Weather Modification: HAARP

There is much to be said about weather control. Since the beginning, humankind have wished to be able to not only decide what kind of weather they have, but harness the weather to their benefit, like say ending a drought with a heavy downpour. Cloud Seeding is a technique where small planes go up and sprinkle low clouds with particles that encourage them to condense water and release it. The chemicals used in this process are often controversial. After all, who wants to eat a crop that's been artificially rained on?

Tesla, fascinated by lightning, would stretch out on his couch during a thunderstorm and mentally calculate the time between thunder and lightning, and also apparently the voltage of the lightning strike. Of course, his ultimate goal was to create lightning. If you've ever seen photos of a Tesla Coil, they produce what look like tiny bolts of lightning right into the air.

During storms, which are high in electrical activity, Tesla would perform experiments with his machines and try to discover the secrets of lightning. The old stereotype of the mad scientist working feverishly during the dark and stormy night probably came from him. I've been meaning also to examine the likeness of Dr. Frankenstein in the Shelley novel as a "mad" scientist who uses electricity to create life, which as far as I've read Tesla never tried but then again, you never know.

Tesla was also the first to identify cosmic rays. He demonstrated that the Aurora Borealis was electric in nature, and he went as far as to suggest a system whereby the night sky could be electrified to provide light. HAARP, or the High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program, is essentially an array of Tesla Magnifying Transmitters in Alaska that use the Aurora as some kind of electrical relay. The complete intentions of the program have never entirely been clarified, as the potential for the system to be exploited by the military for over-the-horizon radar is almost too great to ignore.