China: "Hey, if it works on our people..."
The forecast for every day of the 2008 Olympics in Beijing is Sunny.
Because the Chinese army will be firing rockets at any clouds that dare to undermine full enjoyment of the spectacle, according to the Daily Mail. The paper writes:
"Boffins have come up with a cunning plan to force the heavens to open by firing chemical-infused rockets at storm clouds, forcing them to burst before the set-piece spectacle gets underway."
This is why I always say you need multiple perspectives on an issue. Who but the officials of China's government would have considered shooting the weather? It takes a special kind of mind to think like that - the kind of mind, for instance, which would also ban Buddhist monks from reincarnating without government permission, or allows for its people to meet at official churches, just so long as they never suggest that Jesus is coming back.