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"charles hatfield" Discussed on The Coin Bureau Podcast: Crypto Without the Hype
"Cloud seeding research. Note that I'm leaving out some details here for the sake of time. Now, in 1947, Vincent worked with the U.S. Military on project cirrus to weaken hurricanes using cloud seeding and their first attempt took place in October that year. not, but the cloud seeding caused the hurricane to suddenly change direction, resulting in lots of damage in the state of Georgia. Naturally, the people of Georgia were none too happy, and they filed a lawsuit, which was dismissed. After the defendants found examples of hurricanes suddenly changing course in the past, specifically in 1906, around the time Charles Hatfield was active in his own weather experiments. Funny that in all seriousness, it seems the same happened in the United Kingdom with project cumulus in the 1950s. Many believe that a massive flood in 1952 was caused by the British military's cloud seeding operations, though this was also largely dismissed on the grounds that this region had flooded before. Now, the Georgia incident reportedly paused cloud seeding research in the United States for a decade. If true, this may be a tacit admission by the U.S. government that project cirrus may in fact have caused that hurricane to change course in 1947. At the very least, it means they didn't know for sure, or just didn't want to be judged in the court of public opinion. Maybe both. At the same time, however, it's equally likely that the U.S. government continued to experiment with cloud seeding in secret, and this is because of all the secret cloud seeding programs that were revealed shortly afterwards by inquisitive journalists, such as operation Popeye in the 1960s and 70s. Now, if you watched our video about the mysterious food plant disruptions, you'll know operation Popeye involved creating severe storms over the Ho Chi Minh trail used by the Viet Cong during the Vietnam War. Operation Popeye was halted in 1972 after an article in The New York Times blew the lid on it. What's odd is that the U.S. Military claimed that they stopped the operation because their attempts at weather manipulation had failed. This is despite the fact that the U.S. and 47 other countries signed the environmental modification convention a few years later, prohibiting whether modification in warfare. Now, logically, this suggested that operation Popeye was much more effective than the U.S. Military was letting on. And this efficacy was effectively proven when countries such as Russia and China started actively modifying their weather for domestic purposes in the 1980s. Beijing modifying the weather to keep the opening ceremony dry during the 2008 Olympics is probably the most famous example of weather modification in recent years and there's really no shortage of examples from all around the world. Check Wikipedia if you don't believe me. As of 2017, there were over 50 countries actively engaging in weather modification to quote disperse fog enhance rain and snowfall and suppress hail, according to the world meteorological organization. Note that the sources for everything in this video are in the description, only facts here, no fiction. Now, the prevalence of whether modification begs the question of just how effective the process actually is. The answer ultimately depends on which kind of weather modification method we're talking about. The most common method is of course cloud seeding. There are actually many ways of seeding clouds, but they all follow the same principle that Vincent schaefer discovered almost 80 years ago, and that's creating something in the cloud for the ice and rain to form around. This first way to see the cloud is to use some kind of salt, including silver iodide, potassium iodide, dry ice, as Vincent did, and even standard table salt. Under the right conditions, spraying these salts into a cloud will cause ice to form around the salt which then results in rain. This is the basic explanation. The second way to see the cloud is to shoot it with lasers, and yes, this is obviously my preferred method. This approach to seeding clouds has been around since at least 2010, but there doesn't seem to be much public information about it. This might have something to do with the fact that seeding clouds with lasers is apparently extremely effective. Case in point, in a 2014 news report about laser cloud seeding, the newscaster and guest explain that this technology could allow governments to make it rain at the click of a button, and even control the trajectory and intensity of storms. The link will be in the description truly crazy stuff. Now the third way to see the cloud is similarly sci-fi and that's to use electricity. Zapping clouds with electricity using drones is actually how the United Arab Emirates creates artificial rain, and as far as I understand, it's a brand new approach to cloud seeding that was first tried last year in Dubai. The effectiveness of seeding clouds with electricity is also unclear, but the fact it continues to be used by the UAE in lieu of the other available approaches suggests that it's the most effective. For reference, the UAE is extremely wealthy, meaning that every other approach is in fact available to the country. That said, research by UAE scientists suggest that standard cloud seeding, meaning with salts, can quote enhance rainfall by as much as 30 to 35% in a clear atmosphere and by up to ten to 15% in a turbid atmosphere. Note that these statistics are from way back in 2015. What's reassuring is that these statistics are consistent with a cloud seeding study by the university of Wyoming, which lasted from 2008 to 2013, and found that cloud seeding can increase precipitation by up to 15%. Note that these statistics also apply to salt based cloud seeding and are also arguably outdated. It's also important to point out that the effectiveness of cloud seeding almost always depends on preexisting weather conditions. For example, cloud seeding is believed to work much better on clouds that form over large bodies of water, such as oceans and seas. Conversely, the absence of clouds makes cloud seeding next to impossible because, well, there are no clouds to seed. Luckily for governments looking to modify the weather, however, there are many ways to create clouds artificially. I'll leave a link in the description to a video that shows you one effective method. Now, if you're feeling overwhelmed by all these weather modification revelations, you're in for a real treat because cloud seeding isn't the only way that governments can modify the weather. Some of you may have heard of the U.S. government's high frequency active auroral research program or harp in Alaska, which lasted from 1990 to 2014. Harp was subsequently declassified and its facility was handed over to the university of Alaska for academic use in 2015. If you've heard of harp, it's because it is famous for being the go to example given by conspiracy theorists who claim the government can control the world's weather using harp's ionospheric research instrument or ISI. This mostly has to do with a bunch of patents filed by physicist Bernard eastland, which implied that harps ICI could do everything from disrupting military communications to influencing the moods of individuals around the world. A sort of directed energy weapon, if you will. While the heart facility in the United States was shuttered in 2014, similar facilities continue to operate in other countries notably in Norway and Russia. Some have taken this as evidence that some of the claims in Bernard's patents were true. Now, the science of harp is outside the scope of this video, but I'll leave a link to an excellent video about the experiment by curious droid in the description. He's a fellow British YouTuber whose content helped with the creation of this video, so be sure to send him my regards and subscribe to his channel. Now, the next frontier for weather modification is space, specifically using satellites to beam large amounts of energy into storms to make them stronger or weaker, a job for Elon Musk if ever there was one, not like you'd have the time though. Speaking of billionaires, another outlandish way that we might soon modify the weather is by spraying dust into the atmosphere to block out the sun. This brilliant idea was brought to you by none other than Bill Gates, who is currently funding a company to do exactly that. There are also lots of new weather modification methods that are taking a bottom up approach. One example is pumping air into the lower waters of seas and oceans to bring cold water up to the surface. The cool air this cold water creates can be used to weaken or even eliminate hurricanes. Pumping air into lower waters is already being done in countries like Norway to bring up salty water and prevent freezing around hydroelectric power plants, so they can continue operating through the winter. Another example of a novel bottom up approach is to spray salt water into the sky to reflect some of the sun's light back into space. There are actually concerns though that this and other methods such as pumping air into lower waters could actually cool the oceans too much and cause other unwanted weather issues. In my opinion, the most promising weather modification method was proposed in a 2013 TED Talk by scientist Alan savary, titled quote how to green the world's deserts and reverse climate change. It's quite possibly one of the most amazing videos you will ever watch and I'll leave a link in the description. In short, the world is slowly turning into a desert, and this trend will continue regardless of whether all the mainstream climate action targets are met, namely eliminating emissions and fossil fuels of all kinds. Note that deserts create lots of heat, which causes the kinds of extreme weather we've seen lately. Allen's solution is so simple that it's almost stupid. This is to guide animals