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00:00:02 >> July 11, 2008.
Lightning researcher elissa eastvedt is crouched down in an underground bunker at the top of
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the magdalena mountains west of socorro, new mexico.
00:00:15 >> I'm in an underground room.
00:00:16 My ceiling is at the ground level at the top of the mountain.
00:00:20 trigger and direct lightning strikes to a target of her choosing.
>> The goal with these triggered lightning experiments is really trying to find out what starts
there's a lot we don't understand about lightning, and one of the biggest questions is, how
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does what's the there's a lot that we do understand about what happens during the lightning
flash, but how it gets started is still a complete mystery.
>> Lightning is produced in thunderstorms when liquid ice particles collide, building up
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large electrical fields in the but what actually triggers them is a mystery.
00:00:59 Elissa's experiment is off limits to film and video.
She's in a protective underground chamber, shielded by above her is a rocket she'll launch
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into the it's attached to a wire nearly one mile long, anchored to the ground.
00:01:17 As storm clouds gather, elissa will become the target.
>> You're trying to intercept a lightning bolt that's going to you're watching your monitors to
make sure the cloud conditions are right for a lightning bolt to strike and then you want to
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get your rocket up in the air so that that lightning bolt decides to strike your rocket and come
to your instruments instead of striking somewhere else around you.
00:01:43 >> Elissa launches rocket after rocket hoping for a bite.
>> Triggering lightning really is a lot like winning the you can set up all the conditions right,
00:01:47 and you can do everything to the exact time that you hope is right, and you can still be
wrong.
00:01:59 , on the sixth launch, it happens.
00:02:05 These are the actual images.
00:02:08 Lightning strikes the rocket.
Millions of volts of electricity pulse through the wire to a ground target, which measures
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data.
>> In the video, when the lightning flash is showing there, you can see a bright, straight
00:02:16 segment, and that bright, straight segment is the so the rocket is basically at the top and
above that, you have the rest of the lightning bolt.
>> Now, imagine if this was a battlefield and that target was a rocket could be sent up over
that tank with a dangling wire, which could direct a lightning strike right elissa is doing
00:02:30 lightning research for the new mexico institute of mining and technology's langmuir
laboratory, with no intended military but once we know how to trigger lightning,
weaponizing may not be far off.
00:02:59 >> Lightning would be a devastating weapon to be able to bring into the modern battlefield.
>> Among the deadliest natural phenomena known to man, a single lightning bolt can stretch
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over 5 miles and top 50,000 degrees fahrenheit, the equivalent of 5 suns.
>> On the one hand, I mean, it could certainly kill large numbers of troops, but far more
00:03:19 importantly, it could short out the sensitive electronic systems that lie at the heart of much of
modern weaponry.
Lightning strikes could take out radar systems, could render guidance systems inoperative,
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could interfere with all sorts of computer software.
>> It is harder to imagine a cooler weather weapon than the ability to be able to throw these
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lightning bolts at your enemies like zeus.
>> There are key barriers to overcome in order to weaponize lightning, torrential rains, even
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hurricanes.
That's impossiblehas assembled one-- an aggressor must be able to trigger the weather where
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and when it's needed.
2--There would need to be a way to target the weather, like aiming a lightning bolt at an
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enemy installation.
And 3--the technology would have to be plausibly deniable, which means it wouldn't show a
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fingerprint of who launched the strike.
00:04:30 At the nevada lightning lab, greg leyh is also trying to find out what triggers lightning.
00:04:37 And he's making his own lightning to find out.
His office equipment--2 towering tesla coils that generate 19 million volts of electricity and
00:04:40 temperatures of 11,000 leyh built the lab to study the effects lightning has on airplanes,
homes, and vehicles, in the hopes of finding ways to make them safer when lightning strikes.
>> Lightning is an electrical discharge from the cloud to the whenever the cloud builds up to
a particular voltage, anywhere from 100-300 million volts, some mechanism initiates a
discharge that travels from it takes a tremendous amount of a single lightning strike, during
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the strike, would probably power the but only for a very short split-second of the nevada
lightning lab is an effort to reproduce and study electrical anomalies that happen on a large
scale.
00:05:39 Our goal is to recreate about 300 feet of an actual lightning strike.
00:05:47 >> Leyh will now demonstrate the power of his machine.
