I can make it rain-Meg Mickelsen

We live in texas, a land where the dust gets so dry it eats other dust with it's utter lack of moisture.  You could let our dust just sit in a bowl of water for a week, and you would come back and find all the water turned to more dust.  You could put our dust in the middle of SeaWorld, and all the orca's fins would get ashy.  You could put our dust on a person bathing in a tub full of Johnson's extra moisturizing baby lotion, and it would instantly mummify that person. Yes, instantly.  Texas is dry, very dry. Therefore, making it rain could really come in handy, especially in the summer.
Well, it looks like scientists are getting close to actually controlling the weather.  That's right, soon any nerd with a few special gadgets will become freaking Thor.
Rain and lightning are caused by massive amounts of static charged particles.  With a little stimulation from the right laser, the particles can unleash a huge bucket of wet on the world, more aptly called rain.  When a laser beam becomes very intense it collapses in on itself, ripping oxygen and nitrogen from the air, and creating plasma.  Plasma tries to spread the laser beam out, causing a struggle between the spreading and collapsing of the laser beam.  This creates a filament that seed the conditions for rain and lightning.  The only problem is that, before now, it has been impossible to get close enough to beam the laser into clouds without being blasted by lightning. Matthew Mills is now creating an ultra long filament that might finally be able to safely make it rain. Here's what he has to say about it "What would be nice is to have a sneaky way which allows us to produce an arbitrary long 'filament extension cable.' It turns out that if you wrap a large, low intensity, doughnut-like 'dress' beam around the filament and slowly move it inward, you can provide this arbitrary extension," Mills said. "Since we have control over the length of a filament with our method, one could seed the conditions needed for a rainstorm from afar. Ultimately, you could artificially control the rain and lightning over a large expanse with such ideas."  Goodbye drought! Read all about it herehttp://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/04/140418141242.htm.