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  2. Rainmaking - Wikipedia

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    Rainmaking, also known as artificial precipitation, artificial rainfall and pluviculture, is the act of attempting to artificially induce or increase precipitation, ...

  3. Rainmaker (business) - Wikipedia

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    In business, a rainmaker is a person who brings in new business and wins new accounts almost by magic, since it is often not readily apparent how this new business activity is caused.

  4. Rainmaking (ritual) - Wikipedia

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    Rainmaking is a weather modification ritual that attempts to invoke rain. It is based on the belief that humans can influence nature, spirits , or the ancestors who withhold or bring rain. [ 1 ]

  5. Cloud seeding - Wikipedia

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    The king resolved to do something about it and proposed a solution to the dearth of rain: artificial rainmaking, or cloud seeding. The program is run by the Department of Royal Rainmaking and Agricultural Aviation. Thailand started a rain-making project in the late-1950s, known today as the Royal Rainmaking Project.

  6. Operation Popeye - Wikipedia

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    The aircraft were officially on weather reconnaissance missions and the aircraft crews as part of their normal duty also generated weather report data. The crews, all from the 54th Weather Reconnaissance Squadron, were rotated into the operation on a regular basis from Guam. Inside the squadron, the rainmaking operations were code-named ...

  7. Weather modification - Wikipedia

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    Weather modification is the act of intentionally manipulating or altering the weather.The most common form of weather modification is cloud seeding, which increases rainfall or snowfall, usually for the purpose of increasing the local water supply. [1]

  8. Category:Rainmaking (ritual) - Wikipedia

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    Articles relating to rainmaking rituals, weather modification rituals that attempt to invoke rain. Among the best known examples of weather modification rituals are North American rain dances, historically performed by many Native American tribes, particularly in the Southwestern United States.

  9. Cloudbuster - Wikipedia

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    Reich with one of his cloudbusters. A cloudbuster is a device designed by Austrian psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich (1897–1957), which Reich claimed could produce rain by manipulating what he called "orgone energy" present in the atmosphere.