Says:
“ Maybe we can avoid the usual dumb comments that "only hashem can control the weather" or that "no yiddin should be inolved in this effort since it is contrary to daas torah to try to change what hashem wants to happen". With that logic, every yiddeshe scientist or engineer who has contributed to positive change in the world would be guilty of apikorsus. Sometimes, we can improve on the Ebeshter's work....its called "tikun olam". ”
oh yes one can improve god work are you insane?????
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Jul 19, 2009 at 04:31 AM GW Says:
What will apple do about this they better come up with something
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Jul 19, 2009 at 01:27 AM Anonymous Says:
is opening an umbrella in the rain also considered apikorses?!?
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Jul 19, 2009 at 09:25 AM Anonymous Says:
“ Maybe we can avoid the usual dumb comments that "only hashem can control the weather" or that "no yiddin should be inolved in this effort since it is contrary to daas torah to try to change what hashem wants to happen". With that logic, every yiddeshe scientist or engineer who has contributed to positive change in the world would be guilty of apikorsus. Sometimes, we can improve on the Ebeshter's work....its called "tikun olam". ”
small correction- we are not improving g-ds world bc we can do a better job but g-d made this world with imperfections so us humans could work on it and perfect it
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Jul 19, 2009 at 03:27 PM Raphael Kaufman Says:
“ it might be a shaila of mechitzas gvul since the weather is not in his hands as mentioned in the ramban on this weeks parsha ”
Note to all: The project does not seek to control the "weather". Weather patterns are far to large and complicated for deliberate human intervention to have any significant immediate impact. The project is intended to mitigate individual storms. Hurricane dynamics are pretty well understood and mitigating them, at least in theory, is possible. Even if you could just downgrade a Catagory IV storm to a Catagory II you could save billions of dollars of damage.
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Jul 19, 2009 at 03:21 PM Raphael Kaufman Says:
“ The sevarah makes sense. Warm ocean water is what powers hurricanes. If you could cool enough water to lower the water surface temperature under the storm it would certainly weaken the storm it if not cause it to dissipate entirely. The devil, as they say, is in the details. The key word is "enough" and that is the engineering problem. How do you design and build the system to pump "enough" cold water to cool the surface temperature "enough" to have an effect. I don't doubt that it could be done, heck, I could do it myself given unlimited funds, material and time. It remains to be seen, however, whether or not it can be done under practical circumstances. It does appear to be worth the effort to find out. If it works it would not only be a boon to mankind, it would also probably make a ton of money from government contracts from all the countries that are affected by tropical cyclonic storms. ”
Upon further consideration, I see another problem that could sink (no pun intended) the project because of the scale of the equipment required. Cold water is, of course, heavier than warm water. If you pump cold water from the abyss up to the surface, it will sink back down. It will carry some of the surface heat with it but you won't end up with cooler surface water in an area big enough to do some good unless you can pump an awful lot of cold water fast enough to overcome normal solar heating. that's gonna take some humongous piping and pumps, and lots of power to run them. Your going to need barges bigger that any I'm used to, or your going to need lots and lots of barges.
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Jul 21, 2009 at 06:31 AM slow down! Says:
poor guy, his ego is way too big!!!