China vs The Weather
Here’s a strange headline: China Seeks to Control Olympics Weather With AA Guns, Rocket Launchers
And it’s serious. China is actually deplying Anti-Aircraft emplpacements, rocket launchers and various chemicals to try and keep it from raining during the olympics in Beijing that will be help in August. Go read the article because I wouldn’t believe this either if I hadn’t read it.
They may not admit it, but I would bet dollars to dumplings that they will have caches of standard munitions within easy reach of each of these ‘weather controlling’ weapons. You know, just in case someone tries to fly a plane into their weird Bird’s Nest stadium.
I’m not sure wether to be amazed at their ingenuity or dumbfounded by their bizarre display of military.
What do you think?
I am quite amazed. Who can say what they’re really thinking, but wow, everything about that just makes me think: wow.
Note that countries (including the US) have been doing this since at least the 50’s. There is no real evidence that it actually works, but the US still spends a fair chunk of taxpayer money for research into cloud seeding.
That’s true the USA does experiment with this. However it seems pretty rare that the state or federal government rolls out Anti-Aircraft and rocket launcher emplacements to clear up the rain during a Cardinals or Yankees game. There’s a big distinction here.