One of my favorite movie quotes, and very applicable here.
Posted on 12/27/2022 7:28:30 PM PST by BenLurkin
A 500-foot-wide asteroid called 2010 XC15 will pass by Earth on December 27.
Scientists at the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) and NASA want to examine the 2010 XC15 space rock to test their preparation against Apophis. This dangerous asteroid might hit our planet in 2029.
The researchers will use the HAARP (High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program) array to shoot 9.6 megahertz radio waves at the 2010 XC15 asteroid. HAARP is a government-funded research program that generally studies the ionosphere (part of Earth’s atmosphere at 50 to 400 miles above the surface).
However, this will be the first time it will be employed to examine an asteroid.
Astronomers have been shooting radio waves in space to spot asteroids; figure out their shape, trajectory, structure of their surface, and many other characteristics. For this purpose, they use radio waves having frequency ranges either in the S-band (2,000 to 4,000 MHz) or X-band (8,000 to 12,000 MHz).
Interestingly, for probing 2010 XC15, the researchers are using waves of much lower frequency (9.6 MHz) and longer wavelengths because, this time, they don’t just want to explore the surface of the asteroid. They want to know what’s inside.
(Excerpt) Read more at interestingengineering.com ...
And they’re gonna do it every second!
Such a thing would not work well. Not at all! There used to be a commercial in which the “gotcha” line was something such as “Do not mess with mother nature”. That goes double for trying to mess with God’s work which he did in creating our Universe. Just don’t do it!
Useless crap that’ll probably eat up a lot of taxpayer money.
Let’s think about this. At 9.6 megahertz, how long will it take for 9.6 million radio waves to hit the asteroid?
And the effect on Aircraft and Airtraffic in the path of this test is ?
"Get the ionosphere the hell off the air and get them on!"
They should blast some Chuck Barry.
Them some James Brown.
The source that this author was so unable to understand,
is a better read:
https://www.gi.alaska.edu/news/haarp-bounce-signal-asteroid-nasa-experiment
Look at the name of the author...we are surrounded by people of a different culture and I am getting sick of it.
STOP MESSING AROUND IN OUTER SPACE, MORONS.
Then we will get a report from “SCIENTISTS” THAT SOME DARK CLOUD IS FLOATING AROUND IN OUTER SPACE.
Scientists are as bad as the FBI, they have no accountability, no morals, no sense of decorum and no reflections.
Is there no profession that is clean and responsible.
One of my favorite movie quotes, and very applicable here.
The headline forgot one word: megahertz
It should read 9.6 megahertz radio waves . . .That is the frequency of the radio waves.
I LOVE IT...FIRST TIME I’M SEEING THE CUT.
The Left is also guilty of being unable to see UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES. There is much history of their failure to have foresight.
Just think how many radio waves they would be sending at 5GHZ
“ There used to be a commercial in which the “gotcha” line was something such as “Do not mess with mother nature””
It’s not nice to fool Mother Nature.
Seems it was a margarine commercial
You’re asking the wrong question.
Per the headline, how long will it take “MORE THAN 9.6 million radio waves” to hit the asteroid?
;-)
Perhaps to be safe, they should test with 1 or 2 radio waves to start out with.
Me too!
How much does 9.6 million radio waves weigh?
How about a few megaton weapon to see if they still work?
No worse than when satellites do radar imaging of the earth... And HAARP transmitters are spread out ...
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