China is massively expanding its weather-control project, and is aiming to be able to cover half the country in artificial rain and snow by 2025, the government said Tuesday. Business Insider reports: The practice of “cloud seeding” was discovered in the US in 1946 by a chemist working for General Electric. China launched its own similar program in the 1960s. Dozens…
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We really can control the weather – but it may not be very useful
Researchers have finally demonstrated that cloud seeding leads to a measurable increase in precipitation, but that doesn’t necessarily mean it is worth doing Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2234991-we-really-can-control-the-weather-but-it-may-not-be-very-useful/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
Leaked Documents Reveal Saudi Arabia’s Plans For Its Next Megacity
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Verge: A new report from The Wall Street Journal shares some of the proposals for Saudi Arabia’s biggest megaproject yet: a city built in the desert named Neom, where robots will outnumber humans and hologram teachers will educate genetically-enhanced students. These are only proposals, of course, dreamt up by American consulting firms like…