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Posted on 02/05/2005 10:19:03 PM PST by BurbankKarl
By shooting intense radio beams into the night sky, researchers created a modest neon light show visible from the ground. The process is not well understood, but scientists speculate it could one day be employed to light a city or generate celestial advertisements.
Researchers with the High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP) project in Alaska tickled the upper atmosphere to the extent that it glowed with green speckles.
The speckles were sprinkled amid a natural display known as the aurora borealis, or Northern Lights. The aurora occurs when electrons from a cloud of hot gas, known as plasma, rain down from space and excite molecules in the ionosphere, about 30 miles (50 kilometers) up.
The HAARP experiment involves acres of antennas and a 1 megawatt generator. The scientists sent radio pulses skyward every 7.5 seconds, explained team leader Todd Pederson of the Air Force Research Laboratory.
"The radio waves travel up to the ionosphere, where they excite the electrons in the plasma," Pederson told LiveScience. "These electrons then collide with atmospheric gasses, which then give off light, as in a neon tube."
Pederson and his colleagues missed the show, but they snapped images.
"We unfortunately were indoors watching the data on monitors during the experiment and were busy scrambling trying to make sure the effects were real and not some glitch with the equipment," he said. "We knew right away it was something extraordinary to show up in real time on the monitor against the natural aurora, but did not confirm that it would have been visible to the naked eye until a day or two later when we had a chance to calibrate the raw data."
The experiment is detailed in the Feb. 2 issue of the journal Nature.
The research could improve understanding of the aurora and also help explain how the ionosphere adversely affects radio communications.
It is not yet clear if the aurora must already be active before an artificial sky show can be induced, says Karl Ziemelis, chief physics editor at the journal.
If no pre-existing aurora is required, Ziemelis said, "we are left with the tantalizing (some would say disconcerting) possibility that such radio-fuelled emissions could form the basis of a technology for urban lighting, celestial advertising, and more."
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Didn't Tesla do this 60-70 years ago?
Ha ha! Great graphic! Listening ... Thanks for the ping!
Thank God I live outside of the city limits.
The process is not well understood, but scientists speculate it could one day be employed to light a city or generate celestial advertisements.Celestial advertisements indeed. How about mile-high, ultra-graphic sky-porn? Or pro-western cloud-bank agit-prop illuminating the slums of Doha or the ruins of Falluja? Or astral-Walmart greeters the size of mountains waltzing with neon-Starbucks baristas as big thunderheads beckoning to a galaxy of retail opportunities?
yes...some say he blew a hole in the Soviet Union too....(where that supposed meteorite (or UFO) crashed)
then others say the Soviets/Russians use Tesla technology to fire on our missle launches on the West Coast.
Ultra sky porn? You smoking the green tobacco?
Oh great, now we face advertisments in the sky. That's going too far.
When is the last time you have been to Las Vegas?
Didn't Tesla do this 60-70 years ago?What?
Erect a 20 x 30 array of crossed dipoles and feed them in a controlled phase manner?
No.
mea culpa
Cool.
The HAARP experiment involves acres of antennas and a 1 megawatt generator.Antennas:
48 antenna elements arranged as a rectangular array of 8 columns by 6 rows.
The total power capability of this transmitter system is 960 kilowatts.
The transmitters are contained shelters located within the antenna array, under the antenna ground screen.
Each shelter houses six transmitter cabinets containing two transmitters per cabinet.
Each transmitter cabinet provides power to one of the antenna elements in the antenna array with one of its two transmitters connected to the north-south antenna and the other transmitter connected to the east-west antenna. Each cabinet is capable of producing up to 10 kW of power from each of its two transmitters.
Put on a tin foil hat and take a look at this!
http://www.earthpulse.com/haarp/
http://www.earthpulse.com/haarp/wakeup.html
If misused, the tool could mess up the weather. It could be used against humanity in a way that would change what people think, believe and feel. . . . [HAARP could]:
manipulate global weather;
hurt ecosystems;
knock out electronic communications; or
change our moods and mental states.
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