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HAARP Ionospheric Research Program Set To Continue
cylonlover writes "Reports that the High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP) had been shut down permanently were apparently a bit premature. According to HAARP program manager James Keeney, the facility is only temporarily off the air while operating contractors are changed. So why does anyone care? Despite being associated with various natural disasters over the past two decades by the conspiracy fringe, HAARP is in reality a facility for studying the ionosphere. Gizmag takes a look at the goings on at HAARP – past, present, and future."
What HAARP really doing is absorbing money in the hopes of producing some actually useful science, which they have failed to do so far. Ahh but government thinks that failure must be rewarded by throwing even more money at it, be it a bank or "scientific" research.
Seven puppies were harmed during the making of this post.
It's not research if you can look it up on Wikipedia. It may fail to produce groundbreaking discoveries, but the data is still being collected, and even negative results will one day find a use, even if to prevent others from chasing the same failed path. Believe it or not, scientist usually want to work on things that are worth while, not chase dead ends. Can you not understand that your free market absolutist crap doesn't apply to everything? Science doesn't (read: basically nothing) agree with your delusional, anti-intellectual position where if it's not immediately productive then the universe has spoken and it will never be. If people like you ran scientific institutions we'd be stuck with a pneumatic tube internet because you'd yank funding at the first sign of a failed experiment.