shadybrothers said:
pstu said:
I have a sneaky suspicion that the weather gods are going to smile on us...
you has a weather controlling satelite???
Dude, you have no idea:
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WELLINGTON, New Zealand (REUTERS) -- Wellington will be shooting for the stars in a bid to stave off downpours when it hosts the SummerSet music festival in March 2008.
Using an arsenal of rockets, artillery and aircraft, the SummerSet organisers will try to blast the clouds out of the sky, a meteorologist told a New Zealand Current Affairs show, through a technique which falls under the umbrella of "cloud seeding."
"We can turn a cloudy day into a dry and sunny one by shooting the clouds less intensively than when we make rain, or even snow - wink wink nudge nudge" head 'peyow peyow' expert Bryce M for the Wellington municipal weather bureau told Reuters.
By shooting shells containing chemicals like silver iodide, or dry ice into the sky, Bryce says they can create rain. The Summerset boys have gone so far as to set up a weather modification office that is in charge of such an endeavor.
When the guns go off, they scatter crystals that attract water droplets in the cloud, making them grow faster, said climate and weather expert Wa-day from Lincoln University. The crystals become heavy and fall as cocai... err... raindrops he said.
Planes, too, can be used to drop chemicals onto clouds to manipulate the weather.
In the case of Summerset, climate experts will pore over satellite images to find ways to dissolve the clouds rather than make it rain.
"Scientists fly an airplane, sampling the cloud ... to see if there is potential for it to produce cocai... water, and if it is likely to work, they will shoot the gun," Wa-day said.
Tests in the weeks leading up to the event have looked promising.
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