Each time he turns it on, he hopes to get a step closer to understanding lightning's untamed
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fury.
00:05:58 >> It's totally safe, as long as you stand in the right places.
00:06:02 If you do the wrong thing, it could be very bad.
>> On go the coils, and the pressure of 19 million volts slowly builds in the air, just like
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lightning in a cloud.
00:06:16 Imagine a spark plug which supplies an electrical charge to start a car's engine.
00:06:20 The charged particles in the air slam together, igniting a spark, and a lightning bolt erupts.
00:06:30 A small-scale model of what happens naturally outdoors.
00:06:34 This experiment produces a 20-foot lightning bolt.
00:06:38 Leyh is building a lab where he'll someday be able to trigger lightning 10 times that size.
>> For centuries people have dreamed about being able to hopefully, this will be the first
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practical attempt towards understanding how one might control lightning.
>> Although greg leyh and elissa eastvedt have no knowledge or interest in g lightning as a
00:06:56 weapon of war, once scientists crack the code of what triggers lightning, the military will
certainly use it.
Triggering lightning, aiming the bolt, and doing it secretly-- some of the theory dates back
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100 years to the legendary electrical inventor nikola tesla.
>> Nikola tesla can probably be regarded as the founding father of directed energy weapons,
00:07:22 and as such, may have laid the foundations for all sorts of weather modification and weather
warfare strategies.
>> Nikola tesla was an eccentric genius and was widely seen as the great rival to thomas
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edison.
>> Around 1891, tesla invented a type of towering transformer coil still in use today to
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generate high-voltage currents for studying electricity.
It was tesla who developed alternating current, the electrical current that we use to power our
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homes and appliances.
00:08:09 It was also tesla who put man on his quest to control the weather.
He developed a chilling theory for controlling the weather using extremely low-frequency
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waves, or elf waves.
If you've been to a rock concert and felt the low-frequency vibrations of the music pounding
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from the speakers, elf waves are similar to that.
Elf waves are low level electrical currents that are discarded from electrical power lines,
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levels so low that they won't harm you.
Tesla theorized that if elf waves could be beamed into the ionosphere, in the upper reaches
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of the atmosphere, man could change the course of weather.
The elf waves would create heat, altering the molecular structure of the ionosphere, pushing
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it out into space.
>> When you heat a certain region of the ionosphere, it literally pushes it up and and creates
what would look like a column of space, and the lower atmosphere then rushes in to fill that
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space, and as it does, it changes the flow of jet streams within the region and pressure
systems, and in that respect, it could manipulate weather.
>> What this means is the heated ionosphere acts like a giant dam, rerouting the path of the
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jet stream.
The jet stream flows between 6 and 9 miles above the earth's surface and reaches speeds up
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to 300 miles per hour.
>> The jet stream is a focused, high-velocity rope of air that moves billions of gallons of
00:09:41 water around our world, like a giant river at 50,000, 60,000 it moves all the water around our
world, for rain, for this is the lifeblood of planet earth.
00:10:05 >> Could tesla's theories help create a new generation of covert weather weapons?
00:10:11 >> It was the russians that were creating this signal.
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>> Has the united states already been attacked by a weather weapon?
strange unexplained blackouts in worldwide communications plagued the ham radio
operators all are picking up seemingly random, unknown radio it's causing static interference
with radio, television, and even telephone transmissions all across north america.
[Clicking] >> this signal was a tapping that would go for like 10 beats and then stop for a
bit, then 10 beats and stop for a bit.
scientists discovered the cryptic signal is coming ..the soviet union.
They assign it an innocuous name.
>> It was called the russian woodpecker because it was the russians that were creating this
signal, and the sound that the ham operators heard was essentially that sort of clicking,
pecking sound.
>> Here is an actual tape recording of the mysterious signal.
[Clicking] satellite photos reveal the russians have secretly constructed a gigantic radio
transmitter and are covertly transmitting extremely low frequency waves, otherwise known
as elf waves, into the atmosphere over north america.
The russians would continue beaming this signal until at least 1989, the last time they were
detected.
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>> Weather experts from noaa and from the national weather service can't explain why the
jet stream anomaly occurred.
Perhaps it's all just a part of mother nature's unpredictable ebbs and flows.
Still, it's no coincidence that the united states began building its own mysterious array of
antennas in february of 1992.
