As for the weight differential you are right, it would require an enormous amount of lift to pull it off even with hydrogen balloons.
The credits for the information aka references were at the bottom of the page.
Of course you already knew that as you read the whole thing real fast and rapid fire responded to me.
Oh well...
As for for the transfer of forces, the ballon platform is not capable of moving at mach speeds, and also E=MC(squared) so the mass of the platform, MANY tons is greater than that of a 450kg projectile like the US is already planning to launch from a mountain based rail gun.
Furthermore planes already fire incredible weapons at sutained cyclic rates , like the A10 warthog , and they can stall if fired long enough.
This is going to have one helluva kick for a fraction of a second.
As you read the entire large article soooo fast you already knew that too.
At that altitude it would not have to deal with the friction of 99% of the earth's atmosphere.
At that altitude storms/weather does not affect launches, there is no wind either.
It would take ALOT of balloon power, but a good size payload could be shot into space repeatedly , and it could be powered by several different means.
As hydrogen is light, it might be best as a fuel for the rail gun.
Smaller ballons could carry up more hydrogen cylinders as needed.
From 32 miles up firing at insane multi-mach speeds.
Firing it once a day to get cargo into the same spot would put up so much more , so much faster for so much less than what the shuttle is currently doing.
firing once a day would give you alot of time to charge the capacitor banks of the coil system.
They want to get the cost per kilogram/pound down.
They want to launch more often, and this idea will get them clear of the air traffic lanes.
Just position this out over the pacific high above any storm systems reach.
I think a high altitude rail gun platform would work nicely to get cargo into space.
It would not work for ppl, as it would pull so many G's it would kill them.
Some tested rail guns have hit Mach 120+ in the low earth atmosphere with all its friction.
At 160,000 feet using high altitude balloon tech to build a suspended launch platform you could fire a rail gun to launch cylinders into space with needed materials.
Getting ppl into space would require a more conventional means, but the cargo has always been the heavier portion.
www.21stcenturyairships.com has already got working prototype ballons working at near 70,000 feet.
NASA set a world record for a ballon at 161,000 feet , so it can be done , 32 miles up would be a good head start.
With 99% of the earth's atmosphere out of the way, a high power rail gun shooting something at speeds in excess of mach 120 would get it to the moon with NO PROBLEM.
Less atmosphere, less friction, less gravity.
Building a space elevator sounds cool, but cost is prohibitive and the logistics sound VERY scary.
The link to the world's fastest rail gun is
http://www.totse.com/en/technology/science_techn ol ogy/railway.html
use CTRL+F and then enter "fastest" for your search.
speed of sound at sea level is 330 yds/sec, they achieved 39,991M/sec.
For many years the military and other agencies have been looking to
put payload in space with a rail gun as a launchor assisted launch. A variation on that theme would be a high altitude platform using
something like www.21stcenturyairships.com to lift the cargo to near 100,000 ft , then use the rail gun to kick start it and if a
heavy payload fire a booster as well . The first 20 miles of flight would be eliminated. A series of MANY of these balloons could be used to hold the launch
platform up and the tremendous cargo. If you run it all with remote control robots, you do not need to worry about life support systems on the launching pad. Also you use remote control robots to build your space station, and do your repairs up in space. Solar power in space is not filtered by the earth's atmosphere, there is ALOT more watts per sq. meter up there. Imagine the work that could be done with no need for food and water, no need for atmosphere , and protected enclosure for the repair robots. If the chinese are smart when they go to build their base on the moon they will start it out unmanned and built by robots, the logistics are just SOOOO much cheaper than trying to keep humans alive and sane in deep space. Once they have a large Teraformed cavern underground on the moon then test it for problems over a period of time , with redundant systems and escape pod like rescue vehicles . Test it with robots. The majority of the moon base being underground would be shielded against meteors , and cosmic radiation. The dark side of the moon could be used to acquire cooling for machinery and computers, etc etc. The light side could be used for a permanent solar farm. Robots coming back and plugging into the grid when they get low or redundant battery packs get switched out by battery serving bots that change one pack at a time and every robot has two or three, lol. Once we get a moon base, we have a MUCH cheaper launching platform than the earth . Less Gravity, no atmosphere burning you up , and no wind shear. Then wash, rinse and repeat for mars, pretty simple plan and we have already sent a tiny robot there. Just send a larger one and start rail gunning cargo from the moon base , the cargo goes into orbit around mars and is picked up by the space station there and then sent down to the surface by the bouncing ball airbag method used by path finder. The airbag material can be saved and reused for other needs once humans arrive once the base is built and safely tested. Once again an underground base using the heat from the core of mars would keep the underground base somewhat liveable. Solar power on mars would not be that good, would need an alternative like geo-thermal. For safety reasons the drilling should be a great distance from the mars base in case a geological problem is let loose similar to a kick experienced when drilling here in north america. Run the geo thermal power plant with robots, and have it beyond a ridge or mountain to protect the colony from any possible disasters. A large low light garden would be needed to turn CO2 into O@ to breathe , and provide food , enriched soil with bacteria would have to be sent to the moon and mars. How mars bacteria and earth bacteria interact could be dangerous, another reason to test it with robots for some time. The big dig in boston has made underground earth works much cheaper, this tech would be perfect for mars, just implementing it all the distance aways would be VERY hard. Due to delay a LARGE space ship/station would need to be built in orbit best from the moon base, then travel to mars and ppl could remote control the mars robots from orbit.
