The Chinese control the weather...(technologyreview.com)

5 pointsby ryan18 lat temu3 comments

http://www.technologyreview.com/Infotech/20463/?nlid=961&a=f

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... 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...

sdurkin18 lat temu

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

rms18 lat temu

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.