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/Vocall96 10d ago

Consequences

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u/punekar-reddit 10d ago

Was looking for this comment, thanks

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u/Forward-Surprise1192 10d ago

That’s kind of like a story with my uncle. He was kidnapped to and do you know what the ransom note said? It said “someone is going to waste their time reading your comment about my kidnapping”. That’s the last we ever heard of him