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Major Study Concludes That Cloud Seeding Is Effective

Posted by timothy on from the not-so-sure-about-the-dancing dept.

An anonymous reader writes "A 45-year Australian trial is the best evidence yet that cloud seeding — the practice of artificially inducing clouds to make rain — really works."

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  1. Oh Real clouds by jgtg32a · · Score: 3, Funny

    I thought this was some new bit torrent technique using the cloud or something.

    Looks like its lunch time

    1. Re:Oh Real clouds by impaledsunset · · Score: 3, Funny

      That's exactly what it's all about. When you seed from the cloud, the torrents run better.

    2. Re:Oh Real clouds by clem · · Score: 2, Funny

      Only if your seed is pure.

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    3. Re:Oh Real clouds by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      I don't mind donating some to the women. It would be my pleasure.

  2. Re:Am I Missing Something? by CarpetShark · · Score: 3, Funny

    Idiot. The point is clear to the rest of us: you spray the solar panels on the sides of underpowered clouds, and they're then capable of producing fully fledged rainstorms. If you just want a bit of rain now and then, you can use half a spray-on panel, with dodgy spray-on wiring.

  3. Wow by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Wow, apparently editors don't even LOOK at TFA these days :P

  4. Re:Am I Missing Something? by Anonymous+Monkey · · Score: 3, Funny

    I thought it was because every time I try to use solar powered anything the weather turns bad. Therefore if we cover Mojave with solar panels it will become a rain forest.

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  5. Re:Terraforming the Earth by R2.0 · · Score: 5, Funny

    "painting all roofs white to increase the albido,"

    It's "libido" or "albedo". Although I'm not sure what the color of the roof has to do with what goes on underneath it.

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  6. Re:"Chemtrails?" by Robotech_Master · · Score: 2, Funny

    Well, now, pay attention people
    Just in case you hadn't heard
    There's some folks messin' 'round
    With Mother Nature's little world, baby
    And what they do is really freaky
    They gets themselves a plane
    And they fly it around with chemicals, baby
    Tryin' ta make it rain
    So when you're out there in that blizzard,
    Shiverin' in the cold
    Just look up to the sky
    And thank the Government for the snow
    And sing the low-down, experimental, cloud-seedin',
    Who-needs-'em-baby? silver i-i-o-dide blues
    Oh, yeah.
    Woo!

    --C.W. McCall, "Silver Iodide Blues"

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  7. Phew! Thank christ! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    I thought I may have to go a whole day without seeing a story about Australia on Slashdot.

    I hate it when it's kdawson's day off!

    Luckily for us timothy stepped into the breach.

    So, what's the next BIG STORY: Australian Man Figures Out How To Use Light Switch?