I’m not sure what your homepage says about you, but whenever I click on IE or Firefox I am immediately brought to good ‘ol Yahoo.com. It’s my email of choice and I like to glance at the headlines before I move on to other sites.
One headline today completely drew my attention and made me chuckle out loud. I do that a lot and normally the 2 guys I share an office with ignore me, so today, I had to share what it was that made me laugh. Now, I want to share it with you. Ready?
“China Seeks to Control Olympic Weather”
Hahahaha… I just love it. First of all, I love the headline and second, I love that it’s true!
China wants to control the weather! Isn’t it enough that China controls what it’s people see, hear and read, not to mention the Tibetan Monks, but the weather? Dontchya’ think that may be stepping on the big man’s toes?
OK, enough of the headline… Here’s some more great stuff…. from the body of the article.
“Officials believe there is a 47% probability of rain during the August 8 opening ceremony and a 6% chance of a heavy downpour and will try to drain humidity from clouds before they reach Beijing.”
That’s some serious weather prediction. Heck, the day of a storm in Maine our weather guys (and gals) say stuff like “there will most likely be snow, but some areas may not see any flakes at all.” How the heck can Chinese scientists make a prediction like this??! I know they’re smart, but day-umn.
Wait, it gets better…. Here’s how they intend to do it:
“More than 100 staff at 21 stations surrounding the city will have 10 minutes’ notice to fire rockets or cannons containing silver iodide at approaching clouds in the hope of making them rain before they reach the stadium. Three aircraft will also be on stand-by to drop catalysts to unleash rain from the clouds.”
Whoa. This is like science fiction, only it’s better ’cause it’s true. Global warming-shmobel warming! We can control the weather…. mwaaa-haaa-haaa-haaaaaa (I just had an image of Pinky and the Brain.. if only the Brain had come up with this scheme he totally would’ve dominated the world)
But my favorite part of the story comes in the last line:
“I hope God will not send any storms to Beijing,” she said.
That’s a direct quote from Zhang Qiang, head of Beijing’s Weather Modification Office. What she really means is “and if God does send us storms, we’ll show him.”
I really, really hope the staff of the Beijing Weather Modification Office has to use their rockets.
As always, just One Girl’s Opinion
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