Chinese plan to control rain for Olympics


	Chinese plan to control rain for Olympics

dorine

4-26-2007 10:10 AM

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chinese, olympics, rain, science, interesting

dorine says:

This will be interesting to see.

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4-26-2007 11:02 PM

faithm

lol

4-26-2007 11:20 PM

The REAL Napster

Yawn....
Man trying to control nature again. Mother nature is a WOMAN and all they are going to do is piss her off...

4-27-2007 8:00 AM

dorine

ROFLMAO!!!!!!!

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