They are located in gakona, the project is called haarp.
>> Haarp is the high-frequency active auroral research project, originally a joint effort of the
air force and navy in cooperation with a number of academic institutions.
>> It is today the world's largest radio broadcasting station, but it's not designed to broadcast
for human ears.
It uses unique patented ability to focus the energy coming out of the antenna field and injects
that energy into a spot at the very top of the atmosphere in a region called the ionosphere.
>> Haarp is comprised of 180 antennas approximately 72 feet tall, linked together to
function as one giant steerable steerable because it can aim millions of watts of elf waves
into one tiny patch of the atmosphere.
>> The amount of energy we're 6 to give you an idea of what that is, the largest legal am
radio station in north america is 50,000 haarp is 72,000 50,000-watt radio stations injecting
their entire output into a spot that's about 12 miles across by about 2 1/2 miles deep by about
90 miles up.
>> This is where haarp is it's an area located roughly 300 miles from military says haarp is
merely being used to study the physical and electrical properties and behavior of the
ionosphere, for both civilian and defense purposes.
But another theory has surfaced.
The intense energy being beamed into the sky by haarp is actually heating up the
atmosphere, causing weather changes.
>> Haarp is being used for the military's own record proves it.
They've admitted it within their and yet they still deny it to the public.
brooks agnew has researched elf wave technology for the past 30 years and is convinced
haarp's effect on the ionosphere does alter the weather.
>> Haarp couldn't affect the jet stream directly, but indirectly it could, because if you push
the ionosphere out into space, then the stratosphere just under the ionosphere has to move to
fill in that gap.
When it moves, it could pull the that's rerouting it hundreds of miles, changing the way
water moves through our atmosphere.
agnew has devised a demonstration to show how haarp could manipulate the atmosphere.
>> So, what we've done is we've got a cloud generator up here.
It's an ultrasonic nebulizer.
It's going to create real water particles just like you would find in a cloud.
What we're seeing now is we're actually filling this chamber with microscopic water you can
see that it's almost completely filled with it's beginning to condense a little bit on the just so
that you can see the detail, we've got a nice dense fog just like you were sitting inside a
cloud at 50,000 feet.
>> At the bottom of the cloud agnew has constructed an elf wave transmitter, a miniature
version of haarp.
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>> When haarp's broadcast array in gakona, alaska, sends pulses of elf waves into the
ionosphere, the waves get reflected back down and pass through the earth and ocean.
6 million watts of elf waves were purposely or accidentally aimed at an already unstable
fault line, it could, agnew, cause a tremendous earthquake.
>> Looking at just simple instability, you know, what does it take to create an avalanche?
A guy walking across an unstable what does it take to the right signal coming in when the
pressures are already built up and they're at their threshold.
That feather, or in our case, that hammer releases that energy.
>> Conspiracy theorists believe haarp is responsible for triggering earthquakes in enemy
territories like iran, china, and rogue parts of afghanistan over the past 3 years.
But haarp's startling potential some say it's linked to a strange phenomenon occurring in our
skies.
In recent years, peculiar cloud formations have been appearing in the skies all over the
world, with increasing frequency.
>> I think most of us in north america have wondered at these flumes criss-crossing the sky
in grid patterns, parallel rows, AND THE NOW FAMILIAR Xs.
And many of us have wondered what these trails are.
>> While highly speculative, some researchers suggest these strange cloud formations are
another agent of weather warfare.
They first appear to be simply contrails coming from high-flying jet airplanes.
But these trails linger in the sky for many hours, some for even an entire day, forming an
artificial cloud.
Some researchers refer to them as chemtrails.
>> Chemtrails are deliberately air force tankers dispersing chemicals into the atmosphere.
>> Will thomas has authored a book about chemtrails.
SINCE THE LATE 1990s, HE HAS Worked closely with another journalist in investigating
these strange patterns that appear in the sky.
>> We have an faa representative, in fact, a high government official, a person we came to
call deep sky, attesting to the truth and the reality he described this program of spraying
chemical trails at high altitudes in so-called commanded airspace, where commercial flights
are routed around and beneath tanker airplanes belonging to the u.s. air force.
>> The theory is that chemtrails are being used in conjunction by spraying metal oxides into
the air above enemy skies, then directing elf waves from haarp to heat those metal oxides,
the temperature of the sky is raised to more than 100 degrees fahrenheit, preventing the
accumulation of water vapor that would otherwise form clouds and produce rainfall.
