Hello friends!
How would it feel if I tell you that
humans have learned to control the weather to some extent?
With the help of cloud seeding technology,
we can artificially rain wherever we want.
This is a technology that has been used for many years.
Countries like China have spent millions of dollars on this technology.
But now, if you want to, you can use it for selfish reasons too.
For example, if you are afraid that it may rain on the day of your wedding,
a company in France offers cloud seeding services.
If you give this company ten millions,
they will do cloud seeding and ensure that
it will not rain on your wedding day.
Hearing this, the biggest question you would have right now would be
if this technology is indeed so wonderful,
the water crisis in our country,
there are prolonged droughts in some places,
in other places, there may be excess rainfall causing floods,
or water shortages,
to solve all these problems,
why isn't this technology used?
In this video, today,
come, let us understand the Cloud Seeding technology better.
"Have we come to the point where
we can control the weather?"
"Cloud Seeding is already used in
China and Thailand
to tackle air pollution."
"This is the result of proper cloud seeding."
Before understanding cloud seeding technology,
we need to understand clouds.
What are clouds
and how do they form?
We all studied in school about three states of matter.
Solid, liquid and gas.
If we talk about water,
the three states of matter of water are
Ice, liquid water and gaseous water vapour.
If something is converted from one state to another,
that process has a name.
When ice turns into water
the process is called melting.
If water turns into ice,
then it is called freezing.
If water turns into water vapour,
it is evaporation or vaporization.
And if water vapour turns back into water,
it is known as condensation.
It is very basic
but remember the word condensation
because I will use it a lot through out the video.
What happens is that
there is a lot of water vapour in the air.
If there is a lot of water vapour in the air,
then we will say that there is a lot of humidity in the air.
Lesser water vapour content means lower humidity.
Now, when this water vapour rises in the atmosphere,
as you know the higher we go from the ground,
with the increase of altitude,
the colder it gets.
Like, it is very cold in the mountains.
Now, when this water vapour is at a higher altitude,
it condenses due to cold.
This water vapour turns into water.
Extremely small, tiny water droplets.
When these water droplets are suspended in the air,
we see clouds.
Actually, these are clouds.
These small water droplets that make up the clouds are minuscule.
So small that their diameter is one-hundredth of a millimetre.
And there are millions of such droplets in a cloud.
If a cloud is at an even higher altitude,
the atmosphere is even colder.
This means that not only does it condense,
but it also freezes.
These water droplets turn into tiny crystals of ice
and these ice crystals form the clouds.
So, in this sense, there are two types of clouds.
One is made of water droplets
and the other is made of ice crystals.
The difference between the two can be easily seen.
The ice crystal clouds are at a higher altitude.
You cannot see a clear boundary line
and they are thinner.
The heavy clouds that are closer to the ground
are made of water droplets.
Now that we have understood this,
the next question is
how do these clouds rain?
What happens is that these small droplets,
when they keep accumulating,
more droplets keep joining in,
the clouds keep getting bigger,
these small droplets start colliding with each other,
they mix with each other
and form big droplets.
These big droplets go up into the atmosphere
and freeze to form ice crystals
but the ice crystals also collide into each other
to form bigger ice crystals.
This process continues until
the ice crystals become so big
that they start falling on the ground due to their weight.
And when this happens,
the ice crystals fall on the ground.
While falling down,
if the temperature of the air is cold,
then they will fall like snow, that's a snowfall.
If the air near the ground is warm,
the ice crystals will melt
and fall like rain droplets.
This is how it rains.
Now, if we talk about Cloud Seeding,
then in the history of humans,
this technology has been introduced by chance,
due to an accident.
For such accidents,
there's a word in English, Serendipity.
It means, by chance, something happens
that ends up benefitting us.
A big example of a serendipitous discovery
is the discovery of a vaccine.
When Dr Alexander Fleming invented penicillin,
it was an accident.
Cloud Seeding was also a serendipitous discovery.
In 1943, Dr Vincent Shaefer
was an American chemist and meteorologist.
He was researching aircraft icing and precipitation.
In 1946, he used a cold box for his research.
A box that was very cold.
While testing something else,
during his experiments,
he often breathed out in this cold box.
As you know,
when we breathe out of our mouth
it contains water vapour,
and if it's cold outside, it will condense.
He noticed this while doing the experiment.
You can see this yourself,
when you go out in the cold weather and breathe,
it feels like you are breathing out smoke or fog.
Actually, what you see as smoke or fog
are the same tiny water droplets.
The water vapour that you breathe out gets condensed
into these tiny droplets.
Exactly the same process that forms clouds.
So it's not wrong to say that
you can blow out a mini cloud during winter.
Dr Shaefer also noticed the same thing
but he took it one step further.
He wondered about what would happen if
he cooled the box down further.
To do this, he used dry ice.
Dry ice is basically a solid form of carbon dioxide.
It is commonly used for refrigeration and cooling.
And it exists only at a temperature of -78°C.
So he placed some dry ice in the cold box.
And then when he breathed out into that box,
he saw something miraculous.
The air that he blew out
suddenly turned into millions of microscopic ice crystals.
He saw it as a blueish haze.
He noticed that if the temperature is reduced suddenly,
then the water vapour will instantly turn into ice crystals.
This thing happens in clouds at the last stage.
When those ice crystals become huge and heavier than the atmosphere.
He saw that using dry ice has
sped up this process.
Dr Shaefer immediately conducted more experiments
to understand what was happening exactly.
Finally, when he understood things,
he realized that it can be used in real life as well.
Why not try to instantly cool the clouds in the sky by using dry ice,
so that we can get instant snowfall or rain.
On 13th November 1946, Dr Shaefer flew a plane from New York.
He took 2.5 kg of dry ice with him on this flight
and conducted his test on a cloud near Mount Greylock.
He literally threw crushed dry ice out of the plane, on top of the clouds,
and the result was amazing.
He saw instant heavy snowfall and rain.
And this was the invention of Cloud Seeding.
Today, Dr Vincent Shaefer is credited
for the inventing cloud seeding.
But before him, there was another man
Wilhelm Reich,
he claimed to have invented
a cloudbuster machine in America.
He claimed that by using Orgone energy,
by using cosmic energy,
he could manipulate the atmosphere
and cause rain.
He named his research Cosmic Orgone Engineering.
But as you can guess,
he was a person who made fraudulent claims.
His machine didn't work at all
It was simply a way to steal the credit.
Interestingly, there was another scientist apart from Dr Shaefer
who was working on cloud seeding technology
but from a completely different perspective.
