For your information: weather modification

"S. 517"

I'll repeat, for emphasis.

"S. 517"

The S. stands for Senate. This is a senate bill regarding weather modification. Here are a few details, courtesy of govtrack.us :

109th Congress
S. 517: A bill to establish a Weather Modification Operations and Research Board, and for other purposes
Introduced: Mar 3, 2005
Sponsor: Sen. Kay Hutchison [R-TX]
Status: Introduced (By Sen. Kay Hutchison [R-TX])

Following is the opening text of the bill, for your review. It's just the first few sections. I've copied and pasted the text, and there appears to be a little html/javascript jumping going on, but it should be legible. I've corrected all the major trouble spots.

It should not be hard to locate the full text of the bill, but you'll have to care enough yourself to do an easy google search because I'm not going to post it here in full, at least not yet (and not without commentary).

I hope you go read the whole thing, because it offers some potentially frightening insights when one examines the language and objectives. I can't refrain from posting at least one additional sample, besides the intro below; so here it is, from the section which would establish the official weather modification board ("Board Established"), in the subsection dealing with membership:

16 (E) At least 1 member shall be a representa-
17 tive of a State organization that is currently
18 supporting operational weather modification
19 projects.

It doesn't take a college degree to figure out if one member must represent an organization supporting operational weather modification projects, there must be operational weather modification projects.

I wonder what "other purposes" means?

Without further babbling, here's the opening text to the bill:

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
MARCH 3, 2005
Mrs. HUTCHISON introduced the following bill; which was read twice and
referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation

DECEMBER 8, 2005
Reported under authority of the order of the Senate of November 18, 2005,
by Mr. STEVENS, with an amendment and an amendment to the title
[Strike all after the enacting clause and insert the part printed in italic]

A BILL
To establish the Weather Modification Operations and
Research Board, and for other purposes.

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
2
1 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

2 This Act may be cited as the ``Weather Modification
3 Research and Technology Transfer Authorization Act of
4 2005''.
5 SEC. 2. PURPOSE.

6 It is the purpose of this Act to develop and implement
7 a comprehensive and coordinated national weather modi-
8 fication policy and a national cooperative Federal and
9 State program of weather modification research and devel-
10 opment.
11 SEC. 3. DEFINITIONS.

12 In this Act:
13 (1) BOARD.--The term ``Board'' means the
14 Weather Modification Advisory and Research Board.
15 (2) EXECUTIVE
DIRECTOR.--The term ``Execu-

16 tive Director'' means the Executive Director of the
17 Weather Modification Advisory and Research Board.
18 (3) RESEARCH
AND DEVELOPMENT.--The term

19 ``research and development'' means theoretical anal-
20 ysis, exploration, experimentation, and the extension
21 of investigative findings and theories of scientific or
22 technical nature into practical application for experi-
23 mental and demonstration purposes, including the
24 experimental production and testing of models, de-
25 vices, equipment, materials, and processes.


S 517 RS
3
1 (4) WEATHER
MODIFICATION.--The term

2 ``weather modification'' means changing or control-
3 ling, or attempting to change or control, by artificial
4 methods the natural development of atmospheric
5 cloud forms or precipitation forms which occur in
6 the troposphere.