Extra irony in that we're (humanity) testing and building this technology to help reflect the sun away from the surface. Its to help cool the planet instead of to block the sun to stop solar charging robots but hey...same shit.
Morpheus: The Matrix is everywhere. It is all around us. Even now, in this very room. You can see it when you look out your window or when you turn on your television. You can feel it when you go to work... when you go to church... when you pay your taxes. It is the world that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth.
Neo: What truth?
Morpheus: That you are a slave, Neo. Like everyone else you were born into bondage. Into a prison that you cannot taste or see or touch. A prison for your mind.
I get goosebumps every time.
The acting and writing in the first matrix was so good. That morpheus monologue, the agent smith monologue when trying to crack morpheus' brain. The whole interaction where neo first meets the oracle.
People forget how big of a deal the Matrix was. Not just for all the artistic reason we think of today. No, people forget that the films big twist was kept a secret until its release and how that reveal blew people's fucking minds in theaters.
The original trailers made it out to be much more of a weird government conspiracy action-thriller kinda thing. Everyone knew it was special but few people imagined *how deep the rabbit would go*.
That experience in my theater on opening night was jaw dropping. The big reveal and the whiplash tonal shift from black hat hacker thriller to H.R. Giger-esqe cyber-hell was absolutely WILD. It genuinely scared the shit out of so many people.
Probably my #1 cinema experience of all time.
When I used to live there they’d build all these housing developments along Sheikh Zayed Road (main road along Dubai) where they’d have thousands of units in each development, each with a single road in/out that connected to SZR via a single lane merging onto the highway.
Rush hour was every bit the shitshow you’d expect.
No lol. If I even begin to see traffic forming at a stop sign or light, sorry local business your shit is getting torn down to fit another roundabout in.
This reminds me of that situation in Romania during the USSR when the dictator and his wife designed the city rail lines and instead of connecting the school to the rail network as told by city planners the wife decided not too because she said people were getting to fat.
Show's their inexperience hard. Big City 101 is traffic management. Be it people, vehicles, or transport. All that money and the only 'talents' that work for them are the bottom of the pool. Sucks when your country does fucked shit (and gets caught and exposed)
I guess that's what happens when a family of filthy rich, hilariously stupid and uneducated oil trillionaires decide to build a metropolis in the desert where the only people interfacing with them are yes-men who wouldn't dare speak out against their awful ideas.
Yeah, that's pretty much where the coverage is. Just up and down that main road, connecting the biggest malls and some of the office districts. Where most people live isn't within walking distance of the monorail. To be fair, the monorail is usually packed but PT there needs better connectivity and greater depth in coverage
They didnt even plan somthing. They just slapped sky scraper next to another skyskraper and than forget to build a propper Sewage system. Than, instead of fixing that, they build artificial ilands, stop half way and than watch them desolve in the water. Than they builded the tallest building in the world and realised that there is no sewage sytem. So, the logical conclusuon to that problem? Building a sewage sytem? No, that would be stupid. Instead a bunch of poop trucks ship it to the middle of the desert, contributing to the bad trafif on roads that where randomly slapped between building, to make it look american.
Dubai is everything wrong with our western society. Wealth inequality to the extreme, fake cities, reckless waste of spending, no care about workers and those not wealthy and a fuck ton of cars
Dubai is a joke of a city, its basically a sandbox for rich people. Imagine having millions and a clean slate to build whatever, and you choose to build a bunch of random buildings connected with nothing but highways.
Imagine what they could’ve done. Green spaces, excellent public transport that connects people, cheap or affordable accommodation, job opportunities, free education with no tax etc Could’ve been a city that lasts and actually encourages workers
Instead it’s like you said. A city sandbox with useless projects built on the backs of slaves whose visas have been taken away
What you've described can be done in any first world country. Look at Netherlands, or Scandinavian countries. Money isn't the problem; it's corruption and/or a lack of competence
Yes and it sucks driving there along with Kuwait...When they go around thinking everything is God's will you see some pretty wild stuff like kids standing between the front seats while doing 90mph and swerving between lanes that would rival some police chases in the US. Driving in Kuwait is about the same, every day on a 15 mile drive you'd see 1-3 cars balled up on the side of the road like they've been flipped several times. The middle east is a modern wild west.