Scientist Dr Berhard Vonnegut.
He didn't want to use dry ice to make the clouds colder
for cloud seeding to work.
He wanted to use a chemical
to carry out the process.
His idea was based on the condensation property of water.
Something that you may not know
is that the process of condensation
has a condition.
To convert water vapour into water,
to undergo the process of condensation,
a non-gaseous surface is required.
That is, a solid or liquid surface
is required to complete the process of condensation.
If there is no surface,
condensation cannot happen.
It is said that without this surface,
water vapour will remain as water vapour
even if the temperature falls to -10°C.
You may say that I claimed earlier in the video
that water vapour condenses
when the air cools.
How can that happen without any surface?
There is a surface, of course.
The small dust particles in our atmosphere,
the pollens floating around in the air,
act like surfaces to carry out the condensation process
for clouds to form.
The thing is, the better the surface,
the faster and better would condensation be.
A practical example is in your bathroom.
When you take a shower
if there are glasses surfaces around the shower area,
you can see condensation on the glass.
The water droplets collect on it.
Or when there's high humidity.
You might have noticed that in winter, around the corners of windows,
there is a lot of condensation,
water droplets form there
because there is a lot of humidity inside the house,
high water vapour content in air
so, the water vapour condenses
when it meets the cold glass on the windows.
And that glass provides a surface for the condensation.
This was Dr Vonnegut's logic
If a better surface can be provided,
the condensation process will be faster.
He experimented with chemicals like silver and iodide.
Using silver iodide, he found that actually,
silver iodide is a good surface for water vapour.
Silver iodide has the property
to absorb a lot of moisture.
So water vapour gets attracted to it
and gets converted into water.
Today, we know about several materials like silver iodide,
which can absorb the moisture around them.
We call these materials Cloud Seeds
or Cloud Condensation Nuclei.
Like Dr Shaefer threw dry ice on top of the clouds,
we can use these cloud seed materials
and throw them on the clouds,
to speed up the condensation process.
So that we get rain.
You may think that this is a new technology,
but both these methods were already being used
by General Electric in 1946.
And at that time, it was a revolutionary discovery.
For the first time in history,
humans were able to control the weather.
After that, the process of cloud seeding gradually improved.
First of all, people realized that
the method of cloud seeding by using aeroplanes
to throw cloud seeds on clouds
is very expensive.
An alternative to this was
to shoot up rockets from the ground
which contained cloud seeds
so that they could collide with the clouds and scatter the seeds.
As soon as the people and governments of the world
came to know about this invention,
everyone started looking for
ways they could use this cloud-seeding technology for their own benefit.
In November 1955, the king of Thailand
launched the Thailand Royal Rainmaking Project.
He was among the first few people to realize
that we can use this technology to counter the effects of drought.
In Thailand, farmers were often suffering due to droughts.
This method suggested by the king
was somewhat successful.
Today, this program is run by
the Department of Royal Rainmaking and Agriculture Aviation in Thailand.
Later, in 2001, the Eureka Organization
awarded the king of Thailand for this.
In Indian context,
cloud seeding operations were conducted in India
in 1983, 1984-1987,
and by the Tamil Nadu government during 1993-94.
When Tamil Nadu was faced with a severe drought situation.
The Karnataka government initiated cloud seeding in 2003-04.
And in Maharashtra,
a US company, Weather Modification Inc.
conducted operations the same year.
We will talk about how successful these operations were later,
but before that,
many countries realized that
they could use cloud seeding to stop the rain too.
If you look at the overall process,
what are we doing here?
We are speeding up the condensation process.
We are trying to get the water droplets in the clouds
to rain as soon as possible.
So if on a specific day, in a specific area,
we want to prevent rain
then over the last several days
cloud seeding needs to be carried out in the surrounding areas.
That means the water droplets in the clouds
would have already rained and there would be no more clouds.
Thus, no rain for the few specified days.
This exact technique was used
in 2008 by China during the Beijing Olympics.
They wanted to avoid any rain during the opening ceremony
so that there would be no problems.
After this, in February 2009,
China used iodide sticks
when a drought in Beijing was expected.
To counter that,
they made snowfall in the Beijing area.
It snowed for three days
and they had to close 12 roads due to snowfall.
And now they plan to revive the Yangtze River
using this process.
It won't be easy to revive such a big river
but with proper planning,
it might be achievable.
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Snow reminds me of the many ski resorts in the USA
which use this process to ensure sufficient snowfall.
Because ski resorts need reliable snowfall for people to ski.
If there is no snowfall,
the resorts will go out of business.
So they use this process to artificially produce snow.
These were direct uses of cloud seeding.
Apart from this, did you know that cloud seeding can be used
to reduce the size of hailstones.
So that they don't cause heavy damage.
Or the fog that we see,
it can reduce the amount of fog,
especially around airports,
so that flights can stick to their schedule.
Some airports around the world do use this to control the fog.
Bulgaria is a good example of this.
The National Network of Hail Protection was formed in Bulgaria.
They strategically planted rockets of silver iodide around the farms.
When it is expected to hail,
they use the rockets to control it.
It takes only 10 minutes to do this.
This strategy proved to be very effective.
And the data collected since the 1960s
has proved that the heavy losses in the agriculture sector
were avoided due to this technology.
Russia tried a very interesting method of cloud seeding.
In 2008, they tried to seed clouds
using cement bags.
Literally using cement.
But what happened was,
on 17th June 2008,
a bag of cement which was thrown at the clouds,
didn't melt in the clouds
rather, it fell on a house.
And a 3 feet deep pit formed in a man's house.
So if a cement bag falls on your house,
you know why it fell.
Now, every technology has its pros and cons.
It is not possible that there is a miraculous technology like cloud seeding
with no harm to it.
The biggest obvious concern that is raised about cloud seeding
is the long-term impact it will have on our weather.
What do you think?
Will it have any harmful impact?
Most people will say that yes,
it might have some harmful impact.
But surprisingly,
all the studies done so far on cloud seeding
have shown no lasting negative effects on the environment.
One of the reasons behind this is that
if you understand this process in depth,
you will understand what this process is.
We are speeding up the effect of condensation.
We are not making clouds miraculously.
We are forcing the existing clouds to rain instantly
rather than later.
So if you think about it, you will see that
this is not as useful technology as you might assume.
We can prepone tomorrow's rain today.
Or we can change the location over a relatively short distance.
But overall, we cannot add water vapour to the air.
Only if there is water vapour in the air,
will clouds form.
If there is no water vapour,
then how will clouds form?
How will cloud seeding be useful?
