Air Force Prepares to Dismantle HAARP 178
First time accepted submitter registrations_suck (1075251) writes in with news about the dismantling of the HAARP project. The U.S. Air Force gave official notice to Congress Wednesday that it intends to dismantle the $300 million High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program in Gakona this summer. The shutdown of HAARP, a project created by the late Sen. Ted Stevens when he wielded great control over the U.S. defense budget, will start after a final research experiment takes place in mid-June, the Air Force said in a letter to Congress Tuesday. While the University of Alaska has expressed interest in taking over the research site, which is off the Tok Cutoff, in an area where black spruce was cleared a quarter-century ago for the Air Force Backscatter radar project that was never completed. But the school has not volunteered to pay $5 million a year to run HAARP. Responding to questions from Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski during a Senate hearing Wednesday, David Walker, deputy assistant secretary of the Air Force for Science, Technology and Engineering, said this is 'not an area that we have any need for in the future' and it would not be a good use of Air Force research funds to keep HAARP going. 'We're moving on to other ways of managing the ionosphere, which the HAARP was really designed to do,' he said. 'To inject energy into the ionosphere to be able to actually control it. But that work has been completed.' Comments of that sort have given rise to endless conspiracy theories, portraying HAARP as a super weapon capable of mind control or weather control, with enough juice to trigger hurricanes, tornadoes and earthquakes."
Oh no (Score:5, Funny)
What excuse will all the conspiracy theory lunatics use to explain rainbows now?
Warning - watching these may cause severe face-palming [google.co.uk]
The 2nd one is my favourite, a rainbow from a sprinkler - the horror.
Re:Oh no (Score:5, Funny)
What excuse will all the conspiracy theory lunatics use to explain rainbows now?
Military Unicorns.
Re:Oh no (Score:4, Funny)
Re:The silence for the Whales will be deafening (Score:5, Funny)
And wow! Hey! Whatâ(TM)s this thing suddenly coming towards me very fast? Very very fast. So big and flat and round, it needs a big wide sounding name like ⦠ow ⦠ound ⦠round ⦠ground! Thatâ(TM)s it! Thatâ(TM)s a good name â" ground!
I wonder if it will be friends with me?
And the rest, after a sudden wet thud, was silence.
Re:Oh no (Score:4, Funny)
Oh, the government is way beyond HAARP now. Some of the chemtrails that they spew out are probably seeded with quantum nano transmitters that inject negative frequencies directly into the ionosphere...
Re:Oh no (Score:5, Funny)
Humans are incapable of accomplishing anything, but there is plenty of alien tech to make up for our scientific incompetence.
Re:Oh no (Score:4, Funny)
What excuse will all the conspiracy theory lunatics use to explain rainbows now?
Military Unicorns.
Only North Korea has militarized unicorns.
Re:Oh no (Score:4, Funny)
Well the US better get its ass in gear then, gentlemen!
We can't allow a Unicorn Gap!
Re:Wow, Republicans are stupid (Score:5, Funny)
Mind control, huh? Can you point me towards anything that resembles mind control, just a tiny bit?
Be afraid [wikipedia.org]. Be very afraid.