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UK Team to Study Rainmaking Machines

Posted by michael on from the messing-with-mother-nature dept.

RobertB-DC writes "The BBC reports that a Edinburgh University team has received a grant to research Wind-Powered Rainmaking Machines. You have to have winds blowing towards a mountainous coastline, but the article says that the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf are well-suited. For a cautionary note, though, the BBC includes a link to the story of a 1952 cloud-seeding experiment gone terribly wrong."

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  1. Cool. by Hawthorne01 · · Score: 5, Funny

    This is good news for my grant application to deploy a sand-making machine in Algeria.

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    "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."
  2. Cautionary Note... by thesophist · · Score: 3, Funny
    Ever the diplomat, I'll gladly offer 1 Microsoft Way, Redmond,WA 98052, as a testing site.

    Professor Salter told the BBC: "We are trying to break through the layer of rather stagnant, humid air...

    Fitting, non?

  3. Re:So.. by coupland · · Score: 5, Funny

    Who wants odds on how long before weather is used as a weapon in war?

    It's real, now. No need for speculation. The secretive European Union has been launching tornadoes and hurricanes and floods against the Americans for decades, unfortunately it's only resulted in more sturdy trailer-home designs...