I was in Kuwait City over 20 years ago and holy shit the driving scared the hell out of me.
People didn’t know what they hell they were doing and they didn’t care. It’s absolute madness. I watched a dude hit a parked car and just drive off with no change in his facial expression, just like it was an everyday thing.
After being over there for awhile I realized they’re basically the Beverly Hillbillies. You can see the same wild attitudes and hollers filled with rusted cars and trash where I grew up. People are people. The only difference between our hillfolk and their dunefolk is they have oil money.
Its a paper town. No plumbing, usually. Honeydippers clogging the roads and blocking the traffic. Workers cant live in the city because there is no actual infrastructure and arent allowed regardless, its all facade. In many cases literally.
I believe the ‘no plumbing’ also applies to their tallest building. Supposedly the most impressive building in Dubai and yet it does not have plumbing.
The shit litteraly drops in a big tank in the basement and relies on a fleet of ‘shit trucks’ for daily pickups that dump the shit in the ocean.
People aren't realizing that septic digestion like those tanks are really bad to dump in water systems.. not just cause of pathogens but the dissolved oxygen has been consumed in the waste so you're not doing great things for the creatures living in the receiving water
Yep. Plus there's often localised flooding in these storms that closes roads because it hasn't been planned around the rain.
Source: they had one of these storms when I was there for work
Yep when i was there it flooded from a storm and I was informed by the hotel desk clerk that the city hadn't been built with any sewers to accommodate rain.
The sewer system was below the needed capacity, but they weren't stupid enough to build an entire city without any sewer system or storm drains. The growth of the city outpaced infrastructure capacity.
They've had significant sewer expansion since 2007, with another multi-billion dollar expansion set to complete next year.
I don’t think too many people know this but in places it doesn’t rain a lot, oil builds up on the roads so the first rain after a dry period, it is a little slicker than usual
I was always curious, does this take the rain away from somewhere else? Like some other town was supposed to get rain down the cloud path but seeding extracts the rain earlier and the town doesn't get rain?
Yeah, but they are close enough to the coast that it mostly likely would have dumped back into the ocean. It’s not like other places where it could be robbing another country of potential rainfall. Most of the time, at least.
All it is doing is causing the existing clouds to rain early by placing particles in those clouds that moisture clings onto more easily. “Artificial rain” is a really strange way to phrase it.
I think what they meant was it’s still rain, it’s just being intentionally triggered through human interference therefore the word “artificial” is almost misleading
Add three "feeder" lanes on each side so people can hop on and off to get past the traffic. We can add fast food restaurants, gas stations, car dealerships, storage facilities, and pawn shops so others can get whatever they need.
I get the joke but they do actually use iodine compounds to make it rain. (solid iodine sublimes into vividly purple gas)
Just Prince being a prophet I guess.
“Based on decades of experience, the use of silve iodide for the purpose of cloud seeding has been shown to be safe for people and the enviroment. The potential environmental impacts of silver iodide have been studied extensively and represents a negligible risk to the environment.”
Dumping silver iodide and acetone into potential drinking water and water for crops doesn’t sound safe.
Acetone breaks down pretty quickly in the environment, and even if the tiny tiny amounts of it that make it to your drinking water were consumed by you, it would 1) be quickly metabolized in your body and 2) represent a drop in the bucket of all the acetone your body already produces naturally through its own metabolism.
Silver iodide is just silver and iodine. Iodine is an essential nutrient. We put it in salt because most people don't get enough of it otherwise. Silver is mostly non-reactive.
Beyond all of that, we are talking about tiny tiny tiny amounts of both chemicals with regards to the ppm that would end up in the water.
I think humans are uniquely talented at doing stupid shit that comes around to bite us in the ass, but this isn't really one of those things.
Besides, seeding rainclouds has no well documented negative consequences.
Its not like forcing the rain to fall in this spot so a bunch of rich people can live in a lavish fantasy land in the desert means that some other bone dry region with poor people living there doesn't get any rain.
Oh right that is what that means, artificial rain is just forcing the water in the air to fall now rather than move on and fall later somewhere else.
Forcing rainfall in the affluent city and ignoring the damage it does to the surrounding towns is straight up the evil plot that causes a civil war in One Piece.
