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Old 02-27-2004, 05:33 PM
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Anti-Hail Cannon, Is this serious?

Check this out.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...&category=1269

Looks like something from Star Wars.
 
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Old 02-27-2004, 06:20 PM
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A bit pricey, what the writer fails to tell you is the by-product of the ionization particles.
In quantities capable of actually stopping the hail, it will leave a residue that over time drifts up into the troposphere. Where alien VLA (very large arrays) will collect the signature from the chemical convergence and proceed to come here and mine are atmosphere. Taking away the very precocious hail-producing chemical, that all insurance agencies developed in the late 50’s. The insurance companies developed the product, tested and then finally gave ti to the FDA for approval.

As far as I know, the FDA is very slow…it is still under testing to see if it will harm lab rats. This really raises the specter of a conspiracy………………….
 
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Old 02-27-2004, 06:23 PM
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Very interesting. It looks legit. But, more intriguing to me......
Just HOW did you FIND this thing ????
Did you do a search for "antihail machines" ?
 
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Old 02-27-2004, 07:34 PM
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For that price I'll gamble on mother nature.Sounds a little far fetched to me.
 
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Old 02-27-2004, 07:57 PM
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Actually, this device is common on 'corporate' fields that grow crop for seed and feed lots. Kent seed and Dekalb being two that I know of. Keeps the crop from being destroyed by hail.
 
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Old 02-27-2004, 08:38 PM
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I saw a local news story on the anti hail machine. They were installing several at the new Nissan plant in Canton, MS. They are set off automatically (somehow) if they detect possible hail in a thunderstorm. They prevent a large financial loss to the finished inventory stored in the parking area.

The plant and parking area is huge.
 
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Old 02-27-2004, 09:26 PM
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Up here in Alberta they seed the clouds with Iodine by a small aircraft.I think some insurance companies pay for it.

They started doing this right after a huge expensive hail storm that did about 500 Million $$$$ worth of damage .

It seems to work pretty good.
 
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SO THIS IS LEGIT????? YOU GOTTA BE KIDDIN ME??
 
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Old 02-28-2004, 12:04 AM
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I finally found an article about it.

http://www.mises.org/fullstory.asp?control=1016
 
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www.hailstop.com


its almost looking legit
 
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Found it in the business section, farm subcategory. I was looking at tractors and stumbled across it.
 
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There are sure alot of wierd things on ebay!!!
 
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I have flown with cloud seeders in western Kansas, seeding the thunderstorms that spawn off the Rocky mountains. Their website is http://pta6000.pld.com/hailman/ and their data goes back almost 20 years and shows definite hail suppression results. It's a whacko concept at first, but when you are flying less than 100 feet from the inflow shelf of a big T-storm that has cloud tops to 60,000 feet and then watch it melt down to a little baby cloud with no hail and only rain, it makes you believe This stuff works
 
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