Engineering the Earth's resources with remote-controlled clouds, artificially induced snow, and trained monkeys -- for sports' sake
Doha World Cup Stadium Qatar 2022 Bid Committee
It only takes one rained-out Little League game to make a sports lover resent Mother Nature. Now some of today?s scientists and other bigwigs have taken it upon themselves to say: ?no more.? Not content to stand idly by and let something as mundane as climate dictate the success of our sports games, they have instead turned to geoengineering - intentional manipulation of the Earth's environment - to fight back.
Qatari engineers recently announced a project to develop solar-powered artificial clouds to shade the 2022 World Cup from the country?s unforgiving summer sun. One remotely steerable cloud comes with a hefty price tag - $500,000 - just to cool the field by 10 degrees.
This isn't the first time humans have battled weather for the sake of a sporting event. Click through the gallery below to read more about Qatar?s clouds, Chinese rain-battling techniques and other ways geoengineering has been deployed for the love of the game.
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