From: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org (alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest) To: ammf-digest@smoe.org Subject: alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V14 #5687 Reply-To: ammf@fruvous.com Sender: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest Wednesday, January 13 2021 Volume 14 : Number 5687 Today's Subjects: ----------------- The Backyard Miracle Farm Will Change Our World Forever ["Simple Inventio] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2021 12:48:47 -0500 From: "Simple Invention" Subject: The Backyard Miracle Farm Will Change Our World Forever The Backyard Miracle Farm Will Change Our World Forever http://painhero.buzz/TEoAIQmAZicRRoi-TZk511xRJ9qQR25MB_5omUsG6NJt37pn http://painhero.buzz/p1QSRgsBw8_OhZC-rGyzLCuEo_n54C2P2G3mGOoPnYq0fqIy aser-based directed-energy weapons are being developed, such as Boeing's Airborne Laser which was constructed inside a Boeing 747. Designated the YAL-1, it was intended to kill short- and intermediate-range ballistic missiles in their boost phase. Another example of direct use of a laser as a defensive weapon was researched for the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI, nicknamed "Star Wars"), and its successor programs. This project would use ground-based or space-based laser systems to destroy incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs). The practical problems of using and aiming these systems were many; particularly the problem of destroying ICBMs at the most opportune moment, the boost phase just after launch. This would involve directing a laser through a large distance in the atmosphere, which, due to optical scattering and refraction, would bend and distort the laser beam, complicating the aiming of the laser and reducing its efficiennother idea from the SDI project was the nuclear-pumped X-ray laser. This was essentially an orbiting atomic bomb, surrounded by laser media in the form of glass rods; when the bomb exploded, the rods would be bombarded with highly-energetic gamma-ray photons, causing spontaneous and stimulated emission of X-ray photons in the atoms making up the rods. This would lead to optical amplification of the X-ray photons, producing an X-ray laser beam that would be minimally affected by atmospheric distortion and capable of destroying ICBMs in flight. The X-ray laser would be a strictly one-shot device, destroying itself on activation. Some initial tests of this concept were performed with underground nuclear testing; however, the results were not encouraging. Research into this approach to missile defense was discontinued after the SDI program was cance ------------------------------ End of alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V14 #5687 **********************************************