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Scientists Create 52 Artificial Rain Storms in Abu Dhabi Desert
Time ^ | January 3, 2011 | Josh Sanburn

Posted on 01/03/2011 7:10:43 PM PST by grundle

Hail, lightning and gales came through the state's eastern region this summer thanks to scientist-puppetmasters.

As part of a secret program to control the weather in the Middle East, scientists working for the United Arab Emirates government artificially created rain where rain is generally nowhere to be found. The $11 million project, which began in July, put steel lampshade-looking ionizers in the desert to produce charged particles. The negatively charged ions rose with the hot air, attracting dust. Moisture then condensed around the dust and eventually produced a rain cloud. A bunch of rain clouds.

On the 52 days it rained in the region throughout July and August, forecasters did not predict rain once.

While fascinating, this is not the first time scientists have attempted to mess with Mother Nature. China has been tinkering with cloud seeding for years, not always successfully.

But the idea that countries in the Middle East could actually create rain in this water-poor region could go a long way to solving the area's problems with drought and is considered to be cheaper than desalination. But how controllable the weather can be is still in doubt, and the consequences of meddling with nature at this level are yet to be seen.

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21 posted on 01/03/2011 8:39:27 PM PST by Cyber Ninja (Live and Let Live; is not working...)
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To: calex59

“The West” apparently stops at the Sierra these daze.


22 posted on 01/03/2011 8:42:12 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: Paladin2

Are you saying that CA isn’t in the west and would be included in your original comment? Or did you mean HI, the only state I know of that is farther west than CA or Alaska.


23 posted on 01/03/2011 8:50:06 PM PST by calex59
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To: Paladin2

bttt


24 posted on 01/03/2011 8:51:55 PM PST by txhurl (This Is Not America.)
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To: Paladin2
“The West” apparently stops at the Sierra these daze.

The real West, yes.

25 posted on 01/03/2011 9:48:26 PM PST by Inyo-Mono (Had God not driven man from the Garden of Eden the Sierra Club surely would have.)
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To: grundle

Shades of Wilhelm Reich


26 posted on 01/03/2011 9:50:34 PM PST by ninonitti
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To: Inyo-Mono
"The real West, yes. "

That's the one I'm talkin' about. I've found it and it's on the wane. :-(

27 posted on 01/03/2011 9:53:18 PM PST by Paladin2
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"Are you saying that CA isn’t in the west"

Pretty much, except for those for the most part north and east of Sacramento.

28 posted on 01/03/2011 9:55:48 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: ThunderSleeps

The little makers will trap all of that extra moisture.


29 posted on 01/03/2011 10:57:37 PM PST by rednesss (fascism is the union,marriage,merger or fusion of corporate economic power with governmental power)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

This could be the first creative thing ever invented by Arabs. Almost certainly though, it is either a fraud or it was done by someone else.


30 posted on 01/03/2011 11:48:24 PM PST by UnwashedPeasant (Don't nuke me, bro)
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To: Paladin2

I just so happen to live in the North east part of CA. According to any map I’ve seen CA is just about as far west as you can get, not quite the furthest but close. As I said Dams were built to save our tails from floods. What we need in this state now are desalinization plants, nukes would be best built out in the ocean and the fresh water piped back to the state. That way we could get away from the frickin’ water control freaks who pull sh** like cutting off water to farmers to save a frickin’ smelt.


31 posted on 01/04/2011 12:01:55 AM PST by calex59
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To: Blood of Tyrants

Does ANYONE believe that Muslim inbreeders (more than half of all Muslims are married to their first cousins) are smart enough to figure out how to manipulate the weather?

Only the lame. The mussies hire non-mussies to do the research and the work, then the mussies take the credit - as they have done since 625 AD.


32 posted on 01/04/2011 4:58:40 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine .. now it is your turn..)
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To: Paladin2

No different from damming a river out west to provide local irrigation at the expense of those downstream...

while blaming commercial salmon fishermen for the demise of the river’s salmon... which gives rise for onerous Federal and State restrictions on those same fishermen while excoriating them as vile rapists and murderers...


33 posted on 01/04/2011 5:02:09 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine .. now it is your turn..)
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To: ninonitti

Shades of Wilhelm Reich

Yep. Ever since his books were republished after 25 years of being banned (and burned by the USFDA), the Swiss and the Israelis have been studying them intensely.


34 posted on 01/04/2011 5:05:45 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine .. now it is your turn..)
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To: UnwashedPeasant

This could be the first creative thing ever invented by Arabs.


Ridiculous! Ridiculous, I say!!! The invented the zero and higher mathematics ... why if it hadn’t been for them destroying all the vast libraries in the Middle East and Asia (while slaughtering millions), all that knowledge would have been lost!

In this case, the invention will be claimed as their own, and the Swiss who created it ... well lets’s not go there. Meanwhile, Whilhem Reich who pioneered this invention in the 40s will go unmentioned or credited, since he was obviously crazy ... even though he was Freud’s go-to guy.

BYW, for you FRers out there who are creationists - WR’s experiment proving the spontaneous generation of life actually works ... see: The Cancer Biopathy and The Function of the Orgasm among others for details to replicate the experiment. (You will also need access to an autoclave).


35 posted on 01/04/2011 5:20:43 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine .. now it is your turn..)
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