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Will We Miss HAARP When It Shuts Down This Summer?
Yes, you read that right, the U.S. military installation in Alaska known as HAARP is going to be shut down this summer. What will conspiracy theorists blame weird weather anomalies on now, one wonders. From io9.com:
Can a facility that has inspired global conspiracy theories be designated a World Heritage Site? If so, that might be the only way to prevent the shutdown of the High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP) in Alaska, which studies the ionosphere—or creates lethal hurricanes—depending on whom you talk to.
The HAARP installation, not unlike the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, is a peculiar hybrid of military and civilian science. It was conceived during the mid-1980s, but found itself without a clear mission by the time construction began in 1993 and the Cold War had ended. Jointly funded by the Air Force, Navy, DARPA and the University of Alaska, the $290 million facility’s principal instrument is an array of 180 crossed dipoles that are spaced over an area of about 30 acres. Collectively, the array can transmit up to 3,600 kW of radiated power, which has made it possible for scientists to study the basic physics of how charged particles behave in the ionosphere, 55 to 370 miles above the Earth.
The official objectives of HAARP are to “identify, investigate, and, if feasible … serve to enhance future DOD Command, Control and Communications capabilities … Research areas that will be explored include generation of very low and extremely low frequency waves, generation of geomagnetic field-aligned irregularities, electron acceleration, and investigation of upper atmospheric processes.” But, earlier this month, the military gave official notice to Congress that it intends to dismantle HAARP this summer. David Walker, deputy assistant secretary of the Air Force for science, technology and engineering, said this is “not an area that we have any need for in the future” and that research funds would be better spent elsewhere. “We’re moving on to other ways of managing the ionosphere,” Walker explained…
[continues at io9.com]
Source: http://truthisscary.com/2014/05/will-we-miss-haarp-when-it-shuts-down-this-summer/