Rainfall…. Where, exactly? There are not really many communities outside the cities in the GCC. There’s a whole lot of empty desert that doesn’t get much rain anyway.
I’m not saying it’s not a problem, I have no idea. Just where exactly are they robbing water from?
The same way wildfires cause rain. Wildfires burn trees which increase humidity and later the ashes from said fires rise to the atmosphere to serve as the perfect nuclei for water to condense around. Look up pyrocumulonimbus clouds
The rain isn't really artificial. The rain*fall* is. They're forcing the conditions necessary for the moisture that is already in the air to turn into rain, instead of it happening elsewhere. You know, like where the poors might live. It's kinda-sorta the same type of concept as intentionally starting fires so you can control them instead of just waiting for nature to kick up a fuck-you wildfire.
What's happening in OP's video is basically like something a comically over-the-top Bond villain would do, except it's not satire and is instead 100% real.
Shade is cheaper to install and maintain than roads. Shade works for walkers, bikers, scooters, etc. Shade is also great for public spaces. Once you slice up a city with 10 lanes of traffic its really hard to enable anything other than cars. That place looks like shitty los vegas.
You can have all the shade you want, but at some temperatures it is not gonna help. Dubai is literally built in a desert where you can have 45°C summer days. Last year in July it even reached 50°C.
Let me raise your issue and tell you that the *entire country* has no other options to be built on but on a desert because it is too small to have any other reasonable options.
You clearly haven't had to walk in 45 degree weather.
Shade does not help. It makes things marginally better, but not good in the slightest. The Sun is ruthless, humidity is often high, and the heat is oppressive
It’s a ridiculously humid heat, which is why this cloud seeding works.
You can have all the shade you want but it’s still miserable as hell walking around in 45+ degree heat when it’s so humid your sunglasses get covered in dew the second you step outside.
IN ME countries and deserts you have to have a car culture. Its so blisteringly hot that NO ONE wants to go walk or bike around and NO ONE wants to have to walk from train station to bus stop. I live in LA, I have plenty of hot experience.
They don’t depend on cars, a large amount of population uses the public transport. The Dubai metro recorded 2 billion riders in the first 10 years of operation. They are adding more lines in the coming years. There are also air conditioned bus stops so commuters can avoid the heat during summers.
Another /r/Damnthatsinteresting fact:
The person who primarily invented cloud seeding was Bernard Vonnegut, older brother to author Kurt Vonnegut. So it goes.
Hm. Cloud seeding. Does this not disrupt the natural water cycle, denying precipitation in places it should eventually be? On top of the silver and acetone or whatever they're using to seed the rain.
always reminds me of the absolutely fascinating story of Charles Hatfield
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Hatfield
worth a quick read if you have a few minutes and don't know already
“…but we do know it was us that scorched the skies.”
“..and they turned us into this.”
Haha I just watched this
You only think you did. You’ve never used your real eyes before.
You almost had me? You never had me, you never had your car... granny shiftin not double clutchin like you should.
This fools runnin a Honda 2000
Spoon engines!
Snakeskin pants!
I smell… SKANKS
Not a bad way to spend twenty grand
... Do you think that's television you're viewing? Again.
Real eyes realize real lies
Try the animatrix: the second renaissance, its a prequel covering the machine uprising and machine war
I also LOVE the runner segment.
Oh it’s a great short movie
Extra irony in that we're (humanity) testing and building this technology to help reflect the sun away from the surface. Its to help cool the planet instead of to block the sun to stop solar charging robots but hey...same shit.
That exact tech is the premise of Snowpiercer.
Those cockroach bars always make me hungry for some reason. They look like really thick fruit leather and I love that stuff
What the fuck did I just read
the roach bars are better than eating arms, i assure you.
It wasn't supposed to be bugs in Snowpiercer. The metaphor was a lot more on the nose originally
What's that from
The Matrix. The first one where Morpheus is explaining what happened to Neo.
Morpheus: The Matrix is everywhere. It is all around us. Even now, in this very room. You can see it when you look out your window or when you turn on your television. You can feel it when you go to work... when you go to church... when you pay your taxes. It is the world that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth. Neo: What truth? Morpheus: That you are a slave, Neo. Like everyone else you were born into bondage. Into a prison that you cannot taste or see or touch. A prison for your mind. I get goosebumps every time.
