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That's Impossible-Weather control

broberfett

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Riker(Jonathan Frakes) narrates this show on the History channel. I'm watching this episode about weather control. The Russians built this really strange antenna array in the 80s that made this bizarre knocking sound that ham radio guys called the woodpecker. It was thought to be an early warning over the horizon radar to watch for missiles. Other people thought that it had another purpose. It was not operated continuously, but would be the woodpecker burst followed by a pause. The array was aimed at the ionosphere and used ELF(Extremely low Frequency) waves to heat it. A bubble would form in the ionosphere which would cause the stratosphere to rise into it. Even as they described it I immediately thought of HAARP before they said it.

The bubble in the ionosphere causes the stratosphere to rise and you have instant weather changing ability. The show suggests that the Russians caused a bizarre drought in California in the 80s by redirecting the jet stream. During the discussion of the weather they show clips of Katrina. Some people thought that the weather was an attack, a directed attack against New Orleans(To kill black people). I'm not that far into the show to see how much they get into that aspect, but the show is interesting. Have you seen it and what did you think?
 
I'm taping all the episodes, gotta watch the Weather one soon. The one about robots was good - that bizarre big insect-legged robot was creepy as hell. When the guy kicked it to throw it off balance, tho, I got mad at the guy for being so mean to it. :rommie: Why am I apparently hard-wired to sympathize with something that looks like a four-legged tarantula the size of a pony, and with no head.
 
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