This is the reason, friends,
why many studies say that cloud seeding is a technology
that does not work.
It is not possible to increase the total amount of rain.
We do not have any concrete evidence for this,
either in favour or against.
In the beginning, people were also concerned that
using silver iodide
could cause injury to humans or other animals
in case of high exposure to silver iodide.
But only a little silver iodide is used in cloud seeding,
so it does not have any ecological, environmental or health impact.
And by now you must have understood, friends,
how significant the limitations of this technology are.
Imagine if the wind is blowing from south to north in India.
The rainy season moves from south to north.
First, clouds form around Karnataka and Kerala.
Later, these clouds reach Delhi.
By using cloud seeding, we can force
the clouds to rain in Kerala and Karnataka.
Rather than reaching Delhi.
Imagine if the winds in India
are blowing from west to east.
Suppose clouds are passing over the desert of Rajasthan.
If we use cloud seeding to bring rain in Rajasthan,
the clouds will be exhausted.
Had cloud seeding not been used,
the clouds might have reached Delhi
and would have been heavy enough to rain on Delhi.
So, in a nutshell,
cloud seeding technology is merely giving us a choice.
Do we want the clouds to rain in Rajasthan
or in Delhi?
Should it rain sooner or can we delay it?
We can control only this.
We do not have control over
creating clouds over Rajasthan if there were none to begin with.
This is not possible.
In recent times,
new technologies are also emerging for cloud seeding.
Such as the recent technology of
Cloud Zapping.
In this method,
drones fly into the sky and give an electric current to the clouds.
It has been found that with the help of this electric charge,
the small droplets merge together more easily
to form big droplets.
So, literally, if we provide electric currents to the clouds,
they will rain faster.
This method is currently being tested in countries like the UAE.
And in some places, it has been suggested
that cloud seeding and cloud zapping technology should be used together.
Using silver iodide as well as providing electric currents
so that clouds can rain faster.
This will improve the efficiency of the process.
There is only one major example throughout history
where cloud seeding technology
was used for the wrong purposes.
During the Vietnam War in the 1970s.
American Air Force launched Operation Popeye
which was carried out from 1967 to 1972.
It was a highly classified program whose aim was to
extend the monsoon season in some areas of Vietnam.
It affected the military supplies of North Vietnam.
Due to heavy rains, the roads would not be traversable.
The soil would be soft with an increased chance of landslides.
It would have a bad effect on the Vietnamese military.
The motto of the American Air Force was
Make Mud, Not War.
They used silver iodide for cloud seeding
to bring heavy rains in Vietnam.
This is said to be the first and only case
of meteorological warfare.
Thankfully, no other country has misused this technology since then.
But there are some conspiracy theories
making rounds among people relating to this technology.
In 2021, there was snowfall in Texas, USA,
an extremely rare phenomenon.
Many conspiracy theorists said that
the government is manipulating the weather for selfish reasons.
They are deliberately making it snow in Texas.
They also blamed the billionaire Bill Gates for this.
For making it snow.
Later, the same conspiracy theorists
blamed the government for the drought in California saying that
it too was because of the government's weather manipulation.
All these claims tie into a big conspiracy theory
the Chemtrail Conspiracy Theory.
The idea behind this theory is that
all aircraft contain chemicals
that can modify the weather,
can psychologically manipulate people
and can control the human population.
Obviously, these claims have been repeatedly
proven false by scientists.
There is no such thing.
I told you everything about the technology.
It is a limited technology.
Strategic
Have humans learned to control the weather?
Can this technology end the water shortage?
Hello friends!
How would it feel if I tell you that
humans have learned to control the weather to some extent?
With the help of cloud seeding technology,
we can artificially rain wherever we want.
This is a technology that has been used for many years.
Countries like China have spent millions of dollars on this technology.
But now, if you want to, you can use it for selfish reasons too.
For example, if you are afraid that it may rain on the day of your wedding,
a company in France offers cloud seeding services.
If you give this company ten millions,
they will do cloud seeding and ensure that
it will not rain on your wedding day.
Hearing this, the biggest question you would have right now would be
if this technology is indeed so wonderful,
the water crisis in our country,
there are prolonged droughts in some places,
in other places, there may be excess rainfall causing floods,
or water shortages,
to solve all these problems,
why isn't this technology used?
In this video, today,
come, let us understand the Cloud Seeding technology better.
"Have we come to the point where
we can control the weather?"
"Cloud Seeding is already used in
China and Thailand
to tackle air pollution."
"This is the result of proper cloud seeding."
Before understanding cloud seeding technology,
we need to understand clouds.
What are clouds
and how do they form?
We all studied in school about three states of matter.
Solid, liquid and gas.
If we talk about water,
the three states of matter of water are
Ice, liquid water and gaseous water vapour.
If something is converted from one state to another,
that process has a name.
When ice turns into water
the process is called melting.
If water turns into ice,
then it is called freezing.
If water turns into water vapour,
it is evaporation or vaporization.
And if water vapour turns back into water,
it is known as condensation.
It is very basic
but remember the word condensation
because I will use it a lot through out the video.
What happens is that
there is a lot of water vapour in the air.
If there is a lot of water vapour in the air,
then we will say that there is a lot of humidity in the air.
Lesser water vapour content means lower humidity.
Now, when this water vapour rises in the atmosphere,
as you know the higher we go from the ground,
with the increase of altitude,
the colder it gets.
Like, it is very cold in the mountains.
Now, when this water vapour is at a higher altitude,
it condenses due to cold.
This water vapour turns into water.
Extremely small, tiny water droplets.
When these water droplets are suspended in the air,
we see clouds.
Actually, these are clouds.
These small water droplets that make up the clouds are minuscule.
So small that their diameter is one-hundredth of a millimetre.
And there are millions of such droplets in a cloud.
If a cloud is at an even higher altitude,
the atmosphere is even colder.
This means that not only does it condense,
but it also freezes.
These water droplets turn into tiny crystals of ice
and these ice crystals form the clouds.
So, in this sense, there are two types of clouds.
One is made of water droplets
and the other is made of ice crystals.
The difference between the two can be easily seen.
The ice crystal clouds are at a higher altitude.
You cannot see a clear boundary line
and they are thinner.
The heavy clouds that are closer to the ground
are made of water droplets.
Now that we have understood this,
the next question is
how do these clouds rain?
What happens is that these small droplets,
when they keep accumulating,
more droplets keep joining in,
the clouds keep getting bigger,
these small droplets start colliding with each other,
they mix with each other
and form big droplets.
