Beijing Olympics 2008: Control Rain on Aug 8?

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With the chances of rain playing spoilsport during the opening gala of the Beijing Olympics, China has mobilized a 32,000-strong team of people with a science and engineering background and perfected satellite monitoring and cloud seeding technology to drive way the clouds on August 8.

The office has been asked to prevent rain from falling during the three-and-a-half hours- from 8.08 pm to about 11.30 pm - onto the bird's nest, the open-air national stadium which will host the opening ceremony.

Cloud seeding is achieved by shooting shells or rockets containing silver iodide particles into the clouds. Contrary to myth, however, there is no scientific basis for either making clouds rain before they reach Beijing or keeping water droplets bottled up inside a cloud. Rainmaking has been marked by "failure to provide scientifically demonstrable successes," said Michael Garstang of the University of Virginia.

Will it rain on the Open Ceremony?

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	ZiiValue (chance)	Answer	MyValue (0% to 100% chance)	Possible Outcomes
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	18%			Rain

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