I've always taken umbrage with the term 'moisture farmer' as it's used in Star Wars. What, you're getting up bright and early to head out and till the sky? When you've gotta run some moisture out to graze and one of 'em breaks loose, do you rope a cloud? Y'all puttin' two condensers in a field together and hoping you get a third? That shit ain't farming. You're sitting in one place nursing a machine that's doing all the hard work for you. Luke Skywalker was a fucking moisture miner. In this essay,
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B-but in what little weather-control that we have today, you seed the clouds. So maybe Owen walks around tossing handfuls of salts in the air, like Rip Taylor and his confetti, then waits around for months for the "harvest," because he's not particularly good at this...
And that's how I learned more about cloud seeding than I ever had until today! Fascinating stuff! Mildly terrifying, of course, since... y'know, big crazy weather control devices have been a villain schtick for a reason, but still super interesting to know we've got some limited capacity to influence those patterns.
When HAARP was big in conspiracy theories for alleged weather control, I used to "explain" that the technology was really just a giant CB to coordinate the folksy guys in biplanes...