Whoah, not so fast. What's the energy density of thin-film batteries? Do they favorably compare against methanol fuel cells? If yes, they will obviously take over once available for cheap. If not, they might replace other battery types.
Battery technology is not a one-size-fits-all. There are many different applications and many different technologies can survive in the market.
The Windows people were using C++ IDEs, the Unix-side (and mainframe people) were using emacs, vi or XEDIT. Using Microsoft tools would have garanteed that we'd have painted ourselves in a corner and get trapped in an MS environment. The ultimate goal was to have portabiliy.
Funny you mentioned CORBA, we used it extensively in the C++ version.
For what it's worth, another word of wisdom. Our product had a critical application install and monitoring GUI console that was written initially by Windows people and just ported over to different platforms. As most Windows programmers, these guys were blissfully unaware of enterprise requirements, especially reliability and serviceability. Their interface was a clickfest. A scripting language was added as an afterthought but was never really successful, because it only gave access to a fraction of the functionality exposed by the GUI.
As a result, we lost customers who absolutely refused to introduce a 20-click and 100-keystroke application installation process in their critical systems, because they felt it was too error-prone, especially if done several times day after day for every app deployment. We were only able to win these customers once we had a full scripting capability to supplement the graphical console. There again, Java was a boon, because JMX makes it relatively painless to introduce script-based controls into server components.
I used to work in the Software Group of a large (large!) company that had developed its flagship application server mostly in C++, starting from the late 90s. We had a huge bugginess and productivity problem. The bug fixes were coming too slow and we had persistent quality issues. Furthermore, we could not port our C++ code to the umpteen platforms that marketing wanted to target.
In 2000, we made the decision to move to Java. Moving to Java was painful at first. We managed to introduce new Java code while reusing the old C++ parts for a while, but we finally rewrote everything in Java. The Eclipse IDE boosted our productivity considerably, and the product is very successful. So I guess it makes sense.
Also, the black market is fed by such bloody morons as Wells Fargo, who messed up the lives of tens of thousands of poor people employed at HP, IBM and other places where they read Slashdot, by losing personal data
not just once but twice.
Such careless imbeciles would really need to lose their contracts at the very least. Why don't IBM, HP and others laugh WF out of the room when their contract comes up for renewal? They are not just WF's customers, they are also employers of the people who got messed up.
Of course, my solution would involve finding out who is the moron at WF that let his goons store unencrypted financial details of customers' employees on Windows laptop. Armed with his name, I'd then mug him, steal his wallet, use his driver license to obtain his personal info, and plaster all these details over the Internet, preferably on the #Cardz IRC channel. See how he likes it.
People who store SSNs and CC numbers on Windows machines need a good whipping. If the machine is a laptop, whip them then brand their forehead with "DOH". There is cheap or free encryption available, what's the excuse of these cretins?
What did they do? C++/CLI.
This C++/CLI is the worst embrace-and-destroy attack on C++ that this unfortunate language has ever seen. MS's idea is to add special keywords, modify the syntax, modify the virtual function programming model, add new operators and ref/deref symbols, then call the result "C++ something" (C++/CLI in this case). To compound it, they want to have ISO rubber-stamp it, which would result in a huge mess, since "ISO-compliant C++" will now mean two completely separate languages.
For a 5.67 GHz signal, a 25-meter parabolic antenna has a gain of 62 dB (see Wikipedia's article about parabolic antennas). Remember that a 3 dB loss corresponds to halving the signal's power.
Now, the handy table
here tells us that a 20-mile link has an attenuation of 138 dB for such a frequency. If we want a one-kilowatt beam to rip into the satellite's antenna and have an RF source delivering 16 MW (big generator!), we can only accept an attenuation factor of 16,000, call it 2 to the 14th, or 42 db.
Now, 138 - 42 is 96, so our antenna has to supply a 96 dB gain. That's 34 dB more than our 25-m antenna, or about 2500 times more. Since gain is proportional to the square of the diameter, we need an antenna 50 times (50 = sqrt(2500)) bigger than our 25-m dish. That's a 1250-m (4100-ft) antenna!
