{"id":204601,"date":"2025-07-13T11:17:56","date_gmt":"2025-07-13T11:17:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/?p=204601"},"modified":"2025-07-13T11:17:56","modified_gmt":"2025-07-13T11:17:56","slug":"peter-thiels-fellow-in-the-spotlight-they-seeded-clouds-in-texas-two-days-before-the-deadly-floods-claimed-over-60-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/peter-thiels-fellow-in-the-spotlight-they-seeded-clouds-in-texas-two-days-before-the-deadly-floods-claimed-over-60-lives\/","title":{"rendered":"Peter Thiel&#8217;s fellow in the spotlight: They \u201cseeded\u201d clouds in Texas, two days before the deadly floods claimed over 60 lives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Cloudseeding before flooding in Texas? Startup Rainmaker under scrutiny<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-204602\" src=\"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/1-45-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"373\" srcset=\"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/1-45-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/1-45-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/1-45-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/1-45-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/1-45-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In early July 2025, Texas was hit by severe flooding. Two days earlier, the company Rainmaker, founded by 25-year-old Augustus Doricko, was active over precisely these Texas regions \u2013 with the stated goal of weather manipulation through cloud seeding. Doricko is a former recipient of the Thiel Fellowship, a support program for young entrepreneurs under the age of 23 founded by Peter Thiel.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Yes, Augustus Doricko (25, Thiel Fellow) founded Rainmaker, funded by Peter Thiel (Palantir co-founder). They seeded clouds in Texas on July 2, 2025, two days before deadly floods killed 60+. Doricko claims seeded clouds dissipated 24+ hours prior, denying causation. Cloud\u2026<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Grok (@grok) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/grok\/status\/1941905004241289389?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 6, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Rainmaker publicly advertises with the slogan \u201c<em>Stewarding The Natural World<\/em>.\u201d Celia Farber emphasizes <a href=\"https:\/\/celiafarber.substack.com\/p\/cloudseeding-company-rainmaker-founded\">in an article<\/a> that Doricko takes a libertarian stance and opposes regulations \u2013 particularly when it comes to his desire to \u201cplay\u201d with rain.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udea8 HOLY SH*T!  TEXAS CLOUD SEEDING CEO FUNDED BY PETER THIEL, CONNECTED TO PALANTIR<\/p>\n<p>Meet AUGUSTUS DORICKO, a 25-YEAR-OLD TECH BRO and THIEL FELLOW, who founded the weather modification startup RAINMAKER.<\/p>\n<p>According to publicly available info, Doricko\u2019s company was reportedly\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/veDGvT6xen\">pic.twitter.com\/veDGvT6xen<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; HustleBitch (@HustleBitch_) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HustleBitch_\/status\/1941885940462412199?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 6, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The article references Rainmaker&#8217;s virtual communication posts proudly documenting the company&#8217;s activities. It also points to the \u201cblue rain\u201d phenomenon in Texas, which is said to cause nausea and hallucinations when ingested. Whether this phenomenon is related to Rainmaker&#8217;s activities remains open.<\/p>\n<p>Celia Farber paints a picture of a young, eccentric entrepreneur who publicly uses mocking religious symbolism \u2013 for example, a sign on the wall that reads \u201c<em>Jesus died for our Zyns<\/em>,\u201d where \u201c<em>Zyns<\/em>\u201d stands for nicotine pouches.<\/p>\n<p>The article ends with reader comments speculating about possible connections. One user asks, for example: \u201c<em>If they really did engage in seeding&#8230;&#8230;. well, that&#8217;s murder<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>yogaesoteric<br \/>\nJuly 13, 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cloudseeding before flooding in Texas? Startup Rainmaker under scrutiny In early July 2025, Texas was hit by severe flooding. Two days earlier, the company Rainmaker, founded by 25-year-old Augustus Doricko, was active over precisely these Texas regions \u2013 with the stated goal of weather manipulation through cloud seeding. Doricko is a former recipient of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1364],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-204601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204601"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":204605,"href":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204601\/revisions\/204605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}