The elf waves haarp produces bounce off the ionosphere and are able to curve around the
earth, over the horizon to the ground, making any point on the globe well within reach.
>> One of the dangers in spreading chemtrails is that it acts as a desiccant and further in
other words, these chemical particulates can dry up the atmosphere and induce drought.
>> Imagine the effects of chemtrails on the battlefield, causing extended droughts in enemy
countries, drying up their resources, forcing surrender, just as terrifying as another form of
weather being weaponized--rain that can trigger devastating floods and wipe cities clean off
the map.
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igF inal S O OITE CRITICAL ELEMENTS Of launching a weatherized battle is being able
to control rain and unleash floods.
>> The military have had a keen interest in the weather there have been a number of times
the military have actually succeeded in developing technology to use the weather.
>> In history, there is a chilling example of a flood that may have been accidentally
triggered with a weather weapon.
August 15, 1952.
Near the small town of lynmouth, england, a massive rainstorm strikes. the river swells.
Scores die.
>> It's estimated that 250 times as much rain fell in a period of 24 hours as normally fell in
the entire month.
>> The east lyn and west lyn rivers flood their banks.
According to the bbc, 90 million tons of water sweep down into the town of lynmouth.
>> 35 People were killed.
>> Bodies wash out to sea and trees are uprooted, forming dams behind bridges, creating
walls of water that carry huge boulders into the village, destroying shops, hotels, and homes.
Was this just a freak act of the prevailing theory is that it may have been a british military
experiment gone bad, as they had been known to be conducting cloud-seeding tests around
that same time.
>> The british military would be experimenting with cloud-seeding for the same reason as
any because if you can control the weather, if you can make it rain, um, you can have a
profound effect on the battlefield.
>> Allegedly, earlier in the morning of august 15, 1952, some witnesses had reported seeing
royal air force jets flying in the area, at times disappearing from sight high above the cloud
bank.
Were they on a routine training or as some people speculate, were they dumping payloads of
silver iodide into the clouds?
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Silver iodide is one of the most common chemicals used for it forces the tiny ice crystals that
make up the cloud to fuse together.
Once enough tiny ice crystals fuse together, they become heavy and fall to the earth in the
form of rain.
And on that fateful day in august of 1952, rain fell in did the royal air force embark on
daring cloud-seeding experiments without the public's knowledge?
>> Some people reported seeing aircraft undertaking strange maneuvers, and it subsequently
emerged that there was an experiment codenamed operation cumulus, which was indeed an
attempt at weather modification.
Interestingly, many of the documents relating to operation cumulus have disappeared and are
not available from the national archives.
>> A little over a decade later military conducted experiments to bring weather to the
battlefield.
October 1966.
The vietnam war is in full military scientists are devising a way to slow down enemy forces
using the weather.
had gone from adviser status to in-field combat status and were not doing as a result of not
being able to make progress on the went to bringing the battle into the atmosphere above the
battlefield.
>> The air force employed a groundbreaking military directive called project popeye.
>> Project popeye was a weather modification program that and the idea was to produce or
exaggerate the monsoon rains that are traditional in that region.
>> Experiments are carried out beforehand, with the military aircraft dropping silver iodide
crystals in clouds over a strip of the laos panhandle east of bolaven plateau in the se khong
river valley.
50 Cloud-seeding runs are 82% of the clouds seeded produce rain within a brief period.
>> So, project popeye then became operation popeye, and it became a proper military
program during the vietnam war.
>> The goal of operation popeye was to extend the monsoon season and create an inordinate
amount of rainfall by seeding clouds over the ho chi minh trail.
>> The ho chi minh trail was the primary supply route by which the north vietnamese army
really supplied its troops that were ..combat forces operating in south vietnam, as well as
supplying the vietcong.
So it was the most significant logistical center of gravity to the north vietnamese, and it was
an important strategic objective for the united states and our ally south vietnam to try to
interdict that supply line to cut off those supplies to the enemy.
>> Operation popeye's objectives are to soften road surfaces on the ho chi minh trail, cause
landslides along roadways, and wash out river crossings.
>> The military had their own catchphrase as a result of this program, and it was, "make
mud, " >> they flew over 2,600 missions from a period of 1966 to 1972.