Which is why radar satellites need good old missiles. Not that accelerating a warhead to Mach 25 is a piece of cake either, but that's another story.
You're kidding, but the military are not. Low-altitude military Russian sats are rumored to have a self-destruction charge on board just to deter that kind of stunt. And after the Soviets unveiled the Buran (a copy of the shuttle), I'd not be surprised if the US sats started getting spec'ed with a kilogram of hexolite as an "unauthorized recovery deterrence module".
To focus a gigahertz-range RF beam onto a satellite with enough power to fry its radar system would require a very, very large antenna. The "focus" part is tricky, microwaves do disperse.
Right. An anti-satellite laser system could easily burn out the delicate optical sensors of a satellite's optical cameras. However, if you are trying to disable a radar observation sat, it's much more difficult. You cannot burn out sensors, you have to physically do harm. Which is why there have been some tests for anti-sat missiles launched from high-altitude planes.
The "freaking orchestra" sound of THX is very, very much the same as the opening of Asia's "Countdown to Zero" song, part of the "Astra" album. I always wondered if the THX guys had bought the rights from them. I guess they wrote 20 klocs of C to reproduce a sound made with a couple of Moogs.
A government submitting to the rule of experts, though, can lead to an unelected elite of priviledged technocrats acting as unchallenged mouthpieces that are part of the regime. You need to be careful to renew this elite and bring competition among them to avoid this phenomenon.
Fortunately, in the US, most scientific advisors are changed when the president changes. There are European countries where scientific advisors are part of permanent bureaucracies, though.
I globally agree. One nuance: I don't know if government-mandated standards will always yield a breakthrough. The often cited example is the catalytic converter, which was born out of an edict from the Californian Clean Air Board (CAB), or its equivalent at the time. According to "American History of Invention and Technology" which had an article on the subject, the catalytic converter was a freak discovery, something totally out of the blue to solve an otherwise intractable problem. The CAB was very lucky.
So, feeling cocky, the CAB did it again. In the late 90s, they mandated that by 2003, 10% of the cars sold in the state would have to be Zero Emission, which means electric. But of course, they didn't want to build more power plants, especially not the ZE type (hydro-dam or nuclear).
Alas, maths are cruel. A 70 HP small car (50kW) with 4 hours of autonomy will need 200kWh of energy for recharging overnight, assuming 100% efficiency (ha ha, I know). Over 10 hours, that's a 20kW load (100 A on the meager 220V domestic 3-phase juice). Put 100,000 environmentally conscious ZE cars to recharge overnight, and you get a 2-GW load, which is 5 classical coal-powered plants, 1 or 2 nuclear core, or the full Hoover Dam maximum production. For 10% of Californian cars, you can multiply these figures by 20 or so.
Of course, the CAB didn't care about reality. The ZE mandate looked good on TV, see. But in 2003, after some engineers from car manufacturers spanked them, they hastily withdrew the mandate.
So beware of government meddling in scientific and environmental matters. For us, it's about our planet's future. For them, it's about getting re-elected.
Cit.: Johnsen, S.J., Clausen, H.B., Dansgaard, W., Gundestrup, N.S., Hammer, C.U. & Tauber, H. 1995. The Eem stable isotope record along the GRIP ice core and its interpretation. Quaternary Research, 43, 117-124.
Not very satisfactory, but note the tantalizing abstract:
We confirm earlier findings of dramatic temperature changes in Greenland during the last glacial cycle. Abrupt and strong climatic shifts are also found within the Eem/Sangamon Interglaciation, which is normally recorded as a period of warm and stable climate in lower latitudes.
