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Breaking News from Western Journalism
Jun 30, 2012 08:47 pm | Becky Smith
Dear
Michelle,
On the day that your husband was elected, you said that you had never
been proud of the United States until that day. For the last three and a
half years, I have been observing your husband and… Continue to Post
Jun 30, 2012 08:46 pm | Daniel Noe
Jun 30, 2012 08:45 pm | Michael J Nellett
The
Supreme Court of the United States has ruled that Obamacare is
legal….as the BIGGEST tax increase in our history! Isn’t that great?
Obamacare has also just thrown an addition $17 TRILLION dollars on our
national debt. Even though Obama… Continue to Post
Jun 30, 2012 08:44 pm | Daniel Noe
Jun 30, 2012 08:43 pm | Debra J.M. Smith
CNN
originally reported that the Supreme Court found that the individual
mandate is not a valid exercise of the commerce clause and that it
appeared as if the Supreme Court had struck down the individual mandate.
Then CNN followed up… Continue to Post
Jun 30, 2012 08:42 pm | Daniel Noe
Jun 30, 2012 08:40 pm | Michael J Nellett
Colorado
is experiencing the worst wildfires in their history. It’s funny
because during the last couple of years, there have been numerous sex
scandals involving personnel of the United States Air Force. There is
currently another sex scandal going on… Continue to Post
Jun 30, 2012 08:34 pm | Twila Le Page
What’s
wrong here? We have become more of a democracy instead of a republic.
Many now do not even know the difference. It is with total ignorance of
history that America wants to promote democracy throughout the world
rather than… Continue to Post
Jun 30, 2012 08:25 pm | Michael J Nellett
My
personal fantasy as President continues. I would introduce legislation
that would turn America right side up again. All farm subsidies would be
directed at family farms, not corporate farms. The subsidies would only
be for catastrophic crop failure caused… Continue to Post
Jun 30, 2012 08:04 pm | Breaking News
Politico
announced Saturday that recently suspended Romney-trashing White House
correspondent Joe Williams is leaving the organization.
The following statement was released moments ago:
“After some cordial discussions, Joe Williams and I mutually decided
that the best step for him is… Continue to Post
Mark of the Beast: Pope Says Sunday Must Be a Day of Rest
Warm reception: Pope Benedict XVI greets crowds during the 2012 World Meeting of Families in Milan, ItalySource: Pool - Getty Images
“The demands of work can’t bully people out of needed time off,” Catholic News Service reported Benedict as saying.
He later added, “By defending Sunday, one defends human freedom.”
In a 2010 letter to the president of the Pontifical Council for the Family posted by Zenit, he explained that today’s workplace promoted competition and maximizing profit, and were factors that “contribute to the break-up of the family and the community and to the spreading of an individualistic lifestyle.”
The pope said in the letter that “it is necessary to promote reflection and efforts at reconciling the demands and the periods of work with those of the family and to recover the true meaning of the feast, especially on Sunday...”
Reinforcing his position that Sunday is the only day that is acceptable to refrain from work and be “free,” the pope declared, “Sunday is the day of the Lord and of man, a day which everyone must be able to be free—free for the family and free for God.”
Send to friendPicatinny engineers set phasers to 'fry'
By Jason Kaneshiro, AMC
PICATINNY ARSENAL, N.J. (June 21, 2012) -- Scientists and engineers
at Picatinny Arsenal are busy developing a device that will shoot
lightning bolts down laser beams to destroy its target. Soldiers and
science fiction fans, you're welcome.
"We never got tired of the lightning bolts zapping our simulated (targets)," said George Fischer, lead scientist on the project.
The Laser-Induced Plasma Channel, or LIPC, is designed to take out targets that conduct electricity better than the air or ground that surrounds them. How did the scientists harness the seemingly random path made by lightning bolts and how does a laser help? To understand how the technology, it helps to get a brief background on physics.
"Light travels more slowly in gases and solids than it does in a vacuum," explained Fischer. "We typically think of the speed of light in each material as constant. There is, however, a very small additional intensity-dependent factor to its speed. In air, this factor is positive, so light slows down by a tiny fraction when the light is more intense."
"If a laser puts out a pulse with modest energy, but the time is incredibly tiny, the power can be huge," Fischer continued. "During the duration of the laser pulse, it can be putting out more power than a large city needs, but the pulse only lasts for two-trillionths of a second."
Why is this important?
"For very powerful and high intensity laser pulses, the air can act like a lens, keeping the light in a small-diameter filament," said Fischer. "We use an ultra-short-pulse laser of modest energy to make a laser beam so intense that it focuses on itself in air and stays focused in a filament."
To put the energy output in perspective, a big filament light bulb uses 100 watts. The optical amplifier output is 50 billion watts of optical power, Fischer said.
"If a laser beam is intense enough, its electro-magnetic field is strong enough to rip electrons off of air molecules, creating plasma," said Fischer. "This plasma is located along the path of the laser beam, so we can direct it wherever we want by moving a mirror."
"Air is composed of neutral molecules and is an insulator," Fischer said. When lightning from a thunderstorm leaps from cloud to ground, it behaves just as any other sources of electrical energy and follows the path of least resistance.
"The plasma channel conducts electricity way better than un-ionized air, so if we set up the laser so that the filament comes near a high voltage source, the electrical energy will travel down the filament," Fischer elaborated.
A target, an enemy vehicle or even some types of unexploded ordnance, would be a better conductor than the ground it sits on. Since the voltage drop across the target would be the same as the voltage drop across the same distance of ground, current flows through the target. In the case of unexploded ordnance, it would detonate, explained Fischer.
Even though the physics behind the project is sound, the technical challenges were many, Fischer recalled.
