Why would you want to see real-time snow and rain on Google Earth, you ask, when weather sites or even your smartphone will tell you just as quickly? Don’t give me that – you know how often they’re incorrect.
German scientists, working in a controlled lab environment, have successfully used a laser to create clouds. The next step is a simple one: Use his technology to create clouds and rain on demand in the skies over Germany.
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You Mysterious Saturn Hexagon you, where did you come from? Who made you? There are no Russians in Saturn? Or are there? Whatever, you freak me out even more than the Norwegian spiral, because you can eat two Earths simultaneously.
If you saw this over your head, what would you think? Aliens have come to kick our asses? God has come to kick our asses? Apparently, the bizarre cloud formation seen in Moscow recently is just a natural phenomenon.
The Cloud Project is a tricky little concept that would spray flavored condensation and liquid nitrogen into clouds, “seeding” them, and forcing flavored snow to fall from the heavens. It’s pretty much straight of of a children’s book.
Kudos to Dutch designer Joonsoo Kim for attempting to give the plain old umbrella a whimsical cumulus makeover. Unfortunately, I think there might be some problems with the concept.
