Sorry, but what mediocre results? Where was the rain over the Beijing Olympics in 2008? And I suppose they've only been getting worse at it for the last decade?
Where does all the rain they've been seeding come from? The water supply of the atmosphere seems like a pretty zero sum game to me. It couldn't have anything to do with record droughts in other parts of the world, I suppose? Oh, I forgot. Weather modification is still a conspiracy theory and therefore a third rail for actual discussion. On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 11:06 AM, Magnus Boman <[email protected]> wrote: > So a relatively small number of researchers, one of which reports > "promising results" to a Chinese journalist, and all of which are at best > mediocre in the field, is paving the way for an installation of > Tibet-placed burners for cloud seeding. How are we to trust the Chinese > government with staying in full control of the cascading effects? > > The autonomous vehicle quandary is a red herring. There are always other > options than the ones given, in what is in fact never zero-sum games, Don't > believe the Musk. They just want you not to think about other aspects of > introducing autonomous vehicles. These aspects are again the results of > cascading effects. > M. > > On Mon, Mar 26, 2018 at 4:00 PM Felix Stalder <[email protected]> wrote: > >> The drive towards geo-engineering is gather pace. It's hard to see this >> as anything but dystopic. A kind of autonomous vehicle problem wright >> large. And this problem goes like this: If the system detects two bads >> (e.g. driving over an pedestrian or steering the car into a wall) which >> one does it take? Now, if we change the weather patterns, whose weather >> should improve? OK, it's not a zero-sum game like in the car accident >> situation, but I doubt that this is an unambiguous win-win either. Felix >> >> >> >> >> China needs more water. So it's building a rain-making network three >> times the size of Spain >> >> Stephen Chen >> >> http://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2138866/ >> china-needs-more-water-so-its-building-rain-making-network-three >> >> ... > > > # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission > # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, > # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets > # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l > # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: [email protected] > # @nettime_bot tweets mail w/ sender unless #ANON is in Subject: >
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