Sandia Imagists Overcome Maelstrom Obscuring Z Machine's Drive Force

Space Daily, SPX ^ | Nov 11, 2004 | SPX

[tricky_k_1972]

Comments?

[tricky_k_1972]

Science Ping!

[Radio Free Tuscaloosa]

Still more creativity from a red state. Whowouldathunkit?

[ProudVet77]

Sounds a tad like a solid state laser for xrays. Pretty cool. Make one heck of a missile interceptor in space. Use the same system to generate it's own power via fusion.

[ProudVet77]

The number of PhDs and advanced degrees is enormous compared to the poulation. You have Sandia, Los Alamos, the VLA and one or two other major scientific research facilities.

[Radio Free Tuscaloosa]

Sounds like Huntsville.

[tricky_k_1972]

But I thought all the intellectuals, artists, and "Big Thinkers" were in the blue states, I'm so confused (/sarcasm).

[brivette]

Pictures please.

[tricky_k_1972]

I try to give people some reason to go to the web site that I pick this stuff up from, after all they pay for their site and it's content, besides you might find something else there you like.

[Dead Corpse]

[brivette]

Thank you.

[evets]

[chmst]

Don't forget Phillips National Lab (also on K.A.F.B.). Now why they didn't just incorporate it into Sandia when they moved here I don't know.

[ProudVet77]

Are those the guys that did the radiation hardening tests?
A friend of mine clued me in, so on a flight down there, I was watching the ground around KAFB. Lots of mysterious mounds out there.

[Siobhan]

And when it goes awry, instant black hole, is it? No, wait a minute, that was a conversation with Art Bell....

[RightWhale]

These are big steps. But compared to the total task they are small. The number of such big steps is nearly uncountable up to this point and there is probably at least as much to go. Commercial fusion power is proceeding by such steps of genius and creativity and technical excellence and inspiration. If funding were bumped up 10X would it go 10X faster? Probably not, but it might go appreciably faster. It might go fast enough to save us from the energy disaster that looms in the not too distant future.

[BlueOneGolf]

"These alterations will achieve still more powerful outputs for weapons studies..."

Let's hope this research leads to some of THESE for our troops...

[Itzlzha]

Now, by inserting a pretty, two-inch-long crystal that reflects at only a single frequency into the hellish center of Z as it fires, researchers have been able to visually filter out the bedlam of more than 99 percent of the energies generated.

"Aye...it's called a 'DiLithium Crystal'"...

Gene Roddenberry strikes again!

[GeronL]

I love science

[chmst]

Yup. And they have a big CO2 laser out there as well. I think they take basic research from the other labs and develop weapon prototypes.