These big droplets go up into the atmosphere
and freeze to form ice crystals
but the ice crystals also collide into each other
to form bigger ice crystals.
This process continues until
the ice crystals become so big
that they start falling on the ground due to their weight.
And when this happens,
the ice crystals fall on the ground.
While falling down,
if the temperature of the air is cold,
then they will fall like snow, that's a snowfall.
If the air near the ground is warm,
the ice crystals will melt
and fall like rain droplets.
This is how it rains.
Now, if we talk about Cloud Seeding,
then in the history of humans,
this technology has been introduced by chance,
due to an accident.
For such accidents,
there's a word in English, Serendipity.
It means, by chance, something happens
that ends up benefitting us.
A big example of a serendipitous discovery
is the discovery of a vaccine.
When Dr Alexander Fleming invented penicillin,
it was an accident.
I talked about it in detail in the video on the Red Plague.
If you haven't seen it, I'll put the link in the description below.
Cloud Seeding was also a serendipitous discovery.
In 1943, Dr Vincent Shaefer
was an American chemist and meteorologist.
He was researching aircraft icing and precipitation.
In 1946, he used a cold box for his research.
A box that was very cold.
While testing something else,
during his experiments,
he often breathed out in this cold box.
As you know,
when we breathe out of our mouth
it contains water vapour,
and if it's cold outside, it will condense.
He noticed this while doing the experiment.
You can see this yourself,
when you go out in the cold weather and breathe,
it feels like you are breathing out smoke or fog.
Actually, what you see as smoke or fog
are the same tiny water droplets.
The water vapour that you breathe out gets condensed
into these tiny droplets.
Exactly the same process that forms clouds.
So it's not wrong to say that
you can blow out a mini cloud during winter.
Dr Shaefer also noticed the same thing
but he took it one step further.
He wondered about what would happen if
he cooled the box down further.
To do this, he used dry ice.
Dry ice is basically a solid form of carbon dioxide.
It is commonly used for refrigeration and cooling.
And it exists only at a temperature of -78°C.
So he placed some dry ice in the cold box.
And then when he breathed out into that box,
he saw something miraculous.
The air that he blew out
suddenly turned into millions of microscopic ice crystals.
He saw it as a blueish haze.
He noticed that if the temperature is reduced suddenly,
then the water vapour will instantly turn into ice crystals.
This thing happens in clouds at the last stage.
When those ice crystals become huge and heavier than the atmosphere.
He saw that using dry ice has
sped up this process.
Dr Shaefer immediately conducted more experiments
to understand what was happening exactly.
Finally, when he understood things,
he realized that it can be used in real life as well.
Why not try to instantly cool the clouds in the sky by using dry ice,
so that we can get instant snowfall or rain.
On 13th November 1946, Dr Shaefer flew a plane from New York.
He took 2.5 kg of dry ice with him on this flight
and conducted his test on a cloud near Mount Greylock.
He literally threw crushed dry ice out of the plane, on top of the clouds,
and the result was amazing.
He saw instant heavy snowfall and rain.
And this was the invention of Cloud Seeding.
Today, Dr Vincent Shaefer is credited
for the inventing cloud seeding.
But before him, there was another man
Wilhelm Reich,
he claimed to have invented
a cloudbuster machine in America.
He claimed that by using Orgone energy,
by using cosmic energy,
he could manipulate the atmosphere
and cause rain.
He named his research Cosmic Orgone Engineering.
But as you can guess,
he was a person who made fraudulent claims.
His machine didn't work at all
It was simply a way to steal the credit.
Interestingly, there was another scientist apart from Dr Shaefer
who was working on cloud seeding technology
but from a completely different perspective.
Scientist Dr Berhard Vonnegut.
He didn't want to use dry ice to make the clouds colder
for cloud seeding to work.
He wanted to use a chemical
to carry out the process.
His idea was based on the condensation property of water.
Something that you may not know
is that the process of condensation
has a condition.
To convert water vapour into water,
to undergo the process of condensation,
a non-gaseous surface is required.
That is, a solid or liquid surface
is required to complete the process of condensation.
If there is no surface,
condensation cannot happen.
It is said that without this surface,
water vapour will remain as water vapour
even if the temperature falls to -10°C.
You may say that I claimed earlier in the video
that water vapour condenses
when the air cools.
How can that happen without any surface?
There is a surface, of course.
The small dust particles in our atmosphere,
the pollens floating around in the air,
act like surfaces to carry out the condensation process
for clouds to form.
The thing is, the better the surface,
the faster and better would condensation be.
A practical example is in your bathroom.
When you take a shower
if there are glasses surfaces around the shower area,
you can see condensation on the glass.
The water droplets collect on it.
Or when there's high humidity.
You might have noticed that in winter, around the corners of windows,
there is a lot of condensation,
water droplets form there
because there is a lot of humidity inside the house,
high water vapour content in air
so, the water vapour condenses
when it meets the cold glass on the windows.
And that glass provides a surface for the condensation.
This was Dr Vonnegut's logic
If a better surface can be provided,
the condensation process will be faster.
He experimented with chemicals like silver and iodide.
Using silver iodide, he found that actually,
silver iodide is a good surface for water vapour.
Silver iodide has the property
to absorb a lot of moisture.
So water vapour gets attracted to it
and gets converted into water.
Today, we know about several materials like silver iodide,
which can absorb the moisture around them.
We call these materials Cloud Seeds
or Cloud Condensation Nuclei.
Like Dr Shaefer threw dry ice on top of the clouds,
we can use these cloud seed materials
and throw them on the clouds,
to speed up the condensation process.
So that we get rain.
You may think that this is a new technology,
but both these methods were already being used
by General Electric in 1946.
And at that time, it was a revolutionary discovery.
For the first time in history,
humans were able to control the weather.
After that, the process of cloud seeding gradually improved.
First of all, people realized that
the method of cloud seeding by using aeroplanes
to throw cloud seeds on clouds
is very expensive.
An alternative to this was
to shoot up rockets from the ground
which contained cloud seeds
so that they could collide with the clouds and scatter the seeds.
As soon as the people and governments of the world
came to know about this invention,
everyone started looking for
ways they could use this cloud-seeding technology for their own benefit.
In November 1955, the king of Thailand
launched the Thailand Royal Rainmaking Project.
He was among the first few people to realize
that we can use this technology to counter the effects of drought.
In Thailand, farmers were often suffering due to droughts.
This method suggested by the king
was somewhat successful.
Today, this program is run by
the Department of Royal Rainmaking and Agriculture Aviation in Thailand.
