Page 1 of 1

Beijing to shoot down Olympic rain

Posted: Tue Jun 06, 2006 6:35 am
by Janice
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

Posted: Tue Jun 06, 2006 6:08 pm
by brunota2003
Uh...cloud seeding is suppose to create rain...not get rid of it...so why would they do that again??? :lol:

Posted: Tue Jun 06, 2006 6:15 pm
by Regit
There should be an International Don't-Screw-With-The-Weather Law.

Posted: Tue Jun 06, 2006 6:17 pm
by Brent
Regit wrote:There should be an International Don't-Screw-With-The-Weather Law.


Yep.

:roll:

Posted: Tue Jun 06, 2006 6:23 pm
by Audrey2Katrina
Regit wrote:There should be an International Don't-Screw-With-The-Weather Law.


Do you REALLY think China would give a rat's behind?...

Okay, that was strictly rhetorical :wink:

A2K