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Thread ID: 8501 | Posts: 2 | Started: 2003-07-27
2003-07-27 05:59 | User Profile
The following is from [url=http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=12342]http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=12342[/url]
When the Army Owns the Weather
By Bob Fitrakis, Columbus Alive February 5, 2002
Humans have long sought to control the weather. Early people learned how to make fire and modify their micro-environments; rain dances and other rituals to alleviate droughts are part of our folklore. So news that the government is engaged in secret experiments to control the weather should come as no surprise ââ¬â especially after a long history of "cloud seeding," "atom splitting" and cloning revelations.
In fact, a vast majority of people would be shocked to learn that this orphan of the cold war is still in practice. As the U.S. and former Soviet Union spent trillions of dollars on their militaries, their commitment to mutually assured destruction led to extensive experimentation with the use of weather as a weapon. In 1977, the Saturday Review cited a CIA report hinting that the U.S. government already had the power to massively manipulate the weather for war purposes.
Complete article is at [url=http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=12342]http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=12342[/url]
2003-07-27 06:03 | User Profile
Weather is subject to sensetive dependence on initial conditions, and other whims of chaos; as such, it cannot be artificially controlled.