Tuesday, November 01, 2005

More weather modification fun:

U.S. Military Wants to Own the Weather






In this regard, nanotechnology could be utilized to create clouds of tiny smart particles. Atmospherically buoyant, these ultra-small computer particles could navigate themselves to block optical sensors. Alternatively, they might be used to provide an atmospheric electrical potential difference -- a way to precisely aim and time lightning strikes over the enemy’s head -- thereby concoct thunderbolts on demand.

(Via KurzweilAI.net.)


Hmmm. This might be just the thing to enliven the fictional sentient whirlwinds discussed in a previous post.

9 comments:

Gerald T said...

Ellow?
Can any body hear me?
Alien ruins on mars I tell you!
See for your self.


http://marsrelaystation.blogspot.com/

Mac said...

I dig Spirit Nav Cam Sol 638 set 5.

TWilliam said...

Hmmm...

Like the photo there in your post, Mac; the Hayzeus image is a nice touch. You do that or did you find it that way?

Mac said...

Found it like that. It looks really nice on a black background:

http://www.mactonnies.com/bio.html

W.M. Bear said...

Thanks, gerald. I did take a look. And I SAW.

TWilliam said...

Ok, so regarding the Mars pics...

Why so damned hazy? We've all seen MUCH sharper images from the rovers. And don't try to tell me it's because it's moving...

Almost looks like we've stumbled into a Martian landfill...

Gerald T said...

I cropped the photos and blew them up to 200 percent, any larger and it gets way to distorted and hazy, as to why NAssA does not take clear close up photos of this stuff with the PAN Cam?

Where the F you been for the last 15 years?

Mac could fill you in, but he and I and Richard are just wore out having to rebrief every body, and the story has gotten so complicated, what with the Hyper D vortex, the Pyramids, Iumanadi, weather control, mind control, Gnostic/Matrix reality control, the reverse engineering, DNA implants, it just goes on and on, hell I don’t even know who I am any more, let alone what is where!

W.M. Bear said...

Almost looks like we've stumbled into a Martian landfill...

I've had that impression from time to time too. Actually, it more often looks to me like something (Mac's "Martian Apocalypse"?) blew the crap out of the ancient Martians' civilization and scattered the debris of it all across the landscape. But I'm reserving judgment for now as to exactly what we're looking at. I'll only note that it consists of what look to me like many, many "non-geological anomalies." (And gerald is doing a great job on his site tracking this stuff. I've become almost as much a groupie of his blog as I am of Mac's!)

Ken said...

Once again I must compose a post on Jarte, a most excellent, free, and recommended Wordpad replacement. http://www.jarte.com/ while I await for the ISP to do SOMETHING! You guys really must live in internet heaven.

That is technically known as whining.

Anyway. We've got the Boeing Pelican, which can move an entire company of M1 Abrams tanks at one go. Capacity 1,400 tons. Flies 50 ft. or so off the ocean, using what's known as ground effect for efficiency, and yet can reach 20,000 ft. or more. Speed given as "10 times the speed" of a container ship, which would be at least 200 mph, maybe 350, range 10,000 miles plus. You can read about it at http://www.boeing.com/news/frontiers/archive/2002/september/index.html

The Walrus, a new tech zeppelin, which can carry 50-500 tons, 12,000 miles, seven days, at a competive cost. http://www.darpa.mil/DARPAtech2004/pdf/scripts/OlingerScript.pdf

http://www.fuellessflight.com/ gives an intriguing concept. A pair of giant zeppelins, joined shoulder and hip, using almost no energy. Not quite getting something for nothing, but kinda close.

And now the Airship to Orbit. Looks good to me, might work, who knows? They're serious about it, though. Unfortunately the pdf was corrupted, and the video link returned a 404 error, so I can't comment. But what I can see impresses me.

One thing is certain: we are definitely entering a new age of air transport. Those who say innovation has died are inattentive.