Image Credit: The Atmosphere, published by Prentice Hall (2001)
Miss C's post The Tesla's Tower of Power - about Nikola Tesla's never-completed project of building a tower to control the weather (among other things) got me looking for other weather modification past projects.
Here's a strange one from Austria, circa 1899:
Weather modification has been around since the beginning of recorded history, when people used prayer, dances, wizardry, and black magic. It was not until near the beginning of the 20th century that more drastic measures were taken toward weather modification. The first major device was tested in Austria for two years and was named "hail cannon". These 300 feet tall cannons were muzzle-loaded and shaped like a cone cylinder. They used it to fire mortars into the clouds believing that the smoke particles would prevent hail by acting as condensation nuclei.
After completing a two-year test, no hail was observed in Austria, while the surrounding provinces had severe hail damage. Believing that this test proved that the cannons were successful, other areas in Europe began using them for the protection of their cash crops. This resulted in a "cannon fever" in Europe which made Italy deploy over 2000 cannons by 1899. The fever was soon lost when the cannons proved ineffective. Although this attempt and many others failed, inventors also developed successful weather modification inventions during the nineteenth century. Some of these are smudge pots, sprinklers, and wind machines used to fight frost
http://snr.unl.edu/metr351-03/brockman/introduction.html - via BLDGBLOG (a neat blog about architecture, btw)
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- If the food exists in nature the way you consume it: it's generally ok.
- Or if the stuff it's made from exists in nature: it's generally ok. (So a properly made pizza is perfectly ok; it is made of real food. It get's problematic if it only consists of grease and cheese, but that would not be a properly made pizza.)
- Avoid anything that's deep fried. (Deep frying is like dipping perfectly healthy food into poison.)
- 1 soda can = water + 10 sugar cubes + chemicals (that do not grow in nature).
That's it off the top of my head.
- Oh and be very skeptical of self professed diet experts on the internet. ;)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naturalistic_fallacy
So are those "magic" chemicals then?
Where exactly did they "grow" and according to your theory they must have been transported to the soda factory by space aliens eh?
Is it really that hard to learn enough basic biochemistry to discuss nutrition without sounding like a complete nutjob?
eating a lot of saturated fat leads to more cholesterol in the blood, which can lead to a heart attack or stroke.
@Jessss: We're talking about food, not ethics.
And yes I know that it's a generalization to say that if it comes from the land (like vegetables from your vegetable garden) without going through a million processes in the factory is more healthy than the over-processed crap you can get in the stores, but did I really need to spell that out?
>>So are those "magic" chemicals then?
You are too clever for me!
But for some reason I don't think the food that comes straight from the farm (to keep the example simple) contains stuff like: Hydrogenated Oils, Butylated hydroxytoluene (BHT), Butylated hydroxyanisole (BHA), Sodium Nitrite, Monosodium Glutamate (MSG) or Food Colorings. Which are just a few examples I found after 1 minute on ehow.
>>Is it really that hard to learn enough basic biochemistry...
Yes.
>>...to discuss nutrition without sounding like a complete nutjob?
Wow.
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/000171.htm
Fat is fat, saturated or not. like everything else we eat it must be in moderation. you should care how much fat you ingest.