Alex Laplaza 🫠

International man of mystery @Rainmakercorp

[Alex Laplaza 🫠 @laplza]

@SantiagoPliego Fortune favors the brave

[Alex Laplaza 🫠 @laplza]

@CWNazarian Also watching LDS reunite with their families after missions is very heartwarming

[Rainmaker Technology Corporation @RainmakerCorp]

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[Garth Sheldon-Coulson @garthsc]

Today we're announcing @_panthalassa’s $140M Series B, led by Peter Thiel, with participation from John Doerr and many other incredible investors. The mission: unlock the ocean as another planetary-scale energy resource for humanity. First stop: compute.

[Alex Laplaza 🫠 @laplza]

A real-time example of this is playing out in Iraq, where much-needed rains are reviving an ancient ecosystem after years of drought

[Yishan @yishan]

When we talk about regreening the entire Earth, sometimes people bring up the objection that desert ecosystems shouldn't be "destroyed." Those people are totally wrong.

Desert ecosystems are not intrinsically "dry and barren." They are just dry. And if you add water, they bloom. Doing that isn't destroying or displacing or invading an ecosystem, it is BRINGING IT BACK TO LIFE.

Consider the existence of desert oases: pockets in the desert where water happens to gather and accumulate. Oases are green with the very same native plants that would bloom across the entire desert ecosystem if there was enough water.

Deserts being dry are an environmental blight, an ecological irregularity brought on by the vagaries of human-caused and natural climate change. We have the power to reverse this, to bring water to deserts and we should: it will mean more life, more economic value, and a better planet.

[Alex Laplaza 🫠 @laplza]

@zosimos For months they had too much CO2 and not enough oxygen which resulted in everyone absolutely hating each other

[Alex Laplaza 🫠 @laplza]

Fun fact: in the 90s, Steve Bannon (yes, that one) was the Acting Director of “Biosphere 2”, an experiment to test the viability of a closed ecological system to support human life in outer space

[Eli Dourado @elidourado]

Think about how much a second biosphere would be worth. Quadrillions of dollars in NPV, more in tail risk mitigation. Mars could be green in our lifetime and yet few care.

[Alex Laplaza 🫠 @laplza]

@IanRountree There's only one way to determine the winner

[Alex Laplaza 🫠 @laplza]

@Noahpinion Glaringly obvious opportunity for a pagoda skyscraper

[Alex Laplaza 🫠 @laplza]

@SexyLikeMeiosis Don't know, I didn't follow them

[Alex Laplaza 🫠 @laplza]

Humans have tried to summon water from the sky for millennia. We're now in a blip of human history in which it is both possible and provable.

This is an immense feat, but it is only the start of our mission to scale and deliver freshwater to the places that need it most.

[Rainmaker Technology Corporation @RainmakerCorp]

Today, as it was 80 years ago, the idea of conjuring water from the sky remains a nearly magical promise.

And rightfully, along with that promise, has always come the question: "Does it work?"

Now, Rainmaker can answer that question.

It works. And we can prove it.

[Alex Laplaza 🫠 @laplza]

Bad day for the "sun doesn't always shine" reply guys.

@OverviewEnergy will soon make 24/7 solar a reality by beaming safe, invisible light from mass-manufacturable satellites.

Multiplying the output of solar farms is a game-changer, but what’s even more exciting is making abundant, cheap, and clean power viable across vast parts of the world where solar previously didn't pencil.

Immensely proud of @marcberte_ceo @tectonic and the whole Overview team

[Marc Berte @marcberte_]

That's one small step for @Meta, one giant leap for mankind

https://t.co/7Gb3sBkDBg

[Augustus Doricko @ADoricko]

Mankind has always been at the mercy of the weather.

No longer.

Rainmaker is the first company in history to routinely, unambiguously, modify the weather.

Last quarter, we produced >143MM gallons of unambiguously man-made precipitation.

Here’s how we do it 🧵

[Alex Laplaza 🫠 @laplza]

Shocking how under-the-radar @_panthalassa stayed despite their insane engineering feats and talent density.

Per usual, there was alpha on Reddit. Seen on r/whatisthisthing two years ago.

Congrats to @garthsc and team for willing this vision into existence.

[Ashlee Vance @ashleevance]

So, @_panthalassa operated mostly in secret for a decade. And what it built is nuts.

Massive, massive floating data centers that drive themselves out to sea and then capture water inside of them to spin a turbine and power GPUs. Look at these things.

Full episode on the tech here https://t.co/PsC6YNLXD2

[Alex Laplaza 🫠 @laplza]

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[Alex Laplaza 🫠 @laplza]

Kevin Kelly is the most interesting man in the world.

Apart from being a futurist and the founding editor of Wired, he also spent 40 years backpacking all of Asia, taking stunning photographs of cultures and places that have already been lost to time.

[Jeff Huber @jeffreyhuber]

reminder that @kevin2kelly called all of this in 2016

[Alex Laplaza 🫠 @laplza]

@ilkirax Thank you for sharing this gift

[Alex Laplaza 🫠 @laplza]

@joshpuckett How I first discovered these photos!

[Alex Laplaza 🫠 @laplza]

Calling my shot @RainmakerCorp

[MENA Visuals @menavisualss]

🇸🇦 One of the rare photographs of the Al-Ahsa Oasis, Saudi Arabia.

It is home to over 2.5 million date palms, which have sustained the region for centuries. Human settlement in Al-Ahsa dates back to the Neolithic period. It has served as a vital gateway for trade between the Arabian Peninsula, Mesopotamia, and the Levant.