EP 43: Lets Make It Rain!!

History Spelunkers

Are you a fan of a nice summer day? How about a cool fall wind? Do you like the look of a light snowfall in your yard? What if you could have whatever you wanted at a moments notice and all you had to do was call your local government? Well what if I told you that thanks to your tax dollars, you just might be able to get a permit for that.....

Shownotes:

• https://www.newsweek.com/fact-check-did-donald-trump-suggest-nuking-hurricanes-1535171
• https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?path=/prelim@title15/chapter9A&edition=prelim#:~:text=No%20person%20may%20engage%2C%20or,Secretary%20may%20by%20rule%20prescribe.
• https://www.tdlr.texas.gov/weather/
• https://archive.org/details/Galaxy_v19n03_1961-02/page/n36/mode/1up?view=theater
• https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/weather-modification
• https://orau.org/health-physics-museum/collection/nuclear-weapons/hiroshima/black-rain.html
• https://www.science.org/content/article/can-nuclear-fallout-make-it-rain
• https://web.archive.org/web/20150828101449/http://www.knmi.nl/publications/fulltexts/hailcannons2_preprint.pdf
• http://www.douglas-self.com/MUSEUM/COMMS/hailcan/hailcan.htm
• https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/when-us-government-tried-make-rain-exploding-dynamite-sky-180970193/
• https://grist.org/politics/believe-it-or-not-trump-isnt-the-first-to-propose-nuking-hurricanes/
• https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/10/17218872/nasa-rocket-engine-test-stennis-space-center-cloud-generation
• https://www.nytimes.com/video/arts/television/1247465789178/excerpt-conspiracy-theory.html
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXuc7SAyk2s&ab_channel=FOX10Phoenix
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wl2JnXjwWBM&ab_channel=WFAA
• Music from Uppbeat (free for Creators!): https://uppbeat.io/t/mountaineer/through-the-clouds
• Episode art is a sketch of the 1901 International Hail Cannon Congress; Plumandon, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons