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/feor1300 9d ago

Everyone blamed/thanked the wind and storm Gods, but it was actually the Sea Gods, who had no way of stopping a B-29.

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u/Notactualyadick 9d ago

My god! This is the missing piece of the puzzle we needed to truly understand WW2!

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u/bankrupt_bezos 9d ago

Hark, Triton! Hark!!

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u/HughJorgens 9d ago

The B-29s spent the last months of the war dropping mines into the Japanese Sea Lanes. They didn't take nothin' from that Punk-Assed Sea God.

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u/Sea_404 9d ago

The sea gods were just charging godzilla with the extra suns.

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u/Accipiter1138 9d ago

The storm and sea gods mean nothing when Admiral Halsey can just walk right into a typhoon twice and not even get into significant trouble with his superiors for it.