Nuclear power is NOT perfect, and better alternatives are out there to be sure.
I think we need to harness the power of the tidal shift in the Bay of Fundy.
It's twice a day shift is greater than that of all the rivers of the world.
A tidal power generation system like france uses would not work, that much has been agreed.
One based on hydraulics, and floats would allow a slow piston like action to pressurize the hydraulic fluid immensely , and output to a hydraulic motor and in turn running generators.
As the high tide recedes the MANY ton floats could be slowly lowered while compressing pistons and slowly creating massive amounts of power.
Drag coul dbe applied while it trying to raise it forcing it to compress pistons while the tide comes in too.
AS big as the bay of fundy is it could be made as a Dock system that rises and lowers with the tide so it would serve more than one purpose.
The environmental groups worry about the wash out the turbine based systems cause, but a float system would have none.
The estimated power achievable with today's tech is 30,000 mega-watts , very impressive.
For what the combined amount was paid by all those damn students they have the right to record and if it is a public university you work for the gov that is by the ppl for the ppl, your ego be damned.
In line with this ppl are using their laptops to record you digitally in real time, and compressing it to mp3 and ogg.
Then they drop it in their mp3 players when they go for walks or workouts.
play it in their car, etc etc.
To not let ppl record the classes is the biggest disservice to time management I have ever seen in my life.
Some ppl learn better from audio, some from visual, some from hands-on.
To impede any is to handicap those that benefit from it.
Cheating is cheating, but sincere methods of study should be allowed . there is no malice in audio recordings of lectures.
Hell, half the lectures I heard in college were ramblings that only half way covered the material and often drifted into their personal lives more than the course.
I better get off my soapbox, it has been a bad day and I am in kodiak bear mode.
The US Navy has had Nuclear accidents, it has kept them VERY quiet.
Fortunately none are known in the past 25 years.
Excerpt:
Look under Submarines and Ships section
http://prop1.org/2000/accident/partial.htm
Some of the following incidents involve the discharge of radioactive coolant water by ships and submarines. While water from the primary coolant system stays radioactive for only a few seconds, it picks up bits of cobalt, chromium and other elements (from rusting pipes and the reactor) which remain radioactive for years. In realization of this fact, the U.S. Navy has curtailed its previously frequent practice of dumping coolant at sea. 1954 An experimental sodium-cooled reactor utilized aboard the USS Seawolf, the U.S.'s second nuclear submarine, was scuttled in 9,000 feet of water off the Delawre/Maryland coast. The reactor was plagued by persistent leaks in its steam system (caused by the corrosive nature of the sodium) and was later replaced with a more conventional model. The reactor is estimated to have contained 33,000 curies of radioactivity and is likely the largest single radioactive object ever dumped deliberately into the ocean. Subsequent attempts to locate the reactor proved to be futile.
October 1959 One man was killed and another three were seriously burned in the explosion and fire of a prototype reactor for the USS Triton at the Navy's training center in West Milton, New York. The Navy stated, "The explosion...was completely unrelated to the reactor or any of its principal auxiliary systems," but sources familiar with the operation claim that the high-pressure air flask which exploded was utilized to operate a critical back-up system in the event of a reactor emergency.
1961 The USS Theodore Roosvelt was contaminated when radioactive waste from its demineralization system, blew back onton the ship after an attempt to dispose of the material at sea. This happened on other occasions as well with other ships (for example, the USS Guardfish in 1975).
