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."

Comments

At last an actual paper

[Anonymous Coward]

According to the paper in TFA they're actually doing some pretty neat experiments while they zap the ionosphere. They've got satellites up there that measure electromagnetic radiation from various events like earthquakes and they're using HAARP to essentially provide a control for those.

Re:At last an actual paper

[khallow]

Scientists when they're faced with limited resources, pick and choose what research they do. One doesn't have to be a free market capitalist to be interested in doing activities that not only yield more benefit (in however you decide benefit is defined) than they cost, but also more benefit than alternate uses for the money.

All this pointless yacking about the strawman of immediate monetary return on investment ignores that funding of scientific research is just another economic problem subject to the same rules and constraints as any other human endeavor. To be so profoundly ignorant of economics IMHO makes you the delusional, anti-intellectual.

Re:HAARP offline == summer weather good?

[Ol Biscuitbarrel]

Coincidence?

There are no coincidences.

Re:Those conspiracy wackos

[cusco]

Sorry to burst your bubble, but some things really ARE conspiracies. Iran/Contra. Project Mockingbird. Gladio. MK/Ultra. Phoenix. Our governments have done some horrible things, and if they were to happen today we would never know about them.

Long distance planetary cloaking/camouflage system

[Tyr07]

We're actually in contact with alien species and they're assisting us avoid detection from more hostile species that consume resources of habitable words like us.
The changes HAARP initiates in the ionosphere, although not affecting us on the planet or anything overall in the near distance, planetary detection systems that have the ability to detect atmospheres to a limited degree are thrown off, making the assumption that this is not a water world with a perfect (life sustaining) temperature.

Naturally you can still tell by nearby areas like our solar system etc, but once you get a few thousand light years out we don't look so welcoming.

I'd insert comment about a specific alien overlord at this time but I don't want his followers..or...people who are against him or whatever "targeting" me but uh, yea, we're nice and safe from that dude now!