to graze around the land without interference, the way they did historically. With this simple solution, Allen has managed to turn literal deserts into green and watery oases around the world. Just look at this comparison image. Now if that wasn't incredible enough, Alan thinks this solution could solve climate change in a matter of years, while simultaneously enriching developing countries through all the animal product production and exports. The availability of meat in developing countries would also significantly improve nutrition. As a cherry on top, all the emission reductions limits on energy use and other such policies would not be needed since all the additional greenery would absorb all the CO2 while simultaneously cooling the world. Seriously, watch that video and share it with your friends and family while you're at it. Now, given all these facts, stats and solutions, you might be wondering why whether modification is seldom discussed in the context of climate change or even just extreme weather events like droughts, floods, and fires that have recently been ravaging the planet. As far as I can tell, this is because governments admitting to widespread weather modification is likely to raise more questions than answers, namely why governments aren't using this technology to combat climate change or extreme weather events, especially revolutionary solutions like Allen's guided grazing. To be clear, there have been some reports of countries using whether modification methods to address whether extremes, such as China, which tried to end its record breaking droughts with cloud seeding over the summer. What doesn't make sense, however, is that these countermeasures always seem to be less effective than the proactive ones. This is where a bit of science based speculation comes in. As I mentioned earlier, 48 countries signed the environmental modification convention in the 1970s to prevent the use of weather modification in warfare. As of 2022, there are 78 countries which have joined the convention. Even so, that doesn't guarantee that these countries aren't still using weather modification as a form of warfare. It just may not be as avert as, say, creating abnormally massive storms over Vietnam. Here's a great example to illustrate what I mean that I also mentioned in our food plant disruptions video. In the 1980s, the Soviet Union used cloud seeding after the Chernobyl nuclear plant meltdown to ensure that radioactive rain fell on Belarus instead of Moscow. Now, riddle me this did the Soviet Union use whether for military purposes in this scenario. The answer is not that clear, and it would be hard to prove either way, because the Soviet Union could claim the rainfall was natural, whereas claimed it was not, assuming it even knew at all. This is simply because whether modification can't always be detected, especially with the newer types of technologies. Weather also isn't contained to a single country. It crosses borders and boundaries, and this means what happens within a country could easily affect the country next door. This is why there is lots of speculation in India that China is stealing India's reign by causing it to rain prematurely on the Chinese side of the mountain range that divides both countries. This wouldn't be surprising given that China is heavily testing where the modification in this region, including in Nepal. Now you can sum up this speculation in a sentence from an article about China's weather modification by futurism. If one country is able to control its own weather, it could in theory do so elsewhere. In other words, countries might be actively trying to manipulate each other's weather. Bringing up this technology could shed light on questionable practices by domestic and foreign governments, leading to very serious domestic and foreign conflicts. This ties into the very real possibility that governments are manipulating their own weather to take more control of their own citizens. After all, if you can control the weather, you can control the food supply and that's the kind of power that the folks at the World Economic Forum are explicitly seeking. More about that using the link in the description. Anecdotes aside, the fact of the matter is that governments have the technology
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"charles hatfield" Discussed on The Coin Bureau Podcast: Crypto Without the Hype
"Was one man who seemed to have a high success rate and his name was Charles Hatfield. Charles became famous in 1904 when he caused it to reign over Los Angeles using a series of towers spraying chemicals into the sky. When he was asked about how he did it, Charles reportedly said, quote, I do not make it rain. That would be an absurd claim. I simply attract clouds and they do the rest. This is why the city of San Diego contacted Charles at the end of 1915 in the middle of a massive drought. Charles agreed to their request to make it rain and even said the city only had to pay him if he succeeded. A deal too good for San Diego's officials to pass up. Charles confidence didn't disappoint because in January 1916 he made it rain so much that many parts of San Diego experience floods. Something he achieved by reportedly burning chemicals in a forest outside of the city. 1916 would go on to be the wettest year in the region's history. Now, as amazing as Charles rainmaking was, it was still more showmanship than science. It was hard to prove that Charles chemical shenanigans were the actual cause of The Rain, particularly in 1916, when the rains continued long after his modification. This is why Charles rainmaking is disputed to this day. This is also why the history of weather modification is more often associated with Vincent schaefer, an American scientist whose credited with the creation of cloud seeding in 1946, while he was working as a researcher at General Electric. What's wild is that Vincent reportedly discovered cloud seeding by accident. The story goes that he was working on another project related to ice formation on aircraft, when he breathed into a box where he'd placed dry ice, causing ice crystals to form in the air. Note that ice crystals form before rainfall. By the end of 1946, Vincent had developed a way to consistently seed clouds using aircraft to create both rain and snow and shortly afterwards he was contacted and contracted by the U.S. Military to continue his cloud seeding research. Note that I'm leaving out some details here for the sake of time. Now, in 1947, Vincent worked with the U.S. Military on project cirrus to weaken hurricanes using cloud seeding and their first attempt took place in October that year. not, but the cloud seeding caused the hurricane to suddenly change direction, resulting in lots of damage in the state of Georgia. Naturally, the people of Georgia were none too happy, and they filed a lawsuit, which was dismissed. After the defendants found examples of hurricanes suddenly changing course in the past, specifically in 1906, around the time Charles Hatfield was active in his own weather experiments. Funny that in all seriousness, it seems the same happened in the United Kingdom with project cumulus in the 1950s. Many believe that a massive flood in 1952 was caused by the British military's cloud seeding operations, though this was also largely dismissed on the grounds that this region had flooded before. Now, the Georgia incident reportedly paused cloud seeding research in the United States for a decade. If true, this may be a tacit admission by the U.S. government that project cirrus may in fact have caused that hurricane to change course in 1947. At the very least, it means they didn't know for sure, or just didn't want to be judged in the court of public opinion. Maybe both. At the same time, however, it's equally likely that the U.S. government continued to experiment with cloud seeding in secret, and this is because of all the secret cloud seeding programs that were revealed shortly afterwards by inquisitive journalists, such as operation Popeye in the 1960s and 70s. Now, if you watched our video about the mysterious food plant disruptions, you'll know operation Popeye involved creating severe storms over the Ho Chi Minh trail used by the Viet Cong during the Vietnam War. Operation Popeye was halted in 1972 after an article in The New York Times blew the lid on it. What's odd is that the U.S. Military claimed that they stopped the operation because their attempts at weather manipulation had failed. This is despite the fact that the U.S. and 47 other countries signed the environmental modification convention a few years later, prohibiting whether modification in warfare. Now, logically, this suggested that operation Popeye was much more effective than the U.S. Military was letting on. And this efficacy was effectively proven when countries such as Russia and China started actively modifying their weather for domestic purposes in the 1980s. Beijing modifying the weather to keep the opening ceremony dry during the 2008 Olympics is probably the most famous example of weather modification in recent years and there's really no shortage of examples from all around the world. Check Wikipedia if you don't believe me. As of 2017, there were over 50 countries actively engaging in weather modification to quote disperse fog enhance rain and snowfall and suppress hail, according to the world meteorological organization. Note that the sources for everything in this video are in the description, only facts here, no fiction. Now, the prevalence of whether modification begs the question of just how effective the process actually is. The answer ultimately depends on which kind of weather modification method we're talking about. The most common method is of course cloud seeding. There are actually many ways of seeding clouds, but they all follow the same principle that Vincent schaefer discovered almost 80 years ago, and that's creating something in the cloud for the ice and rain to form around.
