Posted on 02/09/2006 8:45:45 AM PST by listenhillary
Someday the U.S. military could drive a trailer to a spot just beyond insurgent fighting and, within minutes, reconfigure part of the atmosphere, blocking an enemy's ability to receive satellite signals, even as U.S. troops are able to see into the area with radar.
"This scenario may not be far away," says Defense Tech pal Sharon Weinberger in this month's edition of the always-excellent Defense Technology International.
An engineer with Research Support Instruments in Princeton, N.J. recently completed the first phase of work for a U.S. Air Force sponsored project called Microwave Ionosphere Reconfiguration Ground based Emitter, or Mirage.
The work involves using plasma — an ionized gas — to reconfigure the ionosphere. Mirage would employ a microwave transmitter on the ground and a small rocket that shoots chaff into the air to produce about a liter of plasma at 60-100 km. (36- 60 mi.) in altitude, changing the number of electrons in a select area of the ionosphere to create a virtual barrier. Ionosphere reconfiguration offers two major applications of interest to the military: bouncing radars off the ionosphere, also known as over-the-horizon radar, and the ability to jam signals from the Global Positioning Satellite system, according to John Kline, the lead investigator for Mirage.
This work is only the latest effort in Kline's more extensive investigations of atmospheric plasmas… Before Mirage, Kline had another contract for a project called Plasma Point Defense, which explored the possibility of using a plasma weapon on board a U.S. Navy surface vessel to protect against threats ranging from surface-to-surface missiles to mortars and rocket-propelled grenades.
In the past, NASA's fringe science arm has looked into tweaking Mother Nature, to throw hurricanes off their course. But those were just computer simulations. No one actually tried to go out a build some weather control machine
HARP?
So, the HAARP research begins to pay off?
Algore actually claimed sometime during his prez campaign, that they were working on controlling the weather.
Ha ha ha! Many mere mortals are unaware that Karl Rove already has a functioning weather control machine. Pitiful fools! :-)
Are they unable to contact Karl Rove? Or is Rove unwilling to sell his weather control center?
I wonder if they aren't doing some of this already. what a mild winter we have had.
Didn't Bush already have a hurricane controller? Didn't he actually steer Katrina away from TX and into the chocolate city?
Paging Art Bell...
No. The genesis of the "phased plasma rifle in the 40 watt range."
Whoever made that, that is just awesome.
Yes, but his earthquake machine is far more impressive.
He can even shake lose a single levy.
Just as an aside note though: If the military can do this soon, would weathermen be able to predict the weather in that area any better than they can now? LOL
I can see the hordes of tinfoil hats already...
It's really a poorly titled article. Sorry!
It has more to do with disrupting your enemies communications. Using a plasma rocket in the ionosphere just above their positions to deny them GPS and satellite radio communications.
Well, even a monkey wacking keys indiscriminately on a keyboard may actually get close to spelling a real word once in a while.
cAN'T THEY JUST BORROW rOVE'S wEATHER MACHINE?.........
Great all ya gotta do is take a dump in the air then light
it up with charged particles...
Breathing is optional?
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