This guy is seriously detached from reality. How does he expect anyone to take them seriously...
im not being mental, but i bet the military has the technology to break up a cloud
Wow, destroying clouds, effective way of destroying a country!
Just be happy they dont use this instead!
Weather Machine (Red Alert 2)
Fact: For the 2008 Olympics, China had 30 airplanes, 4,000 rocket launchers, and 7,000 anti-aircraft guns to stop rain. Each system would shoot various chemicals into any threatening clouds to shrink rain drops before they reach the stadium.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weather_modification
Last edited by Pipebomb; 2012-09-28 at 11:10 AM.
Should probably point out that this person also claims the holocaust either never happened or was highly exaggerated.
You can actually use chemicals in the air to make clouds form much earlier than they naturally would, this means there would be less water vapour to create clouds naturally where they would normally happen. If a neighbouring country did this then the next country over might have a few less clouds but let's be realistic, you can't really use it as a weapon and it wouldn't be effective either! "Oh look, Iran! We've just stole one of the three clouds you get every month!"
Well it pretty much is. Droughts mean bad harvest and bad harvest, in turn, means hunger. That's not taking drinkable water into consideration, which is far more important and scarce. The opposite would be fairly destructive, too. Major floods are capable of destroying houses and also ruin the harvest and what not.
Rain is something people underestimate a lot. Just because they have plenty of it. But parts of each country that rely on rain suffer greatly during summers.
Yes you can. You load rockets with some substance whose name I forgat and then send them to the clouds, and said substance helps disperse them over a larger area so there's less chance of rain. Similar, you can send rockets when small clouds are there with another substance to encourage the clouds to "gather up" and form a bigger rain cloud. These things are mostly used in agriculture of the most developed countries in case of drought or extreme floods though as some of the substances used are somewhat toxic (debatable) and they kind of fall down back to earth with the rain or dust.