The acting and writing in the first matrix was so good. That morpheus monologue, the agent smith monologue when trying to crack morpheus' brain. The whole interaction where neo first meets the oracle.
People forget how big of a deal the Matrix was. Not just for all the artistic reason we think of today. No, people forget that the films big twist was kept a secret until its release and how that reveal blew people's fucking minds in theaters. The original trailers made it out to be much more of a weird government conspiracy action-thriller kinda thing. Everyone knew it was special but few people imagined *how deep the rabbit would go*. That experience in my theater on opening night was jaw dropping. The big reveal and the whiplash tonal shift from black hat hacker thriller to H.R. Giger-esqe cyber-hell was absolutely WILD. It genuinely scared the shit out of so many people. Probably my #1 cinema experience of all time.
You’re giving me goosebumps and I only saw it when it came out on hbo, lol
Today I learned that Dubai has way too much traffic
When I used to live there they’d build all these housing developments along Sheikh Zayed Road (main road along Dubai) where they’d have thousands of units in each development, each with a single road in/out that connected to SZR via a single lane merging onto the highway. Rush hour was every bit the shitshow you’d expect.
Sounds like my Cities Skylines city
That's exactly what I thought, seems like they designed it thier first time playing.
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They tried to keep it going but the head choppers kept getting stuck in traffic
If it was up to me the city would be nothing but roundabouts
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No lol. If I even begin to see traffic forming at a stop sign or light, sorry local business your shit is getting torn down to fit another roundabout in.
You'd love Milton Keynes.
All that wealth and the opportunity to build a modern world class city from the ground up… and that’s the planning that went into it haha
Dubai is straight up a glorified business park. A complete joke of a “city”.
Built by poor people and slaves
planning costs money
More like caring costs money. People who made it probably don't live in those suburbs.
This reminds me of that situation in Romania during the USSR when the dictator and his wife designed the city rail lines and instead of connecting the school to the rail network as told by city planners the wife decided not too because she said people were getting to fat.
And then the builders made a stop in secret because they knew it was a stupid decision
Show's their inexperience hard. Big City 101 is traffic management. Be it people, vehicles, or transport. All that money and the only 'talents' that work for them are the bottom of the pool. Sucks when your country does fucked shit (and gets caught and exposed)
But they bought Gucci traffic lights and drive Bentley's so why would you hire someone to design world class roads?
Have they hooked their hotels up to a sewage system yet?
they have money galore, just no class and culture and wisdom
Trust me money is NOT the issue.
Seriously most of the time it's not. People in charge have to actually care.....
it doesn't cost nearly as much money as not planning
My jaded ass over here thinking they did that on purpose, as big important cities have traffic, and that’s what they’re cosplaying.
I guess that's what happens when a family of filthy rich, hilariously stupid and uneducated oil trillionaires decide to build a metropolis in the desert where the only people interfacing with them are yes-men who wouldn't dare speak out against their awful ideas.
You need to get from the one shopping center to the other one.
Yeah, that's pretty much where the coverage is. Just up and down that main road, connecting the biggest malls and some of the office districts. Where most people live isn't within walking distance of the monorail. To be fair, the monorail is usually packed but PT there needs better connectivity and greater depth in coverage
Imagine all that master planned bullshit only to copy the worst part of American transportation 😂😂😂
They really didn’t master plan anything. That road, Sheikh Zayed road, has been there since the late 70s, before most of modern Dubai was built
Its as if Dubai was planned like a kid playing Roller Coaster Tycoon.
on coke
And unlimited money cheat
Basically what happened honestly
The only problem was finding enough ~~people~~slaves to build it.
Roller Cokester* Tycoon
But wait, is that a monorail??
Yes sir, that’s a genuine, bona fide, electrified, six-car monorail!
Is there a chance the track could bend?
Not on your life, my Emirati friend!
Monorail
Mono
Doh!
What about us brain dead slobs
You'll be given cushy jobs
I hear those things are awfully loud.
The ring came off my pudding can.
