I'm more used to seeing articles ridicule weather modification, under the impression that weather modification is a subject of tinfoil hats and only nutters believe it is currently being carried out in our skies. At least, that's the impression i get when discussing it most places. The conspiracy is in the denial of operations like these, and the fact that if governments are willing to pump large sums of money (like this case) into operations like this, then why is it "ridiculous" that they are not spraying silver iodide pellets from the back of planes for the process of cloud seeding?
Isn't the ridicule mainly based on the low amount of evidence suggesting that these tactics actually do anything, not the fact that governments are openly executing these practices? Cloud seeding was a hot topic of news even back in 2008. If someone is actively denying the existence of cloud seeding with how open it already is, I doubt they're worth trying to convince.
We've been cloud seeding since the 60's or so. Definitely by the 70's. If there was ever a land war with Russia the US planned to heavily seed clouds to monsoon conditions. Turning everything to mud and bogging down or hampering Russian troop movements and particularly tank columns.
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moe ago
Why is this in /v/Conspiracy?
Cloud seeding is neither new nor secretive.
unixfreak ago
I'm more used to seeing articles ridicule weather modification, under the impression that weather modification is a subject of tinfoil hats and only nutters believe it is currently being carried out in our skies. At least, that's the impression i get when discussing it most places. The conspiracy is in the denial of operations like these, and the fact that if governments are willing to pump large sums of money (like this case) into operations like this, then why is it "ridiculous" that they are not spraying silver iodide pellets from the back of planes for the process of cloud seeding?
moe ago
Isn't the ridicule mainly based on the low amount of evidence suggesting that these tactics actually do anything, not the fact that governments are openly executing these practices? Cloud seeding was a hot topic of news even back in 2008. If someone is actively denying the existence of cloud seeding with how open it already is, I doubt they're worth trying to convince.
Alias_Unknown ago
We've been cloud seeding since the 60's or so. Definitely by the 70's. If there was ever a land war with Russia the US planned to heavily seed clouds to monsoon conditions. Turning everything to mud and bogging down or hampering Russian troop movements and particularly tank columns.