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Bernard Vonnegut sendiri adalah kakak dari penulis Kurt Vonnegut. Kurt Vonnegut terispirasi penelitian kakaknya dan jadilah novel Cat’s Cradle, sebuah novel yang bisa dibilang Sci-fi ice horror dengan ice-nine-nya.

Irving Langmuir, Vincent Schaefer, dan Bernard Vonnegut pada tahun 1946 melakukan penelitian "cloud seeding", sebuah metode pembekuan awan dengan menyemprotkan gas khusus ke awan sehingga awan akan membeku dan menjadi cristal es dan air.

had wings to fly, could change their shape at will and had the power to bring rain. Although they have now lost these magical powers, the present-day descendants of those early Über-elephants are still believed to have an affinity with the clouds–especially the albino ones.

According to ancient Hindu and Buddhist beliefs Cumulus clouds are the spiritual cousins of elephants, which is why the animals are worshipped, with a view to bringing rain after India’s scorching summer heat. ‘Megha’, meaning cloud in classical Hindi, is the name used to address elephants in these prayers. The Sanskrit creation myths describe how elephants created at the beginning of time were white,

-We pledge to fight ‘blue-sky thinking’ wherever we find it. Life would be dull if we had to look up at cloudless monotony day after day.

-We seek to remind people that clouds are expressions of the atmosphere’s moods, and can be read like those of a person’s countenance.

The Manifesto of The Cloud Appreciation Society

-We believe that clouds are unjustly maligned and that life would be immeasurably poorer without them.

-We think that clouds are Nature’s poetry, and the most egalitarian of her displays, since everyone can have a fantastic view of them.