Did You Know We Could Do This?

[Guaranteed]

Hey! You! Get off of my cloud

Tue Jul 13,10:56 PM ET

BEIJING (Reuters) - A storm is brewing in China as drought-plagued regions accuse each other of stealing clouds for rain-seeding.

 With the help of modern technology, scientists can fire rockets filled with various substances into light, fluffy clouds to make them rain.

"But the practice has caused considerable controversy in recent days, with some saying that one area's success with rain has meant taking moisture meant for one place and giving it to another," the China Daily said on Wednesday.

The row over rainclouds was particularly heated in several cities in central Henan province.

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WTF? This is a new one on me.

[WindRavenX]

1. It's totally possible

But wicked expensive, from what I hear.

[rooboy]

2. The idea of cloud 'seeding' has been openly discussed in our parliament.

eom.

[Guaranteed]

3. Is it legit? nt

[rooboy]

10. Yeah.

All but 2 of Australia's capital cities have pretty bad water shortages, and the rural areas aren't doing too well. So there has been discussion in the parliament about deliberately doing this to get some of the higher-level cloud to produce some rain.

Not a science boffin myself, so I can't tell how how it's done or if it is being done right now.

[Gore1FL]

4. Silver is involved

silver Iodine silver Nitrate --- I don't remember. the silvermakes it expensive, If I am remembering right.

[sound head]

5. If we knew about all the hidden technology that exists...

We would probably be somewhat surprised

http://www.weathermod.com/

[roguevalley]

6. This is going to be hell. The drought is turning arrable land into desert

in China like crazy. Imagine. 600,000,000 people under thirty going hungry. I shudder to imagine the consequences to ignoring global warming.

[izzie]

7. They have been talking about this my whole life.

I have never heard they had made it work.

[James T. Kirk]

8. Cloud seeding has been around since 1946.

See link.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_seeding

[theoceansnerves]

9. i think tesla

is probably behind it all.