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The Chinese control the weather... (technologyreview.com)
5 points by ryan on March 25, 2008 | hide | past | favorite | 3 comments



... as well as 37,000 part-time workers--mostly peasant farmers--who are on call to blast away at clouds with 7,113 anti-aircraft guns and 4,991 rocket launchers.

Well, let's hope we never have to attack China...


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Popeye This is Vietnam era tech, and the US has used it before.


Wish I could upvote this one, weather modification has always fascinated me. I suspect the Chinese aren't concerned about global warming because they expect their weather modification technology to have caught up by the global warming is a problem. I wish the US and China would get in a weather modification contest in the style of the old space race; it would be really good for humanity.




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