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A Look Back At Bombing the Van Allen Belts
An anonymous reader points out a recent story at NPR describing one of the greatest lightshows in history — a US hydrogen bomb test 250 miles above the Pacific Ocean in 1962. The mission came about after James Van Allen confirmed the existence of radiation belts around the earth that now bear his name. As it turns out, the same day Van Allen announced his findings at a press conference, he "agreed with the military to get involved with a project to set off atomic bombs in the magnetosphere to see if they could disrupt it." According to NPR, "The plan was to send rockets hundreds of miles up, higher than the Earth's atmosphere, and then detonate nuclear weapons to see: a) If a bomb's radiation would make it harder to see what was up there (like incoming Russian missiles!); b) If an explosion would do any damage to objects nearby; c) If the Van Allen belts would move a blast down the bands to an earthly target (Moscow! for example); and — most peculiar — d) if a man-made explosion might 'alter' the natural shape of the belts." The article is accompanied by a podcast and a video with recently declassified views of the test. They also explain how the different colors of light in the sky were produced.
Come on, after the first couple of tests the destructive potential of nuclear weapons was perfectly understood. And I don't have a problem with the US telling Iran they shouldn't develop nuclear weapons. But I do have a problem with them doing it while they have been storing nuclear weapons in Europe, given the nuke to Israel and retain the worlds' second largest nuclear weapons stockpile.
Global Warming is caused from increased thermal activity under the crust. Just like how many countries are feeling all the earthquakes, just look for a seismic report and you'll see that it is more active than what people are feeling. Hell, why don't you even look for the seismic activity of demolitions felt by sensors on the other side of the planet because they are that sensitive; look-up the seismic activity durring the World Trace Center Towers demolition while you're at it. Look to see if the Solar Flares and the Ort Clouds are responding differently than they should: because you know, passing celestial bodies tend to exert a gravitational force that is causing increased global thermal activity on other planets in the solar system. Ask yourself why magnetic north of planet Earth is back in Siberia, and why every 3000 years the Poles change to new alignment whereas the present alignment has deep oceanic substrate rock formations that resemble the same (perhaps former polar locations) as those in The Bermuda Triangle and the China Sea.
So many variables, yet perhaps yea combustion engines and manufacturing technology could cause a single-digit percentile shift in global temperature, but that's nothing compared to what this environment does to itself. If you think that anonymous explosion on Brittish Petroleum's oil rig had any cause of that oil leak, wait until you see that thousand-mile rip in the Earth's crust leaking more oil than that little nipple the oil rig has been sucking off.