Oh they surely exist, and there's tons of evidence to support that they do. The evidence to suggest that burned Maui with using lasers that can't burn anything blue is SUS. Imagine spending trillions of dollars on space lasers that can burn anything from space except the color blue, does that many any fucking sense to you? That's quite a design flaw.
I second the motion. When DEW development has been publicly presented for the past half century, successful anti-ballistic-missile engagements announced in 2010 (and thrown in the memory hole by Obama), and battlefield tactical DEWs are being deployed for operational testing over the past few years, it is ridiculous to allege they were ever "secret." But what would I know? I was only involved in their design.
The Star Wars program was so big and so wasteful and yielded so little in terms of results that you were likely barely involved in designing the mirror geometry for a theoretical LEO space mirror transmitter. Nothing else in these weapons systems ever existed off of a Las Vegas bar napkin.
The science and geometry behind space lasers is hardly new or novel or interesting. We have been generating high-powered laser weapons and directed energy weapons (generally blue or infrared instruments) either at low power or large or large scale, terrestrial, on-the-bench only energy-emitting devices that are highly-dependent on terrestrial devices bound and incapable of existing outside of or ever leaving the laboratory.
As someone that deeply understands space, it is patently ridiculous to proffer that the current lame and small and tiny battlefield DEWs are currently or ever have been space-capable, especially at energy ranges sufficient to immolate small towns. Give it a rest.
Funny you should say that. I have a briefing to hand, complete with diagrams, of a space-orbiting mirror relay system, the elements of which were basically very large laser primary mirrors. I produced that for a VP who was interested in what such a system would look like. The idea was to have a very large laser on the ground beaming up to one satellite, which would then beam across to another in a tactically useful position, which would then engage the target.
As for other Star Wars weapons, I did patent a concept for a compact kinetic kill vehicle. The concept was evolved into a design that we won a contract to develop, and we demonstrated the world's first actively-stabilized solid propellant KKV. Through a series of corporate hand-offs, this ultimately became the basis for the KKV warhead on the Standard 3 missile.
The science and geometry behind space lasers turns up in the gigantic optics that self-assemble into things like the James Webb space telescope. The laser weapons, without exception, have been infrared. The Chemical Oxygen-Iodine Laser (COIL) on board the YAL-1A Airborne Laser was of a classified power level, but always described as "megawatt class." It flew and successfully shot down a boosting ballistic missile in 2010. Sort of "outside a laboratory."
I agree that nothing like these systems are currently flying in space.
I imagine it was by design. That's why some people chose to have blue roofs. If everything else burns except a billionaires blue roof you can file that under a solid win.
Oh they surely exist, and there's tons of evidence to support that they do. The evidence to suggest that burned Maui with using lasers that can't burn anything blue is SUS. Imagine spending trillions of dollars on space lasers that can burn anything from space except the color blue, does that many any fucking sense to you? That's quite a design flaw.
Maybe its UN blue that doesn’t get zapped
lol
Now that's tactical flaws. Red cross red must be included in the next array.
I second the motion. When DEW development has been publicly presented for the past half century, successful anti-ballistic-missile engagements announced in 2010 (and thrown in the memory hole by Obama), and battlefield tactical DEWs are being deployed for operational testing over the past few years, it is ridiculous to allege they were ever "secret." But what would I know? I was only involved in their design.
The Star Wars program was so big and so wasteful and yielded so little in terms of results that you were likely barely involved in designing the mirror geometry for a theoretical LEO space mirror transmitter. Nothing else in these weapons systems ever existed off of a Las Vegas bar napkin.
The science and geometry behind space lasers is hardly new or novel or interesting. We have been generating high-powered laser weapons and directed energy weapons (generally blue or infrared instruments) either at low power or large or large scale, terrestrial, on-the-bench only energy-emitting devices that are highly-dependent on terrestrial devices bound and incapable of existing outside of or ever leaving the laboratory.
As someone that deeply understands space, it is patently ridiculous to proffer that the current lame and small and tiny battlefield DEWs are currently or ever have been space-capable, especially at energy ranges sufficient to immolate small towns. Give it a rest.
Funny you should say that. I have a briefing to hand, complete with diagrams, of a space-orbiting mirror relay system, the elements of which were basically very large laser primary mirrors. I produced that for a VP who was interested in what such a system would look like. The idea was to have a very large laser on the ground beaming up to one satellite, which would then beam across to another in a tactically useful position, which would then engage the target.
As for other Star Wars weapons, I did patent a concept for a compact kinetic kill vehicle. The concept was evolved into a design that we won a contract to develop, and we demonstrated the world's first actively-stabilized solid propellant KKV. Through a series of corporate hand-offs, this ultimately became the basis for the KKV warhead on the Standard 3 missile.
The science and geometry behind space lasers turns up in the gigantic optics that self-assemble into things like the James Webb space telescope. The laser weapons, without exception, have been infrared. The Chemical Oxygen-Iodine Laser (COIL) on board the YAL-1A Airborne Laser was of a classified power level, but always described as "megawatt class." It flew and successfully shot down a boosting ballistic missile in 2010. Sort of "outside a laboratory."
I agree that nothing like these systems are currently flying in space.
Agreed about the Maui fires, people do like to run away with theories.
But the predication that they don't exist is a false one, and that's what I take issues with.
I imagine it was by design. That's why some people chose to have blue roofs. If everything else burns except a billionaires blue roof you can file that under a solid win.
I suppose that could be the case, but once these fires were raging the blue roof would do nothing to prevent it burning down.