So I drill down. It's not available on the web apparently. I found it in a scientific database. Here is the full cite:
Begin citation:
Title: THE EEM STABLE-ISOTOPE RECORD ALONG THE GRIP ICE CORE AND ITS INTERPRETATION
Author(s): JOHNSEN SJ, CLAUSEN HB, DANSGAARD W, GUNDESTRUP NS, HAMMER CU, TAUBER H
Source: QUATERNARY RESEARCH 43 (2): 117-124 MAR 1995
Document Type: Article
Language: English
Abstract: A 3029-m-long deep ice core extending nearly to bedrock has been drilled at the very top of the
Greenland ice sheet (Summit) by the Greenland Ice-core Project (GRIP), an international European joint effort organized by the European Science Foundation. The ice core reaches back to 250,000 yr B.P. according to dating based partly on stratigraphic methods and partly on ice-flow modeling. A continuous and detailed stable isotope (delta(18)O) profile along the entire core depicts dramatic temperature changes in Greenland through the last two glacial cycles, including abrupt climatic shifts during the Eem/Sangamon Interglaciation, which is elsewhere recorded as a warm and stable period. The stratigraphic continuity of the Eemian layers has therefore been scrutinized. New ice core studies, comprising cloudy band observations, deconvolution, and frequency analyses, lead to the conclusion that the climate instability suggested during the Eem Interglaciation in Greenland is likely to be real, though no conclusive evidence is available. Whereas latitudinal displacements of the North Atlantic Ocean current are considered the immediate cause of the glacial climate instability, longitudinal displacements may be the immediate cause of the Eemian instability. If so, the Eemian climate changes will be much subdued outside the Arctic region and will probably only be recognizable in sedimentary sequences of high sensitivity and temporal resolution. (C) 1995 University of Washington.
KeyWords Plus: GREENLAND ICE; CLIMATE; POLLEN; GISP2; AGES
Addresses: JOHNSEN SJ (reprint author), UNIV COPENHAGEN, NIELS BOHR INST ASTRON PHYS & GEOPHYS, DEPT GEOPHYS, HARALDSGADE 6, COPENHAGEN, DK-2200 DENMARK
UNIV ICELAND, INST SCI, REYKJAVIK, IS-107 ICELAND
Publisher: ACADEMIC PRESS INC JNL-COMP SUBSCRIPTIONS, 525B STREET, SUITE 1900, SAN DIEGO, CA 92101-4495
Subject Category: GEOGRAPHY, PHYSICAL; GEOSCIENCES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY
IDS Number: QP688
ISSN: 0033-5894
End citation
Generally speaking, the GRIP project (official name of the Greenland Deep Core drilling project) started in 1995 (yay for my memory) and extended over several years. You have a ton of papers there: http://www.nerc-bas.ac.uk/public/icd/grip/griplist.html
By the same author, I also found these reference on isiknowledge.com (paid access):
Begin citation
Title: GREENLAND PALEOTEMPERATURES DERIVED FROM GRIP BORE HOLE TEMPERATURE AND ICE CORE ISOTOPE PROFILES
Author(s): JOHNSEN SJ, DAHLJENSEN D, DANSGAARD W, GUNDESTRUP N
Source: TELLUS SERIES B-CHEMICAL AND PHYSICAL METEOROLOGY 47 (5): 624-629 NOV 1995
Document Type: Note
Language: English
You're way too clever for me, misanthrope101. You saw right through me. Yes, I admit it! I am an agent of the Global Right Wing Conspiracy!
See, we created this huge stockpile of ice in Nevada, in a place designated as Area 51, and we're bringing ice stolen from the poles with the help of heavy-lift airships we disguised as UFOs. Now we let the planet warm up and soon, our ice stockpile will be worth BILLIONS! Muhahahahaha!!!
So why am I telling you? Because nanobots sprayed by chemtrails are invading your body as we speak. They'll soon settle in your brain, and you too will feel this irresistible urge to enlist and go kill peaceful civilians in random foreign countries, with the rest of the brainwashed zombies. You'll see, you will *love* Big Brother instead of fearing it. Did I mention "muhahaha"?
As for your pertinent remark about attacking Iran, you reached the wrong department. I'll transfer your call to the International Zionist Conspiracy, they'll, er, handle your case.
Laser optical systems are made from high quality optically transparent material with negligible scattering and absorptive losses at the interfaces. In other words, they absorb only a few photons per million. Not only that, they are designed for maintaining their characteristics even if they get very hot (high damage threshold).
That's why this kind of hardware isn't cheap.
Even so, today's most powerful lasers would self-destruct if they were able to shoot continuously.
