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Re:Revealed: Qatar's World Cup 'slaves' by jlgreco on Wednesday September 25, 2013 @02:49PM (#6446485)
> It was always a stupid idea to have footballers running around in temperatures >100F

I assume they could probably get some strong evaporation cooling from the well-hydrated field, but I am not really familiar with that sort of extreme climate.

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Re:Revealed: Qatar's World Cup 'slaves' by yapcguy on Wednesday September 25, 2013 @02:56PM (#6446536)
They are/were looking at making artificial robotic clouds.

http://edition.cnn.com/2011/SPORT/03/25/qatar.flying.saucers...

> plans to develop giant artificial remotely controlled "clouds" made up of high-tech materials that will be positioned between the blistering sun and the still-to-be-built football stadiums in the Gulf emirate.

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Re:Revealed: Qatar's World Cup 'slaves' by sohooo on Wednesday September 25, 2013 @03:02PM (#6446574)
You probably stumbled over this article about scientists @ Qatar University developing artificial clouds: http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/9435035.stm

edit: same as above post :)

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