10 April 1963 The nuclear submarine Thresher imploded during a test dive east of Boston, killing all 129 men aboard.
1968 Radioactive coolant water may have been released by the USS Swordfish, which was moored at the time in Sasebo Harbor in Japan. According to one source, the incident was alleged by activists but a nearby Japanese government vessel failed to detect any such radiation leak. The purported incident was protested bitterly by the Japanese, with Premier Eisaku Sate warning that U.S. nuclear ships would no longer be allowed to call at Japanese ports unless their safety could be guaranteed.
21 May 1968 The U.S.S. Scorpion, a nuclear-powered attack submarine carrying two Mark 45 ASTOR torpedoes with nuclear warheads, sank mysteriously on this day. It was eventually photographed lying on the bottom of the ocean, where all ninety-nine of its crew were lost. Details of the accident remained classified until November 1993, when the Navy admitted that it had suspected all long that the Scorpion had accidentally been torpedoed by an American vessel. The nuclear material was never recovered.
14 January 1969 A series of explosions aboard the nuclear aircraft carrier Enterprise left 17 dead and 85 injured.
16 May 1969 The U.S.S. Guitarro, a $50 million nuclear submarine undergoing final fitting in San Francisco Bay, sank to the bottom as water poured into a forward compartment. A House Armed Services subcommittee later found the Navy guilty of "inexcusable carelessness" in connection with the event.
12 December 1971 Five hundred gallons of radioactive coolant water spilled into the Thames River near New London, Connecticut as it was being transferred from the submarine Dace to the sub tender Fulton.
October-November 1975 The USS Proteus, a disabled submarine tender, discharged significant amounts of radioactive coolant water into Guam's Apra Harbor. A geiger counter check of the harbor water near two public beaches measured 100 millirems/hour, fifty times the allowable dose.
22 May 1978 Up to 500 gallons of radioactive water was released when a valve was mistakenly opened aboard the USS Puffer near Puget Sound in Washington.
As someone that worked in the Telco industry there are -->> ** NO ** -- 100% uptime systems.
At some point, the system will error, busy out, or a fiber seeking backhoe will feed itself.
The last major california earthquake showed them that they needed a system with dynamic routing capability on the fly.
When the World Trade Center fell phone service was in big trouble in that area for some time.
This has been played out time and time again, not only nationwide, but worldwide.
VoIp can change some of it, but not all of it.
Nothing man can make is 100%.
The US phone system is geared around its heaviest call voume day, mother's day, That is their loose benchmark.
The reason he quotes 99.999% is that is the five 9's reliability quotient set by the FCC.
VoIp Dial offload is providing 5 cents a minute any time night or day , 365 days a year , and you do not even know you are using it most of the time.
It is transparent to the end user if done correctly.
Companies like Sonus and Genuity made millions off their VoIp solutions, and so did many others.
I worked at a now defunct Cisco Systems VoIp lab in Herndon Virginia that used MGC , and it was steamrolled by SIP internally , and other solutions externally.
When the other solutions beat us out, Cisco nearly closed the facility they laid off so many people.
Over 50% of the office I worked at was let go, and a virginia law came into effect for letting so large a number go.
I learned alot there, and one thing for sure is that there are no 100% uptimes.
Only multiple redundancy can give you 100% uptime, and then you are just building a 2nd parallel network.
The pads for a tower 3/4 of a kilometer tall are quite big, and are not just poured by joe redneck.
The anchor cables and tensioning of the guideline wires is one of engineering , and those cables are FAR from cheap.
Braided steel cable on three points to a 1500m tower would cost a TREMENDOUS amount of money.
The higher you go, the faster the wind speed , at 1500m the wind speed would push that balloon , and use 1500m of leverage against your tower and its anchors.
Best to free float it, and let it be a omni-directional antenna
Hopefully their ideas for stabilization will work for them.
Meanwhile I think the wind free zone at 67,000 ft. will work really well for this other companies similar idea.
30gig on their private LAN, the pipe to the outside world being run thru a caching system similar to Squid so they can just download the website once, then redistribute to all the users on their private network at blistering speed . if it is all run as a giant RAM drive it will have near zero access latency too.
Their pipe to the outside world will be much smaller to be affordable, but via caching all duplicate website graphics and text can be downloaded and cached instead of being downloaded over and over every time someone goes to Skynews or Yahoo.
How about throw a Bolo with 2 thermite modules on the end.
Like ppl throw 2 tennis shoes tied together over power lines.
Just think, the bolo wraps nice and tight, you hit the Remote control, and bingo, you got a remote control thermite bolo for severing high tension cables.
