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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. Re:Fire it up by aardvarkjoe · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I just turned on my experimental firstpostmaking machine!!

    Apparently, it doesn't work so hot.

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  2. Re:So.. by Ryu2 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    How about that big parabolic solar reflector featured in 007: Die Another Day. Would that be a form of "weather control"? If not permissible for war, is something like that even feasible? (serious question, I'm not a weather person or aerospace engineer)

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  3. This is just what we need... by Regul8or · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    ...something else someone can be sued over.