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Augustus Doricko

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
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The Shawn Ryan Show
#207 Augustus Doricko - CEO of Rainmaker: Manipulating the Weather

Yeah, and that weighs on me a lot.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#207 Augustus Doricko - CEO of Rainmaker: Manipulating the Weather

So should we be scrutinous?

The Shawn Ryan Show
#207 Augustus Doricko - CEO of Rainmaker: Manipulating the Weather

Yes.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#207 Augustus Doricko - CEO of Rainmaker: Manipulating the Weather

To your point as well, you know, you said like, well, what if you totally changed the ecosystem?

The Shawn Ryan Show
#207 Augustus Doricko - CEO of Rainmaker: Manipulating the Weather

Could something bad happen?

The Shawn Ryan Show
#207 Augustus Doricko - CEO of Rainmaker: Manipulating the Weather

I was talking to, was it Will earlier in here?

The Shawn Ryan Show
#207 Augustus Doricko - CEO of Rainmaker: Manipulating the Weather

Wyatt.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#207 Augustus Doricko - CEO of Rainmaker: Manipulating the Weather

Wyatt.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#207 Augustus Doricko - CEO of Rainmaker: Manipulating the Weather

One thing to think about that is actually sort of a fun thought experiment is like greening the Sahara, right?

The Shawn Ryan Show
#207 Augustus Doricko - CEO of Rainmaker: Manipulating the Weather

Sahara Desert, huge wasteland.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#207 Augustus Doricko - CEO of Rainmaker: Manipulating the Weather

If you turn the Sahara Desert green, that actually would not be very good because...

The Shawn Ryan Show
#207 Augustus Doricko - CEO of Rainmaker: Manipulating the Weather

The dust from the Sahara that goes over the ocean, over the Amazon, results in a lot of the cloud condensation and the precipitation.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#207 Augustus Doricko - CEO of Rainmaker: Manipulating the Weather

So if you turn all that green and the dust stops getting kicked up, you might actually reduce the precipitation of the Amazon.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#207 Augustus Doricko - CEO of Rainmaker: Manipulating the Weather

So when Rainmaker gets to the scale in a decade or so of actively terraforming the planet, making it more lush and green and symbiotic than it ever has been before,

The Shawn Ryan Show
#207 Augustus Doricko - CEO of Rainmaker: Manipulating the Weather

we're going to have questions that we have to answer about what the consequences will be globally.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#207 Augustus Doricko - CEO of Rainmaker: Manipulating the Weather

But I think that humans are pretty good at engineering solutions and building new technology and building new systems to make the world better.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#207 Augustus Doricko - CEO of Rainmaker: Manipulating the Weather

Have you heard of Project Storm Fury?

The Shawn Ryan Show
#207 Augustus Doricko - CEO of Rainmaker: Manipulating the Weather

No.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#207 Augustus Doricko - CEO of Rainmaker: Manipulating the Weather

So about the same time period as Popeye, the US Air Force, in collaboration with the US Weather Bureau, which eventually became like NOAA and the National Weather Service,

The Shawn Ryan Show
#207 Augustus Doricko - CEO of Rainmaker: Manipulating the Weather

they were flying into the Atlantic Ocean to seed hurricanes to try to prevent the amount of damage, or mitigate the amount of damage that they did before they broke against the eastern seaboard.