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China to Manipulate Weather for Beijing Olympics

Published on March 25, 2008 by   ·   4 Comments

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The forthcoming Beijing Olympics will be the greatest spectacle in mankind’s history. Not only has it been surrounded by heaps of social and political controversy, but in order to prove to the world how much of a bad ass super power they are, China’s pulling out all the stops.

China has prepared a three-stage program to ensure that rain will not fall on their 91,000 seat, open air Olympic stadium. The plan is pretty fucking insane. First, regional weather will be monitored via planes, satellites, radar and an IBM supercomputer “that executes 9.8 trillion floating point operations per second.”

Secondly, aircraft and an array of 20 artillery and missile launch sites arranged around Beijing will be on-call to “shoot and spray silver iodide and dry ice into incoming clouds that are still far enough away that their rain can be flushed out before they reach the stadium.”

Lastly, something referred to locally as “The Bird’s Nest” will stand as the final line of defense. Heavy rain clouds passing to close to the stadium will be “seeded” with chemicals from the Bird’s Nest in order to shrink rain droplets. According to Zhang Qian, head of Beijing’s Weather Modification Office:

“We use a coolant made from liquid nitrogen to increase the number of droplets while decreasing their average size. As a result, the smaller droplets are less likely to fall, and precipitation can be reduced.”

Currently, the Beijing summer games are just over 130 days away. The ceremonial torch has already been lit and will be in Greece for a while before it’s handed off in Beijing. The torch will make it to US soil on April 9th in San Francisco en route to Buenos Aires. The games run from August 8th through 24th.

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Readers Comments (4)

  1. Indigo says:

    hmmm,

    I applaud China for being the first country to boldly admit that it manipulates the weather.

    Other countries have been manipulating the weather for years, including the U.S.A.

    What most people fail to realize is that when you manipulate the weather, you in fact have absolute control over the lives, ( or deaths) of all the people on this planet.

    Say, for instance, China decided that South America should receive less annual rain-fall than normal… dirctely the crops would be affected, indirectly, South Americans would be effected. Lost of farms, starvation, food rationing, war, wide scale poverty and death.

    Or, maybe China decided to send a hurricane or two. in the direction of a country ithey felt was over-populated. Reason being, China feels the country they have targeted for the hurricane has a population they viewed as, “getting a little bit out of control”… Hurricane = Instant population reduction! Or maybe a Tornaedo, in a area that is impoverished….. again death and population reduction.

    With this kind of power, a rich, technologically advanced nation could virtually wipe a poorer nation off the map, simply by manipulating the weather!

    Now, if most people do not recognize the increased testing of weather manipulation and its incredible impact around the globe, then they truly are zombies, as most of the current horror movies depict ,with an all too clear message! Message is, ” You are asleep” a complete walking, talking, Zombie…..

    All these daily major catastophes related to weather are clear signs of the testing and eventual perfection of the manipulation of weather.

    We are but guinea pigs in this firght for power & control in this grand experiment!

    So, China, I applaud you for your honesty and universal people, wake the FUCK up!

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  2. laonei says:

    Indigo,

    You are absolutely insane!

    :)

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  3. Ginger says:

    Russia has also been said to do this recently. They spray dry cement mix and the chemicals mentioned here.

    Pretty crazy stuff!

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