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"charles hatfield" Discussed on The Coin Bureau Podcast: Crypto Without the Hype
"The clouds can reach the mountains. The more you know. Now, it wasn't until the late 1800s that a German American inventor named Louis proposed a scientific way of creating rain specifically by shooting liquid carbon dioxide into clouds. It was around this time that so called rainmakers started to emerge across the United States. Now rainmakers were basically traveling showman who would try and modify the weather using a series of chemicals, among other things. Although most rainmakers were not much better at making it rain than the ancient ritualists, there was one man who seemed to have a high success rate and his name was Charles Hatfield. Charles became famous in 1904 when he caused it to reign over Los Angeles using a series of towers spraying chemicals into the sky. When he was asked about how he did it, Charles reportedly said, quote, I do not make it rain. That would be an absurd claim. I simply attract clouds and they do the rest. This is why the city of San Diego contacted Charles at the end of 1915 in the middle of a massive drought. Charles agreed to their request to make it rain and even said the city only had to pay him if he succeeded. A deal too good for San Diego's officials to pass up. Charles confidence didn't disappoint because in January 1916 he made it rain so much that many parts of San Diego experience floods. Something he achieved by reportedly burning chemicals in a forest outside of the city. 1916 would go on to be the wettest year in the region's history. Now, as amazing as Charles rainmaking was, it was still more showmanship than science. It was hard to prove that Charles chemical shenanigans were the actual cause of The Rain, particularly in 1916, when the rains continued long after his modification. This is why Charles rainmaking is disputed to this day. This is also why the history of weather modification is more often associated with Vincent schaefer, an American scientist whose credited with the creation of cloud seeding in 1946, while he was working as a researcher at General Electric. What's wild is that Vincent reportedly discovered cloud seeding by accident. The story goes that he was working on another project related to ice formation on aircraft, when he breathed into a box where he'd placed dry ice, causing ice crystals to form in the air. Note that ice crystals form before rainfall. By the end of 1946, Vincent had developed a way to consistently seed clouds using aircraft to create both rain and snow and shortly afterwards he was contacted and contracted by the U.S. Military to continue his cloud seeding research. Note that I'm leaving out some details here for the sake of time. Now, in 1947, Vincent worked with the U.S. Military on project cirrus to weaken hurricanes using cloud seeding and their first attempt took place in October that year. not, but the cloud seeding caused the hurricane to suddenly change direction, resulting in lots of damage in the state of Georgia. Naturally, the people of Georgia were none too happy, and they filed a lawsuit, which was dismissed. After the defendants found examples of hurricanes suddenly changing course in the past, specifically in 1906, around the time Charles Hatfield was active in his own weather experiments. Funny that in all seriousness, it seems the same happened in the United Kingdom with project cumulus in the 1950s. Many believe that a massive flood in 1952 was caused by the British military's cloud seeding operations, though this was also largely dismissed on the grounds that this region had flooded before. Now, the Georgia incident reportedly paused cloud seeding research in the United States for a decade. If true, this may be a tacit admission by the U.S. government that project cirrus may in fact have caused that hurricane to change course in 1947. At the very least, it means they didn't know for sure, or just didn't want to be judged in the court of public opinion. Maybe both. At the same time, however, it's equally likely that the U.S. government continued to experiment with cloud seeding in secret, and this is because of all the secret cloud seeding programs that were revealed shortly afterwards by inquisitive journalists, such as operation Popeye in the 1960s and 70s. Now, if you watched our video about the mysterious food plant disruptions, you'll know operation Popeye involved creating severe storms over the Ho Chi Minh trail used by the Viet Cong during the Vietnam War. Operation Popeye was halted in 1972 after an article in The New York Times blew the lid on it. What's odd is that the U.S. Military claimed that they stopped the operation because their attempts at weather manipulation had failed. This is despite the fact that the U.S. and 47 other countries signed the environmental modification convention a few years later, prohibiting whether modification in warfare. Now, logically, this suggested that operation Popeye was much more effective than the U.S. Military was letting on. And this efficacy was effectively proven when countries such as Russia and China started actively modifying their weather for domestic purposes in the 1980s. Beijing modifying the weather to keep the opening ceremony dry during the 2008 Olympics is probably the most famous example of weather modification in recent years and there's really no shortage of examples from all around the world. Check Wikipedia if you don't believe me. As of 2017, there were over 50 countries actively engaging in weather modification to quote disperse fog enhance rain and snowfall and suppress hail, according to the world meteorological organization. Note that the sources for everything in this video are in the description, only facts here, no fiction. Now, the prevalence of whether modification begs the question of just how effective the process actually is. The answer ultimately depends on which kind of weather modification method we're talking about. The most common method is of course cloud seeding. There are actually many ways of seeding clouds, but they all follow the same principle that Vincent schaefer discovered almost 80 years ago, and that's creating something in the cloud for the ice and rain to form around.
