New Technology Reviews!.: atmosphere

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This technique is known as “laser-assisted water condensation”, where it will enable humans to have some level of control over where and when rain will fall should the atmosphere have a high enough humidity level. Researchers have already demonstrated this particular technique in field tests after sending a mobile laser laboratory which is roughly the size of a small garage over to the banks of the Rhône located near lake Geneva in Switzerland.</div>
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Laser called upon to produce rain

More primitive civilizations have always looked upwards to the heavens in the past, crying out to a deity to send rain for their harvest...