Good Afternoon People,
Everyday I meet eyes with the massive Santa Cruz mountains, humbled in awe. I forget this is the norm, living in California, wondering about the miles and miles of thirsty lands singing out.
Augustus Doricko, founder of Rainmaker said half a million acres of California farmland face going dry by 20301 as water sources tighten; all while 31 state legislatures are debating banning weather modification. If you’re unsure of where you stand on this matter, hopefully you walk away understanding why we should be cloud seeding in America!
Did you even know that people can just make rain fall out of the sky?
Not just praying it falls... Actually producing it. Enough water to end water scarcity if governments and mobs just let them be. Rainmakers do exactly what their name suggests, showing us how science and technology can imitate nature's processes safely. While many cloud-seeders operate across the world, I'm arguing specifically for Rainmaker's approach because they’re transparent, diligent, and just swag all around. I want to bust two myths I see too often standing in the pathway of knowledge about their greatness: that cloud seeding is dangerous and weather modification technology being “against God”.
I wondered, what happens to wonder? Those magic Ls, feeling mad when weather won.
Weather is magic everyone has seen the light of. Wonder is cheap looking out the car window. My little brothers and I would take turns looking for rockets planes, clowns, flowers, and even the shape of Spain; solving our boredom by asking any questions that just arose, stretching our imagination out—cloud by cloud. Mathis, the youngest, saw a world of great fear: of toilets, elevators, planes, car engines, passing trains—name anything loud and mechanical—certainly it terrified him. He loved clouds, and learned to identify all of them at daycare; a decade later, he forgot about them.
Was it eclipsed by the sobering reality of nature’s indifference? Sun is a friend who teaches light and heat, burn to be-free.
Light Makes Rain
We kids, see death around the corner
ask the sky for wonder.
Hungry clouds
Swag in the deep.A lion never lives, on his knees.
With an eagle’s grip, he’ll touch the sky,
but it’s the man who shows him to fly.
Circumvent famished belly with silver iodide,
small asks, dreams delight mission.Playing chef to the storm,
seven courses of feast seeding,
reversing Earth’s time before America’s defeated.
Freeze it quickly, chems heat and eat it.
Another dawn on death’s dark disease,
dry lands, animals, and man
chewing on fate’s great feat, spitting it
Out, back to go the distance each week.Seeing light, a loving face,
sweet liberty calling from the other end.
Man-made creation be wet on your skin.
Beauty when you sleep. Wise peace.
Respect for death becomes new life.
Hungry lands swag
For they see, thirsting.
Conquering that, is the belonging.We kids
Need to be-free.
For much of human history, weather gave humans a sense of heaven and hell.
They didn’t have the science yet, just stories to tell. All explained to be works of God or “just nature”. As the sun shines on all, rain falls just as hard; if it is there, it seems nature just doesn’t care. How could nature be love? On your worst days, rain falls cold on your head—wet pellet alarm. Can’t go inside from out, she has no bed. Lightning strikes you, unlucky one. Without skill, food never reveals itself. Strongs wind blows your fire dark. Light it, finally. Floods wash you, your dog, and all your favorite things away without a trace. Snow freezes fingers. Earthquakes just shake you. Either way, your horizon expands. More to discover. The Earth doesn’t care how we feel about him. It just is, and we just aren’t—from this place.
If you know the science, you understand the magic, you don’t have to shake your fist at the sky and pray on it. Understanding process assists creating with light. Rainmaker does just that.
Their Alaska operation last week produced 19 million gallons of water in just 3 hours, measured and reported—linked below. Rainmaker has proprietary autonomous quadcopter drones that fly up to the right temp clouds, instead of endangering pilots, to release tiny, safe particles of a chemical, silver iodide2, into existing clouds. As of now, no one can create clouds out of thin air, so there is room for more innovation still ;) But with cloud-seeding, the silver iodide particles act like magnets for microscopic water droplets, causing them to freeze up, group together, then grow heavy enough to fall as extra rain or snow within minutes to hours. This can only work with the right natural conditions already present, and with tightly monitored environments and constraints for testing and seeding to prevent flooding. They’re not playing God… as great men working with constraints of nature for the habitation of the planet, some may not believe in their honesty—but what gives them light when no one else can see?
“Contrails” or “Chemtrails” educate that fake news…
Dismissing cloud seeding a whole due to “chemtrails”, without thinking, leads to conflating conspiracy with scientific solution with a method that has been state-permitted since the 1940s. Cloud seeding is old, you can learn about the inventors at the end. Rainmaker drones do not produce the white lines you’d see left by high-flying airplanes, those are exhaust trails, or “contrails,” which are ice streaks left from jet engines. Contrails are harmless clouds of ice crystals that form when hot jet engine exhaust mixes with freezing high-altitude air.
