The warehouses are also for superheroes to fight supervillains in. "Abandoned warehouse? You might as well ask for the Moon." http://evil-comic.com/archive/20060419.html
On Aug 2, 8:17 pm, "Alvia Gaskill" <agask...@nc.rr.com> wrote: > This movie turned out to be a two parter, the second one tonight at 9pm on > NBC. Suffice to say the first one is two hours of my life I'm never going to > get back and if you watched it on my recommendation, we both lost. > Nevertheless, due to its relevance to geoengineering governance issues, I am > prepared to sacrifice another 120 mins and finish the job. I'll have a wrap > up on it and the History Channel program on Weather Warfare that aired > recently, since they basically traverse the same animal waste covered ground. > > I even took notes during the movie to bring you up to date. The things I do > for science! > > The Storm, made for $5 million or about 2 episodes of Discovery Project Earth > which continues to air repeatedly on both the Science and Planet Green > Channels along with Dan Kammen's Ecopolis, only slightly less frequently than > Martin Bashir's interview with Michael Jackson on MSNBC, combines the > ridiculous HAARP conspiracy theory with the past history or distorted history > of weather manipulation by the military. > > Operation Rainbow is a secret project funded by the Pentagon in which a > private company run by Mr. Tyrrell has developed some sort of energy beam > that is used to alter weather on a local basis. The military brass want to > use it as a tactical weapon, similar to the goals of the Owning the Weather > concept paper the U.S. government considered for a while several years ago. > Ground based satellite like dishes send pulses of energy (what kind?) into > the ionosphere where they are bounced off satellites and sent back to the > surface. This is somehow supposed to change the weather, but is never > explained (because it can't!). > > In the initial test of the technology, the weather makers, two male geeks and > an obnoxious woman cause it to rain in the Sudan, much to the delight of the > starving refugees in Darfur, but the side effect is snow in the Mojave > Desert. They then attempt to redirect the intensity and track of hurricane > Edna (an all purpose technology it seems). > > But the hurricane test goes badly and the energy from the angry ionosphere > leaks back to the surface, zapping the control center, killing some of the > staff. The hurricane actually strengthens and heads towards Miami. It also > starts raining in Los Angeles and keeps on raining, reminiscent of Blade > Runner. The creator of the out of control androids in that film was also > named Tyrrell. > > The Cable News Service, CNS whose logo looks suspiciously like that of CNN, > learns of the incident and begins an investigation. They initially get > nowhere with the staff, who are completely subservient to their evil > corporate master, Mr. Tyrrell, played woodenly by Treat Williams. One of the > weather maker geeks finally has an epiphany over the unintended consequences > of the technology and quits, but his associate stays on and attempts to > change the track of Edna. > > Meanwhile, the geek who quit (hereafter, the Geek) spills the beans to a CNS > reporter, but her apartment has been bugged by Tyrrell and a hit team he > sends kill the reporter and her boss and try to frame the Geek, who goes on > the run, but is captured by the police. The Pentagon, at the request of > Tyrrell orders him to be turned over to the FBI, against the wishes of a > female detective who has been investigating the deaths at the control center. > > The effort to move the storm is unsuccessful and the attempt has created even > more changes in weather around the globe with wild temperature swings of over > 100 degrees in the U.S. and elsewhere. The explanation? Residual energy > fields. > > In spite of all the destruction associated with the weather altering > technology, the Pentagon is still interested in using it. They want a > demonstration in Afghanistan. The General in charge, played ceramically > (that's worse than wooden)by JAG's David James Elliott says the Joint Chiefs > need more proof before they will fully fund Operation Rainbow. Both Tyrrell > and the General dismiss the weather problems as unrelated to the technology. > > The energy beam is then used to create a dust storm outside of Kabul, to foil > the evil Taliban who are shown driving around in their standard issue worn > out Toyota pickup trucks (no cash for clunkers in SW Asia, apparently). > > A hurricane now forms off the coast of Peru as the perplexed head of the > National Weather Bureau ponders what is causing all of the wacky weather. He > also takes off from work during the crisis to try to reconnect with his ex- > girlfriend, who is also a bartender. > > Before the Geek can be handed over to the FBI, military intelligence machine > guns all of the FBI agents to death and takes him to a warehouse for > questioning. If you ever wondered what all those warehouses were for, it's > so people can be taken there for questioning. > > The electromagnetic interference caused by the weather weapon gets worse and > the atmosphere can't be stabilized. Tyrrell tells the team to stop the Peru > hurricane in order to impress the Joint Chiefs who are still skeptical of the > weapon's effectiveness. They succeed. So you see, it worked. > > We then learn that the head of the so-called military intelligence unit that > rescued the Geek is headed by Luke Perry, formerly of Beverly Hills 90210 and > many bad sci fi films and TV shows over the last 10 years. Luke, it turns > out was himself once a weather weapons researcher, but never succeeded in > getting it to work. He and the Geek both agree that controlling the weather > is impossible and the more you mess with it, the worse you make it. End Part > 1. > > Note about Luke. He was also in a sci fi movie that seemed to borrow from > Cicerone and Turco's idea to stop ozone destruction. In that one, an ozone > hole is headed towards Los Angeles (unlucky city, the city of angels) and > they use the NASA U2 plane to carry tanks of some chemical to above 65,000 ft > (that sounds familiar) to replenish the ozone. So, today's journal article > is tomorrow's bad made-for-TV movie. You've been warned. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Alvia Gaskill > To: geoengineering@googlegroups.com > Sent: Sunday, July 26, 2009 9:01 PM > Subject: [geo] The Storm > > Starting momentarily, The Storm on NBC. Apparently another one of those > weather mod movies. > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "geoengineering" group. 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