China: No Rain For Olympics

China is promising No Rain for the Olympics, hmmm.....

Olympic officials guarantee no rain for opening ceremonies
Dave Stubbs , Canwest News Service
Published: Sunday, August 03, 2008

"BEIJING - It's four days before the official start of the Games of the XXIX Olympiad and a first glance upon arrival in this remarkable land has revealed that the Chinese have pretty much everything under control.

Or, controlled."




"The Chinese have 26 weather control stations woven into a web that will defend Beijing's National Olympic Stadium, aka the Bird's Nest, from precipitation from 8:08 p.m., local time Friday, when the ceremony begins, until its end roughly three and a half hours later"

"They'll achieve this, they say, with light aircraft, rockets and shells, silver iodide crystals - dry ice - or calcium-chloride salts fired into clouds 50 kilometres upwind from the stadium. The goal - no, the guarantee - is to make it rain before the sky wants to."

The country now spends upwards of $90 million a year on this work, using 7,000 artillery guns and 4,000 rocket launchers to seed clouds in rainmaking efforts."

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[edit on 3-8-2008 by ats__fan039]

I saw something about this on the news earlier, they're salting the clouds to force the rain to pass before the opening parade. I remember who ever it was presenting it made some snide remark about them being so totalitarian they try to control the weather!

They really are going all out on propaganda for this one, Joseph Goebbels would be proud.