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"charles hatfield" Discussed on The Coin Bureau Podcast: Crypto Without the Hype
"Documented is that many militaries around the world started to notice that rain would fall after large battles involving lots of gunfire in the 17 and 1800s. This resulted in the United States and others trying to cause rain by shooting into the sky, but it's believed that these experiments failed. We now know that air pollution has the potential to seed clouds and it's believed that this is the main reason why there is now less snow and ice in mountainous areas. Clouds are seeded prematurely by car pollution, causing it to rain or snow before the clouds can reach the mountains. The more you know. Now, it wasn't until the late 1800s that a German American inventor named Louis proposed a scientific way of creating rain specifically by shooting liquid carbon dioxide into clouds. It was around this time that so called rainmakers started to emerge across the United States. Now rainmakers were basically traveling showman who would try and modify the weather using a series of chemicals, among other things. Although most rainmakers were not much better at making it rain than the ancient ritualists, there was one man who seemed to have a high success rate and his name was Charles Hatfield. Charles became famous in 1904 when he caused it to reign over Los Angeles using a series of towers spraying chemicals into the sky. When he was asked about how he did it, Charles reportedly said, quote, I do not make it rain. That would be an absurd claim. I simply attract clouds and they do the rest. This is why the city of San Diego contacted Charles at the end of 1915 in the middle of a massive drought. Charles agreed to their request to make it rain and even said the city only had to pay him if he succeeded. A deal too good for San Diego's officials to pass up. Charles confidence didn't disappoint because in January 1916 he made it rain so much that many parts of San Diego experience floods. Something he achieved by reportedly burning chemicals in a forest outside of the city. 1916 would go on to be the wettest year in the region's history. Now, as amazing as Charles rainmaking was, it was still more showmanship than science. It was hard to prove that Charles chemical shenanigans were the actual cause of The Rain, particularly in 1916, when the rains continued long after his modification. This is why Charles rainmaking is disputed to this day. This is also why the history of weather modification is more often associated with Vincent schaefer, an American scientist whose credited with the creation of cloud seeding in 1946, while he was working as a researcher at General Electric. What's wild is that Vincent reportedly discovered cloud seeding by accident. The story goes that he was working on another project related to ice formation on aircraft, when he breathed into a box where he'd placed dry ice, causing ice crystals to form in the air. Note that ice crystals form before rainfall. By the end of 1946, Vincent had developed a way to consistently seed clouds using aircraft to create both rain and snow and shortly afterwards he was contacted and contracted by the U.S. Military to continue his cloud seeding research. Note that I'm leaving out some details here for the sake of time. Now, in 1947, Vincent worked with the U.S. Military on project cirrus to weaken hurricanes using cloud seeding and their first attempt took place in October that year. not, but the cloud seeding caused the hurricane to suddenly change direction, resulting in lots of damage in the state of Georgia. Naturally, the people of Georgia were none too happy, and they filed a lawsuit, which was dismissed. After the defendants found examples of hurricanes suddenly changing course in the past, specifically in 1906, around the time Charles Hatfield was active in his own weather experiments. Funny that in all seriousness, it seems the same happened in the United Kingdom with project cumulus in the 1950s. Many believe that a massive flood in 1952 was caused by the British military's cloud seeding operations, though this was also largely dismissed on the grounds that this region had flooded before. Now, the Georgia incident reportedly paused cloud seeding research in the United States for a decade. If true, this may be a tacit admission by the U.S. government that project cirrus may in fact have caused that hurricane to change course in 1947. At the very least, it means they didn't know for sure, or just didn't want to be judged in the court of public opinion. Maybe both. At the same time, however, it's equally likely that the U.S. government continued to experiment with cloud seeding in secret, and this is because of all the secret cloud seeding programs that were revealed shortly afterwards by inquisitive journalists, such as operation Popeye in the 1960s and 70s. Now, if you watched our video about the mysterious food plant disruptions, you'll know operation Popeye involved creating severe storms over the Ho Chi Minh trail used by the Viet Cong during the Vietnam War. Operation Popeye was halted in 1972 after an article in The New York Times blew the lid on it. What's odd is that the U.S. Military claimed that they stopped the operation because their attempts at weather manipulation had failed. This is despite the fact that the U.S. and 47 other countries signed the environmental modification convention a few years later, prohibiting whether modification in warfare. Now, logically, this suggested that operation Popeye was much more effective than the U.S. Military was letting on. And this efficacy was effectively proven when countries such as Russia and China started actively modifying their weather for domestic purposes in the 1980s. Beijing modifying the weather to keep the opening ceremony dry during the 2008 Olympics is probably the most famous example of weather modification in recent years and there's really no shortage of examples from all around the world. Check Wikipedia if you don't believe me. As of 2017, there were over 50 countries actively engaging in weather modification to quote disperse fog enhance rain and snowfall and suppress hail, according to the world meteorological organization. Note that the sources for everything in this video are in the description, only facts here, no fiction. Now, the prevalence of whether modification begs the question of just how effective the process actually is. The answer ultimately depends on which kind of weather modification method we're talking about. The most common method is of course cloud seeding. There are actually many ways of seeding clouds, but they all follow the same principle that Vincent schaefer discovered almost 80 years ago, and that's creating something in the cloud for the ice and rain to form around.
The Past and the Curious
"charles hatfield" Discussed on The Past and the Curious
"To work. Tally Ho. This was late December of 1915. By new year's of 1916, Charles and his brother had built a wooden tower 20 feet high and began mixing hatfields, secret stinky blend. No one is sure what he was mixing up there, but one ingredient that seems to be a common guess was, at the time, called Salomon. Today, it's known as ammonium chloride, and it would have been very easy to get because blacksmiths used the powder when making objects from iron. It also burns at a low temperature and creates a cloud like smoke that maybe could have given water vapor something to collect on. But there was more, because most witnesses recall an awful smell surrounding the tower as he burned his pungent potion. Gross. What is that smell? It smells like duck feet after walking through rotten milk. No, no, it's more like you took a bath in your jeans in a horse trough that had been used all day, and then was filled with mushrooms sauce and maybe some like Alfredo. So the horse trough has full of Alfredo sauce that's been in the sun all day? Yeah, that's it. People didn't agree on what it actually smelled like, but a very common description was, as if a limburger cheese factory had exploded. Whether the cheesy stench worked or mother nature just took mercy on the area. Fortunes changed. The Rain started showing up. Okay, well, a little bit of this and a little bit of that and then we'll go ahead and light this up. Close the sky, Sandra was a dreamy what? Yeah, look. Well, I'll be dipsy doodled. Brother, we are about to get paid. Was Charles Hatfield right? He was worse than right. He was wrong. It started raining, all right. But the problem was that it didn't stop. Over one 5 day period in January of 1916, 17 inches of rain flooded the area. At first, people were delighted. It was an incredible amount of rain, which was just what they wanted. But you've got to be careful what you wish for. Soon, floods damaged homes and railroad lines swept away livestock, and even took the lives of some people. But Hatfield was not done. I said I'd fill the reservoir and that's what I'm gonna do because I am a moisture accelerator. The best. What Hatfield had failed to recognize was that the dams built to hold the water in the series of reservoirs might not have been able to withstand the pressure of the amount of rain that he was maybe or maybe not putting in them. So despite the floods and standing in the off and falling rain, he made more secret stinky smoke, and The Rain kept falling. January of 1916 was the rainiest month ever in San Diego history. Was it because of Charles Hatfield or was Charles Hatfield just observationally gifted and or very lucky? Well, we don't know for certain, but the people of San Diego considered paying him to stop. Maybe they should have. January 27th was a bad day. The lower otay reservoir dam, which was pretty close to the city, could not hold back the growing body of collected rainwater any longer. It burst. And the wall of water it unleashed, tore trees from the earth, rocked homes from their foundations. It was a disaster. But up on his tower, miles away, Charles Hatfield didn't really realize the severity of what had happened. Figuring his work done, he made his way to the city to talk to the council about his $10,000 paycheck. Are you kidding me, Charles? If we pay you, we're going to get sued by every city resident who lost everything in the flood that you caused. But I filled the reservoir. Okay, tell you what. We'll pay you $10,000 if you publicly take credit for the flood. You mean the one that just destroyed homes crops and livestock and people's lives? Yeah, that's the one. But then they'll sue me. Yeah, probably. No, no, I don't like that. And we had a deal. Oh, I'm sorry. Did we sign a contract? Because I don't think we did. So it's like that, huh? Oh, it's like that. So go on. Yeah, my God. Get on get. And off Charles Hatfield trudged through the soggy streets of San Diego. In his mind, he brought The Rain he agreed to bring, and he'd try for years to get the money that he was promised. But it never came. Other jobs did, he made rain in other places at other times, but none were as historic as Hatfield's flood of 1916. If we can take anything away from this moment in time, it might be two things. You should probably sign a contract if there's a lot on the line. But more importantly, be careful what you wish for, all San Diego ever really wanted was a little rain. Whether Charles Hatfield had anything to do with it or not, they got way.
