Augustus Doricko
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Yeah, and that weighs on me a lot.
So should we be scrutinous?
Yes.
To your point as well, you know, you said like, well, what if you totally changed the ecosystem?
Could something bad happen?
I was talking to, was it Will earlier in here?
Wyatt.
Wyatt.
One thing to think about that is actually sort of a fun thought experiment is like greening the Sahara, right?
Sahara Desert, huge wasteland.
If you turn the Sahara Desert green, that actually would not be very good because...
The dust from the Sahara that goes over the ocean, over the Amazon, results in a lot of the cloud condensation and the precipitation.
So if you turn all that green and the dust stops getting kicked up, you might actually reduce the precipitation of the Amazon.
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,
we're going to have questions that we have to answer about what the consequences will be globally.
But I think that humans are pretty good at engineering solutions and building new technology and building new systems to make the world better.
Have you heard of Project Storm Fury?
No.
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,
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.