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John V. Hamby's avatar

Do you think any of them has ever taken a science course?

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Mona's avatar

Or took and failed?

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Barbara Morgan's avatar

Apparently not 🧐✌🏻

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Jos1463's avatar

The post about cloud seeding wasn’t wrong. Australia is always in drought and cloud seeding was an attempt by Scientists to make clouds with the potential to rain actually rain. Fascinating story. Wouldn’t file it under “successful weather control techniques though”. It was partially successful only in Tasmania in mountainous areas, and the last cloud seeding flight was in 2016.

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L. A. Tisoncik's avatar

Yup. Cloud seeding is real, but ultimately, when it works, isn't really "making" rain so much as it is shaping where that rain will fall. As such it's not used much, as the people downwind of a successful cloud seeding attempt tend to get upset and sue you for taking "their rain". _Sometimes_ though it does work and isn't too legally fraught to proceed. And all it requires is an aircraft and something to encourage nucleation. Low energy requirements, easily obtained materials, and at least some of the time, successful.

Now _making_ a hurricane is a different story. To make one, you need to command at least as much energy as the system you are trying to create (yep that pesky "energy cannot be created or destroyed" law). Unfortunately not even our entire nuclear arsenal will let you summon the energy to create, direct, and maintain a Category 5 hurricane.

At the very least any attempt to summon _that_ much energy might be a tad bit obvious, even when the all-powerful "they" do it :) And summoning enough energy isn't enough -- you still have to figure out _how_ to use that energy, which we currently have no clue.

Cloud seeding is a ridiculously simple, if not always useful, technology. Hurricane-making is the stuff of science fiction and comic books... and crazy MAGAs.

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Jos1463's avatar

Yup 👍

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