United States to close HAARP military facility after final DARPA project

[Bosonic]

Source: The Belfast Telegraph

The United States government is set to close HAARP, a military site studying the atmosphere, this summer.

Conspiracy theorists claim that the US can use the facility to modify weather, disable satellites and control minds.

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But before its website closed down in 2013, the site’s spokespeople said that no secret research was conducted at the base. “HAARP is not classified," the website said. "There are no classified documents pertaining to HAARP.”

The site is such a magnet to conspiracy theorists because its “purpose seems deeply mysterious to the scientifically uninformed,” popular scientist David Naiditch has said.

Read more: http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/world-news/united-states-to-close-haarp-military-facility-after-final-darpa-project-30306963.html

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[jakeXT]

1. Thank god for the Pentagon for dreaming up stuff so they could justify it

Its bizarre backstory rivals that of a blockbuster Hollywood film. A powerful US senator from Alaska, Republican Ted Stevens, helped win approval for the facility in the early 1990s. But to justify HAARP’s price, the Pentagon had to dream up exotic military applications, sparking conspiracy theories.
http://www.nature.com/news/us-ionospheric-research-facility-to-close-1.15243

[KoKo]

2. The "Belfast Telegraph" was the first to get this announcement?

I've read that we like to break news overseas so that it drifts back here. But, that's just a CT...

This little extra bit from the article:

The site has been used to create artificial northern lights (aurora borealis).

HAARP will shut down after a final research project in mid-June. That will be conducted by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), another favourite of conspiracy theorists.

[jakeXT]

6. Nature wrote about it 2 weeks ago /nt

[Orrex]

3. If they shut down HAARP, then who will cause our earthquakes to blame on frackers?

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[jakeXT]

4. Ohio geologists ?

Ohio geologists link small quakes to fracking

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Geologists in Ohio have for the first time linked earthquakes in a geologic formation deep under the Appalachians to hydraulic fracturing, leading the state to issue new permit conditions Friday in certain areas that are among the nation's strictest.

A state investigation of five small tremors last month in the Youngstown area, in the Appalachian foothills, found the injection of sand and water that accompanies hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, in the Utica Shale may have increased pressure on a small, unknown fault, said State Oil & Gas Chief Rick Simmers. He called the link "probable.

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/ohio-regulators-link-seismic-activity-fracking

[Orrex]

5. That's just what they want you to think

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[valerief]

8. Jesus? Cuz of freedumb and the gays and stuff. nt

[DavidDvorkin]

9. Or so they want us to believe

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