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Boeing patent reveals radical 'laser fusion' fission engine design
dailymail.co.uk ^ | 16:20 EST, 10 July 2015 | By Ellie Zolfagharifard For Dailymail.com

Posted on 07/12/2015 5:15:54 PM PDT by ckilmer

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To: TexasGator

waco: all neutrons should be shot on sight


41 posted on 07/12/2015 8:54:34 PM PDT by Repeal The 17th (I was conceived in liberty, how about you?)
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To: editor-surveyor

“You made a buffoon of yourself.”

What about my technical explanation do you not agree with?

“I laid out the extraction unit at LRL.”

I checked your recent posts and didn’t see it. Can you point me to it?


42 posted on 07/12/2015 8:54:47 PM PDT by TexasGator
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To: editor-surveyor

“I laid out the extraction unit at LRL”

My first reading was that you had laid it out in a post. Now I read that you physically laid it out. If so, please cite the type of filters used to filter out the tritium.


43 posted on 07/12/2015 8:57:19 PM PDT by TexasGator
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To: TexasGator
No, go back and read up on the difference between the clean and dirty versions of some of the classic bombs like the Mk-41. Even the Soviet Csar bomb could be said to have two versions, though the bomb carrying plane would likely not have survived the dirty version.

Know what you mean, but this is only the difference between the additional yield provided by fission of the secondary tamper, not a deliberate scattering of material.

I ain't a know it all, but am a serious student.

44 posted on 07/12/2015 9:07:38 PM PDT by doorgunner69
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To: doorgunner69

“No, go back and read up on the difference between the clean and dirty versions of some of the classic bombs like the Mk-41.”

Small and large nuclear weapons were made in varying degrees of dirtiness.

Battle weapons were made ‘clean’ so that they would kill but field could be occupied after detonation. At least in theory.


45 posted on 07/12/2015 9:15:33 PM PDT by TexasGator
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To: TexasGator
Small and large nuclear weapons were made in varying degrees of dirtiness.

Battle weapons were made ‘clean’ so that they would kill but field could be occupied after detonation. At least in theory.

No desire to get into a pissing contest with you, seen enough of your posts. This is what you posted:

"A dirty bomb is a non-nuclear explosive wrapped with dirty fission fragments obtained from a nuclear reactor."

Stick to it or drop it, I have no tolerance for those who want to move the goalposts after a mistake.

46 posted on 07/12/2015 9:21:37 PM PDT by doorgunner69
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To: doorgunner69

“No desire to get into a pissing contest with you, seen enough of your posts”

What pissing contest. I was agreeing with you!


47 posted on 07/12/2015 9:23:08 PM PDT by TexasGator
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To: editor-surveyor
“You made a buffoon of yourself.”

That's TexasGator for ya.

He's pretty good at it.

48 posted on 07/12/2015 9:27:29 PM PDT by misanthrope (Liberalism; it is not unthinking ignorance, it is malignant evil.)
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Thanks ckilmer.
Sun in a Bottle: The Strange History of Fusion and the Science of Wishful Thinking
Sun in a Bottle:
The Strange History of Fusion
and the Science of Wishful Thinking

by Charles Seife


49 posted on 07/12/2015 9:39:20 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW)
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To: doorgunner69

You heard it in “Footfall”, by Niven and Pournelle, where we launched spaceships using very carefully timed nuclear explosions.


50 posted on 07/12/2015 11:29:44 PM PDT by VanShuyten ("a shadow...draped nobly in the folds of a gorgeous eloquence.")
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To: 17th Miss Regt

Good info


51 posted on 07/13/2015 5:56:54 AM PDT by miliantnutcase
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To: TexasGator

The molecules have different densities.

Centrifugal separation is all that is needed, and all that is done.

The glass beads contain the water that contains a high concentration of the heavy isotopes.

This is not new technology. It was developed in the private laboratory of the late Kip M. Segal, in Ann Arbor Michigan, in the late ‘60s and early ‘70s using mostly cheap military surplus hardware.

Using said junk hardware, Kip achieved more than the national laboratories have with billions, or perhaps a trillion, in public funds.

Laser compression was 100% the product of the genius of Kip Segal.
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52 posted on 07/13/2015 7:44:25 AM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: ckilmer

Where are the dilithium crystals?


53 posted on 07/13/2015 9:06:48 AM PDT by The Great RJ (“Socialists are happy until they run out of other people's money.” Margaret Thatcher)
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To: VanShuyten
You heard it in “Footfall”, by Niven and Pournelle,

Nah, but I might read that some day.

Loosely put, it is the description of the secondary of a two stage thermonuke. A lot more to it than that, but D-T encased in a radiation shield of U-238 or lead is the basis of the secondary of the classic Teller-Ulam device.

54 posted on 07/13/2015 10:50:28 AM PDT by doorgunner69
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To: editor-surveyor

Thanks for mentioning Kip, I had not ever heard of him before.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kip_Siegel


55 posted on 07/14/2015 3:11:20 AM PDT by fr1 (How long does this go-->Thank you for your contribution. Your comment has been submitted for review.)
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To: fr1

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Its not nice to make fools of the US government!

And they have the nerve to say that the US is based in free enterprise...
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56 posted on 07/14/2015 9:48:35 AM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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