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HAARP Amping It Up

Posted by samzenpus on from the listen-to-my-thoughts dept.

n6kuy writes "HAARP (the High frequency Active Auroral Research Program) will be adding 132 more transmitters to bring their total number of transmitters to 180. "When the massive planar array for ionospheric research is completed in 2007, it will include a total of 180 Continental Electronics D616G 10-kW combined transmitters, which the company is upgrading specifically for HAARP," the supplier (Continental) stated. The facility is near Gakona, Alaska. The installation began in 1993 with 18 transmitters, expanded to 48 in 1998 and will grow to 180 transmitters. The final expansion will bring the HAARP array to full power, with ERP increasing from 84 dBW to about 96 dBW. 96dBW is about 4 billion Watts. There is speculation that the project is really an "effort to develop ways to jam the electronics of incoming missiles from Russia and/or China". 4 billion Watts oughtta do it."

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  1. More conspiracy theories by iamlucky13 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You've gotta love the unfounded conspiracy theories surrounding HAARP. Jamming the Chinese is the only plausible alternate explanation I've heard yet. If people are so convinced that something evil is going on up there, how about asking some of the grad students at University of Alaska? Everybody knows grad students will sing for a mere six pack or an offer to show their resume to your boss.

    The array has so far produced localized auroras (go Google it yourself, I'm not your mother), which is one of the effects it was predicted to be able to achieve in addition to providing a theoretical way to improve radio reception, but I've heard some great crackpot theories. Most come from the tin-foil hat people who think it's a mind control device, but there's some lame stuff like destroying the ozone layer over only blue or only red states so Democrats/Republicans will all die of skin cancer or find oil sources for the big companies with government funding. The best, however, is the suggestion that it controls earthquakes. 'HAARP' + 'earthquake' is an entertaining google search. Iran, Sumatra, you name it. It was a secret government attack. Oh yeah, don't forget Hurricane Katrina. Obviously a creation of HAARP.

    1. Re:More conspiracy theories by killjoe · · Score: 3, Insightful

      I have set up firefox with the BBC news liveboorkmarks. Yesterday I saw a headline that said the US army finally admitted using phosphorus bombs against human targets (but of course denied killing civillians and denied the fact that these bombs which deployed chemicals were chemical weapons). Just earlier that day US officials in London had denied using these weapons against humans. They were continuing the same lie they had been telling since the attack on fallujia.

      I then went over to CNN to see what they had to say and it was nowhere on their web site. It also wasn't on the web sites of ABCnews and needless to say it wasn't on the web site of FoxNews either (Fox news web site is hilarious! they should just replace their banner with Republicans RULEZ!).

      Anyway...

      Can you really blame people when they don't take the word of the US govt? Can you really blame the people when they don't trust the so-called free press to give them unbiased news?

      How can you really be sure exactly what HAARP is being used for?

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      evil is as evil does
    2. Re:More conspiracy theories by killjoe · · Score: 3, Insightful

      "If you can call white phosphorus a chemical weapon, than so are guns and bombs."

      Mmmm. It's a chemical, it's deployed with bombs, it melts the skin off of it's victims. Nope, it could not possibly be a chemical weapon, no way, no sir.

      "The reason there was no mention of it is that it was covered several news cycles ago. It turns out it's crap. Who knew?"

      Appatenly not you. Because that day it was on the front page of asia.cnn.com. cnn.com didn't have it on their front page while asia.cnn.com did.

      "Because we're not goddamned idiots."

      Maybe not, but I can sure make a case for the fact that you are ignorant if you don't read the news sites from other nations.

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      evil is as evil does
    3. Re:More conspiracy theories by killjoe · · Score: 3, Insightful

      " Phosphorus bombs are considered incendiary/marking devices, not chemical weapons."

      This is a common republitard tactic. When the facts are clearly against you simply redefine the subject. Clorox is a household chemical so is ammonia, mix them together and you get a dangerous chemical, put it in a shell and lob it at people and it becomes a chemical weapon. In this case the US military lied over and over again saying that they only used it for smoke and marking. Yesterday they admitted that they were lying and that they used it against human targets. That's what makes it a chemical weapon the fact that they used it against human beings.