Later, in 2001, the Eureka Organization
awarded the king of Thailand for this.
In Indian context,
cloud seeding operations were conducted in India
in 1983, 1984-1987,
and by the Tamil Nadu government during 1993-94.
When Tamil Nadu was faced with a severe drought situation.
The Karnataka government initiated cloud seeding in 2003-04.
And in Maharashtra,
a US company, Weather Modification Inc.
conducted operations the same year.
We will talk about how successful these operations were later,
but before that,
many countries realized that
they could use cloud seeding to stop the rain too.
If you look at the overall process,
what are we doing here?
We are speeding up the condensation process.
We are trying to get the water droplets in the clouds
to rain as soon as possible.
So if on a specific day, in a specific area,
we want to prevent rain
then over the last several days
cloud seeding needs to be carried out in the surrounding areas.
That means the water droplets in the clouds
would have already rained and there would be no more clouds.
Thus, no rain for the few specified days.
This exact technique was used
in 2008 by China during the Beijing Olympics.
They wanted to avoid any rain during the opening ceremony
so that there would be no problems.
After this, in February 2009,
China used iodide sticks
when a drought in Beijing was expected.
To counter that,
they made snowfall in the Beijing area.
It snowed for three days
and they had to close 12 roads due to snowfall.
And now they plan to revive the Yangtze River
using this process.
It won't be easy to revive such a big river
but with proper planning,
it might be achievable.
In fact, with proper planning and proper utilization of resources
is there anything that cannot be achieved?
But one resource that we don't value much
is time.
We often take time for granted
and keep moving with the flow.
But time is something
that once spent, can never return.
We often waste a lot of our time daily
on useless things like,
scrolling on our smartphones or procrastinating.
This used to happen to me a lot too,
but then I made a new system
of proper time management.
Because of this new system,
my productivity has improved so much
that allows me to travel the world
and regularly upload such videos.
One day, I thought why not teach this system to you as well,
that's why I launched
my time management and productivity course.
In this course, you will learn step by step
how you can bring a complete change in your life.
After doing the given assignments,
you will see how suddenly
you have so much time in a day.
Hundreds of people who have taken this course
have given amazing feedbacks.
You can see their reviews on the screen,
how they have noticed similar things
and noticed positive changes in their lives.
If you are also ready for this change in your life,
the link to the course is given in the description below.
The first 400 people will get a special 40% discount
if you use the coupon code RAIN40.
You can try it out quickly
and let's get back to the topic.
Snow reminds me of the many ski resorts in the USA
which use this process to ensure sufficient snowfall.
Because ski resorts need reliable snowfall for people to ski.
If there is no snowfall,
the resorts will go out of business.
So they use this process to artificially produce snow.
These were direct uses of cloud seeding.
Apart from this, did you know that cloud seeding can be used
to reduce the size of hailstones.
So that they don't cause heavy damage.
Or the fog that we see,
it can reduce the amount of fog,
especially around airports,
so that flights can stick to their schedule.
Some airports around the world do use this to control the fog.
Bulgaria is a good example of this.
The National Network of Hail Protection was formed in Bulgaria.
They strategically planted rockets of silver iodide around the farms.
When it is expected to hail,
they use the rockets to control it.
It takes only 10 minutes to do this.
This strategy proved to be very effective.
And the data collected since the 1960s
has proved that the heavy losses in the agriculture sector
were avoided due to this technology.
Russia tried a very interesting method of cloud seeding.
In 2008, they tried to seed clouds
using cement bags.
Literally using cement.
But what happened was,
on 17th June 2008,
a bag of cement which was thrown at the clouds,
didn't melt in the clouds
rather, it fell on a house.
And a 3 feet deep pit formed in a man's house.
So if a cement bag falls on your house,
you know why it fell.
Now, every technology has its pros and cons.
It is not possible that there is a miraculous technology like cloud seeding
with no harm to it.
The biggest obvious concern that is raised about cloud seeding
is the long-term impact it will have on our weather.
What do you think?
Will it have any harmful impact?
Most people will say that yes,
it might have some harmful impact.
But surprisingly,
all the studies done so far on cloud seeding
have shown no lasting negative effects on the environment.
One of the reasons behind this is that
if you understand this process in depth,
you will understand what this process is.
We are speeding up the effect of condensation.
We are not making clouds miraculously.
We are forcing the existing clouds to rain instantly
rather than later.
So if you think about it, you will see that
this is not as useful technology as you might assume.
We can prepone tomorrow's rain today.
Or we can change the location over a relatively short distance.
But overall, we cannot add water vapour to the air.
Only if there is water vapour in the air,
will clouds form.
If there is no water vapour,
then how will clouds form?
How will cloud seeding be useful?
This is the reason, friends,
why many studies say that cloud seeding is a technology
that does not work.
It is not possible to increase the total amount of rain.
We do not have any concrete evidence for this,
either in favour or against.
In the beginning, people were also concerned that
using silver iodide
could cause injury to humans or other animals
in case of high exposure to silver iodide.
But only a little silver iodide is used in cloud seeding,
so it does not have any ecological, environmental or health impact.
And by now you must have understood, friends,
how significant the limitations of this technology are.
Imagine if the wind is blowing from south to north in India.
The rainy season moves from south to north.
First, clouds form around Karnataka and Kerala.
Later, these clouds reach Delhi.
By using cloud seeding, we can force
the clouds to rain in Kerala and Karnataka.
Rather than reaching Delhi.
Imagine if the winds in India
are blowing from west to east.
Suppose clouds are passing over the desert of Rajasthan.
If we use cloud seeding to bring rain in Rajasthan,
the clouds will be exhausted.
Had cloud seeding not been used,
the clouds might have reached Delhi
and would have been heavy enough to rain on Delhi.
So, in a nutshell,
cloud seeding technology is merely giving us a choice.
Do we want the clouds to rain in Rajasthan
or in Delhi?
Should it rain sooner or can we delay it?
We can control only this.
We do not have control over
creating clouds over Rajasthan if there were none to begin with.
This is not possible.
In recent times,
new technologies are also emerging for cloud seeding.
Such as the recent technology of
Cloud Zapping.
In this method,
drones fly into the sky and give an electric current to the clouds.
It has been found that with the help of this electric charge,
the small droplets merge together more easily
to form big droplets.
So, literally, if we provide electric currents to the clouds,
they will rain faster.
This method is currently being tested in countries like the UAE.
And in some places, it has been suggested
that cloud seeding and cloud zapping technology should be used together.
Using silver iodide as well as providing electric currents
so that clouds can rain faster.
