The Alternate Kinetic Energy Produced by the Tragically Hip's Music

The effects of butterflying away the song are....

  • ...inconsequential, the hurricane would have still hit

    Votes: 7 63.6%
  • ...negligible, the hurricane would have damaged things but maybe not as much

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • ...noticeable, and the damage would have been moderate instead of severe

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • ...intense, and the hurricanes force only slightly grazes New Orleans

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • ...Massive, New Orleans doesn't become a disaster any more than it normally is

    Votes: 2 18.2%
  • ... Bourbon blues on the street loose and complete

    Votes: 2 18.2%

  • Total voters
    11

Sachyriel

Banned
Weird title huh? Anyways, if the Tragically Hip had never come out with New Orleans is Sinking, would the kinetic energy that was used when people moved to its melody to dance, sang along with it, went to the record store to buy it, talked to each other about it and all the other things they did because of that one song all add up into enough wind power and make enough alternate currents from OTL that Hurricane Katrina is somehow altered in the future, somehow lessening or altogether preventing New Orleans from being damaged that heavily?

To put it more simply, if you butterfly away the song, can you butterfly away the extensive damage to the city in time for the systems put in place to prevent such damages can be upgraded? :confused:
 
We'd have to know the heat released in the first place to know what effect it'd have on the storm. Also past two weeks any change will prevent the hurricane from forming.
 

Sachyriel

Banned
I haven't voted yet, so there is one vote that needs to tell us why the changes would be inconsequential? :confused:

AKA: BUMP
 

MacCaulay

Banned
Just so you know: this is probably one of the most original ideas ever. What happened? Did you hear Tragically Hip on the radio or something?
 

Sachyriel

Banned
Just so you know: this is probably one of the most original ideas ever. What happened? Did you hear Tragically Hip on the radio or something?

I awoke to it blaring from my television. Must have come up with it when in the half-awake and half-drunkenly-passed-out state.
 
We'd have to know the heat released in the first place to know what effect it'd have on the storm.

And even with all that who the hell knows? :D

Chaotic effects are called that for a reason. There's no real way to predict anything weather-related with any real accuracy. This winter I had a running joke going where my coin proved more accurate than the weather service in predicting snow. They had a paltry 25% success rate to my 50%. :D

Maybe if that incontinent Bolivian gnat had been more polite and held it in a little longer...
 

Sachyriel

Banned
So, you're saying if the song never came about, we still can't guess what would happen except for the fact it's never banned on the USA's radio stations? :confused:
 

ninebucks

Banned
It would change the details of the formation of Hurricane Katrina, (it might be earlier, later, stronger, weaker, etc. etc.), but the fact would remain that the New Orleans levies were under-invested in, and not fit for the purposes of modern storm protection.

Katrina was a disaster waiting to happen, it could have waited a little longer though.
 
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