In Popular Culture
In hacker slang, "rain dance" refers to "any ceremonial action taken to correct a hardware problem, with the expectation that nothing will be accomplished." In search and rescue, a rain dance is a method of estimating how far apart searchers in a line search should be spaced so as not to miss clues and not to waste searchers' effort.
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