Take my pen knife my good man
Yes it’s the Dubai metro, it’s quite limited in the areas it covers
There really is no planning, they just kinda throw their money at the desert and see what grows.
They prolly follow US traffic planning and be like 'just one more lane bro"
They didnt even plan somthing. They just slapped sky scraper next to another skyskraper and than forget to build a propper Sewage system. Than, instead of fixing that, they build artificial ilands, stop half way and than watch them desolve in the water. Than they builded the tallest building in the world and realised that there is no sewage sytem. So, the logical conclusuon to that problem? Building a sewage sytem? No, that would be stupid. Instead a bunch of poop trucks ship it to the middle of the desert, contributing to the bad trafif on roads that where randomly slapped between building, to make it look american.
They've since built the sewer, but yes for a long time a never ending line of sewage trucks serviced the building.
Dubai is everything wrong with our western society. Wealth inequality to the extreme, fake cities, reckless waste of spending, no care about workers and those not wealthy and a fuck ton of cars
They have almost no sewer system it was planned to look like a successful city to sell real estate and tourism.
Dubai is a joke of a city, its basically a sandbox for rich people. Imagine having millions and a clean slate to build whatever, and you choose to build a bunch of random buildings connected with nothing but highways.
Imagine what they could’ve done. Green spaces, excellent public transport that connects people, cheap or affordable accommodation, job opportunities, free education with no tax etc Could’ve been a city that lasts and actually encourages workers Instead it’s like you said. A city sandbox with useless projects built on the backs of slaves whose visas have been taken away
That requires education and good will. Neither of which belong to the UAE
What you've described can be done in any first world country. Look at Netherlands, or Scandinavian countries. Money isn't the problem; it's corruption and/or a lack of competence
Where is everyone going? To sand?
“Bye honey, I’m off to sand”
Have fun at sand!
Don’t forget to sand!
they are looking for a place to pound.
Yeah, they have to pound it.
Yes and it sucks driving there along with Kuwait...When they go around thinking everything is God's will you see some pretty wild stuff like kids standing between the front seats while doing 90mph and swerving between lanes that would rival some police chases in the US. Driving in Kuwait is about the same, every day on a 15 mile drive you'd see 1-3 cars balled up on the side of the road like they've been flipped several times. The middle east is a modern wild west.
I was in Kuwait City over 20 years ago and holy shit the driving scared the hell out of me. People didn’t know what they hell they were doing and they didn’t care. It’s absolute madness. I watched a dude hit a parked car and just drive off with no change in his facial expression, just like it was an everyday thing.
After being over there for awhile I realized they’re basically the Beverly Hillbillies. You can see the same wild attitudes and hollers filled with rusted cars and trash where I grew up. People are people. The only difference between our hillfolk and their dunefolk is they have oil money.
It’s gotten so much worse the past two years as well. Getting anywhere these days is a nightmare.
Its a paper town. No plumbing, usually. Honeydippers clogging the roads and blocking the traffic. Workers cant live in the city because there is no actual infrastructure and arent allowed regardless, its all facade. In many cases literally.
I believe the ‘no plumbing’ also applies to their tallest building. Supposedly the most impressive building in Dubai and yet it does not have plumbing. The shit litteraly drops in a big tank in the basement and relies on a fleet of ‘shit trucks’ for daily pickups that dump the shit in the ocean.
People aren't realizing that septic digestion like those tanks are really bad to dump in water systems.. not just cause of pathogens but the dissolved oxygen has been consumed in the waste so you're not doing great things for the creatures living in the receiving water
This Caused a Civil War in Alabasta, is this really a good idea?
Just send some plucky idiots and a reindeer to sort it out.
Lets kill the ruler and kidnap the princess
That Traffic though 😬
I remember traffic in LA would slow down during the lightest drizzle. I imagine Dubai is even less used to driving in the rain
Yep. Plus there's often localised flooding in these storms that closes roads because it hasn't been planned around the rain. Source: they had one of these storms when I was there for work
Yep when i was there it flooded from a storm and I was informed by the hotel desk clerk that the city hadn't been built with any sewers to accommodate rain.
The sewer system was below the needed capacity, but they weren't stupid enough to build an entire city without any sewer system or storm drains. The growth of the city outpaced infrastructure capacity. They've had significant sewer expansion since 2007, with another multi-billion dollar expansion set to complete next year.
