The Chinese have always been big into rockets, and now they plan to use some charged with silver iodide to "seed the clouds." Huh? You see, they don't want Mother Nature raining on their parade, so they have rockets, planes and ground artillery ready to draw rain away from Beijing's opening Olympics ceremonies. It's plain bizarre.
San Antonio Bill informs me that Americans have toyed with rockets in similar manner for quite a little while, without much success. More on that at some point, I suspect. Meanwhile . . . for more on the Chinese effort, one can seek out Liu Zhen's (with Dominic Whiting and Michael Perry, eds.), "Operation Beijing storm: rockets target rain," Reuters, April 11, 2008.
Maybe Philip Francis Nowlan was on to something. He projected Chinese ("Han") technological developments well into the future. Armageddon 2419 A.D. (1928) envisions a Han takeover of North America in 2109 A.D. . . . .
Visions of swastikas in my head and plans for everyone? . . . Sshhhhhh, shut your mouth . . .
Today's Rune: Breakthrough.
3 comments:
I have that Buck Rodgers book. Did you see the Robot chicken "*uck Rodgers" skit? Hilarious.
I'll go with the Bowie version.
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A friend of mine was a cloud seeder with the Italian army years ago...
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