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Triggering the Lightning

Posted by Hemos on Sunday February 3, 2002 @02:04AM from the ka-BLAM dept.

angkor writes "...a group of American engineers plan to fire supersonic jets of salty water towards storm clouds in a bid to trigger lightning. http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns999 91860"

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I think we can already trigger Lightning by AnalogBoy · 2002-02-03 02:52 · Score: 2

I remember watching on TLC ( or another one of those wonderful learning channel things ) a scientist who was able to trigger lightning by firing a small rocket with a metal wire attached....