HAARP
H.A.A.R.P. stands for the High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program, and is not a secret or classified project. On their website it plainly states that the site is “a premier facility for the study of ionospheric physics and radio science,” but many people believe it has another purpose not so benign. Many people believe HAARP is a potential global weapon that can control the weather.
The finished design.
Trying to control the weather isn’t all that crazy of an idea. Weather Modification Inc. has been around for 40 years. Other countries have spent tons of money in weather manipulation throughout the years. HAARP is a big clump of radio antennas in Alaska that can be linked together to focus there combined energy into a target in the ionosphere. There are about 180 individual antennas, with a total size about 35 acres and combined they can spit out about 3,600 kilowatts of energy into the atmosphere. That’s 3.6 million watts. A radio station is 50 thousand watts max. The people running HAARP say it’s not a weather control project or any type of “star wars” weapon. What they don’t say is exactly what will happen when they shoot the energy into our atmosphere. Since its a research project, they figure just turn it on and see what happens, so it’s not that hard to see why a lot of people are concerned about this.
I was given a book a long time ago on concept art for old Disney films and one of the films they had sketches for was called Victory Through Air Power. One of the sketches was of the earth with a black octopus curling around the earth from above and the same coming up from below. I always thought this was a striking image and it was one of the first things that came to my mind when I was thinking about HAARP as a potential global weapon.
This was my initial sketch, inspired by an old concept sketch for the disney film Victory Through Air Power.I chose oranges and browns for the palette because orange is traditionally a color signifying caution, like in road construction, and putting the earth in browns give it a more gloomy feel. I put the octopus over the northern hemisphere, but I didn’t put it over Alaska just because I didn’t think the view of the earth from that perspective was as interesting. I used google earth to position the earth underneath the octopus.
