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HAARP: A Lesson in Post- Modern Warfare
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Whats Up With HAARP?
A lesson in post-modern warfare
I am really getting kind of weary of the HAARP debate, and I
thought seriously of deleting all these files, save for an official-
looking stub page which looked, just ever so slightly, as if the U.S.
Government had censored them. I still might do this, temporarily,
just to stir things up a bit. It would be cool for Halloween.
The HAARP debate needs something. The positions have hardened,
as I see it, into those opposed to science in general, and those who
promote the kind of science in which we are morally and
strategically obligated to try out anything that anyone, anywhere,
has ever dreamed up. As a result, the most visible opponents are
mostly New Age types who make sense until you find out that they
got most of their scientific knowledge by channeling some space
alien named Zyzak. The most visible proponents are mostly
university employees, whose jobs depend on the steady flow of
bucks for research boondoggles.
It's fun, but what's gotten lost here is the ionosphere, the last
accessible part of our planet that we haven't been able to screw up
somehow. Even if HAARP shut down tomorrow, the heating
'campaigns' would continue unabated, from comparable devices at
EISCAT, SURA, Poker Flat and Arecibo. Several e-mailers
wondered why I didn't state my own personal opinion on HAARP.
OK, here goes:
I am on orders from the FCC to check out my 200-watt ham radio
for RF hazards. There's a very real possibility that were I to use this
radio, on 28 MHz, with the right kind of antenna, it would indeed
be outside the safe limit for my neighbors, and I'd have to modify it.
Meanwhile, some military/ industrial/ academic yuks, a lot of them
the same guys who insisted that nuclear radiation was harmless, are
building gigawatt space-heaters all over the world, and telling us
that their beams are as safe as momma's milk. They're telling us that
we won't even notice when they do auroral electrojet modification,
or if/when they give the whole earth an MRI, or if/when they later
on decide to control the electrical balance of our planet from a
hardened room somewhere under Omaha, or if/when they greatly
increase the efficiency of a communication system that's already
been suspected of messing up cows in Wisconsin. Something
doesn't compute here. I'm confused. I want to know what kind of
photons the Air Force and Navy are sending through my body while
I take my morning dump.
That's my opinion on HAARP. I'm not for it, and I'm not against it. I
just want to see the numbers, but they're either missing, or they just
don't add up. The pittance of data from EISCAT suggests that, yes,
it works, perhaps even better than expected. Not exactly a warm
fuzzy, and the respectable, mainstream media have continued to
ignore the whole thing in favor of endless, weepy coverage of some
dead princess. Too cool.
The Project
HAARP stands for High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program.
It's being assembled on a military base in Alaska, by the Air Force
and the Navy. It has several parts, most interesting being the IRI,
for Ionospheric Research Instrument. IRI is the largest HF radio
transmitter ever built. It is designed to concentrate several
megawatts into an intense beam of almost unimaginable strength,
through miles of planar antenna arrays on the "short wave" band.
The IRI has been described as an "ionospheric heater," because its
ultra-power waves cause this electrically charged region in our
atmosphere to vibrate, and maybe even glow like the "Northern
Lights." Some alarmists have called it a "death ray," because, even
though safety is of great concern, hazards to birds and aircraft can
never be eliminated entirely.
HAARP may or may not have unpredictable effects on the ozone,
radio communication, and even the public health and safety. Some
freqencies are in the ELF/VLF range, popularly (if often
erroneously) associated with Nikola Tesla, nuclear subs, and
UFOs. Wild stories of mind control and weather war on the Third
World just won't stop. As always, the Government minimizes the
hazard, quoting one study after another. They could be right. The
people, however, have been lied to before, and they are skeptical.
The Birth of a Science
It started with SDI, the "Star Wars" era, when nothing was too far-
fetched to investigate. Of course, it might go all the way back to the
little-understood theories of Nikola Tesla, or the controversial work
of Bernard Eastlund. Eastlund is the old-fashioned kind of
physicist. He never saw a force of nature he didn't like, or want to
control. While working for ARCO, he apparently sold the SDI
crowd on the military uses of ultra-power radio beams, which could
literally rearrange the earth's ionosphere.
The original Eastlund plan defies credibility. I don't know whether
to believe my sources, so I'll offer it off-the-record. ARCO, as the
story goes, needed a customer for North Slope natural gas, which is
a byproduct of oil drilling. Eastlund described how this gas could
be burned, creating electricity for an almost apocalyptic mega-
HAARP that could alter the entire planet, and/or knock out
missiles at extreme distances. Whew.
Other research, especially in Alaska, seemed to demonstrate that
the ionosphere has a greater connection to thunderstorms than once
believed. This gave increased credibility to claims that the Eastlund
supermachine could modify the weather, anywhere in the
hemisphere, at will, for better or worse.