But they fire pulses so it gives time for the system to cool down.
Hum, you might be right. The way I interpreted this, I pictured the laser shooting a large number of pulses during these 3 seconds, any of which would be enough to destroy the target. Just like the ship-mounted Aegis anti-missile cannon paints an incoming missile's vicinity with a large number of shells, any of which is enough to destroy the warhead.
If the ABL needs to focus on the target for more than about 1 second, then yes, you're right, rotating a missile could pose a problem.
However, please consider that current missiles have fins to prevent them from rotating. New finless, rotating designs would take at least a decade to be diffused in large numbers.
Correct. We need to spend a lot of money to try to get an answer to these qustions. But right now, we consider that the questions have been answered, and we want to spend money on solutions. That's a bit premature. In fact, there is a serious chance that the modifications we propose will do a lot more harm than good, as with any action that hasn't be fully thought out.
Is the planet becoming warmer? A tough question, knowing that calorimetry is the most delicate kind of physical measurement. What do you measure, when, for how long? Methods and opinions differ. Magic satellites giving you a single figure for easy comparison are wishful thinking. You need a data interpretation method, and that's where opinions and tempers flare.
Is it a long-term trend? Also a tough question. Historical data is sparse and sometimes dubious. Not to mention that the methods and instruments have changed. For instance, the Albany, NY weather bureau reports average temperatures decreasing since the start of the century. Does that prove anything? Is this a fluke?
Is the observed change man-made?Again, a difficult question. It's not like you can run a parallele experiment on a second Earth devoid of mankind, although some people are
planning it. Earth went through extreme temperature swings before the first ape showed up. The Deep Core ice-sampling project showed variations of about 7C (14F) in less than a century, several times over the last 200,000 years or so. That's huge. More over, the sun activity is not a constant. Sun activity variations wiped out the Maya (see "Solar Forcing of Drought Frequency in the Maya Lowlands" and google for more.). Astronomers think that the Mars icecap hasn't grown up as large in the last Martian winter as compared to pictures sent by the Viking probes: If that's true, it's not because of human activity. Then of course there is the well-known CO2 effect. How do we separate the natural and man-made causes? What's predominent?
I don't have answers, and serious scientists are very cautious too. Good data is too scarse, and too much money is involved for rational debate.
Most debates on the subject don't even acknowledge the existence of these separate questions, so how can they even be constructive? Both sides end up yelling at each other, but they aren't talking about the same thing.
The adaptative optics is, as you guessed, a secondary (smaller) laser, and there is another one used for tracking.
From TFA:
There are several other lasers that are onboard the Airborne Laser besides the weapons-class laser. There is a tracking laser, a laser that actually acquires the target, tracks the target. There is another laser that is there for the purpose of what is known as adaptive optics.
Note that several beams can share the same optics if they have the same wavelength, although the article doesn't say.
Laser scientists are as smart as rocket scientists and slightly more paranoid. So they thought about that already.
The laser pulse is so short and intense that the missile rotation does not matter. Same for mirroring. For all practical purposes, the rising edge of the pulse will destroy the surface layer of any mirror very quickly, and then the rest of the photons will be nicely absorbed.
I field tested the new design on my techie, smart wife, and she said "if this is how they expect to attract women, no wonder most of their readers are home alone jerking off".
So, I think you should add a couple of unicorns.
Mad science! Robots! Underwear! Cute girls! Full comic online! http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/
RTFA. Three years of redoing the experiments. Eight months of discussing and verifying with other scientists. Replicated experiment. Multiple measurements. Scientists very reluctant to accept their own results, consulting with other people. Small but measurable effects. Cautious wording. This isn't an "OMG we pwn gravity and we aren't going to tell u how" announcement, this is a "guys, we're up to something, please check" release. Very different.
This is the reason why it should not be dismissed. This is serious. Many people are now going to try to replicate the experiment. If there is a flaw, it will appear soon enough. If there is no flaw, this is a theoretical physics breakthrough.
As far as the article indicates, this is science, not delusional wishful thinking.
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Battery technology is not a one-size-fits-all. There are many different applications and many different technologies can survive in the market.