The Past and the Curious
"charles hatfield" Discussed on The Past and the Curious
"Yes, yes, that's right. It's quiz time, and these are weather questions. In 1588, king Philip the second of Spain sent a fleet of ships known as the Spanish armada to the coast of England and an act of war. However, the so called invincible armada was repelled by what force of nature. Queen Elizabeth of England, perhaps you've heard of her. She credited much of the naval victory to the wind. When the Spanish armada anchored offshore, a violent windstorm began and churned the seas around them. The British took advantage by lighting 8 of their own empty ships on fire and letting the wind carry them towards the Spanish armada. The ships which escaped had to cut their anchor lines and the wind blew them back home. Question number two. The two most common scales used to measure temperature are known as Fahrenheit and Celsius. Both are named after real people. Do you know which one came first? In 1724, a German man named Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit proposed his scale to measure temperature. Two decades later in 1742, Anders Celsius proposed a temperature scale of his own, which also bears his name. Okay, here it is. This is the third and final question on April 26th, 1884 in Anderson county, Kansas, a farmer, identified as a Adams, that's triple-A, made tornado history when he became the first person to do what, with a tornado. Well, AA Adams, old triple-A himself, had a big, boxy, cumbersome camera, and he caught the very first photographic image of a tornado in known history. It was so momentous that he actually reprinted it and sold hundreds of copies. Luckily, he, nor anyone else were injured as the tornado mostly meandered through farmland and left nearby towns, unscathed. If you're going to have a city, you are going to need water. There are other things you're going to need to obviously, but water is as essential as it gets. I mean, we all know that water is life, right? But on the West Coast of the American continent, as with many other places in the world, fresh water to support a human population can be hard to come by. It's been that way for a long time. And through the years, many different attempts at boosting rainfall were saving water supplies have been made at many different times. Back in 1915, one city that needed water. Really, really badly, was San Diego, California. For four years prior, rain fell at record lows. I mean, it almost didn't fall at all. Residents were alarmed because the drought had left the growing city and its surrounding areas with almost no new fresh water. Just a few years before the city had worked to create a series of reservoirs throughout the area to collect and hold each and every drop of rain that they could after it fell around the area. When the reservoirs were full, it was a beautiful sight. As the four dry years passed, though, the huge bodies of water which once held billions of gallons grew nearly as empty as a pair of dirty socks on your floor. You should put those in the hamper, by the way. As the wide, wet water collectors menacingly crept closer to empty, the city council grew, very worried about what to do. With no water, how are the people of San Diego gonna brush their teeth? With all due respect, I feel like we have bigger problems than dirty teeth. Actually, we're not even sure how many people in this time are placed brush their teeth with much regularity, but that's beside the point. The low water supply remained a high concern. The highest concern, perhaps, which is why the city council decided to listen to what a man named Charles Hatfield had to say. Charles Hatfield was born in Kansas, in 1875, which was a place where occasional periods of dryness created plenty of similar problems. For the first part of his adult life, he was a sewing machine salesman. But then he became fascinated with something called Cuba culture. It would become his profession by the early 1900s, he called himself a moisture accelerator, but most people of the time would have called him a rainmaker. Now throughout the years and throughout the world, there have been people known as rainmakers, with secrets, supposed magic or science and chemistry, these people claimed to be able to open up the skies and fill the rivers with much needed rainwater. Many were hucksters, who probably just knew what to look for in weather changes. On their hunches, they would show up right before an unexpected storm and promise desperate people in the area that they could make it rain for money. Make it rain. Of course, The Rain would have rained, had the huckster shown up or not. But if his gamble was right, he got paid, and off he went. Other rainmakers worked with a bit more evidence. Throughout the ages, observations have been made about battles, seeming to cause rain. From the American Civil War, there were many journal entries and other observations that seemed to connect disruptive power of artillery, lingering black powder smoke, and floating debris of a heated contest to rainstorms in the days that followed. Did the cannon fire shake the clouds loose, did the particles floating around give moisture in the atmosphere or something to collect on until it grew too heavy and fell back down to earth as rain? Or was it just going to rain anyway? No one was completely sure. Charles Hatfield was confident, though. And he told the San Diego city council that for the reasonable sum of $10,000, he would fill the nearby Marina dam reservoir to the tippy top. He promised more water than they could imagine. I don't know. I can imagine an awful lot. You'll get it. Says the fly by night rainmaker. I am a moisture accelerator, and look, if you'd like to see my resume, you will see successful rains on cotton fields in Texas, moisture accelerations, and Alaska, and even 18 inches of rain for your northern neighbors in Los Angeles. Yeah, we know. So what do you have to lose? Let me set up my signature secret stinky mix of chemicals, and if I bring The Rain, you pay me 10,000 smackers. If I don't bring The Rain, off I go with my packers. What? That doesn't make any sense. I mean, I'll leave. I was going for a ride. It took a chance, okay? No. Look, let me put it this way. No rain, I disappear. You owe me nothing. So what do you say? Yeah, what do we have to lose? Well, this sounds great. I see no need for a contract. Let me get.
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"charles hatfield" Discussed on The Past and the Curious
"Well all right, how do you do? My name is Mick Sullivan and this is the past and the curious. First and foremost, I must say that the KickStarter for the book, I see Lincoln's underpants, is a smash hit, so if you have supported, thank you very much. If you have not supported, it is open and up until the morning of April 1st, so there's still a little bit of time left. We have some stretch goals, you might get us to one of those. If not, you know what? I'm just so happy that you're listening and maybe somewhere down the road, you can find the book and read it and enjoy it because that's why I wrote it. It's not going to physically be in the world until later on this year. Probably the fall. But in the meantime, we'll be having plenty of fun here on the podcast. This episode features the stories of tetsuya fujita, AKA Ted fujita, AKA mister tornado, which is a super cool nickname. Also, this episode features the story of Charles Hatfield, a noted rainmaker, and I should point out that this story was suggested, there's a great suggestion by one of our Patreon folks lady named Jessica, who I actually knew in high school and who is a geologist. And so, you know, stumbled upon this really great story, and I really appreciate the share, and it was fun to learn about. So let's get started. Let me introduce you to Ted fujita. The weather once saved tetsuya fujita's life. On the morning of August 9th, 1945, an American bomber set out on a mission to drop the second of two atomic bombs that the American government would unleash upon the citizens of Japan. The original target for that day was a site near the kokura railway. It was three miles from fujita's home. Because of thick cloud cover, made worse by smoke from nearby fires, the crew of the airplane could not locate their target. At the last minute, they abandon the original plan and instead dropped the terrible weapon on the city of Nagasaki, just three days after they had stunned the world by dropping the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima. While the clouds were a fortunate blessing for tetsuya fujita and helped to spare his life, others were not so lucky. The bomb devastated Nagasaki. It was unlike anything anyone had ever seen. And while it would hasten the end of World War II, the human costs of the weapon were immense. The sadness, pain and suffering the weapon caused were nearly incomprehensible. But tetsuya would soon set out to comprehend what had happened, and much, much later, he would use all of his new understanding from the damage to help protect his fellow humans from the most damaging and unpredictable thing on earth, and the very thing that might have spared his own life. The weather. When he was a kid, tetsuya took it upon himself to learn astronomy, so he could better understand ocean tides. While he was curious about the world, this was actually for his own safety. Because he liked to dig for clams, and if he misjudged the ocean's tides while doing it, he could wind up stranded on a title island. His family was used to him getting into questionable predicaments, though. Once when a major storm hit his part of Japan, his panicked father found him on the roof of their home. Tetsuya was mesmerized by the power of the weather system and wondered why it moved the way that it did. Not long after as a young man, he studied engineering and then thanks to his great intellect and dedication to learning, he became a teaching assistant at the university. Throughout his studies and teaching in the engineering field, he spent nearly all of his free time thinking about his real passion. The weather. While others might find hobbies in sports and outdoors or books or art, tatsuya was not like most people. Meteorology was his hobby, his passion, his true love. But when the bomb fell on Nagasaki, everything changed. The entire country of Japan went into recovery in the time following the war. The economy shrank, money became tight, and enrollment in the school slowed down. Someone that tetsuya admired gave him advice. His observational nature would be perfect for analyzing the blast site to understand precisely what had happened, and soon enough he was in Nagasaki, combing through the rubble, analyzing burn marks, calculating angles, and tracing the patterns of the damage. To the amazement of many, he was able to calculate exactly where the bomb had come from. At what altitude it exploded, and he also made important observations about the power of air and motion caused by the explosion. With few prospects to follow his passion and post war Japan, he sent some of his research and writings to Horace byers, a meteorologist at the University of Chicago. Horace was leading a project the American government called the thunderstorm project. And the goal of the thunderstorm project was to use new technology like airplanes and satellites to better understand and more accurately predict the weather. This was exactly the kind of thing that tetsuya fujita could sink his teeth into. In the early 1950s he accepted an invitation from buyers to join the meteorology department at University of Chicago and he began playing a growing role in the thunderstorm project. When he became an American citizen, he added the middle name Theodore and went by Ted amongst many of his new American colleagues. In 1957, something big happened. A tornado. Stop. Excuse me, what? You can't tell you that. I can't say tornado. Stop. Why can't I say that? It freaks people out. We've decided it's better if we don't even say it. It's unnecessary panic. Well, what do you say then? Uh, nothing really? Can I say whirly gig? No. Twirly whirly? No. Spinny windy. No. Critical cyclone cloud? No. Dorothy house heister. No..