Finally, there was the last, weird, gasp of the Cold War, in which
stories of Russian psychic beams and time travel experiments
circulated widely. One popular view was that the pulse rate of the
USSR "woodpecker," a special HF radar for early warning of low-
altitude attacks, had been chosen to interfere with brain waves, or
to move the jet stream out of position. It's doubtful that the
woodpecker was powerful enough to do either, but the idea
persisted.
In any event, ionospheric research almost immediately shifted from
the prediction of disturbances to their creation. These guys
appeared to be in some kind of hurry. There was almost a
desperation here, as in those old SF movies where the
magnetosphere turns to lime jello or something, and the handsome,
male lead has to save Mankind with some kind of experimental
death-ray.
Smaller "heaters,", proto-HAARPs, all pretty awesome radio
transmitters in their own right, popped up at universities and bases
worldwide. Something must have worked. A few years back,
construction began on The Big One. By then, ARCO had sold off
its interests, and Eastlund had left the project. Air Force sources
call him, "Nuts," but his Strangelovian shadow haunts HAARP to
this day.
The hurry seems over now. HAARP has a very long time line. A
prototype IRI has already been tested, and now it is being
expanded, in sections, up to its promised gigawatts of effective
power. So far, adverse effects have been minimal, but then we're
still way below full rock 'n' roll.
HAARP works because the
ionosphere, several electrically charged regions of the atmosphere
40 - 300 miles up, is not a simple reflector. Radio waves interact
with it in complex ways, and if they are strong enough they can
alter its structure. Even when there are no visible " Northern Lights"
enormous currents flow, and can perhaps these can be modulated
by HAARP's super-power pulsations. Thin air might become the
biggest transmitter imaginable. Intense HF/LF/VLF/ELF waves
might come back to earth. Radios and electrical devices might stop
working in target zones. The atmosphere might shift and move in
militarily useful ways. The ELF waves might penetrate water well
enough to communicate with submarines, or they might detect
tunnels hidden in the ground. Obviously, there's a lot for the
military/ industrial/ academic establishment to investigate here.
It's fun to find unclassified papers on this subject. They're better SF
than anything any writer could dream up. Like the various
weirdnesses of particle physics, they're cutting-edge stuff, which
can get very, very wiggy in a hurry.
Even so, the ionosphere remains distant and esoteric, and HAARP
might have stayed in the closet forever. It was the environmental
press that blew the whistle. Earth Island Journal of fall, 1994, ran
the article that everyone still quotes. It points up the logical
dangers, such as birds being killed flying into towers, and the more
speculative ones, such as humans being injured by unforseen RF
effects or communications disruptions. At the time, the usual
people agreed and disagreed. There was a classic, and predictably
short, "tree-hugger" debate, briefly catching the attention of
Congress and the Utne Reader. As always, it went away. Or, at
least, it seemed to.
The Tesla Connection
Two years ago, however, there came a researched, 230-page book
titled Angels Don't Play This HAARP, which should be available
from EarthPulse Press and other sources. The book, with its
hundreds of cites and footnotes, is a great read, but it's best not to
do it at bedtime. While reiterating the environmental objections,
scary enough in themselves, the authors go on to argue that
Eastlund has vindicated the mysterious, usually misunderstood,
later work of Nikola Tesla.
Nobody's objective about Tesla. While
he was contemporary with the other great inventors of our era, his
vision was about a century ahead of theirs. Visionaries never have it
easy, but Tesla had it worse than most. Though he lived well for a
time, he died broke, while his inventions were in daily use
worldwide. Some of Tesla's ideas were so advanced that they've
been taken for black magic, or at least weird science, ever since.
This mythic tale of the exploited wizard, the visionary pariah, the
lightning man, has hardwired Tesla into the post-modern
consciousness. The legend grows yearly, as everyone projects their
own, personal myths and fantasies into it. The Web is full of these,
too numerous (or too weird) to list here. They make for great
entertainment.
There's a core of truth to the Tesla mythos. His later work is not
well understood. For example, the notorious Tesla Death Ray
might have really been a particle beam idea that Tesla tried to sell
the U.S. military as an anti-aircraft weapon. Such an idea was re-
investigated for SDI. And conspiracy writers will never let us forget
how some Tesla papers were taken by the Government right after
Tesla's death in 1943.
The real HAARP - Tesla connection, however, comes from another
great notion. This was the global, wireless transmission of
electrical power. Tesla, after all, pioneered high-power RF work.
He couldn't just call up Continental Transmitters and order up a
few megawatts. He had to invent the radio first. Marconi used 14 of
his patents, as later proven in the U.S. Supreme Court.
