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"Never mind...They can use these remote—system field modulators to tailor certain weather patterns, producing unseasonal phenomena that serve to devastate indigenous resources; or they can 34 generate wholly artificial weather effects in the way Tesla is said to have reproduced an electric storm in all its natural ferocity..." "First strike capabilities, hmmm? What else are they going to practice on. Of course the net effect is to cause significant holes to appear in the invisible screening mechanism of the planetary envelope; as it makes the Earth's surface less and less hospitable to its indigenous citizens, it causes the proper sequence of conditions congenial to a more consistent stream of invasive influences. It makes the planet proportionally more ‘habitable' to those beings that are intrinsically inimical to it." "Wait just a minute," Hopper resurges, spackling some of the psychic cracks in his wall of skepticism, "if the powers that be are so busy doing all this, how come nobody notices? How come out of all the masses of people that would have to be involved in this, someone doesn't blow the whistle? And what about the equipment to do these things? Where is all this stuff? It can't be hiding, it's got to be big enough to get somebody's attention!" "It is, cap'n, it is. It's big enough alright; but most of the equipment used is highly specialized, belongs to classified projects where very few have to know what's really going on. Systems are built by several corporations, they're manned by specialists who only know their own function...and most of the equipment that's involved is versatile—it doesn't just serve one function but can double for different functions. With the slightest alteration or adjustment ordinary radar equipment can convert to specialized transmitters processing quite exotic forms of energy. 74 T-Bird_Vs_The_Flying_saucers.htm aberrative courses..." "Wow, you mean...like beaching whales?" "Uh huh...and bombarding targeted houses with disoriented, flying predators..." "When did that happen?" "Whew! And they do this to their own planet, their own people!"