More confirmation that man now has the ability to control weather.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13107271/site/newsweek/
here are a couple of interesting excerpts from the article:
"We did it many times last week to increase the rainfall."
"In China, we haven’t done this type of thing on a very large scale yet,"says Zhang during an interview in a west Beijing compound housing five antiaircraft guns used to shoot chemicals into the clouds.
"The Russians have experience creating good weather, and we can learn something from them. We still have two more years for testing. I’m sure our preparations for the Games will go well."
Chinese scientists began researching man-made rain in 1958,
Firefighting is another function; last autumn, authorities in northeast China induced artificial rain to assist 10,000 firefighters battling a massive forest fire in Heilongjiang province.
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bold emphasis mine
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13107271/site/newsweek/
here are a couple of interesting excerpts from the article:
"We did it many times last week to increase the rainfall."
"In China, we haven’t done this type of thing on a very large scale yet,"says Zhang during an interview in a west Beijing compound housing five antiaircraft guns used to shoot chemicals into the clouds.
"The Russians have experience creating good weather, and we can learn something from them. We still have two more years for testing. I’m sure our preparations for the Games will go well."
Chinese scientists began researching man-made rain in 1958,
Firefighting is another function; last autumn, authorities in northeast China induced artificial rain to assist 10,000 firefighters battling a massive forest fire in Heilongjiang province.
:h:
bold emphasis mine