Posted on 01/19/2003 6:34:27 AM PST by TheRedSoxWinThePennant
True, but there aren't any really good terms to describe pulse discharges in an understandable common language way. Take the power pottential of a handful of flashlight batteries. Not much to be iimpressed with, and most people would be more than willing to have them connected to their body (maybe not teeth though) without worry. take those same batteries, step the voltage up to about 100,000 + and charge a pulse discharge capacitor till the batteries are exhausted. Apply the same overall power of the battteries to your body in this manner and you will have a very different end result than with just the batteries hooked up directly. (an interesting demo of this is to construct the capacitor arrangement and discharge it into a hot dog, with one terminal connected to each end. But only if you are very, very familiar with working with high voltages and capacitors. Hands on experience, not book learning experience)
Reminded me of the basic electronics portion of a US Army school I attended in 65.
We'd charge up the a large capacitor to 350VDC or so,
and then toss it to another student.
The natural response is of course to catch the thrown object,
resulting in a painful discharge
into the victims hands.
Usually only once per student.
After that, "Hey Joe, catch!" resulted in the duck and weave instead
of the catch response.
Is that "hands on," enough for you? ;o)
Yup. But remember that pulse discharges at 100,000 volts and about a million amps (never figured out how to actualy measure the amps) are a bit more painful. As in, maybe, missing fingers.
Easy enough for most high school students to make one for about 50 bucks. Maybe not as powerful or sophisticated, but still effective at close range. Or, how about a device that is small enough to put in a purse that, when plugged into any electrical outlet, could destroy all the electronics in the building? Or one, mounted under a car hood or trunk, could wipe out the electronics in the car(s) in front of or behind You (any ham experimenter could make these)? All this exotic stuff isn't so exotic with todays commonly available technology and can be constructed (on a smaller than military power scale) by anyone with junk and scrap parts. The military stuff is basically the same thing, just on a very much larger scale. But keep this between you and me ... wouldn't want to give a terrorist any ideas.
You called down the thunder, well now you GOT IT.
Here is some hands on experience, very similar to your capacitor experiment that you described...
True, but there aren't any really good terms to describe pulse discharges in an understandable common language way. Take the power potential of a handful of flashlight batteries. Not much to be impressed with, and most people would be more than willing to have them connected to their body (maybe not teeth though) without worry. take those same batteries, step the voltage up to about 100,000 + and charge a pulse discharge capacitor till the batteries are exhausted. Apply the same overall power of the batteries to your body in this manner and you will have a very different end result than with just the batteries hooked up directly. (an interesting demo of this is to construct the capacitor arrangement and discharge it into a hot dog, with one terminal connected to each end. But only if you are very, very familiar with working with high voltages and capacitors. Hands on experience, not book learning experience)
About 45 years ago in high school, our physics teacher did not show up for class...and no substitute did either. I connected a single D cell ( 1.5 volt flashlight battery) to a simple 3 volt filament transformer and had the thirty students form a human chain by holding hands up and down the rows.
I gave one student at one end of the chain, one lead from the transformer and another student at the other end of the chain, the other lead, and connected the battery. I said does anyone feel anything? NOoooooo.
Then I disconnected the battery!
The collapsing magnetic field, when I disconnected the battery, brought all 30 students out of their chairs and back down into them at the same exact time. We were on the second floor of a cement school building. Has anyone else seen or heard what happens when 30 X 100 lbs hits a cement floor in a school at once?
Has anyone else heard the sound of 30 teenagers screaming at the top of their lungs in a small classroom?
Don't try this at home or at school...
There are too many lawyer around now.
And too many laws as well. Gee ... I really miss the old days. wonder what kids do for harmless fun nowdays?
http://www.haarp.alaska.edu
HAARP has two A's
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Yes, somewhat. There is some informatioin available on various web sites. There are a number of these around the world. All they really are, from my understanding, is high altitude atmospheric heaters (they heat up a protiion of the ionosphere with focused microwaves). They are used to do everything from alter weather patterns to deep earth tomography and over the horizon radar according to some sources. I actually inquired about these things to the HARP people a number of years back and they denied anything except some rather esoteric high atmosphere studies were being conducted or even possible. All those things being attribituted to them by the tinfoil hat crowd would be apparent by now if they were true. BTW, you can hear it on a shortwave receiver when in operation. Don't remember the frequency, but is is on the lower end of the bands commonly on shortwave receivers. Just a sort of humming clicking sound, a bit like the old Russian woodpecker thing.
"HPMs can unleash in a flash as much electrical power-2 billion watts or more-as the Hoover Dam generates in 24 hours." |
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For anyone who has wondered why Simon & Schuster would award an $8M "Book Advance" for the memoirs of someone so banal that her saving grace is a feigned failing memory, I offer the following analysis:
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