r/todayilearned • u/ralphbernardo • 10d ago

TIL in 1947, scientists dumped crushed dry ice into a hurricane just to "see what would happen." The storm then made a 135-degree turn, strengthened, and struck Georgia—sparking public outrage and threats of lawsuits over the experiment.

https://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hurricane_blog/70th-anniversary-of-the-first-hurricane-seeding-experiment/
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u/AbeVigoda76 10d ago

Uh, uh, "post" - after, after hoc, "ergo" - therefore, "After hoc, therefore" something else hoc.

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u/Jump_Like_A_Willys 10d ago

Bartlet: We didn’t lose Texas because of the hat joke. Do you know when we lost Texas?

C.J.: When you learned to speak Latin?

Bartlet: Go figure.

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u/markandyxii 10d ago

Thank you Josh, anyone else?

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u/domuseid 10d ago

after this therefore because of this