Cement falls from sky
A 55 pound sack of cement fell from the sky through the roof of a Moscow home last week. It was dropped by a Russian air force plane that was seeding clouds for weather control. The cement was supposed to have been pulverized into powder that's released into clouds along with silver iodide and liquid nitrogen to force rain. From Reuters:
"A pack of cement used in creating ... good weather in the capital region ... failed to pulverize completely at high altitude and fell on the roof of a house, making a hole about 80-100 cm (2.5-3 ft)," police in Naro-Fominsk told agency RIA-Novosti...Link
The homeowner was not injured, but refused an offer of 50,000 roubles ($2,100) from the air force, saying she would sue for damages and compensation for moral suffering, Interfax said.
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another reason to stop this practice, besides the fact that there is no conclusive evidence that it works. and worse, there is some evidence that it doesn't.
I wonder what happens to people who breathe in pulverized cement. I heard that happened to a bunch of people in downtown Manhattan towards the end of the year in '01. Wonder how their health is know if they have any sudden illness.
Russian air force spokesman Arturs Carlsonski was heard to add, "As God is my witness...I swear I thought cement could fly."
I see Americans aren't the only ones who are sue-happy.
In (former) Soviet Union, pavement falls on YOU.
Sueing the government in any place is silly. In Russia it's just idiotic.
i wonder about the "moral" suffering. what did she suddenly become a whore afterwards?
She won't win her case without concrete evidence.
AH - back to the good old days of WEIRD-SHIT RUSSIAN (SOVIET) PSEUDO-SCIENCE.
Weather control today. Double-headed dogs tomorrow.
This reminds me of the Gumby episode where they seed the clouds and it rains mud. Surprisingly it's NOT on youtube.
>>She won't win her case without concrete evidence.
We have a winner!!!
It's supposed to be
"bomb them *back* to the stone age"
NOT
"Bomb them *with* the stone, age" *sigh*
>>Weather control today. Double-headed dogs >>tomorrow.
I think it would be more accurate to say "weather control today. Double-headed dogs today too". I might be wrong, but the goal of this weather control may be a a little less innocuous than 'improving weather for a holiday'. In the past, the Russians have seeded storm systems to prevent water soaked up in the region of Chernobyl from falling on Russia's capitol city. [link below] The article mentions that Russia has always denied that cloud seeding has ever taken place. It is unclear to me whether radioactive rain from Chernobyl is even still a threat--maybe I'm spinning yarns. =)
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/1549366/%27How-we-made-the-Chernobyl-rain%27.html
it's a popular belief among moscovites that they do engineer the weather. apparently it NEVER rains on the may 1st victory parade...
Um, wow. Never heard about aerial dispersal of cement before. What'll they think of next?!
At least it's not like that pulverized and well-cured stuff they were breathing near ground zero; no, this is uncured cement, so instead of just lodging in your lungs and being a general nuisance it first reacts with the water vapor in the air and gets very caustic for a while. In fact, if it settles to the ground at a sufficiently high concentration, it can actually make a hole in your roof.
Stop Global Paving!
(So, did it rain that day or not?)