On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 2:35 PM, Kyle Mcallister <[email protected]>wrote:
> > --- John Berry <[email protected]> wrote: > > > The only way "we" can realistically do anything is > > if "we" have technologies > > or friends that "we" don't generally admit to, I > > hold out no hope for a > > mission as in the movie Armageddon or lasers or... > > We can do it with nuclear weapons, either a direct > impact surface detonation, or 'glancing blow' to shove > the thing. I don't rule out the plausibility of that. What I rule out is that a mission can be started in time. The physics of it are straight forward and manageable with our level of technology however the level of readiness would be fatal. It would require better organization and immediate resources without cares for funding or budget and I'm sorry but that doesn't sound like any place I know of who can launch a rocket. I guess it depends on the warning but most of these warnings seem to be rather short, if we had a good number on months I would like the odds better. > > > Simple kinetic impactors would work as well, although > the sooner we detect it (the main point I was making) > the easier it is to change the thing's orbit with > smaller amounts of kinetic energy applied. Read: less > crap tossed at it, and possible at less velocity. > > We don't have the technology yet to deploy solar > shields either, yet that isn't forbode discussion > here. I'm not talking lasers or Armageddon, or even > building an Orion-drive spacecraft as in Deep Impact > to do something. I'm reciting things which we've known > about and studied for decades on this subject. > > > Though with a bit of foresight get Podkletnov of the > > job and he may be able > > to redirect it. > > We don't know what range the effect propagates out to. > No one alive has successfully replicated his effect in > a way that is accepted or would be accepted. IMO morton had the same effect, the distance it works to is significant and could only be hoped to work at greater disrances. > > > Caveat: John Schnurer did make a device that works. I > tested it. It does work, but it is tricky and very > crude. But a 1-2% decrease in gravity, or a 0.5-3% > increase in gravity is not really going to do much for > you compared to lobbing a nuke or just a rocket hulk > at the rock. > > Another thing: if you're referring to Podkletnov's > 'beam' experiments, I was > there's not enough writeup for me > to comment. John didn't tell me much about that, as I > guess Podkletnov and he had some > disagreement...apparently Podkletnov thought John's > device couldn't possibly work as the disk didn't > rotate. (the fields did) 1 2 3 2 1 2 3 2 1 2 3 2 > 1.........and so on. > > Given that I've now made a couple nice power supplies, > maybe I should do some tests of the "Morton effect." > I don't have a sphere terminal. Maybe a stainless > steel soup pot will work? :) > > --Kyle > > > > >