What ppl do not get about his system which I dreamed of MANY years ago is that you set filters, and boolean paramters.
I have posted msgs wanting something like this for years.
Anything you want you list, and by default can set it to not download anything else.
Newsgroups are PLAGUED with incomplete posts, and they are filled with SPAM.
Newsgroups do not use broadcast technology, they use bandwidth per user, multicasting will allow one person to multi-cast his one file one time to multiple end rcvrs . Thus bandwidth saved.
Newsgroup combining and decoding used to take a "fair" amount of processor and time , this bypasses all that.
If you want to ban certain things, like say "britney", exclusions could be set to keep any file with that name in it from EVER being downloaded to you.
Think of it at Ip Access lists and Extended IP access lists for automatic file download, of a web/file cache that reads your mind, and works automatically 24x7.
It can check what you already have via exported text list and not download it as well.
This will allow you to get all new songs by enigma for example as soon as they are on the network.
With cooperative bandwidth allocation similar to bit torrent this could become a powerful tool.
You could "subscribe" to Star Trek with release tags on it, and quality settings , ie. MPG , ie. file size.
You could subscribe to genre, ie. techno videos , and they just "appear" on your drive during the night.
The bandwidth this could potential use though could be staggering.
On the other hand donwloading mp3's over and over to find bad copies, and then download again is burning bandwidth and time.
Time is money, and if more bandwidth is needed , then it may help the economy , who knows.
In any event , being able to subscribe yourself to keywords using boolean expression similar to searches you enter into google if you how to enter them could allow you to get all the files you repititiously download in an automatic manner.
Your favorite South park, Your star trek, your farscape, your whatever you like to watch or listen too.
The possiblilites in regards to Pr0n is hilarous, LOL.
Give this idea more thought before bashing it.
It has subtle nuances that make it awesomely powerful.
The potential for spam would have to be countered via a certificate authority, and registration, encryption and ANY and ALL means possible.
AKZO is one of the largest salt producers in the world, they make millions off their premium salt used in medicine, dyes for clothes, and many things you would not expect.
At one time they were the largest producer in the world.
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As for the weight differential you are right, it would .
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require an enormous amount of lift to pull it off
even with hydrogen balloons
The credits for the information aka references were at
the bottom of the page
Of course you already knew that as you read the whole thing
real fast and rapid fire responded to me
Oh well
As for for the transfer of forces, the ballon platform is
not capable of moving at mach speeds, and also E=MC(squared)
so the mass of the platform, MANY tons is greater than
that of a 450kg projectile like the US is already planning to
launch from a mountain based rail gun
Furthermore planes already fire incredible weapons at
sutained cyclic rates , like the A10 warthog , and they
can stall if fired long enough
This is going to have one helluva kick for a fraction of a second
As you read the entire large article soooo fast you already
knew that too
Peace,
Ex-MislTech
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I think a high altitude rail gun suspended from a balloon
platform at 160,000 ft would be best
NASA recently set a balloon record at 161,000 ft.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2002/08/02
At that altitude it would not have to deal with the friction
of 99% of the earth's atmosphere
At that altitude storms/weather does not affect launches
there is no wind either
It would take ALOT of balloon power, but a good size payload
could be shot into space repeatedly , and it could be powered
by several different means
As hydrogen is light, it might be best as a fuel for the
rail gun
Smaller ballons could carry up more hydrogen cylinders as
needed
From 32 miles up firing at insane multi-mach speeds
Firing it once a day to get cargo into the same spot would
put up so much more , so much faster for so much less than
what the shuttle is currently doing
firing once a day would give you alot of time to charge
the capacitor banks of the coil system
Peace,
Ex-MislTech
Yes, I worked on guided missile radar for the US Navy .