This will improve the efficiency of the process.
There is only one major example throughout history
where cloud seeding technology
was used for the wrong purposes.
During the Vietnam War in the 1970s.
American Air Force launched Operation Popeye
which was carried out from 1967 to 1972.
It was a highly classified program whose aim was to
extend the monsoon season in some areas of Vietnam.
It affected the military supplies of North Vietnam.
Due to heavy rains, the roads would not be traversable.
The soil would be soft with an increased chance of landslides.
It would have a bad effect on the Vietnamese military.
The motto of the American Air Force was
Make Mud, Not War.
They used silver iodide for cloud seeding
to bring heavy rains in Vietnam.
This is said to be the first and only case
of meteorological warfare.
Thankfully, no other country has misused this technology since then.
But there are some conspiracy theories
making rounds among people relating to this technology.
In 2021, there was snowfall in Texas, USA,
an extremely rare phenomenon.
Many conspiracy theorists said that
the government is manipulating the weather for selfish reasons.
They are deliberately making it snow in Texas.
They also blamed the billionaire Bill Gates for this.
For making it snow.
Later, the same conspiracy theorists
blamed the government for the drought in California saying that
it too was because of the government's weather manipulation.
All these claims tie into a big conspiracy theory
the Chemtrail Conspiracy Theory.
The idea behind this theory is that
all aircraft contain chemicals
that can modify the weather,
can psychologically manipulate people
and can control the human population.
Obviously, these claims have been repeatedly
proven false by scientists.
There is no such thing.
I told you everything about the technology.
It is a limited technology.
Strategic
Have humans learned to control the weather?
Can this technology end the water shortage?
Hello friends!
How would it feel if I tell you that
humans have learned to control the weather to some extent?
With the help of cloud seeding technology,
we can artificially rain wherever we want.
This is a technology that has been used for many years.
Countries like China have spent millions of dollars on this technology.
But now, if you want to, you can use it for selfish reasons too.
For example, if you are afraid that it may rain on the day of your wedding,
a company in France offers cloud seeding services.
If you give this company ten millions,
they will do cloud seeding and ensure that
it will not rain on your wedding day.
Hearing this, the biggest question you would have right now would be
if this technology is indeed so wonderful,
the water crisis in our country,
there are prolonged droughts in some places,
in other places, there may be excess rainfall causing floods,
or water shortages,
to solve all these problems,
why isn't this technology used?
In this video, today,
come, let us understand the Cloud Seeding technology better.
"Have we come to the point where
we can control the weather?"
"Cloud Seeding is already used in
China and Thailand
to tackle air pollution."
"This is the result of proper cloud seeding."
Before understanding cloud seeding technology,
we need to understand clouds.
What are clouds
and how do they form?
We all studied in school about three states of matter.
Solid, liquid and gas.
If we talk about water,
the three states of matter of water are
Ice, liquid water and gaseous water vapour.
If something is converted from one state to another,
that process has a name.
When ice turns into water
the process is called melting.
If water turns into ice,
then it is called freezing.
If water turns into water vapour,
it is evaporation or vaporization.
And if water vapour turns back into water,
it is known as condensation.
It is very basic
but remember the word condensation
because I will use it a lot through out the video.
What happens is that
there is a lot of water vapour in the air.
If there is a lot of water vapour in the air,
then we will say that there is a lot of humidity in the air.
Lesser water vapour content means lower humidity.
Now, when this water vapour rises in the atmosphere,
as you know the higher we go from the ground,
with the increase of altitude,
the colder it gets.
Like, it is very cold in the mountains.
Now, when this water vapour is at a higher altitude,
it condenses due to cold.
This water vapour turns into water.
Extremely small, tiny water droplets.
When these water droplets are suspended in the air,
we see clouds.
Actually, these are clouds.
These small water droplets that make up the clouds are minuscule.
So small that their diameter is one-hundredth of a millimetre.
And there are millions of such droplets in a cloud.
If a cloud is at an even higher altitude,
the atmosphere is even colder.
This means that not only does it condense,
but it also freezes.
These water droplets turn into tiny crystals of ice
and these ice crystals form the clouds.
So, in this sense, there are two types of clouds.
One is made of water droplets
and the other is made of ice crystals.
The difference between the two can be easily seen.
The ice crystal clouds are at a higher altitude.
You cannot see a clear boundary line
and they are thinner.
The heavy clouds that are closer to the ground
are made of water droplets.
Now that we have understood this,
the next question is
how do these clouds rain?
What happens is that these small droplets,
when they keep accumulating,
more droplets keep joining in,
the clouds keep getting bigger,
these small droplets start colliding with each other,
they mix with each other
and form big droplets.
These big droplets go up into the atmosphere
and freeze to form ice crystals
but the ice crystals also collide into each other
to form bigger ice crystals.
This process continues until
the ice crystals become so big
that they start falling on the ground due to their weight.
And when this happens,
the ice crystals fall on the ground.
While falling down,
if the temperature of the air is cold,
then they will fall like snow, that's a snowfall.
If the air near the ground is warm,
the ice crystals will melt
and fall like rain droplets.
This is how it rains.
Now, if we talk about Cloud Seeding,
then in the history of humans,
this technology has been introduced by chance,
due to an accident.
For such accidents,
there's a word in English, Serendipity.
It means, by chance, something happens
that ends up benefitting us.
A big example of a serendipitous discovery
is the discovery of a vaccine.
When Dr Alexander Fleming invented penicillin,
it was an accident.
I talked about it in detail in the video on the Red Plague.
If you haven't seen it, I'll put the link in the description below.
Cloud Seeding was also a serendipitous discovery.
In 1943, Dr Vincent Shaefer
was an American chemist and meteorologist.
He was researching aircraft icing and precipitation.
In 1946, he used a cold box for his research.
A box that was very cold.
While testing something else,
during his experiments,
he often breathed out in this cold box.
As you know,
when we breathe out of our mouth
it contains water vapour,
and if it's cold outside, it will condense.
He noticed this while doing the experiment.
You can see this yourself,
when you go out in the cold weather and breathe,
it feels like you are breathing out smoke or fog.
Actually, what you see as smoke or fog
are the same tiny water droplets.
The water vapour that you breathe out gets condensed
into these tiny droplets.
Exactly the same process that forms clouds.
So it's not wrong to say that
you can blow out a mini cloud during winter.
Dr Shaefer also noticed the same thing
but he took it one step further.
He wondered about what would happen if
he cooled the box down further.
To do this, he used dry ice.
Dry ice is basically a solid form of carbon dioxide.
