Crazy plans that tried to implement government

In fact, the government is constantly hatching some stupid plan, but they tend to attract the most boring possible nonsense.

And yet, from time to time more or less sensible government suddenly take, and ask: "Why not introduce the Internet several police officers, such as Freakazoid (a professional online player in Counter-Strike), so they hunted hackers? "or" what if we fight against climate change with the help of huge sunglasses? "

You might think that this is a stupid joke, but after those stories that we are going to tell you, you will realize that this is only a matter of time.

The US plan bomb attacks across the sky ...

Even in the nineteenth century engineer Edward Powers wrote a book alleging that after the major battles of the Civil War was usually rain. Ignoring the obvious explanation for this phenomenon (the Lord's tears), Powers put forward the hypothesis that the noise of the explosions cause vibrations clouds that shed rain.

It sounded doubtful even to the time when all diseases treated with whiskey. However, there was a severe drought, and some important senator suffered losses on their investments in cattle breeding. And so, in 1891, Congress appropriated money for the American experiment itself, which you can imagine, "What if we bomb the sky, as long as it does not do what we want?"

It is not surprising that no real scientist would not have to do with it. As a result, it is not moved from the spot, while behind him did not come from a patent attorney Robert Dayrenfort.

He started a triple attack on the blue sky over a prairie suffers from drought. At first, his men opened mortar fire on the clouds.

Suspended between them kites were equipped beams sticks of dynamite, which exploded by an electric charge. Behind them in the air floated a whole series of explosive hydrogen balloon. After a while Dayrenfort decided to raise the noise level, which covered the prairie chain of dynamite charges. After all, if we fight with Mother Nature, why stop at half measures?

However, in spite of everything, the plan did not work, although Dayrenfort stated the opposite. The idea of ​​a single ruined meteorologist, who took part in the expedition, which published a devastating report in the journal Nature.

However, the real tragedy is that the most spectacular fireworks show of the century saw only a few frightened to death by cows.

Argentina built laboratory generator for island fusion Invented Nazi mad-scientist

In 1951, Argentine President Juan Peron proudly announced to the world that his country has built the world's first nuclear fusion generator, "a little sun on the Earth."

Unlimited number of cheap energy will soon be sold in every store "in half-liter bottle as milk." It sounds like a bad joke, but Argentina is actually invested hundreds of millions of dollars a ridiculous scheme, born in the sick mind of the former Nazi scientist.

In the fifties it was fashionable to draw over former scientists of the German Reich, but the Americans and the Soviets bought all really good people.

As Peron was late, and all the Von Braun already have been attached to the case, he got a third-aircraft engineer Ronald Richter, who greatly exaggerated his achievements to convince Peron finance the creation of thermonuclear fusion generator.

Every true scientist in Argentina understood the absurdity of this idea, but Perón supported the belief that the former Nazi engineer must know what to do.

As a result of Peron spent much of the Argentine budget for the construction of a huge Richter, carefully guarded research facility on the island, which is located in the center of a mountain lake in the Andes. Richter assertion that he was able to achieve controlled thermonuclear reaction was refuted immediately after Peron announced it, and refuted by the most humiliating way. Tips literally woke up one of their German scientists at 3am, that he gave his opinion.

When he heard the name of Richter, he said not to worry, because this guy is nothing more than a dreamer.

Further investigation revealed that he never published scientific papers and doctoral dissertation was publicly disavowed University, where he allegedly defended her.

Confused Argentines quickly leveled most of the laboratories and pretended that nothing had happened, and of Richter thrown in jail for fraud. After his release, he settled down and started poultry farming, but continued to insist that it can create a tiny sun.

The British plan for the cultivation of giant hedge across India

In the mid-1800s the British salt tax imposed cruel north-east India, where there were few sources of salt. Since salt is known to be necessary for the person to life, the only thing that needed to be done to the British, it is to take control of its prey and quietly bleed white the local population.

For many years, this tax brought enormous suffering to people, but on the other hand, it was very profitable, and we should accept the fact that it was a win-win trade.

