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Today I talked myself into believing that the US government was flagrantly negligent at multiple levels leading up to the Rapid City Flood of 1972.
By 1964, the National Academy of the Sciences had already concluded that weather control was being hyped up on uncontrolled experiments rigged together with a posteriori findings. But Congress had already doled out the cash 3 years earlier, so Project Skywater was full steam ahead.
Surely enough, another uncontrolled experiment in 1972 killed 238.
Question: "Hmmm here's a hyper-energetic system whose dynamics are fundamentally chaotic. What should we do with it?"
Answer: "Poke at it above one of the major population centers in Indian Country!"