www.geocities.com/duanenavarre
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They want to launch more often, and this idea
will get them clear of the air traffic lanes
Just position this out over the pacific high
above any storm systems reach
I think a high altitude rail gun platform would work
nicely to get cargo into space
It would not work for ppl, as it would pull so many G's
it would kill them
Some tested rail guns have hit Mach 120+ in the low earth
atmosphere with all its friction
At 160,000 feet using high altitude balloon tech to build
a suspended launch platform you could fire a rail gun
to launch cylinders into space with needed materials
Getting ppl into space would require a more conventional means,
but the cargo has always been the heavier portion
www.21stcenturyairships.com has already got working prototype
ballons working at near 70,000 feet
NASA set a world record for a ballon at 161,000 feet , so it
can be done , 32 miles up would be a good head start
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2002/08/02
These guys could provide the balloon logistics
http://www.andyelson.com/proj_theedgeofspace.ht
With 99% of the earth's atmosphere out of the way, a high power
rail gun shooting something at speeds in excess of mach 120
would get it to the moon with NO PROBLEM
Less atmosphere, less friction, less gravity
Building a space elevator sounds cool, but cost is
prohibitive and the logistics sound VERY scary
The link to the world's fastest rail gun is
http://www.totse.com/en/technology/science_tech
use CTRL+F and then enter "fastest" for your search
speed of sound at sea level is 330 yds/sec, they achieved
39,991M/sec
Peace,
Ex-MislTech
For many years the military and other agencies have been looking to . . . . . . . , . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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put payload in space with a rail gun as a launchor assisted launch
A variation on that theme would be a high altitude platform using
something like www.21stcenturyairships.com to lift the cargo to
near 100,000 ft , then use the rail gun to kick start it and if a
heavy payload fire a booster as well . The first 20 miles of flight would be eliminated
A series of MANY of these balloons could be used to hold the launch
platform up and the tremendous cargo
If you run it all with remote control robots, you do not need
to worry about life support systems on the launching pad
Also you use remote control robots to build your space station,
and do your repairs up in space
Solar power in space is not filtered by the earth's atmosphere,
there is ALOT more watts per sq. meter up there
Imagine the work that could be done with no need for food and
water, no need for atmosphere , and protected enclosure for the
repair robots
If the chinese are smart when they go to build their base on the
moon they will start it out unmanned and built by robots
the logistics are just SOOOO much cheaper than trying to keep
humans alive and sane in deep space
Once they have a large Teraformed cavern underground on the moon
then test it for problems over a period of time , with redundant
systems and escape pod like rescue vehicles . Test it with robots
The majority of the moon base being underground would be shielded
against meteors , and cosmic radiation
The dark side of the moon could be used to acquire cooling for
machinery and computers, etc etc
The light side could be used for a permanent solar farm
Robots coming back and plugging into the grid when they get
low or redundant battery packs get switched out by battery
serving bots that change one pack at a time and every robot
has two or three, lol
Once we get a moon base, we have a MUCH cheaper launching
platform than the earth . Less Gravity, no atmosphere
burning you up , and no wind shear
Then wash, rinse and repeat for mars, pretty simple plan and
we have already sent a tiny robot there
Just send a larger one and start rail gunning cargo from the
moon base , the cargo goes into orbit around mars and is picked
up by the space station there and then sent down to the surface
by the bouncing ball airbag method used by path finder
The airbag material can be saved and reused for other needs
once humans arrive once the base is built and safely tested
Once again an underground base using the heat from the core of
mars would keep the underground base somewhat liveable
Solar power on mars would not be that good, would need an
alternative like geo-thermal
For safety reasons the drilling should be a great distance from
the mars base in case a geological problem is let loose similar
to a kick experienced when drilling here in north america
Run the geo thermal power plant with robots, and have it
beyond a ridge or mountain to protect the colony from
any possible disasters
A large low light garden would be needed to turn CO2 into O@
to breathe , and provide food , enriched soil with bacteria
would have to be sent to the moon and mars
How mars bacteria and earth bacteria interact could be dangerous,
another reason to test it with robots for some time
The big dig in boston has made underground earth works much
cheaper, this tech would be perfect for mars, just implementing
it all the distance aways would be VERY hard
Due to delay a LARGE space ship/station would need to be built
in orbit best from the moon base, then travel to mars
and ppl could remote control the mars robots from orbit
Ok I am really rambling here
Peace,
Ex-MislTech
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Very good additions to the list I found
Nuclear power is NOT perfect, and better
alternatives are out there to be sure
I think we need to harness the power of the
tidal shift in the Bay of Fundy
It's twice a day shift is greater than that
of all the rivers of the world
A tidal power generation system like france
uses would not work, that much has been agreed
One based on hydraulics, and floats would allow a
slow piston like action to pressurize the hydraulic
fluid immensely , and output to a hydraulic motor
and in turn running generators
As the high tide recedes the MANY ton floats could be
slowly lowered while compressing pistons and slowly
creating massive amounts of power
Drag coul dbe applied while it trying to raise it
forcing it to compress pistons while the tide comes in too
AS big as the bay of fundy is it could be made as a
Dock system that rises and lowers with the tide so
it would serve more than one purpose
The environmental groups worry about the wash out
the turbine based systems cause, but a float system
would have none
The estimated power achievable with today's tech
is 30,000 mega-watts , very impressive
This picture says it all , lol
http://www.valleyweb.com/fundytides/
Peace,
Ex-MislTech
permission to record, blah blah ...
