Earthlings fire off a signal to other inhabitants of the universe. Then one day, hundreds of alien spaceships show up, hovering over major cites, zapping them with laser weapons.
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Posted on 12/24/2022 3:44:32 AM PST by Ezekiel
Angels dont play this HAARP
Is not HAARP part of Karl Rove’s weather machine ? s/
Yes.
Angels dont play this HAARP
There's always a first time!
They need to capture one of these small rocks into earth orbit. NASA could actually get a return on investment by mining it.
These are international projects.
(your link)
HAARP to bounce signal off asteroid in NASA experiment
https://www.gi.alaska.edu/news/haarp-bounce-signal-asteroid-nasa-experiment
https://www.gdscc.nasa.gov/
I’ve been to Goldstone near Barstow CA. The large dish was huge and the actual building structure rotates on hydraulic plates. Radio operators refer to rotating a beam antenna as “turning the house” That is appropriate at Goldstone. I even saw the Gold (plated) Bricks (for cooling of the components)
http://www.vla.nrao.edu/
Later I got the tour for the VLA (Very Large Array) site West of Socorro, NM on the plains of Saint Augustine. It is a series of huge fully rotatable dish antennas. There were only 3 operational when I met the engineer in charge, Bill Dumke. The dish antennas are on rail cars that are movable along the Y shaped rail system. It had a unique wave guide. It was a ferrite tube with copper wire spun inside. The Ferrite tube was 1/4 wavelength thick on the IF of the system. At the base of each dish was a cryogenic amplifier at the time. Later when quiet GASFETs were developed the super cooling was not necessary. The array now spans 22 miles.
There is also a VBLA system. Much larger effective diameter array.
Very Long Baseline Array
https://science.nrao.edu/facilities/vlba
https://greenbankobservatory.org/visit/
A neighbor of mine, when I lived in OK made the first attempt at using the Greenbank Dish antenna to do EME comms at 10GHZ. They had mechanical problems with the mount and lost their window of access for the test. A few weeks later a European group made the first 10GHZ Amateur radio contact.
Most if not all of these sites are under control of the National Science Foundation.
The equipment are not special purpose tools. They are adaptable in most cases to other specific needs.
Here is a well known one-of-a-kind, the Arecibo Observatory radio telescope in Puerto Rico that was badly damaged when the feed horn system for the dish collapsed.
The Arecibo Observatory radio telescope in Puerto Rico has collapsed (Dec 01, 2020)
https://www.space.com/arecibo-radio-telescope-collapses
lol... man I havent heard anything from HAARP since the Clinton era!!
I should reread all of the Heinlein that I read as a teen.
“Later I got the tour for the VLA (Very Large Array) site West of Socorro, NM on the plains of Saint Augustine.”
I was there a few months back.
There might be some diplomatic problems with an orbiting asteroid. According to treaty, no country can own anything in space that it didn’t put up there themselves. And, of course, if an error is made nudging it into orbit, it might hit earth like a hundred nuclear bombs, depending on its size.
Yup. And if one nation, or group of nations, has control, dense chunks of it could be aimed at points on Earth that were politically undesirable. Even if it’s mined, the pieces need to be brought to ground, somehow.
Weaponizing space is also forbidden by treaty, not that it has stopped Russia in the past. Ukraine would be getting a healthy dose of kinetic bombardment today if they were able.
No. Don’t file the aliens on their astroid ships.
Don’t we have enough enemies already??
Earthlings fire off a signal to other inhabitants of the universe. Then one day, hundreds of alien spaceships show up, hovering over major cites, zapping them with laser weapons.
Asteroid receives homing signal changes flight path.
That scenario was used on The Expanse (on Prime video). The bad guys embedded pulse engines on the backside of large chunks of asteroids, pointed them towards earth...and fired up the engines. Several made it thru earth’s defenses, and BOOM!
Made nuclear weapons look like firecrackers.
Really...a very simple and effective idea.
Nah, all the really cool constructions projects will be in space!
Regards,
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