In response to Hiroshima Day
Comment author: Aaron7 08 August 2008 08:30:00AM 0 points [-]

J Thomas: Surely no more than say, 75% of the country went crazy.

In response to Timeless Identity
Comment author: Aaron7 05 June 2008 12:05:00AM -1 points [-]

Clearly, due to the butterfly effect, storms will be highly influenced by quantum randomness. If we reset the world to 5 years ago and put every molecule on the same track, New Orleans would not have been destroyed in almost all cases.

No, no, no. The vast majority will have New Orleans destroyed, but in slightly different ways. Yes, weather is chaotic, but it evolves in fairly set ways. The original Lorenz attractor is chaotic, but it has a definite shape that recurs.