It began in the year of our lord 2022 when the country I lived in in England recorded its highest temperature ever at 40c, it was so hot it caused wildfires, airstrips to melt, and a first-ever Red Warning for Extreme heat.
I was sitting in my recliner just chilling watching something naff on Netflix wishing to myself with my last name Raines meant I could somehow conquer up clouds to form and rain to come down at my command, then out of the blue the sky began to darken and the rumble of thunder and lightning could be heard echoing, first the rain was like a tiny trickle it got slowly more heavy until it came down like a tremendous waterfall for at least ten minutes but this was just a coincidence.
But the art of trying to make rain is not a new science and ancient American Indians and a group called rainmakers would like to state their case for making the life force that we call rain.
Due to the fact clouds have different physical properties, you could use aeroplanes or rockets to sow the clouds with dry ice, silver iodide, and salt powder this can cloud a have more chances of an increase in rain.
Back in the United States of America during the dust bowl drought of 1930, travelling showmen would try to bring rain by using the power of prayer, and rain dances in the United States, rainmaking was attempted by travelling showmen using cloud seeding, forms of prayer and rain dances.
It is a fact that prayers are still used to induce rain and some clerics of the Eastern Orthodox Church believe to have the power to arrest rain and hail to farms of wayward souls when the rainy season falls short.
Throughout history, cloud seeding has been used but the most controversial was Operation Popeye which was during the Vietnam War to increase rainfall to slow down the Vietnamese military trucks' activity it is believed to still be affecting the amount of rainfall in this country to this date by some.
I wonder if rainmaking if went global and used by all the governments in the world would be climate engineering or Weather
Who Is Wilhelm Reich?
Wilhelm Reich a Psychoanalysis of Austrian -American birth designed a Cloudbuster.
Wilhelm claimed it could manipulate Orgone Energy a form of Primordial cosmic energy into the earth's atmosphere to induce rain by forcing clouds to form and disperse.
The Cloudbuster was a series of hollow metal pipes and cables inserted in water.
Reich argued created a stronger orgone energy field than was in the atmosphere, the water drawing the atmospheric orgone through the pipes. Reich called his research "Cosmic Orgone Engineering.
Side note the singer and songwriter Kate Bush wrote the song Cloudbusting based on Wilhelm Reich in the video of the song the actor Donald Sutherland plays Wilhelm Reich.
Finally, Rain dances to some of us in good old Blighty it would be called Cricket as usually when the cricket season begins it rains.
Native Indians used them extensively to encourage rain to fall on their crops.
Some European examples of similar ceremonies in the Balkans are known as Dodola and Caloian.
The ritual may differ but share a common bond of bringing rain through a spiritual means.
Rain Weird
In 2007 the then governor of Georgia, Sonny Perdue lead a public prayer service for rain.
prayers for rain, seasonally, as a part of the morning, afternoon, and evening, daily Amidah prayer, from mid-autumn to mid-spring. During summer, this prayer is changed from the prayer for rain, to the prayer for dew.
Finally what does the future hold wars over water, someway to convert seawater into drinking water safely and cheaply, a better way to preserve water storage, or in my case just some to water my garden and cool me down
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