“Thanks for the compliment.”
You’re welcome.
“I’m guessing your really not interested”
You’re wrong.
“silver iodide flares.”
Yes.
“weather modification is hard.”
I believe that.
” think about how much energy would be required to modify them”
A lot when they were at full power, I imagine.
Trouble is, all I copped to was someone spraying chemicals around; not weather modification.
Lots of reasons to spray chemicals around. And it’s been done pretty routinely throughout history (you got the agent orange joke, right?).
Yes. Got the joke. I was there but as far as I know I didn’t get sprayed.
Was part of the cloud seeding project over the Ho Chi Mein trail. 111 missions. Only on a few days was it visually effective in developing thunderstorms. Some days it was even counterproductive. Of course all assessments were subjective. The project was not as successful, if at all, as what I’ve read in articles since it was declassified. And that pisses me off. Similar stories are popping up all over the world implying that all you got to do is throw some crap in the air with an airplane or shoot a laser into a cloud and it gets magical results. Sure people are trying this all over the world. Charlatans have fleeced desperate customers since the late 40s when the physics of mid latitude rain formation became generally accepted. Dubai would be a good example. Lots of money. It’s a desert, let’s make it rain. They get less than 4” of rain per year. So there’s little opportunity to find optimum seeding conditions but you can bet the contractor is out there every time they see a cloud. That’s what we did in SEA. Then they got too lucky one day and got a deluge. Good for business but bad for Dubai. I wonder how many times the seeding actually stopped formation. You won’t here about that. Trouble is there is no way to tell if it wouldn’t have happened naturally if no seeding.
You mock me about the CIA comment but I stand by it. I was assigned to work with them three times, the SEA thing being one of them. I was naive then believing everything (some were) they did is the right thing, but now I know their mission is to stay in power and one way to do that is to insert the thought into the public that we are all powerful and can squash you like a bug. Similar to the “imbedded instigators” of Jan 6, imbedding comments of hurricane modification (by the mysterious THEY did this) spread quickly on social media when real tragedy struck such as in NC. Goerbels would be in awe of today’s propaganda.