Augustus Doricko

They were the scientists that did it.

They made it snow over the Appalachians.

Then by the time that Vietnam came around.

Why were they doing this?

Do you have any idea?

Because you ever heard the expression, do's rock?

It's just like, guys are pretty cool.

Back in the 40s, we were experimenting with a lot of cool stuff, nuclear energy, weather modification, rocketry.

Basically, people just believed in the future.

They wanted to see a new world, right?

And not like a brave new world, like a better, more American, more free, more productive, abundant one.

And so if you can modify the weather, then you can make more water for people.

You can prevent flooding.

You can prevent blizzards, that sort of stuff, or at least in theory when it becomes mature enough.

what the idea was in Operation Popeye, which is what we did in Vietnam, was to extend the monsoon season, cause more precipitation over the Ho Chi Minh Trail to impede the logistics of the Viet Cong, right?

So everybody knows about how we were secretly bombing Cambodia.

That was a big no-no.

Not as many people know about Popeye.

The problem with Popeye was

We did not have much in the way of satellites at the time.