So, I heard several people now mention HAARP as the cause for all the natural disasters that have been happening lately. And here I thought the cause was rampant pollution and global warming!

But seriously, I’m looking at the HAARP page on wikipedia and it seems to be an array for studying the ionosphere? How in the hell do you go from “we’re using this to see what’s happening way up there in the sky” to “this causes tornadoes”? Who even started this garbage?

  • Nonameuser678
    771·
    1 year ago

    HAARP is an old school conspiracy theory. I haven’t heard someone bring this one up in years. It’s your classic government control the weather theory.

    • Carighan Maconar@lemmy.world
      33·
      1 year ago

      Back in the days we all laughed about it.

      Then it turns out, governments do control the weather! Through deforestation and shit.

    • ours@lemmy.filmEnglish
      21·
      1 year ago

      Old enough to have an X-Files episode. Remember when wacky conspiracies where good old fun?

    • onlooker@lemmy.mlOP
      71·
      1 year ago

      I had no idea this was old school. I thought this was a recent thing. Though, the book in @[email protected]’s comment was published in 1995, so I guess I just hadn’t noticed until now.