Funny you mentioned CORBA, we used it extensively in the C++ version.
For what it's worth, another word of wisdom. Our product had a critical application install and monitoring GUI console that was written initially by Windows people and just ported over to different platforms. As most Windows programmers, these guys were blissfully unaware of enterprise requirements, especially reliability and serviceability. Their interface was a clickfest. A scripting language was added as an afterthought but was never really successful, because it only gave access to a fraction of the functionality exposed by the GUI.
As a result, we lost customers who absolutely refused to introduce a 20-click and 100-keystroke application installation process in their critical systems, because they felt it was too error-prone, especially if done several times day after day for every app deployment. We were only able to win these customers once we had a full scripting capability to supplement the graphical console. There again, Java was a boon, because JMX makes it relatively painless to introduce script-based controls into server components.
In 2000, we made the decision to move to Java. Moving to Java was painful at first. We managed to introduce new Java code while reusing the old C++ parts for a while, but we finally rewrote everything in Java. The Eclipse IDE boosted our productivity considerably, and the product is very successful. So I guess it makes sense.
Such careless imbeciles would really need to lose their contracts at the very least. Why don't IBM, HP and others laugh WF out of the room when their contract comes up for renewal? They are not just WF's customers, they are also employers of the people who got messed up.
Of course, my solution would involve finding out who is the moron at WF that let his goons store unencrypted financial details of customers' employees on Windows laptop. Armed with his name, I'd then mug him, steal his wallet, use his driver license to obtain his personal info, and plaster all these details over the Internet, preferably on the #Cardz IRC channel. See how he likes it.
People who store SSNs and CC numbers on Windows machines need a good whipping. If the machine is a laptop, whip them then brand their forehead with "DOH". There is cheap or free encryption available, what's the excuse of these cretins?
You're welcome. BTW, nice wedding pictures!
See how thrilled Bjarne Stroustrup is about the whole notion: http://public.research.att.com/~bs/bs_faq.html#Cpp CLI
Read up on C++/CLI and how MS is going to pollute the C++ language for all of us: http://www.plumhall.com/ecma/BSI-ICT-1-0009-06.pdf and http://www.regdeveloper.co.uk/2006/05/05/cplusplus _cli/page2.html (complete with syntax examples of the new language MS wants to call C++)
^ and % are not pointer operators in C++. Call it something else.
Now, the handy table here tells us that a 20-mile link has an attenuation of 138 dB for such a frequency. If we want a one-kilowatt beam to rip into the satellite's antenna and have an RF source delivering 16 MW (big generator!), we can only accept an attenuation factor of 16,000, call it 2 to the 14th, or 42 db.
Now, 138 - 42 is 96, so our antenna has to supply a 96 dB gain. That's 34 dB more than our 25-m antenna, or about 2500 times more. Since gain is proportional to the square of the diameter, we need an antenna 50 times (50 = sqrt(2500)) bigger than our 25-m dish. That's a 1250-m (4100-ft) antenna!
Which is why radar satellites need good old missiles. Not that accelerating a warhead to Mach 25 is a piece of cake either, but that's another story.
Add C++ and Kerberos to the list.
Oh, and Active Directory is a clever way to sabotage LDAP.
You're kidding, but the military are not. Low-altitude military Russian sats are rumored to have a self-destruction charge on board just to deter that kind of stunt. And after the Soviets unveiled the Buran (a copy of the shuttle), I'd not be surprised if the US sats started getting spec'ed with a kilogram of hexolite as an "unauthorized recovery deterrence module".
To focus a gigahertz-range RF beam onto a satellite with enough power to fry its radar system would require a very, very large antenna. The "focus" part is tricky, microwaves do disperse.
Right. An anti-satellite laser system could easily burn out the delicate optical sensors of a satellite's optical cameras. However, if you are trying to disable a radar observation sat, it's much more difficult. You cannot burn out sensors, you have to physically do harm. Which is why there have been some tests for anti-sat missiles launched from high-altitude planes.
The "freaking orchestra" sound of THX is very, very much the same as the opening of Asia's "Countdown to Zero" song, part of the "Astra" album. I always wondered if the THX guys had bought the rights from them. I guess they wrote 20 klocs of C to reproduce a sound made with a couple of Moogs.
