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 From: invalid@invalid.invalid 
  
 [I know this is probably a troll, but it bears at least one debunking before 
 it is consigned to the dustbin of history.] 
  
 iceman said: 
  
  
  
 > I want to let him know that the storm is man made by Haarp 
 > Technology and was a direct hit to intentionally make the 
 > area uninhabitable in order to begin phase I of martial 
 > law. 
  
 Yeah, right. Sorry to disappoint you, but creating hurricanes is far from 
 easy (by which I mean that we really, really, really don't know how to do 
 it). Aiming them is many orders of magnitude more difficult. 
  
 How do I know? Well, it's like this. The weather is what is known as a 
 "chaotic system". It is sensitively dependent on initial conditions. To 
 help you to understand what I mean, let's do a quick thought experiment. 
  
 Imagine a second Earth, identical in every respect to "our" Earth, and 
 exactly in synch with it. A photocopy of the Earth, if you like, but in 3D 
 (or possibly 4D!). These two planets will, of course, have identical 
 weather. But now imagine that, on the "copy", a single butterfly flaps his 
 wings (just once!), whereas on the original Earth the corresponding 
 butterfly doesn't. Now press "play", so to speak. 
  
 At first, and indeed for a few days, you will not be able to tell the two 
 weather systems apart without quite astounding equipment. But, over the 
 course of a week or two, that tiny initial difference is magnified many 
 times; consequently, the two systems will begin to diverge, and this 
 divergence will become more and more rapid, until it is quite obvious even 
 to the naked eye of an orbiting observer that the two systems are utterly, 
 utterly different. A hurricane might happen in one system but not in the 
 other. Or it might happen in both, but at different times, with different 
 strength, and travelling in a different direction. 
  
 "Aha!" I hear you say. "That's how they did it!" But of course the truth is 
 that it isn't /just/ the butterfly that can cause the "butterfly effect"; 
 it's everything on the planet that moves! If you choose to hold your breath 
 for a second or two longer than usual whilst reading this sentence, that 
 decision will affect the weather. And if you choose not to, that will 
 affect the weather too, in a different way. You, too, are a butterfly, as 
 far as chaos theory is concerned. And the same goes for everyone else in 
 the world. It is simply not possible to model every single moving body on 
 the entire planet accurately enough to make weather prediction possible for 
 more than a few days ahead. 
  
 The weather is not completely random; it has a certain set of kinds of 
 behaviour which we get over and over - snow, rain, sunshine, sleet, fog, 
 and all the rest of it - and this set of behavioural types might reasonably 
 be called the "climate". It takes a lot of shoving for a planet to shift to 
 a radically different climate (for example, the release of a colossal 
 amount of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere), and if you do somehow 
 manage it, you'll probably wish you hadn't. But it takes almost no shoving 
 at all to bounce the weather around the "space" of that climate. And 
 because of this, control is impossible - because there are just way too 
 many people, animals, birds and insects doing their own little bit of 
 shoving. 
  
 Bottom line - you're talking nonsense. 
  
 > Please respond ASAP.  I do not thing Jesus our Saviour 
 > wants us to sit back and let this happen to these people. 
  
 Please plonk this thread ASAP. I do not think Jesus our Saviour wants us to 
 spread a lot of stupid disinformation around the Net. Not that it's ever 
 stopped anybody. Proverbs 1:7 says "The fear of the LORD is the beginning 
 of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and discipline." So if you're a 
 Christian [see Subject line], start reading up on chaos theory. It'll do 
 you a power of good, and might stop you posting more crank articles. 
  
  
 > We can be sure more of the bases will be used. 
  
 We can be sure that there will always more conspiracy theories than 
 conspirators. 
  
 -- 
 Richard Heathfield 
 "Usenet is a strange place" - dmr 29/7/2005 
 http://www.cpax.org.uk 
 email: rjh at above domain 
  
 --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05 
  * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)