QUOTE (snooze @ Jun 6 2008, 09:14 AM)

Since you seem to have done more exhaustive research on all this HAARP nonsense,
Hi snooze,
It is not as much as I have researched the HAARP project especially, it is just that I happen to work with such. I am not trying to speak as an authority figure in the matter, but I am trying to point out what is wrong and then have you (and others) understand where I am coming from and make up your own mind (hopefully after a bit of research). But please allow me to address your two questions:
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is it possible that the antennae array need not be located on earth?
No. Again, if we are talking emitted power levels as discussed (more than 1GW electric power emitted), the size of the antennas would ve very visible from the Earth plus you would have to drag a couple of nuclear power plants along with it. Solar arrays is not going to cut it unless they are humongous (again, something that would be very obvious from the surface of our fair planet). So I think we can rule that out.
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Is it also possible that 'allegedly' more powerful antennae arrays may exist somewhere on this planet?
It is entirely possible, although I am not sure what the purpose would be. First of all, we are still stuck with the power requirement (a couple of nuclear power plants next to it). Secondly, reflecting energy off the ionosphere and then expecting to aim a focused beam is simply not possible. The ionosphere is in constant motion and is not by any measure a "flat mirror" with a predetermined angle of reflection.
Secondly, if you were really trying to deliver energy to a point deep underground, you would basically have to blast that energy through all the people living on top of that fault line (if we are imagining an earthquake scenario) and when you finally provoke the Earthquake none of the surface would really be alive to care. And you would still need a lot more energy that we could ever produce anyhow to do it.
Finally, just to put things in perspective, the most powerful radars on Earth (directional antennas) are the Ballistic Missile Early Warning System radars and they operate at 582.4 kilowatts (kW) peak
[ref]. Or about 2,000 times less that has been postulated the HAARP operates at.
Honestly, it is a question of looking at possible power levels and what is required to actually do what has been postulated and it simply doesn't add up. Then there is something about physics and how one would generate earth quakes with such means, but that is a completely different question.
But lets have a quick look at Mr. Cramer's assertions (and he has no idea what he is talking about, which is very obvious from what he writes).
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By Guy Cramer
As political and military experts on News talk shows discuss with all seriousness, the potential for a tactical nuclear response from the U.S. for the mounting bio-terror attacks, it should be pointed out that geophysics warfare weapons such as HAARP are making nuclear retaliation obsolete.
Nonsense right there as will be pointed out further down.
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This military array in Alaska and others like it around the world have the potential to deliver an equivalent nuclear detonation to a long-range target without warning, without the missile and without the radiation. One of 12 U.S. HAARP patents is titled: U.S. Patent 4873928: Nuclear-Sized Explosions Without Radiation
It is not military, it civillian, but military funded for research in defense applications, but also for civilian.
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HAARP was constructed under the SDI (Strategic Defense Initiative) other wise known as "Star Wars".
Nope. SDI was long dead when funding to HAARP was approved.
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The High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP) is a congressionally initiated program jointly managed by the U.S. Air Force and U.S. Navy. Using 3 gigawatts of power (3 billion watts) from a 23-acre site in Gakona, Alaska, it is considered the most powerful array on Earth.
Now it is 3GWe (Gigawatts electrical); this number is continuously inflating. That would be 4 large nuclear power stations surrounding it, just for HAARP. Impressive. And that puny array would have no means to take that power. It simply doesn't add up. It's like arguing that your vacuum cleaner runs at 1MW and then claiming it's the size of a normal vacuum cleaner and is plugged into your regular kitchen outlet. It simply cannot be.
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Another ability of an array such as HAARP could be used to heat radiate people within a large yet distant target, even a buried underground bunker or cave network. This would minimize public and international opposition to such a response as the effects, although not as visual as tactical nuclear detonations, provides a similar broad termination of targets. The world may not even realize anything had happened and thus large-scale enemy losses in one location without physical munitions detonations may be played down or passed off as conventional combat or Special Forces action.
Pure nonsense. Again, there are no means of focusing a directed beam by means of atmospheric reflection as the atmosphere is fluid.
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The trick to using such a weapon with underground targets is to find the target in the first place. The same array that may be used to deliver the effect can also be used to penetrate deep into the ground to find the target. HAARP can in effect be used for Earth-penetrating tomography, which can reveal the existence of underground installations.
Again, nonsense. You have no means of doing so.
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The HAARP complex consists of 180 towers, 72 feet in height, forming a "high-power, high frequency phased array radio transmitter". Military applications of HAARP include long-range ground penetration radar, over the horizon radar, submarine communication…
OK, this is where the dear Mr. Cramer really gets himself in hot water. First of all, HAARP antennas certainly have a some phased array capabilities, they are far from a phased array radar using the dipole antennas they do. And they have no phase control as they would need to direct it anywhere but straight up. Secondly, it is claimed that it is a high frequency transmitter, which is basically in direct contradiction with the statement that
"military applications of HAARP include long-range ground penetration radar, over the horizon radar, submarine communication…"This is simply plain wrong. E.g., submarine communications use ELF (Extremely Low Frequency at 40-80Hz,
ref). That is required since water will attenuate the signals very fast otherwise. The same with deep penetrating radar, that has to me low frequency as otherwise water in the soil, rock or the like would kill the signal very fast. This simply shows that Mr. Cramer has no idea what he is talking about.
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The basics for Ground penetration or target neutralization is to use the antenna array to target and heat the ionosphere in the upper atmosphere to create a lens to bounce or reflect a signal off to a target of great distance. Although some distances may be to far to reach a target if it is on the other side of the globe.
Again, a blatant lack of knowledge of the atmosphere and radar systems.
Please see next post for continuation....