| Author | Message | ||
     Sifo |
Good article Ducbsa. Quite enjoyable. | ||
| Aesquire |
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-347 0246/US-Army-laser-weapons-2023-research-bosses-sa y-killer-technology-close.html | ||
| Torquehd |
Lasers are cool, they have an array of obstacles, but the major flaw with using lasers as weapons is that everyone within visibile distance of a laser weapon needs specialty eye pro. The average bystander, looking at an actual laser gun when it's firing would have permanent eye damage. (you have a hard enough time getting joe to wear his helmet and clear eyepro. Good luck getting him to wear flaming orange eyepro 100% of the time). And despite what the article says, you can not have an "unlimited magazine". High-power lasers consume a lot of electricity, and more importantly, generate a lot of heat. Heat management is usually a big obstacle on high powered lasers. | ||
| Aesquire |
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/432262/paul- krugman-renewable-energy-folly-coal-and-fossil-fue ls-still-necessary As Usual Krugman is wrong, in so many ways. re: lasers. Yes, heat management is an issue. You can vaporize your own weapon if you can't dump the heat. The bigger obstacle is simply harnessing enough energy. Power source, the wires, transformers, and switches to handle military useful power simply didn't exist a few years ago. You can thank Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, and a few other visionaries for SDI. The SDI program spent a lot of your money, learned how to handle large amounts of power, pulsed and steady, and incidentally crashed the Soviet Union when they tried to spend more money than they could fake to build a new generation of weapons to combat invisible bombers and anti missile defense systems.... and we only built 20 B-2 bombers. The anti missile systems are ready for deployment now. Not the laser ones, yet. But they hope soon. It's a new generation of LED's that seems to be the breakthrough. But they wouldn't work without years of work on high power control systems and mirrors to handle the power. It one way SDI was the biggest bluff in history. In another it was the foundation for an upcoming generation of technology. We got our money's worth out of the program, and few will ever know. And.... hidden in all that work, is the technology they needed for the next generation of Fusion power. What tech do you think Lockheed is using? Expect the greenies to try and ban Fusion, since it will use up the Oceans. They will be joined by Exxon and Saudi Arabia in criminalizing cheap energy. Bet. | ||
| Hootowl |
Nah. Exxon is an energy company. They don't care where it comes from. If they can make a buck on fusion, they'll be all for it. Capitalism, baby! | ||
| Reepicheep |
I haven't tried to do the math, but if you tried to turn even just 1% of the oceans into energy, wouldn't planet earth basically be a small sun? It takes an extraordinary amount of energy to make matter, and a little matter can make an extraordinary amount of energy. | ||
| Aesquire |
There you go, using science & reason. 1% ? It would sear Mars. | ||
| Torquehd |
According to the U.S. Geological Survey, there are over 332,519,000 cubic miles of water on the planet... I can't even fathom the quantity of water that exists here on this planet. | ||
| Aesquire |
I haven't done the math but Mars might be vaporized. Depending on orbit. If it was on the other side of the Sun it might be fine until it froze in interstellar space. The Sun? I'm not sure folk more than a hundred light years away would be able to tell if it went nova when the side towards Earth expanded in the flash. It's a lot of energy. A hypothetical planet around Alpha Centauri might not stay life bearing. One sci-fi prediction is that when we get to a certain population we will have heat problems just from the infrastructure to shelter and feed multiple tens of billions. All those factories producing food from raw materials, waste heat from arcologies, power plants to keep it running...... Weirdly that may save civilization as the Ice Age comes. It's never made it past the ice ages..... if there was civilization before it's been erased. | ||
| Aesquire |
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/scientists -attempt-clone-ice-age-7497693 Gotta control the Mammoth population somehow, I suppose. | ||
| Sifo |
NOAA Radiosonde Data Shows No Warming For 58 Years I have nothing to add.  | ||
| Aesquire |
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2016/03/ye t_another_hottest_year_on_record.html http://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/0809/0809.3762.p df | ||
