Russian Scientists guarentee there will be no rain for the CL Final
By: Rob | May 16th, 2008
Wouldn’t it be awful if Europe’s premier showdown got ruined by rain, and just turned into a long-ball defensive fest? Well Russian scientists clearly agree, and in a move that shatters any Cold-War sterotype about Russian Science has devoloped a technique which will guarentee it won’t rain on the Luzhniki Stadium.
Today’s Guardian carries the story, with a cute diagram (can’t find it on thier website, but there is an article about the history of the process on Wiki) which basically explains the process, which is called Cloud Seeding.
The principle, from what I can gather (and bear in mind, I failed Science at school) is that an aeroplane will fly up to the clouds blowing them downwind from today untill Tuesday, filling them with chemicals causing it to rain just outside the stadium.
Apparently the planes drop a flare into the cloud which is filled with silver iodine in, something which apparently has a structure similar to ice (can you tell I’m utterly out of my depth here?) the iodine attracts water into the cloud and crystalise when they freeze.
The particles get heavy, and half hour later, the fall as ice. When they reach 0C they turn into rain, and bingo, you’ve made it rain and you are offically God.
The technique has apparently been around a while, but this is the first time someone will be using it to stop it raining in a certain area, rather than trying to make it rain during a drought. Apparently the chinese are so enamoured with the idea they are going to use it at the summer’s Olympics. Not that you’ll be watching that, cos you’ll be watching Euro 2008. Obviously.
Well I feel like I’ve learned something. Or at least grasped a basic principle. Who says football isn’t educational huh?
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Tags: Breakthrough, Champions League, Chelsea, China, Cloud Seeding, Euro 2008, Final, Learning, Manchester United, Olympics, Other News from Europe, Rain, Ryan Giggs, ScienceSubscribe
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I wanna do my garden this weekend but we have got rain forecast…. so who really gives a s**t!! I don’t get paid to play in the rain LOL LOL!!
And I aint from the U.S. I am from the UK
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Euros = June. Olympic football = August. No need to choose.
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I read the title, and I thought : “Great! They’ve discovered the roof!”
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