On the other hand, chemtrails are just made up... This conspiracy theory spreads a meme across social media that governments are spraying toxic chemicals high in the sky to control the weather or secretly poison people. It is a baseless theory because Rainmaker is both transparent and succinct in their procedures and reporting3, additionally there is no evidence or data to support secret spraying programs. When good work is being done, good work is being done. Please just let them make water for our country!
Light Is Knowledge
“When you believe in things that you don't understand
Then you suffer
Superstition ain't the way, yeah”- Stevie Wonder, Superstition
No one can know everything, but generally it’s best not to hold judgment what you don’t understand. Do you know how clouds are created? I didn’t until looking it up, but to contribute to arguments effectively—always do basic research. Clouds form when water high in the atmosphere turns into tiny drops of ice by sticking to microscopic bits of dust or salt. It is impossible to know it all, but practice clarifying ignorance with knowledge. Too much information makes the brain numb, but knowledge is quite simple when you understand it.
31 U.S. states have recently debated banning weather modification due to growing public anxiety online. States like Tennessee, Florida, and Montana have already successfully passed these bans into law. And while the aim is stated to block “controversial” climate-cooling technologies, their broad language threatens Rainmakers from cloud-seeding. But legislators don't make these choices in a vacuum—they are reacting to citizen internet panic. Driven by unexamined fear rather than scientific consensus, this legislative push forces a false choice: preemptively banning vital tools to combat water scarcity, or caving to viral conspiracy theories under the guise of protecting the skies.
Banning weather modification domestically doesn’t stop science; it simply cedes leverage of innovation to other nations. While several U.S. states are weighing bans, China treats weather enhancement as a serious, long-term infrastructure investment. China has 38,000 employees working and spending hundreds of millions of dollars a year on its weather modification programs. In contrast, the U.S. states in 31 states want to ban weather modification... Bans are unilateral disarmament from innovation in a domain a geopolitical rival is actively scaling, at the cost of our own agricultural, hydro, and drought resilience. The technology was born in America, but it won’t continue to evolve here if the U.S. refuses to let it grow. To sum that up, someone will be making it rain somewhere, but not America.
Technology is the antidote, made of love.
“Technology is neither good nor bad, and it isn’t neutral either.”
- Melvin Kranzberg
To Melvin I say, so is love.
Technology is an abstract and scary word, what does it mean or entail? Part of that confusion lies in the fact, language is technology itself. Technology, and words are tools we use to describe the art of tool making. The etymology from Greek is techne, meaning art, craft, skill; the science and art of ideas made to matter.
That’s why “tools”, even with values imparted from it’s creator, aren’t moral objects, they’re functional. The way tools are perceived depend on how they’re used. People are agents, not tools—because we can ideally have agency ourselves. But animals can be tools or agents with conscience—though I’d bet only humans have moral conscience. We make everything into arts and tools. From music, language, images, the glasses you wear on your face, to governments, books, and even human using human—unfortunately.
All we see and use in this world reflects humanity’s nature of toolmaking to survive environments and circumstances we cannot control. Art, technology, and science are all imitations of the creator magic we call “God”, which means even religion and God are a tools that come into being through human. There is no silver bullet to the challenge of suffering and death. There is only hard work of being. Being people, creators of poetry, of partnership, is why we feel like we don’t fully belong to the Earth. Look to the sky, to the cosmos, to the stars. For something more than we can see with our eyes and feel in our heats.
Technology is human destiny. Look at the myth of Noah and his Ark. In his story, God ended the human experiment because it was failing; they were consuming each other in violence and destruction. But all hope for humanity was not lost, God noticed a light in a man, different from the rest. Noah4, who is given a project that takes him 120 years to finish, proves himself in mission true to love. That story is the first rainbow of redemption for humanity where grace is redefined to include humans, which is exactly why Jesus suffering for humanity means anything to Christians at all. God does not save lives by removing the burden of work or pain. God saves lives us by handing people projects that matter more than fear or suffering. Love is strongest of all.
Nature’s wheel is unfair, and full of pain. Light lies in humans, who create remedies for pain. Love, joy, and happiness; free and accessible to all who wish to pay attention to it.
If you knew these were your last years alive, what would you be loving? Learning? Working for? Would you try to solve problems for the people and places you love?
I think you should think about that.
