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Trump Threatens Those Planning to Protest His Military “Birthday” Parade With “Very Big Force” (truthout.org)

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Polling shows that three-quarters of Americans oppose Trump’s decision to hold a military parade this weekend.

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[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 25 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (8 children)

Is there any way to just..

Rain on his parade?

Specifically I'm referring to the work of Bernard Vonnegut, the late great brother of famous author Kurt Vonnegut.

Specifically, Bernard Vonnegut worked on the use of silver iodide as a nucleating particle for droplet formation in clouds, which proved to be highly effective. According to wikipedia 10-50 grams of silver iodide can be effective.

Its a relatively straightforward synthetic reaction. The basic principals are outlined here. A basic implementation using UAV's is outlined here. Low cost, effective, and easy to implement.

Interestingly, this technology is not new, and Charles Hatfield nearly destroyed a city in southern California using this approach.

[–] Rooskie91@discuss.online 9 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

A solution of 0.415 g potassium iodide (25 × 10−4 mol) in 25 mL distilled water was added dropwise to previously prepared AgNo3 solution (0.425 g, 25 × 10−4 mol in distilled water) under ultrasound power in the presence of 0.2 g sodium dodecyl sulfate as a surfactant. The yellow (as synthesized) precipitate was separated by centrifugation and washed with distilled water and ethanol to remove impurities for several times and then dried.

Sure, the procedure is easy to follow, but you'd need access to lab equipment to synthesize this.

[–] SARGE@startrek.website 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

If an aussie can make cubane in his shed in the backyard, I'm sure a bunch of nerds working together can get this done in 3 days.

[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 3 weeks ago

But the above product appears to be yellow

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