If anyone was going to stop the rain, you know China would be the ones to do it. They probably have some ray gun they are building to shoot at clouds to make them dissolve. Well, since the Chinese are whacky and ‘out there’ they have decided to stop the rain for the August Olympic Games.
With no roof on the showpiece Bird’s Nest stadium, the Beijing Meteorological Bureau has been charged with developing methods of preventing wet weather spoiling what promises to be a spectacular start to the Games on the evening of August 8.
Zhang Qian, Head of Weather Manipulation (awesome business card tag) said they are successful with light rain, but heavy rain is much more difficult.
“For cold clouds below zero degrees, we use a coolant made from liquid nitrogen to increase the number of droplets while decreasing their mean size,” she said.
“As a result, the smaller droplets are less likely to fall and precipitation can be reduced.
“For clouds above zero degrees we use the seeding agent silver iodide to accelerate the droplets’ collision and coalescence, producing a downdraft which suppresses the formation of clouds.”
4 Responses to “China ‘We will stop the rain…’”
I thought the WTF H4X picture worked with this post, since China is h4cking by trying to stop mother nature.
By Mark on Jan 31, 2008
I didn’t even read the article, I just wanted to say LOL to that picture. So 7ru!
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By Jeffro2pt0 on Feb 1, 2008
ROFL
By Mark on Feb 1, 2008
Yeah, you know this was done by the US back in the fifties or sixties with great success. I member watching a documentary on it. The were trying to stop hurricains from hitting them so they were ‘cloud seeding’ with mercury or iodine or some shit, and it worked! They stopped the hurricains from forming off the coast and coming inland. They had to stop however over protest from Mexico and SA because they claimed the US was fucking up their weather and therefore their crops and whatever else. So they stopped. the end.
By Cole on Feb 8, 2008