      If it was not they would not have lied to you for months and months, they would not have waited will there was film to admit it.

      "Yet another bullshit issue championed by the Marxists on behalf of their Islamic allies."

      Sorry to put a wet blanket over your orgasm dude. Just ignore me and go back to stoking yourself while you look at pictures of dead muslims.

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      evil is as evil does
    4. Re:More conspiracy theories by Derling+Whirvish · · Score: 4, Insightful
      Yesterday I saw a headline that said the US army finally admitted using phosphorus bombs

      The Army has never denied that.

      Just earlier that day US officials in London had denied using these weapons

      There was only one official making that claim. He is Ambassador Tuttle -- a crony of Bush. His last job was an auto dealer for goodness' sake. He is not qualified to comment on Army weaponry, much less be the ambassador. He's clueless.

      Here's his bio from the State Dept web site:

      Robert Holmes Tuttle was sworn in as U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's on July 14, 2005. A businessman with extensive experience in the private sector, Mr. Tuttle is Co-Managing Partner of Tuttle-Click Automotive Group, one of the largest automobile dealer organizations in the United States.
      You can't claim a vast government conspiracy to cover-up something simply because one idiot in London spouted off before checking the facts. Well, you can actually, but you will look like an idiot if you do.
  2. Re:Wow big suprise US spending billions on defense by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Yes and a magical purple bunny might come along and make that alternative energy a reality! Unfortunately, you didn't spend anything on defense so some other country just took your energy source and the bunny. They left your wife, pity.

    Fortunately, the magical purple bunny was the last defense project that the US spent money on. That other country will be in for a surprise come Easter.

    Besides, we all know that there was no war before the US started pissing everyone off. Actually, War was born right after G.W. Bush popped out of Barbara Bush. War is Bush's non-evil twin - The secret is out, now you know what the W in W stands for: W as in WAR. Yes George W(ar) Bush's full name is George War Bush. The non-evil twin is W(ar) George Bush. Strangely, the twins share a common last name. The other twin permutations were lost in a rather nasty incident on the way out of Barb during berthing. It seems that a simple case of negative pressure and a poor US healthcare system led to their demise. The evil Christian priests attending the berthing tried a plunger but it was dirty so Barbara screamed "Get that damn dirty plunger well away from there! Those my special baby berthing pieces and I can't get them that dirty!" By the time the plunger was cleaned the other Bushes were lost somewhere deep in the heart of Texas or Barbara. The search teams never returned so the mystery was never solved. Rumor has it that the lost twins did attend Yale and also received better grades than John Kerry.

    Anyway, Barb serves little importance to the tale. Her duty as the pneumatic tube of War and George served, Barbara returned to a life of drunken debauchery, knitting, and ballroom brawling - ninja style. It must be explained that neither George War nor War George ever really cared for the magical purple bunny. The bunny's soft fluffy fur was of no interest to the War brothers. No, it's simple you see, George War and War George both preferred the prickly stubble of each other's unshaven face. They referred to the prickly intercourse as their love brush. They would often say Love Brush real fast until one would slip and say Love Bush. Given that we're talking about George Bush he would normally fuck it up about half way through the first incantation of his accursed name.

    Good troll. I like to feed 'em. I choose to feed this one insanity with a generous portion of love.

  3. lots of funnies by Cave_Monster · · Score: 1, Insightful
    You can tell when people don't know much about a topic or have no opinion .. the posts are dominated by jokes and funny moderated posts.

    Bring on the informative and insightful posts.

  4. Re:I have no idea... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    40 GW a lot of power ? Well, I'd say 40 GJ would be an impressive amount of Energy, but remember: basically, P=E/t , so if I take my cell phone battery and press 40 Joules in 1 nanosecond out of it, I reach easily those 40 GW...

    Cheerio