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What Happened to Cloud Seeding? We Know It’s Been Militarized, but Why Not Use it For this Drought?
Friday, August 10, 2012 6:20
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Last time I heard about seeding clouds was the story about USAF seeding clouds at the top of the Ho Chi to make he monsoon last a few weeks longer.
The pilots, all Hippies, used to say, “Make Mud Not War”…
Here’s the story of Wilhelm Reich’s rain-making device, the “Cloudbuster”
and how in 1953, some blueberry farmers in Maine hired Reich to save their crops from a drought.
A puzzled witness to the “rain-making”process said: “The queerest looking clouds you ever saw began to form soon after they got the thing rolling.” Rain fell throughout the night.
The blueberry crop survived, the farmers declared themselves satisfied, and Reich received his fee.
Three years later, Reich was convicted of transporting his equipment to another State. He e died while serving a two-year sentence at Lewisburg Federal Penitentiary.
