Posted on 10/04/2020 7:57:08 PM PDT by DannyTN
Global Warming is real!!!
Algore warned us!
Modern day NOAH. You’d have to strap the plastic drum onto the house somehow. :)
If I recall correctly, that earthquake is what caused Caddo Lake to form. It is the only natural lake in Texas.
“IIRC, the last major quake in the New madrid Zone was a doozy. 1811 or so, I think.”
Yup; it reversed the flow of the Ohio River for a little while, That is BIG!
I hear ya!
“..where two beams cross.”
I heard you weren’t supposed to do that.
Grew on the Kentucky side of New Madrid. We had tremors all the time. In 68 a pretty big one. 6.0 something.
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I grew up in New Madrid County. When I was 4 or 5 years old, which would make it about 1949 or 1950, I was playing in my yard when a fairly big one hit, I fell down, tried to stand back up and couldn’t.
I thought it was fun but my mother didn’t, it broke quite a few of her dishes and glasses by rattling them out of the cabinets.
I distinctly remember our dog going bonkers barking before the quake.
I have only been in one earthquake, in Michigan of all places. It was just a 5. But, it was very unsettling. My insides were completely discombobulated and I knew I had no control over what was happening. I would not want to go through a big one.
Thanks Tex...
“Beams on a video”...no idea...didn’t watch it...like I said “beams from orbit” with enough power to even cause a sunburn are a fantasy. “
https://www.nrl.navy.mil/ppd/atmo-prop
The characterization and modeling of atmospheric effects on the propagation of high-energy laser beams is of critical importance to directed energy research programs throughout the Department of Defense. The HELCAP code provides NRL with a unique capability to study the complex physics of HEL propagation and provide guidance for these programs.
Application: A major goal of this research is the development of next-generation directed energy systems for ship defense against a variety of asymmetric threats, as well as other military applications.
Your position is none of these beams can originate in a satellite unless the goal is to roast a marshmallow? Computers use to take up rooms...
You're welcome -- and, it wasn't aimed at you!
Just trying to establish some scientific benchmarks -- to help "keep our discussion within the realm of real numbers"... '-)
TXnMA
I had just gotten home from school when the big one I experienced hit. I was down in our utility side of the basement when all the bottles on the wall shelves were rattling and the windows of the house was rattling and shaking.
I thought my mom had gone nuts and was upstairs jumping up and down on the bed. And no, my dad wasn’t home.
I had just gotten home from school when the big one I experienced hit. I was down in our utility side of the basement when all the bottles on the wall shelves were rattling and the windows of the house was rattling and shaking.
I thought my mom had gone nuts and was upstairs jumping up and down on the bed. And no, my dad wasn’t home.
Nah. The Hernando de Soto bridge is still standing. Are you perhaps thinking of the I-40 Red River bridge in Oklahoma that collapsed in 2002 when a barge hit one of the piers?
A one megawatt laser has the ability to “warm” the aluminum on an ICBM (causing failure on reentry) at 185 miles in the atmosphere (”YAL-1” airborne laster on a 747) and weighed 121,000#. This was the “old tech” at 121 pounds per 1kw of beam power...new lasers do more like 1kw of power for 77# of weight for laser & power supply. OK for a Navy ship or Army heavy vehicle but not for orbit where multi-meagwatts would be needed to penetrate the atmosphere with any power left. Orbital DEW’s would be intended to “shoot-down” other satellites and ICBM’s at the top of their arc. If one is crafting a credible conspiracy theory, a kinetic energy projectile reentering from orbit as the source of the “beam” is a much more likely candidate than a DEW.
Interesting... thanks.
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