Re: The Cold Equations

>In somewhat exaggerated terms, it was the march of communism versus
>'book burnings' with 'mind control' being used by BOTH sides.
It's still their ongoing mainstream status quo.

>The upshot was a divided America watching the World Trade Towers
>crumble into dust. America began to wake up. We were in danger. And,
>now a healing of our politics is taking place. The lefts and rights
>began pulling together. Afghanistan and Iraq were subdued.
Afghanistan and Iraq didn't require being subdued. What was needed was
a technological way of forcing to price of oil below $10/barrel, and of
keeping it there or lower. Depressing the value of oil was entirely
doable, however we(aka GW Bush) did just the opposite.

>Today, the real menace is from . . . Outer Space. Once again we must
>pull together. All of Earth must pull together. We must conquer
>science and project our power into the . . . unknown. To remain bound
>to the Earth is to die. Adventurers must lead the way --- where others
>fear to tread.
Today the "real menace" and/or greatest threat to humanity and the
environment of Earth is from within our own kind. Outer space simply is
not a viable threat except to ourselved for being so entirely snookered
and thust dumbfounded way past the point of no-return.

>We must break free of the shackles of 'mind control' through the
>enactment of laws controlling 'microwave devices' and their use. The
>brilliant must be permitted to dream and achieve in the Military, the
>Marketplace, and in Academe.
Now you're going somewhat 50/50 postal again. First of all, we don't
have a "Military", whereas instead we have a good dozen agencies that
claim being on our side, yet they don't even share and share alike,
thereby creating a total fiasco of absolute fools running us amuck. Of
controlling microwave devices should hopefully include the likes of
nasty ABLs and SBLs. You do realize there's absolute proof-positive
that we (the supposed good guys) took out TWA flight-800.

>The resolution wasn't good but the lines were there. And, what about
>the famous bridge shadow?
I totally agree that the horrific and naked geology, plus whatever's of
possible ET modifications upon our moon are extremely worthy of our
having a much closer look-see. I wonder why that hasn't been
accomplished as of decades ago?

I mean to ask; What's the freaking big deal about having small
satellites as starting off by cruising just 25 km off the deck, taking
terrific 10X if not 100X mirror telephoto and full color spectrum
images that'll get us a good set of such essential 22.5° and
eventually 45° perspective images that are down to well below 0.1
m/pixel.

>Terrawatt lasers exist. They are used to zap things and do
>spectroscopy. They are used to ignite fusion processes.
Good grief, tomcat. I'm talking CW, as in 24/7 CW energy transfers,
and thereby not of those pathetic nano or pico pulsed lasers that
simply are not worth squat. I can deliver more energy from a fart than
what you're talking about. Obviously you're still very much stuck in
that mainstream status quo box. Thereby a 100 GW/hr CW of a laser
cannon is not some pathetic science lab toy or even a fusion trigger,
unless you so happen to need 360,000 TW/ms.
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Brad Guth

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