[ Your Name ] would like to inform you about this article on Complexity Digest 2008.52 - 12 http://comdig.unam.mx/index.php?id_issue=2008.52#31840 28-Dec-2008 [ Your Message ] PDF files of our annual editions are available at http://www.comdig.de/AnnualEditions.html A letter from Gottfried Mayer to our readers and friends is at http://www.comdig.de/GMLetter.html Supersonic Fighters Could Snuff Out Hurricanes - Russians Patent Shockwave Storm-Squelch Scheme, Environment Excerpts: A Russian professor at an Ohio university has applied to patent a method for snuffing out hurricanes by flying jet fighters around the eye of the storm at supersonic speeds. Professor Arkadii Leonov and his collaborator Atanas Gagov, both of Akron Uni, actually filed their patent application "Hurricane Suppression by Supersonic Boom" last year. It was unearthed by the New Scientist patents column this week. Source: Supersonic Fighters Could Snuff Out Hurricanes - Russians Patent Shockwave Storm-Squelch Scheme[ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/12/03/supersonic_storm_squelch/ ], Lewis Page, Environment, 08/12/03 You can discuss this article on Articles Forum http://comdig.unam.mx/topic.php?id_article=31840