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China plans to halt rain for Beijing Olympics
'Weather modification' team will manipulate the clouds in summer to try to keep the open-air stadium dry.
By Barbara Demick, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
10:33 AM PST, January 31, 2008
Beijing
It is yet another attempt by man to triumph over nature.
Determined not to let anything spoil their party, organizers of the 2008 Summer Olympics said Wednesday that they will take control over the most unpredictable element of all -- the weather.
While China's Olympic athletes are getting ready to compete on the fields, its meteorologists are working the skies, attempting the difficult feat of making sure it doesn't rain on the Aug. 8 opening ceremonies.
"Our team is trained. Our preparations are complete," declared Wang Jianjie, a spokeswoman from the Beijing Meteorological Bureau, addressing a news conference at the headquarters of the Beijing organizing committee.
The Chinese are among the world's leaders in what is called "weather modification," but they have more experience creating rain than preventing it. In fact, the techniques are virtually the same.
Cloud-seeding is a relatively well-known practice that involves shooting various substances into clouds, such as silver iodide, salts and dry ice, that bring on the formation of larger raindrops, triggering a downpour. But Chinese scientists believe they have perfected a technique that reduces the size of the raindrops, delaying the rain until the clouds move on.
.....or the fact that they are very open about it.
....i'm sure they've come a long way from silver iodide etc
Originally posted by weedwhacker
There are countless places around the world, where "cloud seeding" occurs....there is nothing clandestine about it!
BTW....this really needed its own thread?? This same stuff was posted (by you) in another thread, and explained already.....
Originally posted by Aloysius the Gaul
You want photos? Search google for "cloud seeding" and select images.
Or you can go to the wiki article - en.wikipedia.org...
If you think this is some secret programme, or it is somehow related to contrails coming from airliners,then you're only showing your own ignorance!!
I know weedwhacker, but the US is not one of those places where it is done openly.
Originally posted by weedwhacker
Utterly wrong:
I know weedwhacker, but the US is not one of those places where it is done openly.
Just ONE thread: www.abovetopsecret.com...
Type "cloud seeding" into ATS Search.....
Use Google: Just type "cloud seeding usa"
Originally posted by jaydeePNW
Cloud seeding is not "chemtrails".
Citizen concern lingers over aluminum in water
Mount Shasta, Calif. —
Several Mt. Shasta area residents continue to express their concerns over what they say are toxic levels of aluminum showing up in area rain, snow and pond water samples taken in and around the City of Mt. Shasta.
Recent test results submitted to the Mt. Shasta Area Newspapers by two concerned citizens show levels of aluminum ranging from 198 ug/l (micro grams per liter) to 61,100 ug/l, with the most recent sample taken from a rain gauge within the Mt. Shasta city limits on Feb. 1, showing 1010 ug/l.
According to standards established by the California Environmental Protection agency, this number exceeds the 1000 ug/l Primary MCL maximum contaminant level) for aluminum, qualifying it as unfit for drinking.
The concerns over the apparent high levels of aluminum first surfaced last spring, as a small group of Siskiyou and Shasta county residents began expressing their alarm over what they claim is an aerial spraying program intended to control the weather or thwart global warming.
The issue, commonly referred to as “chemtrails,” is seen by many as nothing more than an internet hoax. Others, however, claim that the lingering plumes of exhaust from planes is part of a world wide program to create a heavy metal “shield” in the atmosphere.
Beginning last spring, some area residents began asserting their consternation over the long lingering clouds seen throughout the area. Proponents of the theory say that contrails, the normal water vapor emitted from jet engines, dissipate quickly, while chemtrails linger for up to half a day, often morphing into a cirrus cloud- like canopy, creating an overcast sky.
Originally posted by bsbray11
Wow, so you finally admit some of these "contrails" are not contrails at all? That didn't take very long.
Originally posted by Aloysius the Gaul
Huh?? Cloud seeding has NEVER been contrails.
Wow, so you finally admit some of these "contrails" are not contrails at all? That didn't take very long.
Originally posted by weedwhacker
WHAT??
Wow, so you finally admit some of these "contrails" are not contrails at all? That didn't take very long.
You are dangerously close to behavior that is frowned upon, on the Internet.
If you cannot understand the difference between a jet's contrail, at altitudes above 25,000 feet MSL, and the activities of cloud seeding, in clouds OTHER THAN cirrus....and, if you cannot realize that cirrus clouds, and contrails are really not much different from one another....then, there is little hope, for you.