Beijing to shoot down Olympic rain
Posted: Tue Jun 06, 2006 6:35 am
HONG KONG, China (CNN) -- Beijing will be shooting for the stars in a bid to stave off downpours when it hosts the Olympics Games in 2008.
Using an arsenal of rockets, artillery and aircraft, China will try to blast the clouds out of the sky, a meteorologist from Beijing told a Hong Kong newspaper, through a technique which falls under the umbrella of "cloud seeding."
http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapcf/0 ... index.html
Using an arsenal of rockets, artillery and aircraft, China will try to blast the clouds out of the sky, a meteorologist from Beijing told a Hong Kong newspaper, through a technique which falls under the umbrella of "cloud seeding."
http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapcf/0 ... index.html