An excellent suggestion, which explains why it will stay unheard. :-/
A government submitting to the rule of experts, though, can lead to an unelected elite of priviledged technocrats acting as unchallenged mouthpieces that are part of the regime. You need to be careful to renew this elite and bring competition among them to avoid this phenomenon.
Fortunately, in the US, most scientific advisors are changed when the president changes. There are European countries where scientific advisors are part of permanent bureaucracies, though.
So, feeling cocky, the CAB did it again. In the late 90s, they mandated that by 2003, 10% of the cars sold in the state would have to be Zero Emission, which means electric. But of course, they didn't want to build more power plants, especially not the ZE type (hydro-dam or nuclear).
Alas, maths are cruel. A 70 HP small car (50kW) with 4 hours of autonomy will need 200kWh of energy for recharging overnight, assuming 100% efficiency (ha ha, I know). Over 10 hours, that's a 20kW load (100 A on the meager 220V domestic 3-phase juice). Put 100,000 environmentally conscious ZE cars to recharge overnight, and you get a 2-GW load, which is 5 classical coal-powered plants, 1 or 2 nuclear core, or the full Hoover Dam maximum production. For 10% of Californian cars, you can multiply these figures by 20 or so.
Of course, the CAB didn't care about reality. The ZE mandate looked good on TV, see. But in 2003, after some engineers from car manufacturers spanked them, they hastily withdrew the mandate.
So beware of government meddling in scientific and environmental matters. For us, it's about our planet's future. For them, it's about getting re-elected.
Cit.: Johnsen, S.J., Clausen, H.B., Dansgaard, W., Gundestrup, N.S., Hammer, C.U. & Tauber, H. 1995. The Eem stable isotope record along the GRIP ice core and its interpretation. Quaternary Research, 43, 117-124.
Not very satisfactory, but note the tantalizing abstract:
We confirm earlier findings of dramatic temperature changes in Greenland during the last glacial cycle. Abrupt and strong climatic shifts are also found within the Eem/Sangamon Interglaciation, which is normally recorded as a period of warm and stable climate in lower latitudes.
So I drill down. It's not available on the web apparently. I found it in a scientific database. Here is the full cite:
Begin citation:
Title: THE EEM STABLE-ISOTOPE RECORD ALONG THE GRIP ICE CORE AND ITS INTERPRETATION
Author(s): JOHNSEN SJ, CLAUSEN HB, DANSGAARD W, GUNDESTRUP NS, HAMMER CU, TAUBER H
Source: QUATERNARY RESEARCH 43 (2): 117-124 MAR 1995
Document Type: Article
Language: English
Abstract: A 3029-m-long deep ice core extending nearly to bedrock has been drilled at the very top of the Greenland ice sheet (Summit) by the Greenland Ice-core Project (GRIP), an international European joint effort organized by the European Science Foundation. The ice core reaches back to 250,000 yr B.P. according to dating based partly on stratigraphic methods and partly on ice-flow modeling. A continuous and detailed stable isotope (delta(18)O) profile along the entire core depicts dramatic temperature changes in Greenland through the last two glacial cycles, including abrupt climatic shifts during the Eem/Sangamon Interglaciation, which is elsewhere recorded as a warm and stable period. The stratigraphic continuity of the Eemian layers has therefore been scrutinized. New ice core studies, comprising cloudy band observations, deconvolution, and frequency analyses, lead to the conclusion that the climate instability suggested during the Eem Interglaciation in Greenland is likely to be real, though no conclusive evidence is available. Whereas latitudinal displacements of the North Atlantic Ocean current are considered the immediate cause of the glacial climate instability, longitudinal displacements may be the immediate cause of the Eemian instability. If so, the Eemian climate changes will be much subdued outside the Arctic region and will probably only be recognizable in sedimentary sequences of high sensitivity and temporal resolution. (C) 1995 University of Washington.
