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China to Use Silver Iodide & Dry Ice to Control the Weather

eldavojohn writes "While we made light of it before, the MIT Review is taking a serious look at China's plans to prevent rain over their open 91,000 seat arena for The Olympics. From the article: 'China's national weather-engineering program is also the world's largest, with approximately 1,500 weather modification professionals directing 30 aircraft and their crews, as well as 37,000 part-time workers — mostly peasant farmers — who are on call to blast away at clouds with 7,113 anti-aircraft guns and 4,991 rocket launchers.' They plan on demonstrating their ability to control the weather to the rest of the world, and expanding on their abilities in the future."

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  1. Re:China weather control open, US CLOSED! by harshmanrob · · Score: 1, Troll

    People...this was supposed to be a joke. Is slashdot full of neocon fucktards like digg.com is? I mean god damn. Although, I must commend each and every one of you coming to the defense of the establishment and proven what tools you people actually are.

    Down with America and those Tibetans demanding freedom. If they did not want to be part of China, then maybe they should have fought them a little harder.