[Vo]:The Kinetic Energy Weapon (Bluff?) Theory of February 15, 2013's Cosmic Coincidence
Before I get into talking about the delightful coincidence of February 15, 2013 between the close Earth flyby of an asteroid and the largest meteor entry to Earth's atmosphere in over a century -- both at mutually independent vectors -- I want to talk a little about another delightful coincidence: While working at Science Applications International Corporoation's Roselle St. offices in Sorrento Valley of La Jolla, CAhttps://maps.google.com/maps?hl=enie=UTF-8q=saic+san+diego,+cafb=1gl=ushq=saichnear=0x80d9530fad921e4b:0xd3a21fdfd15df79,San+Diego,+CAei=8L0nUZuLGsjZrAHRuoHQDQved=0CKMBELYDiwloc=cids:2698751337000512967 during the Reagan administration's Star Wars project, I would frequently receive mail addressed to a prior occupant of my office there: Peter Vajk. You might recall Peter Vajk as the author of Doomsday Has Been Cancelledhttp://www.amazon.com/Doomsday-been-cancelled-Peter-Vajk/dp/0915238241 in which he modified the Club of Rome's dynamical global model to incorporate non-terrestrial resources. In 1974, I wrote the first multiplayer 3D virtual reality (first person shooter) game called spasimhttp://web.archive.org/web/20070419202019/http://www.geocities.com/jim_bowery/spasim.html in which I concocted a set of differential equations doing a mock up of the Club of Rome's model and the major theme of the game was the acquisition of nonterrestrial resources to keep the plant's population from going into revolt over terrestrial limits to growth. Vajk did his first work in this area in 1975. Oh but the delightful coincidence doesn't end there, because every day on my way to the industrial assembly area next door where I was managing the production of control software for an automated ordnance inspection system, I would walk past the Strategic Defense Initiative bays where, among other things, there were some rather impressive structures, presumably intended for orbital operation such as a very light-weight but powerful Van de Graaff generator intended to power who-knows-what. I bring up this delightful coincidence because my early involvement with Gerard O'Neill's Space Studies Institute http://ssi.org/ as Senior Associate 401 (right behind Ronald Reagan's membership number of 400) made me aware of an apparent disconnect between the DoE's solar power satellite studies and those of the non-terrestrial materials strategy popularized by O'Neill and Vajk: Not one of the studies of solar power satellites conducted by the major players such as the DoE even attempted a critical assessment of non-terrestrial materials studies. The citations were content-free dismissals. While we can chalk this up to a variety of bureaucratic characteristics, including conservatism or more simply bureaucratic stupidity, the events of February 15, 2013 lead me to suspect something more. I had a bit of a hostile encounter with an old man who showed up at a space development conference in 1983 in San Francisco where I was representing Space Studies Institute and had designed their booth. Part of the booth was the book The High Frontierhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_High_Frontier:_Human_Colonies_in_Space by Gerard O'Neill sitting next to the book High Frontierhttp://www.amazon.com/High-Frontier-Daniel-O-Graham/dp/0523480784 by Gen. Daniel Graham. Above the two books I had a sign that said The Real Thing and Cheap Imitation respectively. The old man walked up, his finger shaking in rage at the book by Gen. Daniel Graham and said, This book could save this county! I merely looked at him and told him that O'Neill's book had come out before Graham's and that Graham's didn't focus on the economics. The old man, still shaking, asked Do you know who I am? as he opened Graham's book and pointed to the name of the person who wrote the preface: Robert Heinlein at which point I merely looked him in the eye and said nothing with an expression saying ...and?... He added, There is no copyright on book title. I told him that Space Studies Institute had service marked ¨High Frontier and that Graham had used it without permission. Heinlein then said simply, I don't believe you. and walked off in a huff. Heinlein, as you may recall from The Moon is a Harsh Mistresshttp://www.is.wayne.edu/mnissani/revolutionarystoolkit/TheMoonIsAHarshMistress.pdf, described a space-based kinetic energy weapon which, although of limited capacity, was of sufficient capacity to bluff a super power into submission. Just one more thing before I get to the events of February 15, 2013: A private company has now formed called Planetary Resourceshttp://www.planetaryresources.com/ which is enjoying not only a lot of positive press, but substantial and prestigious financing and they are utilizing declassified spy satellite technology to prospect for Earth-approaching asteroids. As you are well aware, spy satellites technology has been far more advanced for a far longer time than has been openly acknowledged -- except perhaps by rumor -- and it is