The best things that remain of the world we use today are the ideas and creations past humans built for us to survive, they might not have done it for us, but maybe that’s the issue with humanity, the cycle we should break with love. Nature can be our friend now that we have science and technology by our side to understand her.
If we lock in, to this present moment, we will be capable of resolving suffering and death for future human. Isn’t that the point of Jesus’s story? Like Cobb in Inception, he planted the ideas of freedom through love, death as a disease, neighbor as self in the minds and heart’s of the people; so that every mistake, every failure, every acre of dead, drying land, can be redeemed with love, matter, and through the hands people willing to do something to change it.
Don’t stand in the way, advocate for Rainmakers!
They can help the Earth make infinite snow and rain! They also have an amazing website that has all the info you need stay educated about them if you are passionate about these issues:
special gift from me, Rainmaker Youtube Playlist
We got to enjoy fresh glacier water, and I think the Earth deserves a little bit of that on tap too! Glad AK lands are represented!
Hope you’re down with this reality. Any thoughts on cloud seeding? Let’s talk about it.
Peace People,
philoso ∞ the philosofounder
#FreedomForLove #MakeAmericaFreeAgain
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Models & References:
2Pac- Death Around The Corner [faux music video]
Paper Belt On Fire by Micheal Gibson:
“The lakes, reservoirs, and aquifers of the American West are dying of thirst…more than half the land—64%—is currently undergoing a drought or worse. From 2012 to 2016, California experienced one of it’s longest droughts on record. The economic loss to farmers was ruinous, nearly $4 billion. The U.S. Forest Services estimate 102 million trees died from lack of water, leaving a dried out tinder box to fuel the largest fires in California’s history...We may shake our fists at the skies for the decline—bad luck or climate change—but there is not a scarcity of water.” — (pg. 309-310)
“More than any policy, Israel has innovated…most people in the United States focus on small-scale innovations and altering personal behavior… their use saves only a minuscule amount of water compared to the gains to be made in farming and industry, where the overwhelming amount of water gets used… In California, irrigation for farms accounts for 80% of water use. In Arizona, it’s 87%. In New Mexico, close to 90%. Asking someone to take shorter showers is laughable. We need innovation where it matters most.” — (pg. 311)
“A world without droughts is within our reach. We can achieve independence from the climate and immunity from adverse dry weather conditions. If the water dries up and our cities erode in the wind and sand, the fault will be ours and not the weather’s. Like sources of energy, sources of water must be consistent and reliable.” — (pg. 312)
Fun Fact:
“Kurt Vonnegut’s older brother Bernard was the co-inventor of the most widely used rain-cloud seeding process…recast by Kurt as “ice-nine” in his dystopian novel, Cat’s Cradle.” - (pg. 312)
Bernard was an atmospheric scientist and physicist who discovered that silver iodide could be used for cloud seeding alongside his collaborators Vincent Joseph Schaefer and Dr. Irving Langmuir.
Marriage of Heaven and Hell by William Blake:
“Rintrah roars and shakes his fires in the burdened air;
Hungry clouds swag on the deep.
Once meek, and in a perilous path,
The just man kept his course along
The vale of death.
Roses are planted where thorns grow,
And on the barren heath
Sing the honey bees.” - The Argument
“He who desires but acts not, breeds pestilence.
The cut worm forgives the plow.
Dip him in the river who loves water.
A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.
He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star.
Eternity is in love with the productions of time.” — Proverbs of Hell
“Isaiah answered: I saw no God, nor heard any, in a finite organical perception: but my senses discovered the infinite in everything;
and as I was then persuaded, and remained confirmed, that the voice of honest indignation is the voice of God, I cared not for consequences, but wrote…
Then I asked: “Does a firm persuasion that a thing is so, make it so?”
Then I asked Ezekiel why he ate dung, and lay so long on his right and left side.
He answered: “The desire of raising other men into a perception of the infinite. This the North American tribes practice. And is he honest who resists his genius or conscience, only for the sake of present ease or gratification?”
— A Memorable Fancy
Under CA’s Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA), local agencies are required to bring depleted aquifers into balanced levels. Because of these tighter water limits and pumping restrictions, analyses estimate that roughly 500,000 acres or more of agricultural land in the Central Valley will likely need to be fallowed or taken out of irrigated production as water scarcity peaks.
a compound whose crystal structures mimic ice
unlike the government
Synchronicity: After I crafted this essay at ZOE Conference, I sat next to a man and his son on the plane, and his son’s name was Noah! I think I got to be the first to tell him that his name means “Peace” :)