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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. Playing God by katalyst · · Score: 0, Troll

    We seem to be obesessed with the idea of playing god. Science is a dangerous "tool". If applied appropriatly, it may make life easier and more enriched experience; however it can go horribly wrong.
    I just hope they know what they're doing. Should make rain in their own backyard before they make rain elsewhere ;)
    Anyways it would be extremely boring to have a weather controlled earth.....

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