Comments on: No. They control the weather http://www.apenotmonkey.com/2009/05/26/no-they-control-the-weather/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=no-they-control-the-weather The Science vs. Religion Comic Strip. Updated Every Monday, Wednesday and Friday! Mon, 13 Feb 2012 00:15:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: drbuzz0 http://www.apenotmonkey.com/2009/05/26/no-they-control-the-weather/comment-page-1/#comment-695 drbuzz0 Thu, 16 Jul 2009 01:30:27 +0000 http://www.apenotmonkey.com/?p=185#comment-695 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. 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.

]]> By: jeffrey http://www.apenotmonkey.com/2009/05/26/no-they-control-the-weather/comment-page-1/#comment-654 jeffrey Sun, 14 Jun 2009 04:58:54 +0000 http://www.apenotmonkey.com/?p=185#comment-654 Good read! Thanks. Good read! Thanks.

]]> By: Sandro http://www.apenotmonkey.com/2009/05/26/no-they-control-the-weather/comment-page-1/#comment-622 Sandro Tue, 26 May 2009 21:30:33 +0000 http://www.apenotmonkey.com/?p=185#comment-622 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. :) 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. :)

]]> By: the conspiracist http://www.apenotmonkey.com/2009/05/26/no-they-control-the-weather/comment-page-1/#comment-621 the conspiracist Tue, 26 May 2009 14:25:17 +0000 http://www.apenotmonkey.com/?p=185#comment-621 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_seeding http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_seeding

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