Augustus Doricko

We were operating on the second, and we flew one 20-minute cloud seeding mission.

So we seeded two clouds, and we dispersed 70 grams of silver iodide into those clouds.

First of all, those clouds dissipated over the course of the two hours after the mission, right?

So did we seed the storm itself?

No, absolutely not.

Did we seed clouds that dumped tons of precipitation?

No, not that either.

Like the most successful cloud seeding missions that have ever been conducted either by Rainmaker or research labs have produced tens of millions of gallons of precipitation.

They got

hundreds of billions of gallons of precipitation over the course of just hours and trillions cumulatively.

So cloud seeding, though it can make useful amounts of water for these farms and ecosystems, cannot produce a million times more than what the best operations ever have.

So that's the first thing to say.

The second thing to say is, well,

You know, maybe because you seeded those two clouds on the second, the material stayed in the atmosphere and then made the flooding worse later.

And we know categorically that that's not true either.

When you seed into clouds and there's subsequent precipitation,

the material that you disperse gets precipitated out with the rain, right?

So, one, we know that by seeding into the clouds, the aerosol dissipated, but two, even if we had just been seeding into open air, and we weren't, right, it was 20-plus hours between when our mission occurred and when the flooding ensued, and the winds were blowing northwest, northwest such that any of our aerosols would have been long and far north had they even persisted in the atmosphere, and they didn't.

about the aerosols up there.

So one thing... The wind.