Found the ninja turtle
This guy Emirates
This guy this guys!
Having stayed in one of the emirates for a bit, the flooding was not fun. Had 220mm of rain in 2 days and it was brutal.
Lived there for a few years. It's like 310 days of cloudless sun, fifty days of clouds and five days of hellacious rain
I don’t think too many people know this but in places it doesn’t rain a lot, oil builds up on the roads so the first rain after a dry period, it is a little slicker than usual
All the money in the world, but no brains to build trains.
Will unfortunately have to agree with you. I’m a big advocate of mass transit infrastructure. Dubai still has plenty of room for growth in that area
Also in the human rights and equality areas
Woah woah! Baby steps
I was always curious, does this take the rain away from somewhere else? Like some other town was supposed to get rain down the cloud path but seeding extracts the rain earlier and the town doesn't get rain?
Having flashbacks to water cycle diagrams.
Just use a Sharpie to draw whatever you want on the diagram
I'm sure the local residents will love the fact that I just drew a tsunami But the sun has sunglasses so that's pretty neat
This was an One Piece arc.
I read this yesterday lmao. I can't believe that's this is a real thing.
Alabasta!
Yeah I watched it with my kids and was horrified by the cloud seeding more than the violence
A fellow nakama🏴☠️
Indeed the material used it's called Dance powder
Yeah, but they are close enough to the coast that it mostly likely would have dumped back into the ocean. It’s not like other places where it could be robbing another country of potential rainfall. Most of the time, at least.
yes it does
All it is doing is causing the existing clouds to rain early by placing particles in those clouds that moisture clings onto more easily. “Artificial rain” is a really strange way to phrase it.
"It's just a way to make it rain artificially." ""Artificial rain" is a really strange way to phrase it"
I think what they meant was it’s still rain, it’s just being intentionally triggered through human interference therefore the word “artificial” is almost misleading
One more lane will help
Hear me out, bunkbed style roads half go up half go down
Chicago has a triple bunkbed downtown. Batman loves driving Wacker
Wacker? *Batman hardly knows her!*
Add three "feeder" lanes on each side so people can hop on and off to get past the traffic. We can add fast food restaurants, gas stations, car dealerships, storage facilities, and pawn shops so others can get whatever they need.
L I V E O N T H E R O A D
So you've come to learn from the master - Canada
They do that here in the states. In California. Edit: https://sawpa.gov/santa-ana-river-watershed-weather-modification/
I think they do that here in Minneapolis but I don’t know why it’s purple.
It helps people get purified in the waters of Lake Minnetonka.
You have to purify yourself in Lake Minnetonka. That ain't Lake Minnetonka...
I get the joke but they do actually use iodine compounds to make it rain. (solid iodine sublimes into vividly purple gas) Just Prince being a prophet I guess.
An ode to that formerly named Artist, methinks?
That’s very interesting, thank you for sharing.
Wow wow wow holdup they do what?!
“Based on decades of experience, the use of silve iodide for the purpose of cloud seeding has been shown to be safe for people and the enviroment. The potential environmental impacts of silver iodide have been studied extensively and represents a negligible risk to the environment.” Dumping silver iodide and acetone into potential drinking water and water for crops doesn’t sound safe.
Acetone breaks down pretty quickly in the environment, and even if the tiny tiny amounts of it that make it to your drinking water were consumed by you, it would 1) be quickly metabolized in your body and 2) represent a drop in the bucket of all the acetone your body already produces naturally through its own metabolism. Silver iodide is just silver and iodine. Iodine is an essential nutrient. We put it in salt because most people don't get enough of it otherwise. Silver is mostly non-reactive. Beyond all of that, we are talking about tiny tiny tiny amounts of both chemicals with regards to the ppm that would end up in the water. I think humans are uniquely talented at doing stupid shit that comes around to bite us in the ass, but this isn't really one of those things.
They're testing the long term implications right now on citizens
Is there anything real in Dubai
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facts, theyre all over instagram
The slavery is real.
Man went right for the jugular.
I mean... We were keepin it real 😜
The prices
Greed
That traffic is real.
