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[kevin]

Coincidence??????????/
I just used the weaponisation bit on a deletion place thread?
Kevin

[KarenAnn23]

Linda,

never a truer statement I have heard !!!!

[langley]

Course it would be a useful spinoff if we could induce Starfish Prime like EMP blackouts or weather conditions over enemy territory with the relative power equivalent of a flashlight, but If we did understand it well enough to weaponise this sort of thing, I wouldn't expect to see that kind of research happening at a public science facility.

However if Townsend Brown's thesis that the atmosphere has an electrical charge directly linked to gravity is correct, then it seems like there might be a whole lot more power floating around up there than conventional models account for. So maybe a little bit of subtle poking *might* get big nonlinear effects.

Bang on Nate. When the LTBT came in effect from 63, they could not do Starfish Prime stuff anymore. And the EMP generated was wanted for more than one reason, but the prime one was as a missile shield. Defensive knock out of incoming missiles by frying the electronics. As you know from what you say. (which makes me redundant but Im used to that so Ill persist. ). Well OK Teller and others got together and they came up with the use of ionospheric heaters - RF transmitters which could load selected layer areas in the ionosphere in the path of incoming missiles. That was one reason. The first US RF heater (similar to HAARP) was at Huntsville Colorado. There are valid research reasons to, esp solar flare storm prediction and and mitigation.

And it is possible that by way of beamed RF, a craft at the right spot could benefit if it had a certain propulsion system. Thats my speculation.

Anyhow: "A variety of experiments, such as HAARP (High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program), involve high power radio transmitters to modify the properties of the ionosphere. These investigations focus on studying the properties and behavior of ionospheric plasma, with particular emphasis on being able to understand and use it to enhance communications and surveillance systems for both civilian and military purposes. HAARP was started in 1993 as a proposed twenty year experiment, and is currently active near Gakona, Alaska.

The SuperDARN radar project researches the high- and mid-latitudes using coherent backscatter of radio waves in the 8 to 20 MHz range. Coherent backscatter is similar to Bragg scattering in crystals and involves the constructive interference of scattering from ionospheric density irregularities. The project involves more than 11 different countries and multiple radars in both hemispheres.

Scientists are also examining the ionosphere by the changes to radio waves from satellites and stars passing through it. The Arecibo radio telescope located in Puerto Rico, was originally intended to study Earth's ionosphere."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ionosphere

and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Force_ ... Laboratory
The mission of the Space Vehicles Directorate is to develop and transition space technologies for more effective, more affordable warfighter missions.[1] In addition to the Directorate headquarters at Kirtland AFB, New Mexico and an additional research facility at Hanscom AFB, Massachusetts, the High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP) located near Gakona, Alaska is also jointly operated by the Space Vehicles Directorate as well as DARPA, the Office of Naval Research (ONR), the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) and universities to conduct ionospheric research.[60] The current Director is Col Bradley Smith.[18] The Battlespace Environment division currently located at Hanscom AFB is scheduled to move to Kirtland AFB under the Defense Base Realignment and Closure, 2005 Commission.[57]

but

http://www.haarp.alaska.edu/haarp/gen.html