Tesla's RF oscillators, mostly evolved from the " Tesla coil" so
loved by science teachers, are still not understood. But any school
kid knows the problem with wireless anything. It's the inverse
square law. A simple, Godzilla-size coil just blasting away will
cause a nice light show, possibly fry its operators, certainly make as
much RF as Marconi's early stuff, but Mom out in Denver still
won't get enough juice to make toast. It's simple physics.
Supposedly, Tesla planned to get around this by using the Earth as
a huge, resonant system, probably at an ELF rate. His writings
contain references to "The Terrestrial Stationary Waves," a resonant
excitation of the ground, the magnetosphere, or even the
'waveguide' between the two. Tesla boasted that he'd done this on a
trial scale, using super-power "Magnifying Transformers" like the
ones in Colorado.
Building upon this theory, Tesla proposed his "World System,"
around 1901. It sounded more like 2001. Specifically, Tesla
anticipated VLF global navigation, radar, ELF submarine
communication, Morse telegraphy with ships at sea, multiplexing,
remotely controlled weapons, and pretty much the rest of our
terrestrial, post-modern technosphere.
Would the "Terrestrial Stationary Waves" have worked? We won't
know any time soon. The global broadcasting ideas attracted
financial backing, but after Marconi the money ran out. The great
tower at Wardenclyffe was dynamited for scrap. Resonant ELF
became one of those engineer's dreams; a technological road not
taken.
Not taken, at least, until HAARP, if one believes the Angels
authors. This is one scary book. Whether it's a warning or just a
rant, it invokes the wildest story of all. This is that perennial
conspiracy theory, the one that says how wireless power
distribution actually worked too well, with apocalyptic
consequences. It's one of those great, unprovable, Frankenstein
tales, part anti-government paranoia, part fear of science, part sheer
faith. And, since Eastlund was known to talk as big as Tesla, the
connection was inevitable.
Compared to Eastlund's unbuilt flamethrower, HAARP is a weenie
roast, but the Angels authors seem to find evidence that it's close
enough for a very nice test. And then, of course, they might build
the real thing.........
The Debate Widens
True or false, the notion that a bunch of SDI spooks are building an
Alaskan doom machine has made HAARP the biggest thing to hit
the paranormal/ UFO scene since Roswell. Most people who've
heard about it at all know from the Angels authors' appearances on
FOX. Better than nothing, I suppose, but not much better as far as
mainstream credibility is concerned.
But even without Tesla and the Zetas, HAARP makes people
nervous. We only have one atmosphere. Not everyone is sure that it
should be trusted to the same Government which once deliberately
irradiated the American public, and slipped LSD to unwitting
strangers, all in the name of national security.
Alaskans, who have to live next to this thing, were the first to get
scared. It started among radio hams, environmental cognoscenti,
and anyone else who became a little uneasy about the Pentagon re-
arranging their molecules for them. Out of this came a real, no-
hidden-agenda, grass roots group, NO HAARP. The name explains
the purpose. Their website has an order form for the Angels book,
and some interesting documents.
As part of the Government's P.R. counterattack, HAARP got a
lively, attractive web page. Check it out. It's fun, and it has some
cool photos. No radio freak can resist all this neat, vaguely
adolescent, hardware, definitely The Boy Inventor at work.
Apparently, HAARP's boy scouts are all out to serve Science and
Truth. If a military application really does come along, so much the
better.
Here, I'm willing to keep an open mind. Maybe they're right.
Insiders became uneasy, though, after one "anonymous source"
talked too much. He was widely quoted that HAARP is the perfect
cover for "black" projects. This, of course, is true. It's also true for
the space shuttle, and just about anything else the Feds spend our
taxes on. That doesn't necessarily make it moral, but it does make it
business as usual. Therefore, any such assertion is basically
meaningless. The story would most likely have again gone away,
had there not been a bigger problem.
The Real Problem
The real problem with HAARP is the news blackout. If we are to
believe that HAARP is harmless science, why isn't it being reported
like it? Why isn't it being reported at all?
Think about it. If the military was spending billions of your dollars
to create hurricanes, there'd be the biggest fuss since OJ, right? But
have you seen a word about HAARP, a different sort of storm that
happens to be 50 miles up, in your papers?
Of course not, unless you're one of the terrified citizens living
nearby, in which case you've read the Government P.R.. Notice that
these are not exactly probing, investigative pieces. In the real world,
HAARP makes the Ten Most Censored Stories list again and again.
What's up?
I'm not anti-HAARP. I'm pro-knowledge. If we're gonna screw with
the only atmosphere we're ever gonna have, why has the whole
public debate been marginalized into the conspiracy, UFO,
apocalypse and millennium press? Could it be that these are not
considered dangerous, and so their loopy rhetoric gives the masses
an illusion of free speech?
