Delhi tries to make it rain: The good, the bad, and what if it really pours

In the X-Men universe, an Omega-level mutant is defined as one whose dominant power has no upper limit. Among them was Ororo Munroe, better known by her moniker Storm , who could make it rain at will because she could control the entire planetary ecosystem. This led Magneto, in the X-Men ’97 reboot, to refer to her as the closest thing to a divine being, which in essence is what humans have been trying to do since we arrived on earth. We have managed to fly distant continents, split the atom, create antimatter, build machines that mimic the mind, map the human genome, reach the moon, grow meat without animals and diamonds in a lab — but we still struggle to, like Storm, make it rain at will. And yet, every so often, we try. From Beijing to Dubai, humans have spent decades firing silv