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2025 is a study designed to comply with a directive from the chief of staff of the Air Force to examine the concepts, capabilities, and technologies the United States will require to remain the dominant air and space force in the future. Presented on 17 June 1996, this report was produced in the Department of Defense school environment of academic freedom and in the interest of advancing concepts related to national defense. The views expressed in this report are those of the authors and do not reflect the official policy or position of the United States Air Force, Department of Defense, or the United States government.
This report contains fictional representations of future situations/scenarios. Any similarities to real people or events, other than those specifically cited, are unintentional and are for purposes of illustration only.
But, while offensive weather-modification efforts would certainly be undertaken by US forces with great caution and trepidation, it is clear that we cannot afford to allow an adversary to obtain an exclusive weather-modification capability.
SMOKE CONSUMING LOCOMOTIVE
Patent No.531,555
Issued: December 25, 1894
Inventor: Frank Charles McNally, Kansas City, Missouri
The ultimate in low-pollution vehicles. A steam locomotive is equipped with a cover plate on its smokestack.
The smoke is sucked back into the firebox by a blower, thus causing the locomotive to consume all of its own smoke, and increasing efficiency by forcing the boiler to consume all of its unburned by-products.
Think this could be applied to automobiles? Just connect the tailpipe to the air cleaner, and presto! One hundred percent recycling and no pollution!
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Pet display clothing
Patent No. 5,901,666
Issued: May 11, 1999
Inventor: Brice Belisle
No need to leave your gerbil or hamster at home with this novel pet cage. Just put on the vest, and little Hamlet or George can run around as you do!
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A vest or belt is integrally formed with tubular, pet receiving passageways which extend around the wearer's body and terminate in pocket-like chambers for feeding and retrieval. Outer wall portions of the passageways are transparent so that a pet moving along the passageways can be seen by a spectator. Graphics or indicia depicting the pet's habitat or a pet story are marked on the vest and extend across portions of the passageways masking delineations or depicting the passageways as burrows.
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Originally posted by cogburn
An operation on the scale of chemtrails would not be easy to hide.
It has also been proposed to release large clouds of barium in the magnetosphere so that photoionization will increase the cold plasma density, thereby producing electron precipitation through enhanced whistler-mode interactions.
However, in all of the above-mentioned approaches, the mechanisms involved in triggering the change in the trapped particle phenomena must be actually positioned within the affected zone, e.g., the magnetosphere, before they can be actuated to effect the desired change.
Article 3For the purpose of these Regulations, "weather modification" refers to the activities carried out for rain or snow enhancement, hail suppression, rain suppression, fog dispersal, or frost protection by exerting, under appropriate conditions, artificial influence on local atmospheric physical and chemical processes through scientific and technological means, so as to mitigate or avert meteorological disasters and properly exploit climatic resources.
Where weather modification operations are to be implemented, the local competent meteorological department shall, on the basis of the actual situations, make a public announcement in advance and notify the local public security organ to ensure the safety and security.
The following acts are prohibited:
(1) transferring equipment for weather modification operations to units or individuals that are not authorized to implement weather modification operations;
(2) using equipment for weather modification operations for activities not related to weather modification; or
(3) using equipment that fails to pass the annual verification, exceeds the expiration date or is scrapped.
Originally posted by Phage
And speaking of research:
H.R. 3445, a bill to establish a research board, died a quick death in 2007
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So much for fast tracked. Read a bit on your own. Find some up to date information. Don't be a parrot.
Members often reintroduce bills that did not come up for debate under a new number in the next session.
Last Action: Aug 24, 2007: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Environment.
Originally posted by interestedalways
Last Action: Aug 24, 2007: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Environment.
So everything in the world of words isn't always what it seems is it?
edit to add source
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[edit on 26-1-2009 by interestedalways]
Originally posted by Phage
The Subcommittee on Energy and Environment apparently had more important matters to concern itself with.
The bill was submitted in the 110th Congress (2007-2008). It was not passed. It is dead, dead, dead.
Of course, Udall may reintroduce it (or something like it) in the 111th Congress. But as far as being "fast-tracked"...no.