And it's believed that it did exacerbate the amount of rainfall and probably extended the
monsoon season by 30 to 45 days.
>> It had limited success.
They did succeed in generating they did succeed in turning the vietcong resupply route into a
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quagmire of mud.
It didn't slow them down a bit.
They were bringing the stuff in on bicycles and they just slogged through the mud.
>> Operation popeye showed that weather can be brought to the but can it also be
weaponized in the form some say it already has.
>> Some people believe that katrina was weather warfare at its most potent.
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down the beach for a substantial distance so we have speculations that our enemies have
been throwing we were being bombarded, attacked with the weather.
>> So far, there has been no most attribute katrina's path to the vagaries but it does illustrate
the potential of such a weapon.
>> To control and direct a hurricane gives you power at least equivalent to nuclear a
hurricane could be the ultimate weapon of war.
>> The very next year after katrina, something strange according to the national weather
service, not a single hurricane made landfall in 2006.
military have been using haarp to fend off hurricane attacks?
An irregular high-pressure zone above the southeastern united states points to this
conclusion, according to jerry smith.
>> This high-pressure dome has it's never been seen to have a high-pressure dome parked
over the southeastern united states for the entirety of a hurricane season. never happened
before.
But it's happened 3 years in a this high-pressure dome worked like the rubber bumpers and
every hurricane, like a pinball, hit it and bounced off, safely the date coincidence of haarp
being completed and this bumper being in effect I think is very telling.
>> Meteorologists say the high-pressure area is just a weather anomaly, one of many that
occurs in nature.
But its intensity puzzles many meteorologists.
Is this the same type of manufactured high-pressure system that experts feel hovered over
california from 1988 to 1992?
Today, nations still deny they are weaponizing weather.
But there are suggestions to the air force report graphically outlines the military's desire to
exploit and manipulate the weather for the purposes of war by the year according to one of
the most harrowing lines in this report, quote, "weather modification is a force multiplier
with tremendous power that could be exploited across the full spectrum of " >> the 2025
report on weather was essentially a mililitary analysis of what could we do, whether it was to
create rainfall, create drought the idea was, by 2025 we would be able to manipulate
virtually every aspect of weather.
>> It expressly states how and why the united states air force should own the weather.
What technologies will be necessary to fight future wars using weather as a weapon.
>> The rationale for this is really, the ultimate war is if you never have to fire a round,
nobody ever knew you had launched the fight, and this is what weather warfare offers
militaries around the world.
>> With our deadline of 2025 quickly approaching, the future of weather warfare is cause
for concern.
>> The worst-case scenario is that satellite-based weapons systems will turn the earth's it
could rain in the desert, and you could have a heat wave in the arctic.
>> If an enemy could change the jetstream over north america, it could plunge north america
into an ice age.
>> 50 Years from now, geophysical manipulation of the planet could betheweapon of war,
where it's not bombs and bullets, it's earthquakes, it's tidal waves, manipulation those
become the future of warfare.
>> When we talk about weather warfare, we are talking about this has nothing to do with
00:58:23 enhancing the aim of weather warfare is catastrophic environmental destruction and horrific
loss of life.
00:58:38 >> In the future, he who controls the weather will probably control the earth.
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The ultimate war is, if you never have to shoot, no one will know that you were
who undertook
You may already have been climatic attacks using weapons?
Some people believe that Katrina was war at its maximum power climatic
But as we understand the extreme weather, to make it our best bet?