| Aesquire |
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/science-ne ws/12188092/Alzheimers-disease-could-be-caused-by- herpes-virus-warn-experts.html There is still arguments about stomach ulcers being caused by bacteria. Sometimes new ideas take time to get accepted. Sometimes they are wrong too.... and it can take a long time to get rid of the new ideas. The Science is Never Settled. ( although some stuff is pretty well established. drop a rock on a planet and it usually falls. The exact mechanism is questionable, but the falling part isn't ) | ||
| Aesquire |
http://syonyk.blogspot.com/2016/03/is-tesla-buildi ng-throwaway-cars.html | ||
| Ducbsa |
Good article http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2016/03/in fantile_egoism_and_environmental_science.html | ||
| Aesquire |
http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-ca-brown-re yes-campaign-20160313-story.html Under attack for Heresy. | ||
| Aesquire |
https://pjmedia.com/trending/2016/03/07/the-most-g rotesquely-comical-academic-paper-ever-published/? singlepage=true Political Science, isn't. Social Justice, Isn't. | ||
| Torquehd |
I want to dip my motorcycle and riding gear in this. This is a dream come true. Now all we need is Samsung to reverse engineer it and make it affordable. http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2016/03/15/worlds-blac kest-material-is-now-in-spray-form.html?intcmp=hph z05 | ||
| Hootowl |
Can't even imagine how hot you'd get wearing something that absorbs nearly all light. | ||
| Torquehd |
We don't get much direct sunshine here in the PNW for most of the year. But I'd be invisible to radar.... oh yeah. | ||
| Aesquire |
Being invisible voids your warranty.  | ||
| Hootowl |
Does it absorb all wavelengths of electromagnetic radiation, or just that of the visible spectrum? | ||
| Hughlysses |
That reads like an article from "the Onion". In-freaking-sane. | ||
| Aesquire |
http://hackaday.com/2016/03/15/the-origin-of-qwert y/ Only the freqs the particles match. It's a range because of manufacturing tolerances but not all frequencies. I assume they can "tune" the paint in a range. High absorption in IR and not in UV, for example. Radar? Possibly. But that may need bigger particles than practical for spray paint. Wavelength is key. Visual light is much much shorter than K band. | ||
| Hootowl |
I thought as much. PNW sees its share of 100 degree days. I like reflective clothing. | ||
| Sifo |
It might make you pretty invisible to the laser speed traps though. Haven't they gotten very popular with LEO's? Seriously though, people would drive right over you. They already have a hard time recognizing a motorcycle as something to not run over. Making it look like something your brain isn't conditioned to interpret is just asking to become a grease spot in the road. Granted, at that point you will look like a hole in the road and they will try to avoid you on the return trip. | ||
| Aesquire |
Making it look like something your brain isn't conditioned to interpret is just asking to become a grease spot in the road. people are not conditioned to see motorcycles anyway. They see, but don't process that into something they acknowledge. Go phantom and they wouldn't see you at all. I bet people would steer into the artificial blind spot, you. Be an interesting experiment. I'll watch. Granted, at that point you will look like a hole in the road and they will try to avoid you on the return trip. I bet that's true. This is one of those things that's not properly addressed in superhero comics. The invisible man would get run down, by everything. The fantasy of sneaking into the girls locker room ignores getting trampled in the hall on the way there. | ||
| Torquehd |
warranty? uh, that ran out in 2009... yeah i meant "laser" when I said "radar". I think "radar" is kind of like "coke" in the south or "kleenex" in the colloquial. I ride like no one can see me anyway, in fact I'd rather they didn't. This past summer was unusually warm and dry but 100s is rare here. Down south, just north of the Columbia, they run 5-10 degrees hotter than here on average and they had several 100 degree days this summer. Well there you have it, global warming. Caused by George W's attack on the twin towers with chemtrails and microchips. | ||
| Ducbsa |
Imagine, a $2.2 billion plant down the drain. (Google the headline to get past the paywall.) http://www.wsj.com/articles/ivanpah-solar-plant-ma y-be-forced-to-shut-down-1458170858 Thank you, environmentalists! | ||
| Pwnzor |
Caused by George W's attack on the twin towers with chemtrails and microchips. No coincidences, just planned occurrences.  |