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"charles hatfield" Discussed on Supernatural with Ashley Flowers
"The odds to get it back.
Supernatural with Ashley Flowers
"charles hatfield" Discussed on Supernatural with Ashley Flowers
"Overflow railroad tracks and roads are obliterated farms and homes or ripped away by flooding one panicked residents fleeing his home in a rowboat shouts. Let's pay hatfield ten thousand to quit. Meanwhile charles doesn't see what the big fuss is about in the midst of the storm. The rainmaker call san diego city hall with an ominous message. He says quote. I just wanted to tell you that it is only sprinkling now within the next few days. I expect to make it really rain horrified. The officials asked if he's joking and he apparently responds quote. Never more serious in my life. Just hold your horses. And i'll show you a real rain for two more weeks. The destruction continues on january. Twenty seventh another reservoir gives way sending a forty foot wall of water crashing into the coastline. The wave sweeps away everything in its pat trees livestock houses and people. One guy clings to a small tree as he watches houses and cattle sweep past him. Some of the animals are alive but many are already dead. They look like helpless. Little toys completely powerless. Miraculously this man makes it out alive but not everyone is so lucky. More than a dozen people lose their lives in that wave alone. By the end of january the skies are finally clear but the city is incomplete shambles. Fifty people died in the deluge. Even those who didn't lose loved ones basically lost everything else. People are hurt horrified and angry and they know just who to blame. They call this hatfields flood. Charles though is still out in the woods by the reservoir he filled. He can't understand why everyone's so upset. He fulfilled his end of the bargain. He proved he's the best rainmaker america has ever seen and now he's ready for his payment coming up. Taking credit for the storm is a double edged sword. Charles this episode is brought to you by the united states army. When you become a soldier you have more than two hundred paths to choose from. 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He treks the sixty miles back into town with a big smile. On his face and an outstretched hand like vattel. Be ten thousand dollars please. and as you can imagine. Things don't go so smoothly. The city council has no plan to pay him the way they see it. It charles did 'cause the storm he's a monster who doesn't deserve a penny if he didn't he's a con artist. Hoop still doesn't deserve penny. Not to mention if they did pay him. They're essentially saying they commissioned a natural disaster. Which isn't going to look good when they filed their six million dollars worth of damage suits which is worth close to one hundred fifty million today so all those council members who were eager to hire charles a month ago are now calling the flood an act of god and when charles protest. They sent him to a city attorney. Who essentially tells charles. He has two options. One he leaves sandiego empty-handed and never shows his sorry face here again. Charles could try and fight it in court. Legally his case doesn't hold any water. Nobody ever signed a contract. It was a verbal agreement or two they could sign a contract. Now they pay charles the ten thousand dollars in full and then charles would be liable for the city's millions in damages. What is charles pick. Well he's fit so he chooses neither. He's beating the odds before so he's willing to try his luck and take the city to court and he does. But the case drags on for a year and in the end it amounts to a whole lot of nothing. Charles had no contract and no way to prove he caused the storm before the case. Resolves charles decide. It's best to leave san diego now. You might think with everything that happened. Charles would find himself unemployed but with a bit of distance. The events in san diego seem a little less grim and a lot more magical. It even becomes a selling point for charles. He refers to the storm as the most potent test i ever made. He may never collect his ten thousand but he was crowned the king of american rainmakers for the next twelve years. Charles works everywhere from canada to cuba to honduras. The money is good. The destinations are exciting. He's on top of the world and a long way from his dusty days on his dad's ranch but even for someone as lucky as charles. The good times don't last forever when the great depression arrives in nineteen twenty nine. His business takes a serious hit. No one can pay him even city governments. Don't have the cash to throw it. Something like rain summoning and fdr's new deal leads to the construction of more dams and better water infrastructure across the country which essentially render his services. Unnecessary charles hatfield is never proven to be a fraud but in the blink of an eye. He's obsolete and yet somehow his star keeps shining in nineteen fifty six eighty one year old charles attends the premiere of the rainmaker. A film inspired by his life. It stars katharine hepburn and burt lancaster to hollywood heavyweights and in the twilight of his life. He's back in the spotlight where he feels at home where he thinks he belongs. He dies two years later taking his secret. Twenty-three chemical formula to the grave but his legacy lives on in the work of other rainmakers. Yep that's right. The days of attempted weather modification never ended in recent years. A technology called cloud seeding uses chemicals like dry ice and silver iodide to encourage clouds. Make rain the whole process is controversial for many reasons. The technique doesn't quite prove that controlling weather is possible but there are real reputable trained scientists that are invested in finding out and if it is possible. It's also possible. That charles hatfield science was as real as he promised. I mean if you look at his successes. The results speak for themselves. Maybe he was way ahead of his time and he invented a technology that scientists are still struggling to recreate. But there's another more likely explanation. One that most experts agree on charles was a well educated gambler. He studied meteorology. He did his research on weather patterns and he played the odds. You would travel somewhere dry. That was likely to get rain soon and put on a convincing enough show that he could take credit for what mother nature would have already done anyway. Regardless of what you choose to believe the biggest secret to charles's success was that he understood something about human nature. We really like to be in control. We don't like to be at the mercy of fate. We wanna feel like our lives belong to us. We want it so much that when we're not in control were willing to suspend disbelief and bet against.
