That's cloud seeding. That's... mild tampering with the weather.

So you're saying that making sure clouds rain before/after a specific area is not controlling the weather for that area?

Or are you just disappointed because it's not total control, and you wanted to find out they had a magic machine that could muster up a thunderstorm just by pulling a lever?

It's semantics, but I wouldn't really consider faffing around with clouds isn't really the same as making changes to a huge weather system. It's kind of like calling a bit of gardening terraforming.

What Dan said. 53 was implying a more profound weather control, talking about cloud systems over Island influencing weather in London.

The phrase "total control" (etc) exists because simply "control" itself is NOT defined as being absolute, or even significant.

Control is specifically described as "power to influence or guide" and "a means of limitation", and thus faffing with clouds is well within the acceptable description of "controlling the weather", because the weather was influenced and limited by not raining over the designated area.

Nobody made any claims about being in total control of huge weather systems.

Was he? You're reading that the "massive weird" system (no mention of clouds) is being claimed to be man-made because you want to believe that (or at least believe that he believes it).


See?

You've already complained that he's acting too much like a fortune teller or astrologer, with wishy washy statements that don't mean anything, but now you're trying to pin down those statements by injecting them with your own meaning, instead of taking them at face value.

Presumably owning a hat is low level weather control.

Especially one lined with tin or lead. :)

As worn by every well-dressed Teher.

Contextually, it was implied.

Seeding clouds isn't controlling the weather in any meaningful sense, it's influencing it a bit.

I'm not injecting meaning, just trying to find some.

Really don't care enough to argue this and there's a thunderstorm so I'm going to walk in the rain (which I personally believe was caused by our secret overlords from Uranus).

If you see lightning coming towards you, give it a wave from me. :)

what about the beaming technology? or was that just for shifting tectonic plates?

 

[edit] ah bugger, this was meant for PB

You mean this:


Nothing to do with weather.

A quick search suggests that laser beams are used to measure the velocity of tectonic places - I didn't find anything to suggests that anyone is warming/cooling magma to try and change their movements.

If it was as widespread as "China, Japan, USA. Russia. also Oz, South Africa maybe, NATO, probably France, maybe Canada" doing it, then I would expect to find at least some hint of something.

*shrug*

tbh, it all blends into one, so many odd thoughts at once

Awful
madly
water pit
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just so's I know, do you think someone is doing this or are you just reporting events as they happen?