Qatar 2022: Cloudy With A Chance Of Shade

I remember, way back when I was little, making clouds in school for a science experiment.

They didnt cost $500,000 a puff. Very little does, unless an anti-doping agency is knocking for the ominous post-game pee test.

Of course, they werent trying to save a World Cup, either, which is what Qatari scientists have offered as yet another solution to the oppressive summer heat in the Middle Easts summer. Real, traditional football, fake clouds.

Qatar officials say they will air condition the stadiums via solar power and now scientists at Qatar University have designed the cloud, which can be produced at a cost of $500,000 (309,000) each.

Saud Abdul Ghani, the head of the mechanical and industrial engineering department, told Gulf News the clouds are made from a lightweight carbon structure carrying a giant envelope of material containing helium gas. Four solar powered engines move the structure via remote control.

The supposed structure:

Now cue another epic, possibly corrupt, bidding process for the rights to man the coolest (apologies) remote controlled object in all the land.

The good moneys on Zizou: skilled technician, great vision of space, lots of fancy pirouettes with which to thrill the crowd, and hes already in tight with the Qatari World Cup team.

Being on the payroll already probably doesnt hurt either.