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For what the combined amount was paid by
all those damn students they have the right
to record and if it is a public university
you work for the gov that is by the ppl for
the ppl, your ego be damned
In line with this ppl are using their laptops
to record you digitally in real time, and
compressing it to mp3 and ogg
Then they drop it in their mp3 players when
they go for walks or workouts
play it in their car, etc etc
To not let ppl record the classes is the
biggest disservice to time management I
have ever seen in my life
Some ppl learn better from audio, some
from visual, some from hands-on
To impede any is to handicap those that
benefit from it
Cheating is cheating, but sincere methods
of study should be allowed . there is no
malice in audio recordings of lectures
Hell, half the lectures I heard in college
were ramblings that only half way covered the
material and often drifted into their personal
lives more than the course
I better get off my soapbox, it has been a
bad day and I am in kodiak bear mode
Peace,
Ex-MislTech
The US Navy has had Nuclear accidents, it has kept them VERY quiet .
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Fortunately none are known in the past 25 years
Excerpt:
Look under Submarines and Ships section
http://prop1.org/2000/accident/partial.htm
Some of the following incidents involve the discharge of radioactive coolant water by ships and submarines. While water from the primary coolant system stays radioactive for only a few seconds, it picks up bits of cobalt, chromium and other elements (from rusting pipes and the reactor) which remain radioactive for years. In realization of this fact, the U.S. Navy has curtailed its previously frequent practice of dumping coolant at sea.
1954
An experimental sodium-cooled reactor utilized aboard the USS Seawolf, the U.S.'s second nuclear submarine, was scuttled in 9,000 feet of water off the Delawre/Maryland coast. The reactor was plagued by persistent leaks in its steam system (caused by the corrosive nature of the sodium) and was later replaced with a more conventional model. The reactor is estimated to have contained 33,000 curies of radioactivity and is likely the largest single radioactive object ever dumped deliberately into the ocean. Subsequent attempts to locate the reactor proved to be futile.
October 1959
One man was killed and another three were seriously burned in the explosion and fire of a prototype reactor for the USS Triton at the Navy's training center in West Milton, New York. The Navy stated, "The explosion...was completely unrelated to the reactor or any of its principal auxiliary systems," but sources familiar with the operation claim that the high-pressure air flask which exploded was utilized to operate a critical back-up system in the event of a reactor emergency.
1961
The USS Theodore Roosvelt was contaminated when radioactive waste from its demineralization system, blew back onton the ship after an attempt to dispose of the material at sea. This happened on other occasions as well with other ships (for example, the USS Guardfish in 1975).
10 April 1963
The nuclear submarine Thresher imploded during a test dive east of Boston, killing all 129 men aboard.
1968
Radioactive coolant water may have been released by the USS Swordfish, which was moored at the time in Sasebo Harbor in Japan. According to one source, the incident was alleged by activists but a nearby Japanese government vessel failed to detect any such radiation leak. The purported incident was protested bitterly by the Japanese, with Premier Eisaku Sate warning that U.S. nuclear ships would no longer be allowed to call at Japanese ports unless their safety could be guaranteed.
21 May 1968
The U.S.S. Scorpion, a nuclear-powered attack submarine carrying two Mark 45 ASTOR torpedoes with nuclear warheads, sank mysteriously on this day. It was eventually photographed lying on the bottom of the ocean, where all ninety-nine of its crew were lost. Details of the accident remained classified until November 1993, when the Navy admitted that it had suspected all long that the Scorpion had accidentally been torpedoed by an American vessel. The nuclear material was never recovered.
14 January 1969
A series of explosions aboard the nuclear aircraft carrier Enterprise left 17 dead and 85 injured.
16 May 1969
The U.S.S. Guitarro, a $50 million nuclear submarine undergoing final fitting in San Francisco Bay, sank to the bottom as water poured into a forward compartment. A House Armed Services subcommittee later found the Navy guilty of "inexcusable carelessness" in connection with the event.
12 December 1971
Five hundred gallons of radioactive coolant water spilled into the Thames River near New London, Connecticut as it was being transferred from the submarine Dace to the sub tender Fulton.
