Originally posted by gobetter
Let's look at HAARP from a different prospective. Let's start by wondering if the government has been aware of the coming solar flares (in theory)
for quite some time and they've known of the Earth's vulnerability .. now let's wonder if HAARP "could" have been developed to sheild the planet
from these flares and save us all. Sounds reasonable to me.
While it wasn't "designed" to do this, this is one of the things you can 'sort of' do with HAARP.
Years ago, down at Siple Station, they found out you could sweep trapped charged particles out of the inner magnetosphere if you had the right setup.
HAARP can do this, and pretty well at that, at least most of the time. So, yes, if you have a CME or a HAND that puts a lot of particles in the inner
magnetosphere, they'll just loop around for weeks tearing up your orbital assets.
HAARP can be used to clean that out. It's not the only way - they experimented with it on a couple of STS missions and now it's done from orbit.
Your tax $ at work.