Using an arsenal of rockets, artillery and aircraft, China will try to blast the clouds out of the sky... through a technique which falls under the umbrella of "cloud seeding."
Wednesday, June 14, 2006
Wow
Find this article hard to believe if it wasn't off CNN... but apparently the Chinese Government plans to fire rockets into the clouds to ward off any rain interfering with the 08 Olympics. Shocked this can actually be done, and wonder about side-effects/unpleasant consequences. Actually attended a presentation on the subject of weather modification at school last year, and understood no one was close to being able to do what is described in the article... In any case here's the article... one other thing, if this plan would really work, wouldn't it make more sense to try to fend off hurricanes then save the olympics from a damp day now and then? excerpt:
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Dear Mr. Troxell--
Cloud seeding isn't new. We demonstrated it as undergraduates with illegal rockets and made a little money betting guys we could make it snow on demand. It was quite cool.
Mikey
that's interesting and with snow no less... looked into the topic a little further since this article caught my attention, apparently there's some conspiracy theories floating around out there that some sort of weather modification attempt gone bad may have worsened Katrina. Aside from that should be interesting if a government is officially using it and making it known to the general public.
Wow indeed...
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