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Agreed, I'm surprised "did it work?" does not seem to be addressed. According to: https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/ops/popeye.htm https://www.globalsec
by mikestew 7y ago
Agreed, I'm surprised "did it work?" does not seem to be addressed.
According to:
https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/ops/popeye.htm https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/ops/popeye.htm
"In the end, however, it proved impossible to determine the amount of additional rainfall caused by cloud-seeding rather than other factors, and thus justify the recurring outlay. The Defense Intelligence Agency estimated that seeding increased rainfall "in limited areas up to 30 percent above that predicted for the existing conditions," but this figure admittedly was the result of "empirical and theoretical techniques based on units expended and the physical properties of the air mass seeded"-in short, a scientific guess. Sensor data showed only that the enemy consistently experienced difficulty keeping traffic moving through the monsoon rains, a normal problem for that time of year."