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- russau, on 11/14/2009, -3/+60Hang on, correlation / causation alarms going off here. China does cloud seeding. Beijing has a big snowstorm. Are the two related? Maybe. But from the article itself: "effectiveness is dubious; ..it can only increase precipitation by 20 percent. Sometimes.". Yet, the article states flat out "the government caused it".
- abdhjops, on 11/14/2009, -1/+30somebody call quailman and silver skeeter
- Cartman86, on 11/14/2009, -0/+23Shhh don't ruin the peoples simple view of the world.
- Frankzulla, on 11/13/2009, -4/+21What a great way to get the Chinese population into the holiday spirit! Smart thinking, China!
- DevilToo, on 11/13/2009, -2/+18Santa is a communist.
- norwegianlegion, on 11/14/2009, -1/+17Obscure fifteen year old reference to awesome television show? Hell ***** yes. I can't believe I even remember the episode... to the library!
- Lordy1952, on 11/14/2009, -0/+15I want a white Christmas... get on that Obama
- aclements, on 11/14/2009, -1/+15Never mess with mother nature, mother-in-laws, or mother freaking Ukrainians. Well, they have a least the first one done...
- j0phus, on 11/14/2009, -0/+11Do we understand what the frequent use of seeding would cause to the environment? They are stealing that moisture from somewhere further down the jet stream. The famers almanac uses meteorologic data from Russia to predict our winters with 80% accuracy. This could end up effecting our weather if they continue to do it.
Thinking they can stop the continuation of a 10 year trend does sound megalomaniacal to me. - fezzasus, on 11/14/2009, -0/+10it's not.
I could explain why, but i think it would be wasted on someone who judges the potency of something by how the name sounds. - TobiasParker, on 11/14/2009, -1/+9Whoever dugg down syntaxgs is a communist.
- tek69, on 11/14/2009, -0/+8no dood, it's about the weather, not women.
- raydeen, on 11/14/2009, -0/+6He was asking how babby was formed and how girl get pragnent.
- PeaTearGryphon, on 11/14/2009, -0/+6http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gS_eXjknos&fea ...
- tgc1, on 11/14/2009, -7/+13LOL. Humans messing with things they don't understand.
- Stoyanov, on 11/14/2009, -1/+7You can now, too, manipulate the weather for ONLY $9.99! * Made in China. Do not expose to direct sunlight. Please keep away from children.
- sapphirecut, on 11/14/2009, -3/+8I wonder if China will bring communism to the clouds. Rally them up and make them workers for the industrial complex. Who knew the sky could be victim to political insanity.
- syntaxgs, on 11/14/2009, -1/+6it a neat pick thoug
- getoffmybridge, on 11/14/2009, -0/+5or humor
- InactiveUser, on 11/14/2009, -0/+4Silver iodide @ 30gm for a total seeding. Not much at all over 10 or so miles.
You can use dry ice or liquid nitrogen or any cryogenic gas.
Clouds are water vapor but even at -20 they might not freeze - causing rain. Seeding only has to make a handful of them freeze and it produces a chain reaction causing more and more water droplets to freeze and simply fall out of the sky. Simple stuff...
http://www.abc.net.au/catalyst/stories/2714955.htm - Vodd9, on 11/14/2009, -0/+4So that means chemtrails are real?
- bmw112208, on 11/14/2009, -0/+3I'll tell you the problem with the scientific power that you're using here: it didn't require any discipline to attain it. You read what others had done and you took the next step. You didn't earn the knowledge for yourselves, so you don't take any responsibility... for it. You stood on the shoulders of geniuses to accomplish something as fast as you could and before you even knew what you had...
- SSPink, on 11/13/2009, -2/+5"The purpose behind weather modification is less megalomaniacal than it sounds at first pass; a large swath of northeast China, including Beijing, has been mired in a drought for nearly a decade, and the party leadership would like to reverse that trend for both practical reasons and to show the Chinese people exactly who is in charge."
Wasn't this the plot of Jade Empire? - dspiral, on 11/14/2009, -1/+4My Mom just came back from Beijing, and was there for the first freak snowfall. She said the most disconcerting thing about the snowstorm, that its a policy for the Chinese Government to not turn on gas (heat) until December 1st. Everyone was very cold apparently.
Other than that, she loved it, and brought back some of the best green tea I have ever had. - heavyj1970, on 11/14/2009, -3/+6I call *****, so sick of sensationalism
- GorfTron, on 11/14/2009, -0/+3Hey, stop messing with the weather over there! We are trying to make tiny black holes over here!
- folkish, on 11/14/2009, -0/+3But they are fantastic color coordinators.
- getoffmybridge, on 11/14/2009, -0/+3you sounds like bad
- tek69, on 11/14/2009, -2/+4I usually rail against the grammar nazi's, but what the hell did you just say?
- buzaman, on 11/14/2009, -0/+2Can we put all the geoengineering theories to rest now? It's arrogant to think that a couple minor manipulations will be able to bend a chaotic system to your will, without any negative consequences.
- YourNameHere1, on 11/14/2009, -0/+2Holy *****. I love when I start to read a syntaxgs comment without knowing it's his comment.
- ismhmr, on 11/15/2009, -0/+2So its just China?? Have any of you ever heard of HARP?
I swear america is the same.. Instead of 1 choice ( The Communist Party.) We have 2 controlled choices, and the illusion of a choice ( Democrats and Republicans.) - Kungfumantis239, on 11/14/2009, -0/+2Case in point in why we need to understand the weather a little bit better before we start trying to control it ><
- j0phus, on 11/14/2009, -0/+2Wrong window.
- drazen77, on 11/14/2009, -0/+2This was a laugh out loud moment for me
- Elsewhere42, on 11/14/2009, -0/+1Sorry... my bad!
- InactiveUser, on 11/14/2009, -0/+1Tasmania Australia has been cloud seeding the biggest catchments for 40 years (Australian invention BTW) and the actual benefit is 15% at best. Best links are Catalyst (ABC Australia - fire and cloud seeding) or the CSIRO.
- nepidae, on 11/14/2009, -1/+2stay classy, china
- j0phus, on 11/14/2009, -1/+2So Germany and Japan made the list but Iraq, Congo, Columbia did not? JAPAN?!
- uminatsu, on 11/15/2009, -0/+1Oh really? They must have been cutting cost lately... when I was in Beijing ten years ago I remember that gas (heat) begins November 15 every year...
- jmcenanly, on 11/14/2009, -4/+5It seems typical that government intervention would make a situation worse.
- LordBalderdash, on 11/14/2009, -0/+1it's great for making smurfs
- GusterBear, on 11/14/2009, -0/+1No heat for you!
- andrewtheart, on 11/14/2009, -1/+1"Humans" include women ... and I'd say that women understand other women.
But I see your point. - syntaxgs, on 11/14/2009, -14/+14UH jutst on thing it not true that the can make wather better or worst then what they say that it was =P becosue it can,t be change! it statonricaly and not some thing can be change like color on the car
- rmxz, on 11/14/2009, -2/+2Messing with things humans don't understand them *is* the way humans gain understanding of new things.
- oilfighter, on 11/14/2009, -1/+1Communists don't have Thanksgiving or Christmas.
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...................................,<`.._|_,-&``................`\ - monvalley, on 11/14/2009, -1/+0Idiot publishers publishing idiotic articles; annnnnnnd, a lot of people take it seriously.
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