On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 10:31 PM, Bob La Quey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 9:31 PM, Doug LaRue <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ** Reply to message from "Bob La Quey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Wed, 7 May > > 2008 20:43:30 -0700 > > Did you hear that China has over 7,000 37mm anti-aircraft guns they plan > on > > using to seed the clouds around the Olympics? The plan is to prevent rain > > from ruining the Chinese Olympics. They're going to blast Mother Nature > into > > submission. > > http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2006-06-29-china-rain_x.htm > > Does this work?
According to a recent Discovery Channel show, we tried something like this in the US and it looked very promising at first, but as the ability to measure the effect got better, it was found that a large majority of what was happening that was initially attributed to cloud seeding would have happened in the normal source of a storm. The hope is that as modeling gets better, they will be able to get better control and accuracy. It was also pointed out in the show that the very things you'd do to reduce the potential severity of a storm can sometimes backfire on you and make it more intense. So there is probably a chance that the Chinese will cause the very rain they're trying to prevent, but who knows?. Robert D -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
