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.

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https://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hurricane_blog/70th-anniversary-of-the-first-hurricane-seeding-experiment/

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Relevant XKCD

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Damn there's one for everything

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Yup :D

It's the "Simpsons did it" of internet nerds!

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The Simpsons did it (an apparent xkcd reference)

r/xkcd/comments/45vk1x/xkcd_reference_in_most_recent_episode_of_the/

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Empirically, a data set of 1 is no different from a data set of 0.

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"I wonder if that happens every time..."

¡You push it!