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"charles hatfield" Discussed on Supernatural with Ashley Flowers
"A concoction of twenty three different chemicals aged in casks throughout the day. Charles keeps talking up his science. He assures his clients that it's the future but for all his confidence there's still a slight furrow in his brow. He meets this to work. He can see his future success so clearly he can almost taste it but he doesn't dare breathe a sigh relief until days later when it starts to rain in the end. Charles's technology seems to deliver on his promises. Sure it could have been a coincidence. But it doesn't matter. It rains enough to get him paid and to leave the ranchers singing his praises. Charles hatfield rainmaker has credibility and he wastes no time putting it to use later that year he shows up in los angeles with his vats of chemicals and in no time at all he catches the attention of the city's business leaders charles says he can make eighteen inches of rain fall from the sky in the next five months of course. He has seriously upped his rate. At this point it will cost them one thousand dollars or close to thirty thousand dollars today but he still offering his same money back guarantee and he suspects these city folk have some pretty deep pockets. And that's a good bet. Not only do they have the money. They're desperate. It's been devastatingly dry lately. It charles can deliver. It would save all the crops and reservoirs in los angeles. Which in turn would save. Lives and really. Can you put a price tag on that. After the deals made charles gets to work once again he does everything in broad daylight knows secrets. Ellie residents gathered to watch as he builds. His tower pours his special chemical recipe. Then they wait for rain. of course it doesn't happen instantly. Charles reminds his impatient patrons. It's science not magic. The chemicals have to rise with the heat react with the air and attract clouds only then will the condensation build and everyone will see the results in sure. Enough by the end of his five month deadline it starts to rain. In fact he exceeds his promise of eighteen inches by an inch or two. The entire city is thrilled. Charles becomes this subject of public fascination a minor celebrity white knight one headline declares young wizard of meteorology proves his ability to fill orders for rainstorms. Now charles has some real momentum. This is what he always dreamed of accomplishing money. Fame success he works steadily from nineteen o five onwards for everyone from water companies to cotton farmers to minors. He travels the country from oregon to washington to texas. Meanwhile he is rolling in cash four inches of rain. He's paid the equivalent of over a hundred twenty thousand dollars today for one gig by nineteen fifteen. He's racked up seventeen different commercial contracts. Does he sometimes fail to produce rain. Yes but he can't win them all especially with so many elements at play temperature pressure wind all that meteorology stuff lay. People wouldn't understand the press falls for it. They don't pay much attention to charles failures in the grand scheme of things. One magazine writes his disappointments have been very few of course. Very few is very vague. So i don't know charles exact success rate but none of that matters because big storm can wash away every failure and sometimes it washes away a few lives in the process. Coming up nature shows its strength. Hi it's vanessa from cast. And i'm here to tell you about my new ten episode limited series obituaries. There are some of the most iconic figures of all time celebrated in death for their individual achievements and packed on society but in life the relationships they kept telling a different story. One of unexpected connections that yielded extraordinary change every wednesday on obituaries. Join my co-host carter in me. As we explore the shared legacies of prolific pairs from the past from the mutual traumas of entertainers maryland. Monroe and ella fitzgerald to the unlikely admiration. Between visionaries mark twain and nikola tesla each episode of obituaries digs deep into the lasting impressions made between two legendary figures. And how they're entanglements changed. The course of history these meaningful duos may have passed on but the profound effect they had on each other and us will live on forever. Follow the spotify original from podcast. Obituaries listen free. Only on spotify this episode is brought to you by the volvo xc forty. Did you know that there's a bike shortage around the world right now because more people are seeking socially distant modes of transportation. Chances are you'll be sharing the city streets with more cyclists the volvo xc forty. Suv is made to help. Protect people in and around the car with detection. Technology keeping an eye out using high-tech cameras and sensors and can automatically apply the brakes to help avoid a collision. The xy forty for everyone's safety visit volvo cars dot com slash. Us to learn more now back to the story in nineteen fifteen. San diego is hot. it's dry and that's a problem. The the panama canal just opened which means boat traffic up. The west coast is going to be ramping up. San diego wants to stake. Its claim as the go to port for all these boats so the city plans this huge promotional event. It's meant to be like olympic level big but if rain doesn't start falling there's going to be no water to drink and no crops to feed all the people coming in obviously the city's government is freaking out so when charles hatfield pops into town promising he could fill their reservoir no problem. Most council members are happy to take him up on his offer. They don't even mind that he's charging ten thousand dollars the equivalent of more than two hundred fifty thousand dollars today but there are some skeptics. This one council member named herbert fe does entrust it. He says charles is a con man. Peddling quote rank foolishness but as usual. Charles is only asking for payment if he succeeds. It's no risk all were work. So the council votes four to one to give him a chance. Now charles is no novice at this point. He's been in the game for over ten years with this is still his biggest contract ever so the pressures on as san diego is preparing to ring in the new year of nineteen sixteen charles sets off on a quiet hikes through the woods with his brother who he's recruited as an assistant they're heading for a spot sixty miles east of the city right near the marina reservoir the one he promised to fill but as he starts building his usual worksite. He realizes he's been followed. A bunch of san diego residents apparently caught wind of his plans and hiked up to watch him work. A crowd watches as he builds his tower and mixes his chemicals. But this time around. He does something unusual. He lights some of the pans on fire which maybe is an accident or possibly a new technique regard lists. The smell is horrible. One witness describes it as quote if.
