No. They control the weather
My girlfriend and I were in a cab riding home. The conversation with the cabbie started on the mundane topic of the Toronto weather.
The cabbie mentioned that the air force jets affected the weather.
Something I thought was odd. So I asked him “Wait, are you saying the air force jets are affecting the weather we’ll have this week?”
“Not just ‘affect’. They control the weather.” He said.
It turned out to be an interesting cab ride.
There are people who believe that 9/11 was a government cover-up. There are people who believe in secret government programs involving UFOs.
These people have got nothing on the government mind control conspiracy theorists.
Grounded in some amount of truth (as most conspiracies theories can be), these theories attribute basically supernatural powers to the government agencies in the world.
May 26th, 2009 at 6:25 am
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_seeding
May 26th, 2009 at 1:30 pm
I once encountered a fellow at a fuel station who believed that Where’s George is a government conspiracy to control your [personal] home computer.
June 13th, 2009 at 8:58 pm
Good read! Thanks.
July 15th, 2009 at 5:30 pm
The best evidence indicates that any amount of control we can have over the weather is small, fleeting and limited in effectiveness. Cloud seeding does appear to be somewhat effective, but only in narrow circumstances. Cloud seeding can’t make a dry sky rain and it can’t make a storm disappear. What it can do is make storm clouds that are teetering on the edge of precipitation begin to rain out slightly earlier than they would otherwise. But this is fleeting. It only effects one weather pattern and if you want to have the effect more than once, you have to seed all over again.
You also need to throw up a hell of a lot of seeding material to get a relatively small effect over a localized area. Even then, it’s not 100% certain it will work at all.
There are reports that the Soviet Union prevented rain over major state events by “raining out” storm clouds before they arrived at the event by seeding them upwind. But in order to do this they needed to use a truly epic amount of seeding rockets and aircraft and even then it only worked so/so.
By the way: The fact that the US government considered something as having potential does not mean it is actually scientifically valid. The CIA investigated “remote viewers” and the Pentagon once issued a preliminary study proposal on a bomb that would make enemy soldiers gay and so aroused that they would be too busy making love to each other to make war.