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Clip 1: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37029327/ns/technology_and_science-innovation/t/l...

"Ultra-fast pulses from a powerful laser can create droplets of water out of thin air, according to a new study. With the right conditions and large enough droplets, the researchers say, the technique could be used to make rain on demand.

Rain forms when water condenses around tiny particles in the atmosphere. Most of the time, dust or pollen do the job, but humans have long attempted to speed the process by seeding clouds with chemicals like silver iodide. Those chemicals provide the so-called "condensation nuclei" that trigger the consolidation of water into raindrops.

Unfortunately, such methods are difficult and could have environmental side effects, said Jérôme Kasparian, an optical physicist at the University of Geneva, Switzerland who was on the team that demonstrated the laser-triggered condensation. The study was published online May 2 [2010] in the journal Nature Photonics.

"The potential advantage of laser is that it can work continuously," Kasparian said. If lasers can trigger rain on a large scale, he said, it would also be more efficient and cheaper than spraying silver iodide out of airplanes or shooting it into the sky from rockets.

Researches have long known that short, strong laser pulses can ionize air molecules, creating pathways of ionized gas called plasma channels. Kasparian and his team wanted to find out whether those plasma channels could be of use to wannabe rainmakers.

"Our idea is to use the laser to ionize the air, and the ions that are produced can then serve as the condensation nuclei," Kasparian said.

To test the idea, the researchers first used an atmospheric cloud chamber, a box that enabled them to vary temperature and humidity. After saturating the air in the chamber, the team flipped on a several-terawatt laser (one terawatt is a trillion watts) and watched with surprise as visible water droplets formed. Three seconds after the laser pulsed, the droplets swelled to diameters of 80 micrometers, smaller than a raindrop but larger than expected. "

Clip 2: http://www.naiwmc.org/4dcgi/GetContentRecord/PB-893


Seeding Methods:
http://www.naiwmc.org/4dcgi/GetSubCategoryRecord/Cloud%20Seeding%20Technology...

NAWMC Main Site:
http://www.naiwmc.org

The Utah Division w/cute seeding animation:
http://water.utah.gov/cloudseeding


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Meow! I do not condone such practices, as they are being done in a clandestine, dishonest manner and without care for the regions left with less rain because of cloud-seeding in nearby regions. And creating clouds out of nothing? That's just creepy. I wonder what type of thing could ionize the air like that? Not - no - it couldn't be HAARP, could it? Not them - they, who on their own website say that they are IONIZING THE ATMOSPHERE.

Ahhh, but yes, here is the link - HAARP FAQ: http://www.haarp.alaska.edu/haarp/faq.html

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15,463 Documents mentioning (in DEPTH) the term
"Weather modification" in the archives of
the American Meteorological Society:
http://journals.ametsoc.org/action/doSearch?searchText=weather+modification

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i could be wrong, decide for yourself about this HAARP stuff... the term is thrown around loosely these days and I'm sure they have shills going around on every damn video about anything yelling HAARP. Let's try to be a bit more objective, my loves!

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  • please tell me what song is this!!!!???? great info too very enlightening

  • @odisiusable it's in the info but here ya go :P

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  • So, go to Ethiopia and give those people some rain!

  • @forrykid or here in AZ.. biggest damn wildfire EVER. THEY can seed clouds, they can make it rain.. but they will only do it where it is already flooded and they wont do it for the sake of GOOD and helping !! fuck them i am so mad that they are quiet about the technology, its not a "Secrety" but they choose what people know because they control the media and the media doesn't touch it. but they have technology to cure the drought,floods, fires, tornados, hurricanes, any of it. YARHGASGFKSHF

  • good info, your voice audio was a bit low fyi =o)

  • @Stylie1977 noted... thanks!

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  • Another is do we want more water to be made? If a continent gets water added on top of it wouldn't it add weight to the plates? I think this should still be done as nature does it, not by man... IMO...

  • @Sheilaaliens They're killin' where they can.

  • this was great Sheilaaliens,the beginning of terraforming,which will be greatly needed in order to colonizing other worlds,it is the beginning of greatness, Thank you

  • I just have one question....

    Are those sharks with lazer beams attached to their heads?

    So very funny! Although it is a serious topic, thanks for interjecting some much needed humor.

  • UN-REAL. Sheila you should be the head of a research agency, but you will cause mass panic. :P

  • Sheila, I believe this, because I have had some uncanny experiences with this happening in my back yard...tiny barely noticeable drops of rain....in different areas of our lawns...happened a lot in May...this is NY...it was very different than a normal spring shower.

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