War driving may be considered a crime by some - but hey, what about war killing by the military? Devices that do NOT conform to FCC part 15 regulations include; a weapon that fires radiation beams that make people feel they’re in a microwave oven. The US Army tested one earlier this year along with a laser-equipped Humvee to blast land mines. High-power microwave weapons may follow. The U.S. may use lasers from manned aircraft and high powered microwave from unmanned vehicles.
The latest fad is anti-gravity beams. Boeing’s Phantom Works is working on an anti-gravity device, according to Jane’s Defence News.
Russia has reportedly demonstrated the 4in (10cm) wide beam’s ability to repel objects a kilometre away and that it exhibits negligible power loss at distances of up to 200km (124 miles). Such a device, observers say, could be adapted for use as an anti-satellite weapon or a ballistic missile shield. Boeing is trying to develop a collaborative relationship with Russian scientist Dr Evgeny Podkletnov. But Podkletnov is said to be strongly anti-military and will only provide assistance if the research is carried out in the ‘white world’ of open development.
Boeing’s internal project is called ‘GRASP’ — Gravity Research for Advanced Space Propulsion. A GRASP briefing document obtained by Janes Defense Weekly sets out what Boeing believes to be at stake. “If gravity modification is real,” it says, “it will alter the entire aerospace business.”
It could be engineered into a radical new weapon. An ‘impulse gravity generator’, might produce a beam of ‘gravity-like’ energy that can exert an instantaneous force of 1,000g on any object — enough, in principle, to vaporise it,
NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama will shortly conduct a second set of experiments using apparatus built to Podkletnov’s specifications. Coincidentally (or not), the budget for the Breakthrough Propulsion Physics program has been cut. The BBC reports the military wing of the UK hi-tech group BAE Systems is also working on an anti-gravity programme, dubbed Project Greenglow.
Slash Dot has a thread but Charles Platt wrote an in-depth article in Wired. It turns out Oregon software developer Pete Skeggs, is sometimes credited as starting the gravity-enthusiast underground movement. He is also the President of Portland Robotics Club. In his own workshop Skeggs had tried to replicate Podkletnov’s experiment using some homemade electromagnets and a 1-inch superconductor that he ordered from the Edmund Scientific. His web site collects a variety of research.
Boeing has tens of billions in contracts for space-based weapons, satellites and hypersonic missiles .
On the other hand, maybe the Podkletnov Paper is just be another SIAC honeypot. SIAC runs The Phone Company for the federal government. Nanotubes may be just as wild. Your transporter is waiting, sir.
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