"If the light focuses in air, there is certainly the danger that it will focus in a glass lens, or in other parts of the laser amplifier system, destroying it," Fischer said. "We needed to lower the intensity in the optical amplifier and keep it low until we wanted the light to self-focus in air.
Other challenges included synchronizing the laser with the high voltage, ruggedizing the device to survive under the extreme environmental conditions of an operational environment, and powering the system for extended periods of time.
"There are a number of high-tech components that need to run continuously," said Fischer.
But despite the challenges, the project has made notable progress in recent months.
"Definitely our last week of testing in January 2012 was a highlight," said Tom Shadis, project officer on the program. "We had a well thought-out test plan and our ARDEC and contractor team worked together tirelessly and efficiently over long hours to work through the entire plan.
"The excellent results certainly added to the excitement and camaraderie," added Fischer.
As development continues, Shadis said that those involved with the project never lose sight of the importance of their work.
"We were all proud to be serving our warfighters and can picture the LIPC system saving U.S. lives," Fischer said.
A guided lightning bolt travels horizontally,
then hits a car when it finds the lower resistance path to ground. The
lightning is guided in a laser-induced plasma channel, then it deviates
from the channel when it gets close to the target and has a
lower-resistance path to ground. Though more work needs to be done,
Picatinny Arsenal engineers believe the technology holds great promise.
"We never got tired of the lightning bolts zapping our simulated (targets)," said George Fischer, lead scientist on the project.
The Laser-Induced Plasma Channel, or LIPC, is designed to take out targets that conduct electricity better than the air or ground that surrounds them. How did the scientists harness the seemingly random path made by lightning bolts and how does a laser help? To understand how the technology, it helps to get a brief background on physics.
"Light travels more slowly in gases and solids than it does in a vacuum," explained Fischer. "We typically think of the speed of light in each material as constant. There is, however, a very small additional intensity-dependent factor to its speed. In air, this factor is positive, so light slows down by a tiny fraction when the light is more intense."
"If a laser puts out a pulse with modest energy, but the time is incredibly tiny, the power can be huge," Fischer continued. "During the duration of the laser pulse, it can be putting out more power than a large city needs, but the pulse only lasts for two-trillionths of a second."
Why is this important?
"For very powerful and high intensity laser pulses, the air can act like a lens, keeping the light in a small-diameter filament," said Fischer. "We use an ultra-short-pulse laser of modest energy to make a laser beam so intense that it focuses on itself in air and stays focused in a filament."
To put the energy output in perspective, a big filament light bulb uses 100 watts. The optical amplifier output is 50 billion watts of optical power, Fischer said.
"If a laser beam is intense enough, its electro-magnetic field is strong enough to rip electrons off of air molecules, creating plasma," said Fischer. "This plasma is located along the path of the laser beam, so we can direct it wherever we want by moving a mirror."
"Air is composed of neutral molecules and is an insulator," Fischer said. When lightning from a thunderstorm leaps from cloud to ground, it behaves just as any other sources of electrical energy and follows the path of least resistance.
"The plasma channel conducts electricity way better than un-ionized air, so if we set up the laser so that the filament comes near a high voltage source, the electrical energy will travel down the filament," Fischer elaborated.
A target, an enemy vehicle or even some types of unexploded ordnance, would be a better conductor than the ground it sits on. Since the voltage drop across the target would be the same as the voltage drop across the same distance of ground, current flows through the target. In the case of unexploded ordnance, it would detonate, explained Fischer.
Even though the physics behind the project is sound, the technical challenges were many, Fischer recalled.
"If the light focuses in air, there is certainly the danger that it will focus in a glass lens, or in other parts of the laser amplifier system, destroying it," Fischer said. "We needed to lower the intensity in the optical amplifier and keep it low until we wanted the light to self-focus in air.
Other challenges included synchronizing the laser with the high voltage, ruggedizing the device to survive under the extreme environmental conditions of an operational environment, and powering the system for extended periods of time.
"There are a number of high-tech components that need to run continuously," said Fischer.
But despite the challenges, the project has made notable progress in recent months.
"Definitely our last week of testing in January 2012 was a highlight," said Tom Shadis, project officer on the program. "We had a well thought-out test plan and our ARDEC and contractor team worked together tirelessly and efficiently over long hours to work through the entire plan.
"The excellent results certainly added to the excitement and camaraderie," added Fischer.
As development continues, Shadis said that those involved with the project never lose sight of the importance of their work.
"We were all proud to be serving our warfighters and can picture the LIPC system saving U.S. lives," Fischer said.
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GVR - Drake's Vital Weekend Update - Sunday
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A Time for ALL patriots to Get Off The Couch
A reference needs to be made to the American Constitution
AND
A vote by We The People.
(99.4% Stated in our short vote that we do want freedom)
I offer that it will be time for ALL patriots to get off the couch, and help those of us who have given back your freedom.AND
A vote by We The People.
(99.4% Stated in our short vote that we do want freedom)
- I suggest a national referendum for freedom.
- Support for the 1787 U.S. Constitution, Articles of Confederation, Bill of Rights, AND The Declaration of Independence.
~ Drake
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http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?read=244176
Lawsuits against Soros and Trump–>
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Federal Reserve in trouble and chaos–>
http://soundofheart.org/galacticfreepress/content/bix-weir-special-alert-chaos-fed-new-york
The Fascinating Process of Self Liberation under Common Law –>
http://www.tuks.nl/wiki/index.php/Main/TheFascinatingHistoryOfCivilLawVersusDivineCommonLaw
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~~~
Here’s some action for you!`
Barclay News–>
http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?read=244176
Lawsuits against Soros and Trump–>
http://politicalvelcraft.org/
Federal Reserve in trouble and chaos–>
http://soundofheart.org/galacticfreepress/content/bix-weir-special-alert-chaos-fed-new-york
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