Augustus Doricko

And we also didn't have much radar.

So if you look at the reports of troops on the ground and meteorologists on the ground, they say that they were able to extend the monsoon season.

But we have very, very little data to prove that, right?

Like I said, it wasn't until 2017 that we really unambiguously proved that this was possible.

But just for additional context for folks,

The 54th Weather Reconnaissance Squadron in the Air Force, their motto was make mud, not war.

Because the idea was if you could flood out these supply chains, then you could prevent people, the Viet Cong, from getting to the lines and actually shooting bullets at people instead.

So the idea was to drop rain.

Interesting.

Yeah.

You know what's...

Well, yeah, I mean, I don't blame people for not trusting the government, right?

They haven't had a great track record in the last five years or so, right?

I said, I don't trust them.

Do you trust them?

No, no, no.

Some people in the government I do, but writ large, not so much, right?

So, like, one of the things that Rainmaker advocates for that doesn't exist right now is, like, more intense regulatory scrutiny from the federal government into weather modification, right?

Like, technically, there's two...

two big pieces of regulation on weather modification right now.