However, the British had to fight against smuggling of salt with this raw material rich south and west of India, where there was a much lower tax. So they decided that the only logical solution is to grow a giant hedge of thorny shrubs, which will cross the entire subcontinent.

Moreover, they are obsessed with the implementation of his plan, though it sounded as if taken from some terrible tales. By 1878, the Great fence stretches almost 1,800 kilometers. It was assumed that it will be impassable wall height of approximately 3, 6 meters, and a thickness of more than 4 meters, abounding spikes but British could not grow it properly entire length, and at least half of the fence represented no more than a pile of dead branches.

But the British have shown tenacity, eventually grown up to 800 kilometers of the hedge, which patrolled and served by an army of 12 000 customs officers. This elite unit of the gardeners had to contend with hurricanes, arson, parasitic vines, insects, rats and brilliant criminal schemes, such as the bailout of goods through the wall.

Some half-mad ruler could come up with such a devilish countermeasure? Well, anyway, it served as a lesson to the world and showed that to build a thousand-kilometer wall unmanageable - a waste of time.

The US Army tried to stop the eruption of the volcano with the help of the bombing of

In 1935, Hawaii was the eruption of the volcano Mauna Loa, which threatened the city of Hilo. I must say that this is a common phenomenon in Hawaii, but the famous volcanologist Thomas Jaggar was determined to teach this wild element of a lesson she will not soon forget.

Fortunately, near the base of the US Army Air Corps, commanded by young George Patton, who later became famous for the fact that stood in the ridiculous trousers in front of the American flag, as well as its participation in World War II.

At the request of Jaggar, Patton raised its planes in the air and ordered the pilots to bomb erupting volcano. The hope was that the explosions hurl underground channels of the volcano, the lava blocked the exit to the surface.

Patton sent a whole squadron of biplanes, which were to lose twenty 300-kilogram bombs. Explosions, of course, raised the molten lava into the air for tens of meters, which resulted in a fire biplane wings. When the eruption stopped after a week, the operation was declared a great success, although all but the participants were convinced that it was a complete coincidence. But it all looked pretty cool, right?

Here are just a dark Hawaiians were convinced that the explosions angered the volcano goddess Pele, who cursed pilots, six of whom died shortly afterwards in the air.

Tips planned to reverse the ocean currents and melt the Arctic ice cover

As you know, a huge part of Russia is in the permafrost zone. In Soviet times, it has repeatedly prevented the implementation of economic development plans for a variety of reasons, ranging from frostbite regular workers, and ending attacks Bigfoot.

This put the Soviets at a disadvantage compared with the United States, where the percentage of unused land was much lower.

So, the government has supported research aimed at finding ways to "warm up" the country. a number of plans were reviewed, including "cover large areas of the Arctic ice black powder, for example, coal dust to cause the melting of the active" and "cover the surface of the water monomolecular film."

These plans were never carried out, because the shedding of coal dust, polar bears have been too reckless idea. But the plan, which has received the most support was even more bizarre. And he, of course, would lead to the complete disappearance of all this hell of the Arctic ice cap.

The idea was to build a huge dam across the 90 kilometer Bering Strait, blocking the flow of cold water from the Pacific Ocean. Warmer water Atlantic would become heated and gradually melt the Arctic ice, resulting in the North Pole would free from ice. By the way, it is, of course, no question of a real physical dam across the Bering Strait. It would be complete madness. The role of the dam were to play a huge chain of underwater pumps. They were supposed to expel water from the Arctic Pacific, literally changing the direction of ocean currents.

It sounds ridiculous in this era, when we are about to lose the Arctic because of the pollution, but at the time the idea gained some popularity even in the United States. Kennedy, in any event, called it "definitely worth exploring."

However, its implementation has not begun, and not because the Captain Planet (the character of the American animated television series on environmental protection, approx. Mixstuff) came and blew engineers.

Apparently, the plan collapsed because of the prices and international cooperation issues, which was necessary for closing the Bering Strait. Perhaps now, America and Russia should unite efforts in the opposite direction to save the Arctic ice.