Could We Build Weather-Controlling Satellites?

Captions provided by CCTubes – Captioning the Internet! In some science fiction movies, satellites control the weather in disastrous, but effective ways. Here in reality, we have attempted to influence the weather, with mixed results.

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http://www.dri.edu/cloudseeding
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Images:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Cloudseedingimagerevised.jpg
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