It is commonly used for refrigeration and cooling.
And it exists only at a temperature of -78°C.
So he placed some dry ice in the cold box.
And then when he breathed out into that box,
he saw something miraculous.
The air that he blew out
suddenly turned into millions of microscopic ice crystals.
He saw it as a blueish haze.
He noticed that if the temperature is reduced suddenly,
then the water vapour will instantly turn into ice crystals.
This thing happens in clouds at the last stage.
When those ice crystals become huge and heavier than the atmosphere.
He saw that using dry ice has
sped up this process.
Dr Shaefer immediately conducted more experiments
to understand what was happening exactly.
Finally, when he understood things,
he realized that it can be used in real life as well.
Why not try to instantly cool the clouds in the sky by using dry ice,
so that we can get instant snowfall or rain.
On 13th November 1946, Dr Shaefer flew a plane from New York.
He took 2.5 kg of dry ice with him on this flight
and conducted his test on a cloud near Mount Greylock.
He literally threw crushed dry ice out of the plane, on top of the clouds,
and the result was amazing.
He saw instant heavy snowfall and rain.
And this was the invention of Cloud Seeding.
Today, Dr Vincent Shaefer is credited
for the inventing cloud seeding.
But before him, there was another man
Wilhelm Reich,
he claimed to have invented
a cloudbuster machine in America.
He claimed that by using Orgone energy,
by using cosmic energy,
he could manipulate the atmosphere
and cause rain.
He named his research Cosmic Orgone Engineering.
But as you can guess,
he was a person who made fraudulent claims.
His machine didn't work at all
It was simply a way to steal the credit.
Interestingly, there was another scientist apart from Dr Shaefer
who was working on cloud seeding technology
but from a completely different perspective.
Scientist Dr Berhard Vonnegut.
He didn't want to use dry ice to make the clouds colder
for cloud seeding to work.
He wanted to use a chemical
to carry out the process.
His idea was based on the condensation property of water.
Something that you may not know
is that the process of condensation
has a condition.
To convert water vapour into water,
to undergo the process of condensation,
a non-gaseous surface is required.
That is, a solid or liquid surface
is required to complete the process of condensation.
If there is no surface,
condensation cannot happen.
It is said that without this surface,
water vapour will remain as water vapour
even if the temperature falls to -10°C.
You may say that I claimed earlier in the video
that water vapour condenses
when the air cools.
How can that happen without any surface?
There is a surface, of course.
The small dust particles in our atmosphere,
the pollens floating around in the air,
act like surfaces to carry out the condensation process
for clouds to form.
The thing is, the better the surface,
the faster and better would condensation be.
A practical example is in your bathroom.
When you take a shower
if there are glasses surfaces around the shower area,
you can see condensation on the glass.
The water droplets collect on it.
Or when there's high humidity.
You might have noticed that in winter, around the corners of windows,
there is a lot of condensation,
water droplets form there
because there is a lot of humidity inside the house,
high water vapour content in air
so, the water vapour condenses
when it meets the cold glass on the windows.
And that glass provides a surface for the condensation.
This was Dr Vonnegut's logic
If a better surface can be provided,
the condensation process will be faster.
He experimented with chemicals like silver and iodide.
Using silver iodide, he found that actually,
silver iodide is a good surface for water vapour.
Silver iodide has the property
to absorb a lot of moisture.
So water vapour gets attracted to it
and gets converted into water.
Today, we know about several materials like silver iodide,
which can absorb the moisture around them.
We call these materials Cloud Seeds
or Cloud Condensation Nuclei.
Like Dr Shaefer threw dry ice on top of the clouds,
we can use these cloud seed materials
and throw them on the clouds,
to speed up the condensation process.
So that we get rain.
You may think that this is a new technology,
but both these methods were already being used
by General Electric in 1946.
And at that time, it was a revolutionary discovery.
For the first time in history,
humans were able to control the weather.
After that, the process of cloud seeding gradually improved.
First of all, people realized that
the method of cloud seeding by using aeroplanes
to throw cloud seeds on clouds
is very expensive.
An alternative to this was
to shoot up rockets from the ground
which contained cloud seeds
so that they could collide with the clouds and scatter the seeds.
As soon as the people and governments of the world
came to know about this invention,
everyone started looking for
ways they could use this cloud-seeding technology for their own benefit.
In November 1955, the king of Thailand
launched the Thailand Royal Rainmaking Project.
He was among the first few people to realize
that we can use this technology to counter the effects of drought.
In Thailand, farmers were often suffering due to droughts.
This method suggested by the king
was somewhat successful.
Today, this program is run by
the Department of Royal Rainmaking and Agriculture Aviation in Thailand.
Later, in 2001, the Eureka Organization
awarded the king of Thailand for this.
In Indian context,
cloud seeding operations were conducted in India
in 1983, 1984-1987,
and by the Tamil Nadu government during 1993-94.
When Tamil Nadu was faced with a severe drought situation.
The Karnataka government initiated cloud seeding in 2003-04.
And in Maharashtra,
a US company, Weather Modification Inc.
conducted operations the same year.
We will talk about how successful these operations were later,
but before that,
many countries realized that
they could use cloud seeding to stop the rain too.
If you look at the overall process,
what are we doing here?
We are speeding up the condensation process.
We are trying to get the water droplets in the clouds
to rain as soon as possible.
So if on a specific day, in a specific area,
we want to prevent rain
then over the last several days
cloud seeding needs to be carried out in the surrounding areas.
That means the water droplets in the clouds
would have already rained and there would be no more clouds.
Thus, no rain for the few specified days.
This exact technique was used
in 2008 by China during the Beijing Olympics.
They wanted to avoid any rain during the opening ceremony
so that there would be no problems.
After this, in February 2009,
China used iodide sticks
when a drought in Beijing was expected.
To counter that,
they made snowfall in the Beijing area.
It snowed for three days
and they had to close 12 roads due to snowfall.
And now they plan to revive the Yangtze River
using this process.
It won't be easy to revive such a big river
but with proper planning,
it might be achievable.
In fact, with proper planning and proper utilization of resources
is there anything that cannot be achieved?
But one resource that we don't value much
is time.
We often take time for granted
and keep moving with the flow.
But time is something
that once spent, can never return.
We often waste a lot of our time daily
on useless things like,
scrolling on our smartphones or procrastinating.
This used to happen to me a lot too,
but then I made a new system
of proper time management.
Because of this new system,
my productivity has improved so much
that allows me to travel the world
and regularly upload such videos.
One day, I thought why not teach this system to you as well,
that's why I launched
my time management and productivity course.