October-November 1975
The USS Proteus, a disabled submarine tender, discharged significant amounts of radioactive coolant water into Guam's Apra Harbor. A geiger counter check of the harbor water near two public beaches measured 100 millirems/hour, fifty times the allowable dose.
22 May 1978
Up to 500 gallons of radioactive water was released when a valve was mistakenly opened aboard the USS Puffer near Puget Sound in Washington.
Peace,
Ex-MislTech
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This has real promise
For those that whine about natural gas as a limited
resource, yes it is, but compared to gasoline and diesel
it is not an issue
Furthermore natural gas is a bridge to an alternative method
Nuclear fuel is FAR more limited than oil, if we switched to
pure nuclear worldwide we would run out of fuel MUCH sooner
than oil
Natural Gas reserves in undeveloped nations like Africa
are virtually untapped
In the US billionaire T. boone pickens anticipated the rise
of natural gas and capped MANY wells in lieu of this revelation
Cryogenic fractioning towers have been used by the oil n' gas
industry for sometime, and have become reasonable in cost
Powering the process with natural gas, to fraction natural gas,
to make hydrogen is better than burning coal, or having wars
in the middle east
Kill the dependence on foreign oil, and we can return the middle
east to the state it was in before its billion dollar oil boom
Leave it to the rest of the world to invent an idea, leave it
to the japanese to perfect it and improve it
Peace,
Ex-MislTech
http://www.phact.org/e/z/Bearden.htm
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He has been proven wrong several times, violating the
laws of conservation of energy is a great goal
but not too damn realisitic
Good Luck !
Peace,
Ex-MislTech
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As someone that worked in the Telco industry there
are -->> ** NO ** -- 100% uptime systems
At some point, the system will error, busy out,
or a fiber seeking backhoe will feed itself
The last major california earthquake showed them
that they needed a system with dynamic routing
capability on the fly
When the World Trade Center fell phone service was
in big trouble in that area for some time
This has been played out time and time again
not only nationwide, but worldwide
VoIp can change some of it, but not all of it
Nothing man can make is 100%
The US phone system is geared around its heaviest
call voume day, mother's day, That is their loose
benchmark
The reason he quotes 99.999% is that is the five 9's
reliability quotient set by the FCC
VoIp Dial offload is providing 5 cents a minute any
time night or day , 365 days a year , and you do not
even know you are using it most of the time
It is transparent to the end user if done correctly
Companies like Sonus and Genuity made millions off
their VoIp solutions, and so did many others
I worked at a now defunct Cisco Systems VoIp lab in
Herndon Virginia that used MGC , and it was steamrolled
by SIP internally , and other solutions externally
When the other solutions beat us out, Cisco nearly
closed the facility they laid off so many people
Over 50% of the office I worked at was let go, and a virginia law
came into effect for letting so large a number go
I learned alot there, and one thing for sure is that
there are no 100% uptimes
Only multiple redundancy can give you 100% uptime, and then
you are just building a 2nd parallel network
Peace,
Ex-MislTech
1500 Meter towers are expensive .
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The pads for a tower 3/4 of a kilometer tall are quite big,
and are not just poured by joe redneck
The anchor cables and tensioning of the guideline wires
is one of engineering , and those cables are FAR from cheap
Braided steel cable on three points to a 1500m tower would
cost a TREMENDOUS amount of money
The higher you go, the faster the wind speed , at 1500m the
wind speed would push that balloon , and use 1500m of leverage
against your tower and its anchors
Best to free float it, and let it be a omni-directional antenna
Hopefully their ideas for stabilization will work for them
Meanwhile I think the wind free zone at 67,000 ft. will work
really well for this other companies similar idea
http://www.21stcenturyairships.com/aerial.htm
Peace,
Ex-MislTech
30gig on their private LAN, the pipe to the outside world .
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being run thru a caching system similar to Squid so they
can just download the website once, then redistribute
to all the users on their private network at blistering
speed . if it is all run as a giant RAM drive it will
have near zero access latency too
Their pipe to the outside world will be much smaller
to be affordable, but via caching all duplicate website
graphics and text can be downloaded and cached instead
of being downloaded over and over every time someone
goes to Skynews or Yahoo
Peace,
Ex-MislTech
Though a tad more costly, the rarified air at 67,000 ft .
is wind free year round
http://www.21stcenturyairships.com/aerial.htm
Peace,
Ex-MislTech
http://www.21stcenturyairships.com/
Peace,
Ex-MislTech
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How about throw a Bolo with 2 thermite modules on the end
Like ppl throw 2 tennis shoes tied together over power lines
Just think, the bolo wraps nice and tight, you hit the Remote
control, and bingo, you got a remote control thermite bolo
for severing high tension cables
LOL
Don't try this at home folks
Peace,
Ex-MislTech
per pricewatch the 802.11A & G cards cost about the same for
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generc cards . AKA = $72
The 802.11 A router costs about $10 more than the 802.11 G
A uses 5 ghz , vs. G using 2.4 ghz which happens to be the
same frequency as ALOT of the new cordless phones , hehe
Peace
Ex-MislTech
Multiple lines of communication are established .
