# What about HAARP?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-about-haarp/140298>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [December 3, 2002, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-about-haarp/140298 "2002-12-03T22:57:33Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Sparc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/65b543/32.png) [@Sparc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sparc)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2002, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-about-haarp/140298/1 "2002-12-03T22:57:33Z")

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So this thing is supposedly a mind control weapon, or a giant radio antenna, or an anti-al Qaeda subterranean stratospheric X-ray machine. What’s the beef? Does it work? Can it control minds? Tinfoil time? I know, I’m chuckling as I write, but even [the master himsel](http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a960308.html) can’t give the straight dope, can anyone else?

Sparc

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**Author:** ![Tars\_Tarkas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Tars\_Tarkas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tars_Tarkas)\
**Post date:** [December 4, 2002, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-about-haarp/140298/2 "2002-12-04T00:08:15Z")

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Careful, this will attract the crazies, like me!!! From what i can gleen about HAARP, it is either a mind control projuect which is an offshoot of Tesla’s death ray and does something involving punching a hole in the atmosphere, or it is some freaky weather thing. I personally think it started as a weather machine, but then got bloated and head changed so many times, it is not a freakish mutant gov’t program that has no real purpose. Just like the cube in _Cube_.

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**Author:** ![cdhostage](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c6cbf5/32.png) [@cdhostage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cdhostage)\
**Post date:** [December 4, 2002, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-about-haarp/140298/3 "2002-12-04T02:04:45Z")

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Bigass radio antenna farm. Radiates a great deal of radio waves. What for, I dunno. What effects it has on the atmosphere (weather control eventually, I think is the idea) is a thing. Maybe it’s the military’s attempt to contact ET.

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**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\
**Post date:** [February 18, 2018, 11:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-about-haarp/140298/5 "2018-02-18T11:47:21Z")

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The join date was not what I expected.

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**Author:** ![Crafter\_Man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crafter_man/32/458_2.png) [@Crafter\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crafter_Man)\
**Post date:** [February 18, 2018, 12:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-about-haarp/140298/6 "2018-02-18T12:02:57Z")

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HAARP sends out a signal to activate the mind-control chemicals in Chemtrails.