Even earlier than ten years ago - the BOOK the Philadeliphia Experiment suggested that the ship didn;t dissappear, it was just a strong electromagnetic field (the whoe project was an experiment in camoflauge/stealth)that reflected light away from it, thus making the ship (according to the story) invisible from the waterline up - you could supposedly still see the hull cutting the water. This is neither implausable nor infeasible, and it will be ineresting to see the peer review of the current mathematics.
Saw a similar unit in the Clint Eastwood pic "In the Line of Fire" when USSS TSD guys were checking the hotel suite the Prez was supposed to stay in. I'm just waiting for the QST build-it article to come out, hi hi de WL7BCT
Ever heard of Project Chariot? Dr. Teller and his pals wanted to try atomic excavation by detonating 4 devices at Cape Thompson near Point Hope on the Chukchi Sea in Northwest Alaska, creating an artifical harbor. It was the Eskimo's against the AEC, and the Eskimo's won, Thank God. Teller had the support of the Alaskan business community and the University of Alaska. As it happens, Project Chariot ended up being subject to the very first environmental review of any federal project, and eventually they (AEC) gave up. Teller didn't and shot off SEDAN, one of the dirtiest shots ever and the largest cratering experiment done at NTS. Dan O'Neil's book The Firecracker Boys tells the whole story in fine fashion.
BOARDWATCH, rip, was where I first read about Dave Hughes. The story included, among other things, his work putting wireless into some Indian reservation schools as wel as discussion of his NSF work, He clainms, and it may be true, that the way he got the NSF contracts to study wireless was because he was the only proposer! He has been doing a lot of work with remote, wirelss biosensing in Peurto Rico and Alaska and is one of the few non-industry tied people in the wireless game with real street cred.
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Even earlier than ten years ago - the BOOK the Philadeliphia Experiment suggested that the ship didn;t dissappear, it was just a strong electromagnetic field (the whoe project was an experiment in camoflauge/stealth)that reflected light away from it, thus making the ship (according to the story) invisible from the waterline up - you could supposedly still see the hull cutting the water. This is neither implausable nor infeasible, and it will be ineresting to see the peer review of the current mathematics.
Saw a similar unit in the Clint Eastwood pic "In the Line of Fire" when USSS TSD guys were checking the hotel suite the Prez was supposed to stay in.
I'm just waiting for the QST build-it article to come out, hi hi
de WL7BCT
Ever heard of Project Chariot? Dr. Teller and his pals wanted to try atomic excavation by detonating 4 devices at Cape Thompson near Point Hope on the Chukchi Sea in Northwest Alaska, creating an artifical harbor.
It was the Eskimo's against the AEC, and the Eskimo's won, Thank God.
Teller had the support of the Alaskan business community and the University of Alaska.
As it happens, Project Chariot ended up being subject to the very first environmental review of any federal project, and eventually they (AEC) gave up.
Teller didn't and shot off SEDAN, one of the dirtiest shots ever and the largest cratering experiment done at NTS.
Dan O'Neil's book The Firecracker Boys tells the whole story in fine fashion.
BOARDWATCH, rip, was where I first read about Dave Hughes. The story included, among other things, his work putting wireless into some Indian reservation schools as wel as discussion of his NSF work, He clainms, and it may be true, that the way he got the NSF contracts to study wireless was because he was the only proposer! He has been doing a lot of work with remote, wirelss biosensing in Peurto Rico and Alaska and is one of the few non-industry tied people in the wireless game with real street cred.