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Controlling the Weather

Posted June 28, 2008 8:38 AM

Every host country wants its Olympic Games to be perfect. China is taking no chances, even using technology to control the weather. The plan is to use 21 stations around the city equipped with rockets containing pellets of silver iodide that will drain the clouds of their rain potential, or will trigger rain before the clouds reach the stadium. Is this kind of control a benign effort to ensure smooth running of the games or does it pose a potential environmental problem?

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06/28/2008 2:35 PM

The success and/or failure of predicting the weather proves that we haven't perfected the science and we have way more to learn and now in 2008 we are ready to take control of it. Arrogance.

Scary--Want to manage the weather and do a better job of it? I hope they don't calculate that the moon is out of place.

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06/29/2008 2:43 PM

No, they haven't yet calculated that the moon is out of place, but the same group has determined that CO2 is the major cause of Global Warming and that we as humans are the cause of all the problems. The fact that we are now looking to move to Hydrogen technology for combustion engines seems to me a joke, as water (H2O) is also a green house gas.

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07/07/2008 12:10 PM

Paradoxically with rapid advancement of science and technology there appears to be greater urge of mankind rush towards extinction. We have developed a great disdain to natures which has constantly been trying to perfect the balance through billions of years of evolution. Many scientists have super ego and there is no end to their arrogance. They imagine having a fix to all the earthy problems. Here they go again to tinker with weather without really understanding the long term consequences.

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07/24/2008 2:01 PM

So what happens upon release of this Desiccant some will not absorb all the water it can while falling back to the ground. It kinda sounds like salting the earth. Just a poorly thought out plan that is going to be exploited over unsuspecting homes wreaking havoc life below.

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