China Is Splashing $168 Million To Make It Rain (fortune.com)

China, the world's second largest economy, is pouring 1.5 billion yuan ($168 million) into a program aimed at making it rain in its usually arid northwestern region. From a report: No stranger to using technologies like cloud seeding to influence and even control weather patterns, China's top economic planners recently gave the go ahead for what will be one of the country's largest weather-modification projects, reports the South China Morning Post. According to the Post, a feasibility study by the country's meteorological agency concluded that the three-year program could see a rise in precipitation over an area of 960,000 sq km, or as much as 10% of the country's landmass. The multi-million dollar budget allocated by the National Development and Reform Commission will reportedly cover the cost for four new aircraft and updates to eight existing planes, nearly 900 rocket launch systems and over 1,800 digital control devices.

Comments

Nefarious uses?

[Tablizer]

Oh great, one country hacks our elections, the other rains on them to affect voter turnout.

Re: Nefarious uses?

[Anonymous Coward]

Unless the polls were hacked, then the election wasn't hacked.

If somebody obtains dirt on a political party through illicit means, and that dirt swayed public opinion, then that might be unfair, but it doesn't mean the election was less legitimate. People can vote any way they choose for any reason.

The DNC was hacked; not the election.

Shut up, you're ruining my carefully cultivated Victim Complex.