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"charles hatfield" Discussed on Supernatural with Ashley Flowers
"Who wouldn't want to control the weather. You could have the perfect beach day anytime you want it a thunderstorm when you wanted to stay in a breeze as fall asleep even a light drizzle to water your plants. I feel like the weather even affects my mood so much that it would almost be like being able to control my emotions. But what if you could only control this power so much like you couldn't make it rain but you never really knew how much it would be could be. One inch could be ten. What if one day. Things got a little out of control. You were no longer just playing with people's emotions. You were playing with their lives. This is the story of the rainmaker. Charles hatfield this is supernatural. A spotify original from podcast. I'm your host ashley flowers every wednesday. I'll be taking a deep dive into a real unexplained occurrence to try and figure out the truth. You can find all episodes of supernatural and all other spotify originals from podcast for free on spotify. This week. I'm looking at charles hatfield a self-proclaimed rainmaker who had a lot of skeptics until he summoned a storm so while it marked the wettest period in san diego history. Suddenly his mysterious technology didn't seem so hokey anymore. It seemed downright dangerous. I'll have all that and more coming up. Stay with us. This episode is brought to you by the volvo. Xc forty chances. Are you're sharing the city streets with more cyclists. The volvo forty. Suv is made to help. Protect people in and around the car with detection technology. An eye out using tech cameras and sensors and can automatically apply the brakes to help. Avoid a collision the xy forty for everyone's safety visit volvo cars dot com slash. Us to learn more. This episode is brought to you by square with square. You get more than a website. You get a set of tools to help you sell products book appointments and take orders online fast. See what square can do for your business at square dot com slash. Go slash podcast. This episode is brought to you by volvo cars. The future is electric so by twenty thirty. All new volvo cars will be fully electric drive a volvo that helps protect your family and the planet we all share learn more at volvo dot com slash. Us ever since ancient. Times wanted to understand the weather but without science they had to invent creative ways to explain it so the greeks told stories about a pantheon of gods who used whether for their own ends. The book of genesis gave us the story of noah and the catastrophic flood but by the time the industrial age was in full swing. People wanted to do more than explain the weather. They wanted to control it. After all by the nineteenth century powers that once seemed impossible. Even supernatural becoming commonplace humankind had harnessed electric light in glass bulbs. Couldn't someone figure out how to control the rain. The first man to vie for the title of scientific rainmaker was james pollard. Espy an american meteorologist. He believed that he could set these massive forest fires that would heat the air up and create enough condensation to make rain. Unfortunately for him and the forest he obliterated his theory didn't work. Throughout the rest of the nineteenth century other would be rainmakers had similar non results and pretty soon people began to suspect that the whole concept of weather modification was just wishful thinking until the early twentieth century. When a self taught weather aficionado enter the picture with a bit more optimism. His name is charles hatfield as a young man. Charles is working a day job as a sewing machine salesman when he comes across these stories about rainmakers like james pollard. Espy and he's like these guys are pedaling something valuable more than hope. They're selling life. Charles spent his youth working on his father's ranch in california so he understands the importance of rain. Water crops means a healthy harvest which means enough food to eat. If you could find a way to prevent droughts there might never be another famine. Sure every attempt at actually doing it has been a pretty big failure but maybe charles can crack the code and if he can he can definitely make a pretty penny off the deal. So charles learns everything he can about meteorology atmospheric pressure humidity wind patterns. It's not a formal education. But he feels like he really has a knack for it and when he's done with his books. Charles starts experimenting. He climbs a windmill tower near his father's ranch and starts messing around with some chemicals to create his secret formula. I'm not exactly sure what these experiments are or what goes into his miraculous rain potion. Charles never tells anyone his secrets. But i do know that by nineteen for a twenty nine year. Old charles is ready to go public with his new technology. He plays some ads in the local paper calling himself. A moisture accelerator. His work isn't magic. He stresses he says quote. I do not make rain. That would be an absurd claim. I simply attract clouds and they do the rest. The ads catch the eye of some ranchers. Just outside la. They're super intrigued. Especially because the former salesman has an incredible pitch. Charles promises a no money down guarantee. Nobody has to pay him until after it rains. And he's only asking for fifty bucks which is worth about fifteen hundred dollars today and don't get me wrong. That's not pennies. But ranchers are used to hefty business expenses. And if there's a drought they'd lose much more and plus charles doesn't look like a con man. He clearly has ambition and a healthy dose of bravado. But he's serious about what he's doing. He looks like he's been in his lab for so long. He hasn't seen the sun in years. Now there is something a little off about his piercing blue eyes. But it's the kind of off that could just be the mannerisms of genius so in the end the ranchers are like you got yourself a deal on the big day the ranchers show up to watch charles's process. There's a lot that goes into it i. There's this wooden platform elevated on tall stilts charles apparently calls this his evaporating tower. It's so tall. It looks like it's ways with every light breeze but that could also be a mirage from the overbearing heat next charles halls up some of his secret sauce and pours it into these big shallow trays were. It will eventually evaporate. Naturally he doesn't tell the ranchers. What's in the mixture but he does give a few hints it's.
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"charles hatfield" Discussed on Supernatural with Ashley Flowers
"Since ancient. Times wanted to understand the weather but without science they had to invent creative ways to explain it so the greeks told stories about a pantheon of gods who used whether for their own ends. The book of genesis gave us the story of noah and the catastrophic flood but by the time the industrial age was in full swing. People wanted to do more than explain the weather. They wanted to control it. After all by the nineteenth century powers that once seemed impossible. Even supernatural becoming commonplace humankind had harnessed electric light in glass bulbs. Couldn't someone figure out how to control the rain. The first man to vie for the title of scientific rainmaker was james pollard. Espy an american meteorologist. He believed that he could set these massive forest fires that would heat the air up and create enough condensation to make rain. Unfortunately for him and the forest he obliterated his theory didn't work. Throughout the rest of the nineteenth century other would be rainmakers had similar non results and pretty soon people began to suspect that the whole concept of weather modification was just wishful thinking until the early twentieth century. When a self taught weather aficionado enter the picture with a bit more optimism. His name is charles hatfield as a young man. Charles is working a day job as a sewing machine salesman when he comes across these stories about rainmakers like james pollard. Espy and he's like these guys are pedaling something valuable more than hope. They're selling life. Charles spent his youth working on his father's ranch in california so he understands the importance of rain. Water crops means a healthy harvest which means enough food to eat. If you could find a way to prevent droughts there might never be another famine. Sure every attempt at actually doing it has been a pretty big failure but maybe charles can crack the code and if he can he can definitely make a pretty penny off the deal. So charles learns everything he can about meteorology atmospheric pressure humidity wind patterns. It's not a formal education. But he feels like he really has a knack for it and when he's done with his books. Charles starts experimenting. He climbs a windmill tower near his father's ranch and starts messing around with some chemicals to create his secret formula. I'm not exactly sure what these experiments are or what goes into his miraculous rain potion. Charles never tells anyone his secrets. But i do know that by nineteen for a twenty nine year. Old charles is ready to go public with his new technology. He plays some ads in the local paper calling himself. A moisture accelerator. His work isn't magic. He stresses he says quote. I do not make rain. That would be an absurd claim. I simply attract clouds and they do the
Supernatural with Ashley Flowers
The Legend of Charles Hatfield: Rainmaker
"Since ancient. Times wanted to understand the weather but without science they had to invent creative ways to explain it so the greeks told stories about a pantheon of gods who used whether for their own ends. The book of genesis gave us the story of noah and the catastrophic flood but by the time the industrial age was in full swing. People wanted to do more than explain the weather. They wanted to control it. After all by the nineteenth century powers that once seemed impossible. Even supernatural becoming commonplace humankind had harnessed electric light in glass bulbs. Couldn't someone figure out how to control the rain. The first man to vie for the title of scientific rainmaker was james pollard. Espy an american meteorologist. He believed that he could set these massive forest fires that would heat the air up and create enough condensation to make rain. Unfortunately for him and the forest he obliterated his theory didn't work. Throughout the rest of the nineteenth century other would be rainmakers had similar non results and pretty soon people began to suspect that the whole concept of weather modification was just wishful thinking until the early twentieth century. When a self taught weather aficionado enter the picture with a bit more optimism. His name is charles hatfield as a young man. Charles is working a day job as a sewing machine salesman when he comes across these stories about rainmakers like james pollard. Espy and he's like these guys are pedaling something valuable more than hope. They're selling life. Charles spent his youth working on his father's ranch in california so he understands the importance of rain. Water crops means a healthy harvest which means enough food to eat. If you could find a way to prevent droughts there might never be another famine. Sure every attempt at actually doing it has been a pretty big failure but maybe charles can crack the code and if he can he can definitely make a pretty penny off the deal. So charles learns everything he can about meteorology atmospheric pressure humidity wind patterns. It's not a formal education. But he feels like he really has a knack for it and when he's done with his books. Charles starts experimenting. He climbs a windmill tower near his father's ranch and starts messing around with some chemicals to create his secret formula. I'm not exactly sure what these experiments are or what goes into his miraculous rain potion. Charles never tells anyone his secrets. But i do know that by nineteen for a twenty nine year. Old charles is ready to go public with his new technology. He plays some ads in the local paper calling himself. A moisture accelerator. His work isn't magic. He stresses he says quote. I do not make rain. That would be an absurd claim. I simply attract clouds and they do the