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LinkedInIf you were following the blogs last week, you'll recall I speculated a bit - well, a lot actually - on NASA's announcement that it wants to mine asteroids by hauling those in near Earth orbits to the Moon, to "park" them in orbits there and mine them from bases on the Moon. And you'll recall I spoke to this on last week's News and Views from the Nefarium, where I indicated a BBC News article about the mineral wealth scientists believe to be stored on Eros 433, which just happens to be one of those asteroids NASA is thinking about "mining." But the real question might be, "mining for what?" … [Read more...]
LASER-INDUCED PLASMA CHANNELS, THE US MILITARY, AND SOME PALEOPHYSICAL THINKING OF THE UNTHINKABLE
July 13, 2012 By
This one is a topic I commented recently on aByte Show interview, and that is the US military's new "plasma cannon," and I thought it would be worth a more detailed look here. Here is Russian TV that brings you this bit of news: US Army to smite enemies with Tesla-like lightning bolts? The basic idea here is very simple. The laser acts as a conductive channel for a plasma, or, an electrically charged gas, toward its target. The laser heats a gas, ionizing the air through which it passes, and thus creates a column or channel taht is not electrically neutral. In other words, the column … [Read more...]