From: skunk-works-digest-owner@mail.orst.edu To: skunk-works-digest@mail.orst.edu Subject: Skunk Works Digest V5 #287 Reply-To: skunk-works-digest@mail.orst.edu Errors-To: skunk-works-digest-owner@mail.orst.edu Precedence: bulk Skunk Works Digest Friday, 2 June 1995 Volume 05 : Number 287 In this issue: EG&G Re: HAARP Project Re: EG&G See the end of the digest for information on subscribing to the skunk-works or skunk-works-digest mailing lists and on how to retrieve back issues. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: dovergar@nyx10.cs.du.edu (dennis overgard) Date: Thu, 1 Jun 1995 06:54:44 -0600 (MDT) Subject: EG&G EG&G Rocky Flats, Golden CO runs the Rocky Flats Nuclear Weapons facility just outside of Golden CO. This facility used to make plutonium triggers for fusion bombs. Currently EG&G is supervising the cleanup of massive amounts of plutonium pollution in the buildings and grounds of the site. (At least untill the current congress decides that plutonium is good for the environment:} Dennis Overgard (dovergar@nyx10.cs.du.edu) ------------------------------ From: "JOE P." Date: Thu, 01 Jun 1995 13:16:39 -0500 (EST) Subject: Re: HAARP Project >From: IN%"pwatson@utdallas.edu" 31-MAY-1995 19:29:48.09 >Subj: (fwd) CENSORED: The Pentagon's Mysterious HAARP Project (fwd) >The Pentagon's Mysterious HAARP Project >SOURCE: EARTH ISLAND JOURNAL Date: Fall 1994 Title: "Project HAARP: The Military's Plan to Alter the Ionosphere"* Authors: Clare Zickuhr and Gar Smith >SYNOPSIS: The Pentagon's mysterious HAARP project, now under construction at an isolated Air Force facility near Gakona, Alaska, marks the first step toward creating the world's most powerful "ionospheric heater." The High Frequency Active Auroral Research Project (HAARP), a joint effort of the Air Force and the Navy, is the latest in a series of little-known Department of Defense (DOD) "active ionospheric experiments." >Internal HAARP documents state: "From a DOD point of view, the most exciting and challenging" part of the experiment is "its potential to control ionospheric processes" for military objectives. Scientists envision using the system's powerful 2.8-10 megahertz (MHz) beam to burn "holes" in the ionosphere and "create an artificial lens" in the sky that could focus large bursts of electromagnetic energy "to higher altitudes ... than is presently possible." The minimum area to be heated would be 31 miles in diameter. >The initial $26 million, 320 kw HAARP project will employ 360 72-foot-tall antennas spread over four acres to direct an intense beam of focused electromagnetic energy upwards to strike the ionosphere. The next stage of the project would expand HAARP's power to 1.7 gigawatts (1.7 billion watts), making it the most powerful such transmitter on Earth. [text deleted] >This file and other Project Censored information are now available on the Internet, via Gopher and WWW. >Email: project.censored@sonoma.edu Gopher URL: gopher://censored.sonoma.edu:70/11/ProjectCensored WWW URL: http://censored.sonoma.edu/ProjectCensored/ ***************************************************************** I really hate to burst somebody's bubble but the idea that this is a recent project is somewhat misleading. Quite a few months or maybe even years ago, I put a posting about a very general outline of what seems to be this project. It was not detailed at all but only what I had gathered from some conversations with a friend who, while at Penn State Univ., was involved in a field project in which radio transmissions were "launched" at the ionsphere in attempts to change and/or monitor transmission/reflection characteristics of this layer of the atmosphere. I do not recall the time of this conversation but since I changed jobs 10 years ago and it was maybe four or five (if not more) years before that that I had the conversations I mention, it would be safe to assume that preliminary work on this type of project must have been done in, probably, the late 70's time frame. Direct from the halls of Edinboro University - (814) 732-2484 and directly from the terminal of, - 142 Miller Bldg. - Edinboro Univ. Joe Pyrdek pyrdek@edinboro.edu - Edinboro PA 16444 ------------------------------ From: chosa@chosa.win.net (Byron Weber) Date: Thu, 01 Jun 1995 19:39:27 Subject: Re: EG&G > EG&G Rocky Flats, Golden CO runs the Rocky Flats Nuclear Weapons >facility just outside of Golden CO. This facility used to make >plutonium triggers for fusion bombs. Currently EG&G is supervising >the cleanup of massive amounts of plutonium pollution in the buildings >and grounds of the site. (At least untill the current congress decides >that plutonium is good for the environment:} > >Dennis Overgard (dovergar@nyx10.cs.du.edu) > > Interesting. The Feds probably no longer need plutonium triggers. With EG&G's experience in nuclear stuff, they are the obvious candidate to assist in the developement of new generation aircraft, nuclear powered, something that might go mach 25 or whatever a TAV needs for escape velocity. ------------------------------ End of Skunk Works Digest V5 #287 ********************************* To subscribe to skunk-works-digest, send the command: subscribe skunk-works-digest in the body of a message to "majordomo@mail.orst.edu". If you want to subscribe something other than the account the mail is coming from, such as a local redistribution list, then append that address to the "subscribe" command; for example, to subscribe "local-skunk-works": subscribe skunk-works-digest local-skunk-works@your.domain.net To unsubscribe, send mail to the same address, with the command: unsubscribe skunk-works-digest in the body. 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