Until HAARP leaves the closet, prudent Americans will once again
assume the worst. As word spreads, through alternative channels,
millions will once again decide that their Government intends to
hurt them, in secret,
WHETHER OR NOT THIS IS TRUE.
Get Informed. Decide Yourself.
We live in the post-modern era. The struggle for truth is not in the
streets but in the media, and the only way to get HAARP out of the
closet is to get it onto the news. Business as usual equals
abandonment. The corporate Nooz vendors will placate us with
their celebrity sludge, and we'll never see the new Manhattan
Project burning up our sky until whatever's supposed to happen,
happens.
HAARP is as important as Hillary, and it should be in our faces as
much. It's the future. Our country deserves a public debate. Read
up, as much as they'll let you, and scream until we get one.
Other Facilities:
HAARP is only the best-known part of what's become one of the
largest research initiatives ever. It's not as big as particle physics,
but it's coming up fast. No, I do not know why.
Poker Flat Research Range
One would have to consider this the 'Area 51' of ionospheric
studies, though it lacks the secrecy of "Dreamland." It's a massive
base in Alaska, not that far from HAARP's Gakona location. They
launch rockets, take pictures, build all manner of instruments, send
up all manner of photons, you name it. Your taxes at work.
HIPAS
This was my first inkling that something big was up, when some
fellow hams from UCLA went north to build this proto-HAARP.
Stands for HIgh-Power Auroral Stimulation. It's a smaller heater,
and it works.
Red Sprites And Blue Jets
This phenomenon, considered a key discovery, made largely by our
good folks at Poker Flat, indicates that there is indeed a poorly
understood connection between weather and the ionosphere.
Arecibo Astronomy & Ionosphere Center
This facility, of SETI fame, has the third U.S. heater, located near
the famous radiotelescope. It has been operating for several years. I
don't know why it has such a low latitude, in Puerto Rico, unless
it's to investigate the 'equatorial ring current,' a related electrical
flow in lower magnetic latitudes.
EISCAT
EISCAT, an English acronym for European Incoherent SCATter, is
a huge association of research interests in Norway, Sweden,
Finland, Japan, France, the UK and Germany. It operates large,
powerful, world-class ionospheric facilities throughout northern
Scandinavia. These include several VHF/UHF incoherent scatter
radars, which also irradiate the ionosphere, and the world's largest
heater.
The Tromso heating facility
This super-power transmitter will ultimately be larger than anything
planned at HAARP. It has been operating for quite a while, on
several frequencies between 4 and 8 MHz. The freqs are listed, if
anyone wants to listen to them. There's a little data available here,
showing that heating works, and some weak secondary RF does
come out. 4th European Heating Seminar
Another clue to how big this field is getting, with abstracts on work
being done worldwide. There was a 5th seminar held in spring of
1997. Leicester University
SURA
This is a large, world-class heater, with erp in the hundreds of
megawatts, in Siberia. It's been operating for some time. This
answers the question, "What happens if THEY build a HAARP?"
The answer is, "THEY let US use it, and WE photograph the pretty
glow in the sky!"
Artificial Airglow from High Power Radio Waves
Who needs MIR? Ionospheric Modification with High Power Radio Waves
Wanna do a post-doc? (Only US citizens need apply...)
NASA's Official CRRES Press Release
Stood for Combined Release and Radiation Effects Satellite. This
program did various types of ionospheric modification, which are
detailed here. The best-publicized one was the chemical release,
which actually made the sky light up. Makes you proud to be
paying taxes in America... The Tethered Satellite System (TSS)
You remember this loopy Space Shuttle experiment. The goal was
to reel out a wire several km long, with a satellite at the end that
looked like something out of a 50s SF flick, so the whole affair
could pass through the F-region at orbital velocity. The first time,
the winch jammed. The second time, they got too much Faraday
current and fried the wire, which broke, damn near hitting the
shuttle and causing damage far worse than anything MIR has
suffered. Well, guess what? One of the 12 experiments on board
was an attempt to broadcast ELF from space, while another was to
study low-frequency RF from the disturbed ionosphere. Sigh.
Fast Auroral SnapshoT Explorer
A project of UC Berkeley, GSFC, and good old UCLA, to study
the electrojets and ELF waves Recent Projects at ARL
Typical university grantsmanship, with some good theory, by a
department at Penn State heavily involved with HAARP TIPPS
Stands for Trans-Ionospheric Pulse PairS. These are striking,
unexplained VHF sweeps recently discovered by the Blackbeard
RF experiment on the Los Alamos National Lab's ALEXIS
satellite. Note that the weekly WWW bulletins stopped right about
when the lightning link was discounted. Could they have taken the
project 'black?'
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