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Standard Radio, and Encrypted if need be
Sat Comm, now computers via the internet
cutting communications lines is an old tactic,
it is anticipated, thus the needs for multiple
lines of Comm
And believe it or not a Secret means I cannot
mention that is so far fetched, alot of ppl
would not even believe it , thanks to the Navy
Peace
Ex-MislTech
What ppl do not get about his system which I dreamed of MANY .
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years ago is that you set filters, and boolean paramters
I have posted msgs wanting something like this for years
Anything you want you list, and by default can set it
to not download anything else
Newsgroups are PLAGUED with incomplete posts, and
they are filled with SPAM
Newsgroups do not use broadcast technology, they
use bandwidth per user, multicasting will allow
one person to multi-cast his one file one time
to multiple end rcvrs . Thus bandwidth saved
Newsgroup combining and decoding used to take a "fair" amount of processor and time , this bypasses all that
If you want to ban certain things, like say "britney",
exclusions could be set to keep any file with that name
in it from EVER being downloaded to you
Think of it at Ip Access lists and Extended IP access lists
for automatic file download, of a web/file cache that reads your
mind, and works automatically 24x7
It can check what you already have via exported text list
and not download it as well
This will allow you to get all new songs by enigma for example
as soon as they are on the network
With cooperative bandwidth allocation similar to bit torrent
this could become a powerful tool
You could "subscribe" to Star Trek with release tags on it
and quality settings , ie. MPG , ie. file size
You could subscribe to genre, ie. techno videos , and they
just "appear" on your drive during the night
The bandwidth this could potential use though could be staggering
On the other hand donwloading mp3's over and over to find bad
copies, and then download again is burning bandwidth and time
Time is money, and if more bandwidth is needed , then it may
help the economy , who knows
In any event , being able to subscribe yourself to keywords
using boolean expression similar to searches you enter into
google if you how to enter them could allow you to get all
the files you repititiously download in an automatic manner
Your favorite South park, Your star trek, your farscape,
your whatever you like to watch or listen too
The possiblilites in regards to Pr0n is hilarous, LOL
Give this idea more thought before bashing it
It has subtle nuances that make it awesomely powerful
The potential for spam would have to be countered via
a certificate authority, and registration, encryption and
ANY and ALL means possible
Peace,
Ex-MislTech
http://www.akzonobelsalt.com/english/abo/prf/home. htm
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AKZO is one of the largest salt producers in the world,
they make millions off their premium salt used
in medicine, dyes for clothes, and many things you
would not expect
At one time they were the largest producer in the world
Peace
Ex-MislTech
Be awesome if they can get the room temp super conducting .
to work with NEV's, would make them super efficient
http://physicsweb.org/article/news/7/4/5
Peace,
Ex-MislTech
Imagine man made diamond doped with oxygen in low power, .
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low temp computer chips, allowing a scalar jump in speed
Imagine Superconducting powerlines, generators, motors, etc
Imagine superconducting power plants , using room temperature
super conductors
Imagine a find that could literally change the world
http://physicsweb.org/article/news/7/4/5
Peace !
Ex-MislTech
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I am helping set one of these up in a small rural community
as a test bed for further expansion
It is going to be a Coop, which means as the # of users go up,
the cost goes down, and bandwidth is cheaper by the unit the more
of it you buy
Chk my lengthy post on it
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=64459&cid=5
WiFi may not save the internet, but it sure as hell is
about to change the last mile
Even the register says so ( big grin )
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/archive/26
Peace !
Ex-MislTech
Where did all those mom and pop ISP's go ????
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try this
www.thelist.com
You are so right, my post too spoke to fighting for what .
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is worth fighting for, and it is good to see others feel
that way too
His death knell of the net is premature at best, and
I feel its best days and a wireless underground are
just around the corner
Peace,
Ex_MislTech