In this course, you will learn step by step
how you can bring a complete change in your life.
After doing the given assignments,
you will see how suddenly
you have so much time in a day.
Hundreds of people who have taken this course
have given amazing feedbacks.
You can see their reviews on the screen,
how they have noticed similar things
and noticed positive changes in their lives.
If you are also ready for this change in your life,
the link to the course is given in the description below.
The first 400 people will get a special 40% discount
if you use the coupon code RAIN40.
You can try it out quickly
and let's get back to the topic.
Snow reminds me of the many ski resorts in the USA
which use this process to ensure sufficient snowfall.
Because ski resorts need reliable snowfall for people to ski.
If there is no snowfall,
the resorts will go out of business.
So they use this process to artificially produce snow.
These were direct uses of cloud seeding.
Apart from this, did you know that cloud seeding can be used
to reduce the size of hailstones.
So that they don't cause heavy damage.
Or the fog that we see,
it can reduce the amount of fog,
especially around airports,
so that flights can stick to their schedule.
Some airports around the world do use this to control the fog.
Bulgaria is a good example of this.
The National Network of Hail Protection was formed in Bulgaria.
They strategically planted rockets of silver iodide around the farms.
When it is expected to hail,
they use the rockets to control it.
It takes only 10 minutes to do this.
This strategy proved to be very effective.
And the data collected since the 1960s
has proved that the heavy losses in the agriculture sector
were avoided due to this technology.
Russia tried a very interesting method of cloud seeding.
In 2008, they tried to seed clouds
using cement bags.
Literally using cement.
But what happened was,
on 17th June 2008,
a bag of cement which was thrown at the clouds,
didn't melt in the clouds
rather, it fell on a house.
And a 3 feet deep pit formed in a man's house.
So if a cement bag falls on your house,
you know why it fell.
Now, every technology has its pros and cons.
It is not possible that there is a miraculous technology like cloud seeding
with no harm to it.
The biggest obvious concern that is raised about cloud seeding
is the long-term impact it will have on our weather.
What do you think?
Will it have any harmful impact?
Most people will say that yes,
it might have some harmful impact.
But surprisingly,
all the studies done so far on cloud seeding
have shown no lasting negative effects on the environment.
One of the reasons behind this is that
if you understand this process in depth,
you will understand what this process is.
We are speeding up the effect of condensation.
We are not making clouds miraculously.
We are forcing the existing clouds to rain instantly
rather than later.
So if you think about it, you will see that
this is not as useful technology as you might assume.
We can prepone tomorrow's rain today.
Or we can change the location over a relatively short distance.
But overall, we cannot add water vapour to the air.
Only if there is water vapour in the air,
will clouds form.
If there is no water vapour,
then how will clouds form?
How will cloud seeding be useful?
This is the reason, friends,
why many studies say that cloud seeding is a technology
that does not work.
It is not possible to increase the total amount of rain.
We do not have any concrete evidence for this,
either in favour or against.
In the beginning, people were also concerned that
using silver iodide
could cause injury to humans or other animals
in case of high exposure to silver iodide.
But only a little silver iodide is used in cloud seeding,
so it does not have any ecological, environmental or health impact.
And by now you must have understood, friends,
how significant the limitations of this technology are.
Imagine if the wind is blowing from south to north in India.
The rainy season moves from south to north.
First, clouds form around Karnataka and Kerala.
Later, these clouds reach Delhi.
By using cloud seeding, we can force
the clouds to rain in Kerala and Karnataka.
Rather than reaching Delhi.
Imagine if the winds in India
are blowing from west to east.
Suppose clouds are passing over the desert of Rajasthan.
If we use cloud seeding to bring rain in Rajasthan,
the clouds will be exhausted.
Had cloud seeding not been used,
the clouds might have reached Delhi
and would have been heavy enough to rain on Delhi.
So, in a nutshell,
cloud seeding technology is merely giving us a choice.
Do we want the clouds to rain in Rajasthan
or in Delhi?
Should it rain sooner or can we delay it?
We can control only this.
We do not have control over
creating clouds over Rajasthan if there were none to begin with.
This is not possible.
In recent times,
new technologies are also emerging for cloud seeding.
Such as the recent technology of
Cloud Zapping.
In this method,
drones fly into the sky and give an electric current to the clouds.
It has been found that with the help of this electric charge,
the small droplets merge together more easily
to form big droplets.
So, literally, if we provide electric currents to the clouds,
they will rain faster.
This method is currently being tested in countries like the UAE.
And in some places, it has been suggested
that cloud seeding and cloud zapping technology should be used together.
Using silver iodide as well as providing electric currents
so that clouds can rain faster.
This will improve the efficiency of the process.
There is only one major example throughout history
where cloud seeding technology
was used for the wrong purposes.
During the Vietnam War in the 1970s.
American Air Force launched Operation Popeye
which was carried out from 1967 to 1972.
It was a highly classified program whose aim was to
extend the monsoon season in some areas of Vietnam.
It affected the military supplies of North Vietnam.
Due to heavy rains, the roads would not be traversable.
The soil would be soft with an increased chance of landslides.
It would have a bad effect on the Vietnamese military.
The motto of the American Air Force was
Make Mud, Not War.
They used silver iodide for cloud seeding
to bring heavy rains in Vietnam.
This is said to be the first and only case
of meteorological warfare.
Thankfully, no other country has misused this technology since then.
But there are some conspiracy theories
making rounds among people relating to this technology.
In 2021, there was snowfall in Texas, USA,
an extremely rare phenomenon.
Many conspiracy theorists said that
the government is manipulating the weather for selfish reasons.
They are deliberately making it snow in Texas.
They also blamed the billionaire Bill Gates for this.
For making it snow.
Later, the same conspiracy theorists
blamed the government for the drought in California saying that
it too was because of the government's weather manipulation.
All these claims tie into a big conspiracy theory
the Chemtrail Conspiracy Theory.
The idea behind this theory is that
all aircraft contain chemicals
that can modify the weather,
can psychologically manipulate people
and can control the human population.
Obviously, these claims have been repeatedly
proven false by scientists.
There is no such thing.
I told you everything about the technology.
It is a limited technology.
Strategic
ally, it can definitely be used in some places.
Such as preventing rain in the opening ceremony of the Olympics.
Avoiding rain at a cricket match, it is useful.
Or if you have millions of rupees to stop the rain for your wedding,
you can use this technology.
Overall, for major events,
to fight droughts,
and to fight climate change,
this technology will probably remain useless.
Thank you so much 🙏😊
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