Augustus Doricko

And, like, we need the chips in Taiwan.

I get that, but, like...

I don't know.

I would prefer that we're inspired to action and get really serious about weather modification and all these other strategic technologies, because we do want to be the strongest power in the world, and we do want an American vision for the world and for space in the future, but not one that is on a collision course with China in World War III.

So let's open with cloud seeding, right?

Cloud seeding was a technology invented in the United States by American scientists in 1946.

It is super localized in its effect, both in space and time, meaning you can make it rain or snow more over an individual city, over 100 square miles at a time.

Precipitation happens 15 minutes to a couple hours after your intervention.

And if you stop operating, if you stop cloud seeding,

then you stop affecting the weather it stops changing right so so you can turn it off whenever you want also because we were doing all these experiments over the course of the last 80 years we have data on its safety right we have data on the materials that we use so

People have typically used a material called silver iodide to freeze the liquid in the cloud into these big snowflakes that eventually precipitate, melt into rain, or stay as snow.

Silver iodide, its toxicity is like 10 times less than aspirin, for one.

But more importantly than that, after decades of operations in Utah and Idaho and Colorado and California, because there were all these old programs like I mentioned, they only added eight parts per trillion more silver to the soil.

And there's already two parts per million silver in

American soil as it stands.

So they added a million times less than what's naturally there.

No adverse ecological consequences, agricultural consequences, consequences to human health.

Like it's way below the threshold where you'd start to see anything like that.

So cloud seeding is just a way to make more water.

It's super local in its effect.