KeyWords Plus: GREENLAND ICE; CLIMATE; POLLEN; GISP2; AGES
Addresses: JOHNSEN SJ (reprint author), UNIV COPENHAGEN, NIELS BOHR INST ASTRON PHYS & GEOPHYS, DEPT GEOPHYS, HARALDSGADE 6, COPENHAGEN, DK-2200 DENMARK
UNIV ICELAND, INST SCI, REYKJAVIK, IS-107 ICELAND
Publisher: ACADEMIC PRESS INC JNL-COMP SUBSCRIPTIONS, 525B STREET, SUITE 1900, SAN DIEGO, CA 92101-4495
Subject Category: GEOGRAPHY, PHYSICAL; GEOSCIENCES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY
IDS Number: QP688
ISSN: 0033-5894
End citation
Generally speaking, the GRIP project (official name of the Greenland Deep Core drilling project) started in 1995 (yay for my memory) and extended over several years. You have a ton of papers there: http://www.nerc-bas.ac.uk/public/icd/grip/griplist .html
By the same author, I also found these reference on isiknowledge.com (paid access):
Begin citation
Title: GREENLAND PALEOTEMPERATURES DERIVED FROM GRIP BORE HOLE TEMPERATURE AND ICE CORE ISOTOPE PROFILES
Author(s): JOHNSEN SJ, DAHLJENSEN D, DANSGAARD W, GUNDESTRUP N
Source: TELLUS SERIES B-CHEMICAL AND PHYSICAL METEOROLOGY 47 (5): 624-629 NOV 1995
Document Type: Note
Language: English
See, we created this huge stockpile of ice in Nevada, in a place designated as Area 51, and we're bringing ice stolen from the poles with the help of heavy-lift airships we disguised as UFOs. Now we let the planet warm up and soon, our ice stockpile will be worth BILLIONS! Muhahahahaha!!!
So why am I telling you? Because nanobots sprayed by chemtrails are invading your body as we speak. They'll soon settle in your brain, and you too will feel this irresistible urge to enlist and go kill peaceful civilians in random foreign countries, with the rest of the brainwashed zombies. You'll see, you will *love* Big Brother instead of fearing it. Did I mention "muhahaha"?
As for your pertinent remark about attacking Iran, you reached the wrong department. I'll transfer your call to the International Zionist Conspiracy, they'll, er, handle your case.
That's why this kind of hardware isn't cheap.
Even so, today's most powerful lasers would self-destruct if they were able to shoot continuously. But they fire pulses so it gives time for the system to cool down.
If the ABL needs to focus on the target for more than about 1 second, then yes, you're right, rotating a missile could pose a problem.
However, please consider that current missiles have fins to prevent them from rotating. New finless, rotating designs would take at least a decade to be diffused in large numbers.
Correct. We need to spend a lot of money to try to get an answer to these qustions. But right now, we consider that the questions have been answered, and we want to spend money on solutions. That's a bit premature. In fact, there is a serious chance that the modifications we propose will do a lot more harm than good, as with any action that hasn't be fully thought out.
Moreover, there are three separate questions:
I don't have answers, and serious scientists are very cautious too. Good data is too scarse, and too much money is involved for rational debate.
Most debates on the subject don't even acknowledge the existence of these separate questions, so how can they even be constructive? Both sides end up yelling at each other, but they aren't talking about the same thing.
There are several other lasers that are onboard the Airborne Laser besides the weapons-class laser. There is a tracking laser, a laser that actually acquires the target, tracks the target. There is another laser that is there for the purpose of what is known as adaptive optics.
Note that several beams can share the same optics if they have the same wavelength, although the article doesn't say.
The laser pulse is so short and intense that the missile rotation does not matter. Same for mirroring. For all practical purposes, the rising edge of the pulse will destroy the surface layer of any mirror very quickly, and then the rest of the photons will be nicely absorbed.
So, I think you should add a couple of unicorns. Mad science! Robots! Underwear! Cute girls! Full comic online! http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/
This is the reason why it should not be dismissed. This is serious. Many people are now going to try to replicate the experiment. If there is a flaw, it will appear soon enough. If there is no flaw, this is a theoretical physics breakthrough.
As far as the article indicates, this is science, not delusional wishful thinking.