How Beijing used rockets to stop the rain
source: http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/olympics/news-and-features/how-beijing-used-rockets-to-ke...
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"China's cunning multimillion-pound plan to manipulate the Olympic weather seems to be yielding results. While rain drenched the capital yesterday, the downpour that should have fallen on Friday night was averted; Olympic organisers fired a barrage of 1,110 rockets into the evening sky to make sure the 2008 Olympic opening ceremony was precipitation-free.
Friday saw the biggest effort yet, as the"weather changers" began firing rockets from a battery of artillery into the clouds above Beijing four hours before the opening ceremony and continued firing until 11.40pm, shortly before the finale.
The rockets were fired from 21 sites in the city, intercepting a potentially disruptive rain belt and triggering premature showers before they reached the capital. Baoding city, south-west of Beijing, received about 100mm (4in) of precipitation on Friday night but in the capital the rain held off, even though August is the rainy season in normally tinder-dry Beijing."
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ohh_Donna
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they should do this on wedding days too.
- 3 years ago
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ohh_Donna
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laveyN
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The air in China sucks anyways, might as well do something cool like control the weather.
- 3 years ago
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laveyN
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Wesnology61
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I guess they quit shooting after that b/c it rained all during the beach volleyball
- 3 years ago
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Wesnology61
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Bigdog_mike
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Wesnology61:
so it didn't even work they way they wanted!?
- 3 years ago
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Bigdog_mike
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MissAmanda
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there shouldn't be any such thing as a weather machine...that's just bad news all around.
china, quit screwing it up.
- 3 years ago
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MissAmanda
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keeshii768
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Hmmm I didn't know that you could do that. Are there any consequences of doing that?
- 3 years ago
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keeshii768
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Saladin
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Relax guys, don't forget that the U.S. uses depleted uranium shells. Guess which are worse? The pollution factor was negligible.
I think rockets might have been a bit extreme, but hell it worked and was needed apparently. It's a little nutty, but considering how good that opening ceremony was, the ends justified the means in this case.
- 3 years ago
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Saladin
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CalgarC
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isn't china polluted enough. so i guess china is willing to risk the safety of the earth to protect their image
- 3 years ago
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CalgarC
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Bigdog_mike
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check out what other people here at current had to say about this!
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Bigdog_mike
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TheBox193
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Wow, now that's interesting. I'm wondering if silver iodide will have other side effects. Hopefully this wont be abused and overused.
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TheBox193
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sublimeuniverse
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I don't want governments trying to control the weather.
- 3 years ago
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sublimeuniverse
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jakes_green
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if they didnt want to deal with rain they should have put a roof on it.
- 3 years ago
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jakes_green
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Mooshuspice
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jakes_green:
No way! Dude come on they controlled the rain by shooting rockets at the sky! Thats beyond awesome! Sure they shot a ton of of ordinance into the sky but they stopped it from raining! We gotta study this!
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Mooshuspice
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saverio
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jakes_green:
The article says they couldn't afford a roof because of the price of steel.
- 3 years ago
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saverio
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RojoGatto
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wow controlling the rain didn't think it could be done china good job
- 3 years ago
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RojoGatto
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Mooshuspice
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RojoGatto:
I know right? Badass!
- 3 years ago
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Mooshuspice
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Mooshuspice
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You know, the opening ceremony was so awesome I'm glad they did it.
- 3 years ago
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Mooshuspice
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Stevox
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I heard this had a big hand in clearing a lot of the smog surrounding the city as well.
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Stevox
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AlbeeYap
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This shows proof and brings comparison speculations of HAARP.
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AlbeeYap
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UWAZell
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If China's technology, though currently unproven, turns to be truly effective and valid, it could lead to further developments which will aid in brining much needed rain to parts of the world that desperately need it. I.E. here at home in Western Australia and California over in the states.
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UWAZell
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intercitty
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Interesting, when they could have just asked Bush to use the HAARP, or give out umbrellas, ellas, eh eh.
- 3 years ago
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intercitty
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powerup
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Chinese are trying to control the weather like storm on xmen.But The weather cannot be controlled only held back.Soon enough the heavens will pour open weather modification project or not.
- 3 years ago
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powerup
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hack26
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I'm glad they won the war against the clouds, but shooting silver iodide into the air doesn't sound like a good idea to me.
- 3 years ago
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hack26
