Space objects, speed, deterrence

Advanced Nanotechnology and conventional future space technologies will be providing vast new capabilities in space over the coming decades. I think a not too high threshhold of space capability is needed to maintain MAD (mutually assured destruction) level deterrence. You send out some 100-1000 ton launcher vehicles. They go and hide on the non-earth facing …

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Space, speed and non-nuclear bunker busters

Using near future space based systems like magbeam and eventually nanotechnology (2G acceleration ion solar electric. 3,000t of current batteries or 150t of fuel could accelerate 10t payload to 20 km/s(72000 km/hr). This is the kinetic energy of 10tons at 20km/s is 4 terajoules.(1000tons of TNT equivalent) One megaton is equivalent to 4.18 x 10**15 …

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Some Highlights of a recent Ray Kurzweil interview

Ray Kurzweil is famous predictor of technology and a millionaire inventor of the music synthesizer and other investions. In the interview he gives some of his rules of thumb on predicting the future of technology. We will increase the price-performance of computing, which is alreadyformidable and deeply influential, by a factor of a billion in …

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Next generation bioweapons study and nanotechnology

A press release about the study next gen bioweapons (including nanotech/nanobiotech) is here The newscientist magazine discusses the report as well The online report about about the study next gen bioweapons is here the reports Advanced tech discussion starts here Recommendations are summarized at this link The key recommendation is: the entire scientific community should …

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Other tech: Laser acceleration of ions

Scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory, in collaboration with researchers from the University of Nevada, Reno, Ludwig-Maximilian-University in Germany, and the Max-Planck-Institute for Quantum Optics in Germany, have developed a new method for using a laser beam to accelerate ions. The novel method may enable important advances in compact ion accelerators, medical physics and inertial …

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