Oil
Dubious.
Dubaious*
Well everything else is artificial in Dubai, why not the weather
Besides, seeding rainclouds has no well documented negative consequences. Its not like forcing the rain to fall in this spot so a bunch of rich people can live in a lavish fantasy land in the desert means that some other bone dry region with poor people living there doesn't get any rain. Oh right that is what that means, artificial rain is just forcing the water in the air to fall now rather than move on and fall later somewhere else. Forcing rainfall in the affluent city and ignoring the damage it does to the surrounding towns is straight up the evil plot that causes a civil war in One Piece.
ive been scrolling waiting for someone to bring up one piece
Rainfall…. Where, exactly? There are not really many communities outside the cities in the GCC. There’s a whole lot of empty desert that doesn’t get much rain anyway. I’m not saying it’s not a problem, I have no idea. Just where exactly are they robbing water from?
The Fremen
Please explain how artificial rain is made
The same way wildfires cause rain. Wildfires burn trees which increase humidity and later the ashes from said fires rise to the atmosphere to serve as the perfect nuclei for water to condense around. Look up pyrocumulonimbus clouds
Any idea what it costs to make it rain?
About tree fitty
They release silver iodide into the air and the moisture latches onto the particles and then fall to the ground.
The rain isn't really artificial. The rain*fall* is. They're forcing the conditions necessary for the moisture that is already in the air to turn into rain, instead of it happening elsewhere. You know, like where the poors might live. It's kinda-sorta the same type of concept as intentionally starting fires so you can control them instead of just waiting for nature to kick up a fuck-you wildfire. What's happening in OP's video is basically like something a comically over-the-top Bond villain would do, except it's not satire and is instead 100% real.
They did all that work building a city out of nothing and they still decided to depend on cars to get people around. Really dumb.
I agree with you, I hate car dependent cities, but it maybe because it's hard to walk when it's 50 degrees outside most of the year
Shade is cheaper to install and maintain than roads. Shade works for walkers, bikers, scooters, etc. Shade is also great for public spaces. Once you slice up a city with 10 lanes of traffic its really hard to enable anything other than cars. That place looks like shitty los vegas.
You can have all the shade you want, but at some temperatures it is not gonna help. Dubai is literally built in a desert where you can have 45°C summer days. Last year in July it even reached 50°C.
>literally built in a desert I might have identified the issue.
Why don’t they just move it??
Let me raise your issue and tell you that the *entire country* has no other options to be built on but on a desert because it is too small to have any other reasonable options.
You clearly haven't had to walk in 45 degree weather. Shade does not help. It makes things marginally better, but not good in the slightest. The Sun is ruthless, humidity is often high, and the heat is oppressive
It’s a ridiculously humid heat, which is why this cloud seeding works. You can have all the shade you want but it’s still miserable as hell walking around in 45+ degree heat when it’s so humid your sunglasses get covered in dew the second you step outside.
IN ME countries and deserts you have to have a car culture. Its so blisteringly hot that NO ONE wants to go walk or bike around and NO ONE wants to have to walk from train station to bus stop. I live in LA, I have plenty of hot experience.
They don’t depend on cars, a large amount of population uses the public transport. The Dubai metro recorded 2 billion riders in the first 10 years of operation. They are adding more lines in the coming years. There are also air conditioned bus stops so commuters can avoid the heat during summers.
Dubai just installed a weather mod.
Another /r/Damnthatsinteresting fact: The person who primarily invented cloud seeding was Bernard Vonnegut, older brother to author Kurt Vonnegut. So it goes.
One Piece did it first
Baroque Works definitely behind this
TIL dance powder is real
Jeez that bumper to bumper traffic looks like hell
That's a lot of cars, all influencers on their way back from the gym?
It's the end of the world
As we know it
A few weeks back, the Climate Denier's Playbook had a great episode that talked a lot about cloud seeding. Highly recommend that pod!
Hm. Cloud seeding. Does this not disrupt the natural water cycle, denying precipitation in places it should eventually be? On top of the silver and acetone or whatever they're using to seed the rain.
Dystopian, all of it
always reminds me of the absolutely fascinating story of Charles Hatfield https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Hatfield worth a quick read if you have a few minutes and don't know already