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HAARP Holds Open House To Dispel Rumors Of Mind Control (adn.com)

Posted by EditorDavid on from the skeptical-in-Alaska dept.

An anonymous Slashdot reader writes: HAARP -- the former Air Force/Navy/DARPA research program in Alaska -- will host an open house Saturday where "We hope to show people that it is not capable of mind control and not capable of weather control and all the other things it's been accused of..." said Sue Mitchell, spokesperson for the geophysical institute at the University of Alaska. "We hope that people will be able to see the actual science of it." HAARP, which was turned over to The University of Alaska last August, has been blamed for poor crop yields in Russia, with conspiracy theorists also warning of "a super weapon capable of mind control or weather control, with enough juice to trigger hurricanes, tornadoes and earthquakes."

The facility's 180 high-frequency antennas -- spread across 33 acres -- will be made available for public tours, and there will also be interactive displays and an unmanned aircraft 'petting zoo'. The Alaska Dispatch News describes it as "one of the world's few centers for high-power and high-frequency study of the ionosphere... important because radio waves used for communication and navigation reflect back to Earth, allowing long-distance, short-wave broadcasting."

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  1. They're not capable of mind control... by SpankiMonki · · Score: 4, Funny

    Thant's what they WANT you to think!

    1. Re:They're not capable of mind control... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

      All glory to the HAARPnotoad!

    2. Re: They're not capable of mind control... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

      Funny how you selectively ignored all the other facts in the post, yet you're accusing someone else of "having an agenda." That's a conservative for you, too stupid to think for themselves so they just parrot whatever talking points came out of Alex Jones' asshole this week. That's okay, you have an agenda too and it consists of the lines "I hate muslims" and "Go Donald Trump" written thousands of times in Sharpie. I'd be willing to say that my agenda is better than yours. At the very least, it's probably written above the third grade level.

      You know what's great about you conservative cocksuckers? The fact that you'll all be dead someday. Every last one of you. No one will miss you either, because you never had anything to contribute to society other than racism and stupidity. If your whore of a mother had any sense she would have shat you into the nearest manhole but no, since your family line is obviously doubling up on the cousin-fucking, she decided to give her biggest mistake a name.

      Do everyone a favour and choke on the next dick you suck, tinfoil boy.
      Now go ahead and write your witty little retort, I'll be off in another thread laughing at your paranoid, sorry ass.

  2. And surprise surprise... by hey! · · Score: 5, Funny

    Nobody who visited the site remembers seeing anything suspicious...

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  3. Quotes from visitors: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    "This facility is only used to research the ionosphere and help with global communications. Also they had great pizza and the petting zoo was fun."
    - John from Juno

    "This facility is only used to research the ionosphere and help with global communications. Also they had great pizza and the petting zoo was fun."
    - Mary from Anchorage

    "This facility is only used to research the ionosphere and help with global communications. Also they had great pizza and the petting zoo was fun."
    - Ryan from Kodiak

    "This facility is only used to research the ionosphere and help with global communications. Also they had great pizza and the petting zoo was fun."
    - Mike from Fairbanks