Earthquakes, tidal waves, that is the future of war
This series investigates how the impossible is becoming possible
and what this might mean for the future
If an enemy could change the direction of the jetstream in North America, could
plunge into an ice age
weather warfare
July 11, 2008
Lightning researcher, Elissa Eastvedt is crouched in an underground bunker
on top of the Magdalena Mountains west of Socorro, New Mexico
I'm in a room below ground, my roof is at ground level at the top of the mountain
its mission, trigger and directing lightning at a target of your choice
The goal of these experiments is really trying to decipher what causes lightning
there is much we do not understand about lightning, and one of the biggest
questions
is what the beginning, which is the initiation process
if there is much to understand about what happens during the flash,
but as it starts, is still a mystery
the lightning occurs in thunderstorms when liquid ice particles collide
vast building electric fields in clouds
but what actually triggers is a mystery
Elissa's experiment is not allowed to be caught on video
she is in a protected underground chamber, shielded by layers of rock
about her is that she launched a rocket into the clouds of the storm
is attached to a wire of about 1 mile long, anchored to the ground
as clouds gather, Elissa will become the target
are trying to intercept a beam which anyway will manifest
're looking at your monitor to make sure that the cloud conditions are optimal for
lightning to be revealed somewhere near you
you want your rocket is in the air, so that the beam "decide" your rocket strike
and come to your instruments, instead of dropping it somewhere else close to
you 27 00:02:37,009 -> 00:02:40,000 Elissa launches rocket after rocket, waiting
for lightning "pique"
trigger lightning is very close to win the lottery,
can establish all necessary conditions, do all to the exact moment
you think is right, and yet, mistakes
Finally, at 15:23, the sixth pitch, it happens
Leyh construct the laboratory to study the effects of lightning on aircraft, houses
and vehicles
and hopes to find ways to make them safer during lightning storms
lightning is an electrical discharge from clouds to Earth
always when the clouds will increase to a specific voltage, ranging from 100 to
300 million volts,
some mechanism initiates a discharge that travels from the clouds in the
direction of the Earth
is a tremendous amount of instantaneous power, one lightning strike, as it falls
could power the entire western U.S.
but only for a short period, a fraction of a second
ray laboratory of Nevada is an effort to reproduce and study the electrical
abnormalities that occur on a large scale
our goal is to recreate some 300 feet of a real beam
Leyh now demonstrate the power of your machine
every time you turn it on, is one step closer to understanding the untamed fury
of lightning
is totally safe, as you scan in the right places
if you do wrong, it could be very bad
there are scrolls, and the pressure of 19 million volts is built slowly in the air
like a lightning bolt of thunder
Imagine a candle that delivers an electrical charge to start a car engine
charged particles in the air come together violently, creating a spark, and a ray
bursts
smaller scale model of what happens naturally outside doors
This experiment produces a beam of 20 feet
Leyh is building a laboratory, where one day may trigger a flash 10 times greater
than this
for centuries, people have dreamed of being able to control lightning
This will be the first practical attempt to do so, directed toward understanding
how to control lightning
although Eastvedt Greg Leyh and Elissa
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have no knowledge or interest to use the beam as a weapon of warScientists decipher a code of
what triggers the lightningsurely the military would usetrigger lightning, direct, and it secretly ...some
of the Tories dating 100 years, the legendary inventor Nikola Tesla electricNikola Tesla probably
could be regarded as the founding father of directed energy weaponsand as such, may have laid
the groundworkall kinds of war and weather modification weather warfare strategiesNikola Tesla
was an eccentric genius and was widely seen as the great rival of Thomas Edisonaround 1891,
Tesla invented a type of transformer tower scroll, still used todayto generate high voltage currents to
study electricitywas Tesla who developed alternating current,the electric power we use to power our
homes and appliancesTesla was also the man who put on their journey to control the
weatherdeveloping a chilling climate control theoryusing extremely low frequency waves (ELF
waves in English)if you are attending a rock concert and felt the low-frequency vibrations of the
music out of speakersELF waves are similar to thatELF waves are low-level electrical currents that
are discarded electrical lineselectrical wiring in our homes, including electrical equipment in our
carsThese are normally issued at levels so low that they could not harm usTesla theorized that if
ELF waves could be transmitted into the ionosphere09,000in the upper reaches of the atmosphere,
the man could change the course of climateELF waves create heat by altering the molecular
structure of the ionosphere,pushing "out" into spacewhen one heats a certain region of the
ionosphere, literally pushes upwardand would create what would look like a column of space in the
lower atmosphere,which rushes in to fill that spaceand while doing so, change the flow of the
jetstream (air flow) within the region, pressure systemsand in this respect, one could manipulate the
weatherWhat this means is that the heated ionosphere acts as a giant damdiverting the path of the
jetstreamthe jetstream flows between 6 and 9 miles above the earth's surfaceand reaches speeds
up to 300 miles per hourThe jetstream is a concentrated air flow path of high speedmulti-trillion
gallons of wateraround our world, like a giant river 50 or 60 thousand feetall the water moves
around our world for rain, stormthis is the lifeblood of the planet earthTesla's theories could help
create a generation nuva climatic covert weapons?
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