New Ice Structure Could Help Seed Clouds, Cause Rain

ScienceDaily is reporting that a new ice chain structure may provide a better method for seeding clouds and causing rain. "Ice structures are usually built out of simple hexagonal arrangements of water molecules and this hexagonal building block motif is easily observed in the structures of snowflakes. However, during their studies Dr Angelos Michaelides and co-workers from the Fritz Haber Institute, Berlin, and the University of Liverpool have discovered a natural nanoscale ice structure formed of pentagons."

Comments

Ice 9?

[Tau Neutrino]

Holy Bokonon! It's the end of the world!

Re:Creepy if you have read Cat's Cradle

[Dynamoo]

Indeed. Perhaps Vonnegut should be compulsory reading for all aspiring scientists who might accidentally destroy all life of earth.

Pentagons? THAT'S your big solution?

[Anonymous Coward]

In soviet russia, the pentagon snows on YOU.

FTFA - "Snow is made of hexagons. We changed it up and used fucking PENTAGONS."

Won't someone think of the children who on the way to school will be pelted
with snowballs of an ever increasing diameter?

I'm off to make fire hotter using a goddamn nano-rhombus. Donations for science anyone?

Re:Creepy if you have read Cat's Cradle

[zappepcs]

I just wanted perpetual crown on the rocks and I accidentally the whole planet.

Heh, I am surprised at the headline

[NotQuiteReal]

Shouldn't it have been:

Pentagon may control weather!

OT ... but can't resist

[hany]

Please, just do not let it drop into the river, lake or ocean!!!

Quite dumb-proof, isn't it? :)

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Btw, its ice-nine by Kurt Vonegut if anybody is wondering.

Re:OT ... but can't resist

[hoojus]

Frozen to death despite living in a dessert.

Only if the dessert was ice cream. If it were a hot apple pie they would hardly be frozen.

Curious

[camperdave]

initiallty. However ice would reflect light, cooling the earth...

As I look out at the ugly piles of black, dirt encrusted ice, I have to wonder: If white reflects heat, and black absorbs it, why is it that the big piles of white snow are long since melted away, and the big piles of dirty black snow are still here?

Don't worry

[PPH]

We've fixed it. Its Ice 9.1 now.

Re:Creepy if you have read Cat's Cradle

[Wumpus]

Go read it.

Re:Creepy if you have read Cat's Cradle

[Guppy]

I just wanted perpetual crown on the rocks and I accidentally the whole planet.

I see what you there.

5-sided snowflakes

[The Iso]

If the ice crystals are pentagonal, they will form pentagonal snowflakes. This will give us a better chance of finding the snowflake with magic properties depicted on page 00062 of the Principia Discordia.