This May Be A Dumb Question..........

[Jeza]

In 1969 man landed on the moon.
Today we hear that an automated space craft is millions and millions of miles away and hopes to land on a comet in the near future.

So why can we not move rain clouds to where they are needed, drought, forest fires etc and stop flooding in this country and anywhere else where flooding occurs.

[askyourgran]

Good question jeza, don't know a good answer though.

[jno]

it's one thing to shoot a small craft through the atmosphere, it's another to move the atmosphere itself. I can throw a stone, but throwing air is harder.

[giveup]

Probably a government plot.

[Jeza]

jno. a lot of tech stuff must be involved to make it dormant for 2 years and then to 'wake it up' to carry on with the mission.

[gness]

Have there not been attempts to move rain clouds, Jeza...rings a bell somewhere..

[jno]

you can seed clouds to encourage rain, but I don't think you can do the reverse

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_seeding

[Jeza]

Think it may have been China Gness. I can't remember either. Maybe around the time of the Olympic Games.

[Dee Sa]

sorry I don't think they landed on the moon.

[Peaspeculiars]

http://www.globalresearch.ca/atmospheric-geoengineering-weather-manipulation-contrails-and-chemtrails/20369

(Interesting bit of bedtime reading on it Jeza)

[Swiper]

Supposedly America have the HAARP program which is meant to control the weather.

[LazyGun]

It is not a dumb question, but it is not a particularly useful analogy.

There is a massive difference in technological requirements between sending out a spacecraft, manned or unmanned, and the kind of atmospheric engineering you are talking about. One, rocket flight, is essentially ballistics, and extension and development of a science we have known about for centuries.

The size, chaotic nature and complex interractions of the climate are staggering.

We are only just beginning to develop the technology required to map, track , & properly model the climate, with the development of computers powerful enough and software sophisticated enough to do justice to the climate.

To actively manage the climate, to manipulate temperature, humidity, cloud cover wind, wind speed etc at a localised level - to switch rain on in one area whilst at the same time making sure we are not causing a draught in another part of the globe, or a megastorm somewhere else is quantitatively beyond our technology right now, and a very good thing too.

[seadogg]

Some days I have a little cloud that follows me around. Its called Monday.

If only you knew what would happen if we tried to change the atmospheric "engine" round you would leave well alone.