Both. I understand the technical side of HAARP pretty well (I'm very familiar with HF communications and have built my own transmitters and receivers), but I'm suspicious of the US government's motives for it. The enormous and infamous USAF Cobra Mist array at Orford Ness was claimed at the time to have been an ionopheric research facility, when in fact it turned out to be an OTH radar targetted at the USSR. Whatever the reason for HAARP, it was certainy a military reason for they initiated and funded it. Follow the money!
Ostensibly it was "to analyse the ionosphere and investigate the potential for developing ionospheric enhancement technology for radio communications and surveillance". I suspect it was really more to do with surveillance than HF comms, and short-term localised weather modification could well be a side-effect of their scarily Orwellian 'ionospheric enhancement technology'.
Talking of propagation, one of my interests is the propagation of conspiracy theories and the psychology behind them. Even so, sometimes a much mocked conspiracy theory eventually turns out to be true all along. The pejorative terms 'pseudo-science' and and 'pseudo-history' can be very dangerous when used by certain people. In many areas of academic research things are far from black-and-white.
Both. I understand the technical side of HAARP pretty well (I'm very familiar with HF communications and have built my own transmitters and receivers), but I'm suspicious of the US government's motives for it. The enormous and infamous USAF Cobra Mist array at Orford Ness was claimed at the time to have been an ionopheric research facility, when in fact it turned out to be an OTH radar targetted at the USSR. Whatever the reason for HAARP, it was certainy a military reason for they initiated and funded it. Follow the money!
Ostensibly it was "to analyse the ionosphere and investigate the potential for developing ionospheric enhancement technology for radio communications and surveillance". I suspect it was really more to do with surveillance than HF comms, and short-term localised weather modification could well be a side-effect of their scarily Orwellian 'ionospheric enhancement technology'.
Talking of propagation, one of my interests is the propagation of conspiracy theories and the psychology behind them. Even so, sometimes a much mocked conspiracy theory eventually turns out to be true all along. The pejorative terms 'pseudo-science' and and 'pseudo-history' can be very dangerous when used by certain people. In many areas of academic research things are far from black-and-white.