Re: [Vo]:The Kinetic Energy Weapon (Bluff?) Theory of February 15, 2013's Cosmic Coincidence
Did you guys invent the Internet too? Terry, I like your theory better. On Friday, February 22, 2013, James Bowery wrote: Before I get into talking about the delightful coincidence of February 15, 2013 between the close Earth flyby of an asteroid and the largest meteor entry to Earth's atmosphere in over a century -- both at mutually independent vectors -- I want to talk a little about another delightful coincidence: While working at Science Applications International Corporoation's Roselle St. offices in Sorrento Valley of La Jolla, CAhttps://maps.google.com/maps?hl=enie=UTF-8q=saic+san+diego,+cafb=1gl=ushq=saichnear=0x80d9530fad921e4b:0xd3a21fdfd15df79,San+Diego,+CAei=8L0nUZuLGsjZrAHRuoHQDQved=0CKMBELYDiwloc=cids:2698751337000512967 during the Reagan administration's Star Wars project, I would frequently receive mail addressed to a prior occupant of my office there: Peter Vajk. You might recall Peter Vajk as the author of Doomsday Has Been Cancelledhttp://www.amazon.com/Doomsday-been-cancelled-Peter-Vajk/dp/0915238241 in which he modified the Club of Rome's dynamical global model to incorporate non-terrestrial resources. In 1974, I wrote the first multiplayer 3D virtual reality (first person shooter) game called spasimhttp://web.archive.org/web/20070419202019/http://www.geocities.com/jim_bowery/spasim.html in which I concocted a set of differential equations doing a mock up of the Club of Rome's model and the major theme of the game was the acquisition of nonterrestrial resources to keep the plant's population from going into revolt over terrestrial limits to growth. Vajk did his first work in this area in 1975. Oh but the delightful coincidence doesn't end there, because every day on my way to the industrial assembly area next door where I was managing the production of control software for an automated ordnance inspection system, I would walk past the Strategic Defense Initiative bays where, among other things, there were some rather impressive structures, presumably intended for orbital operation such as a very light-weight but powerful Van de Graaff generator intended to power who-knows-what. I bring up this delightful coincidence because my early involvement with Gerard O'Neill's Space Studies Institute http://ssi.org/ as Senior Associate 401 (right behind Ronald Reagan's membership number of 400) made me aware of an apparent disconnect between the DoE's solar power satellite studies and those of the non-terrestrial materials strategy popularized by O'Neill and Vajk: Not one of the studies of solar power satellites conducted by the major players such as the DoE even attempted a critical assessment of non-terrestrial materials studies. The citations were content-free dismissals. While we can chalk this up to a variety of bureaucratic characteristics, including conservatism or more simply bureaucratic stupidity, the events of February 15, 2013 lead me to suspect something more. I had a bit of a hostile encounter with an old man who showed up at a space development conference in 1983 in San Francisco where I was representing Space Studies Institute and had designed their booth. Part of the booth was the book The High Frontierhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_High_Frontier:_Human_Colonies_in_Space by Gerard O'Neill sitting next to the book High Frontierhttp://www.amazon.com/High-Frontier-Daniel-O-Graham/dp/0523480784 by Gen. Daniel Graham. Above the two books I had a sign that said The Real Thing and Cheap Imitation respectively. The old man walked up, his finger shaking in rage at the book by Gen. Daniel Graham and said, This book could save this county! I merely looked at him and told him that O'Neill's book had come out before Graham's and that Graham's didn't focus on the economics. The old man, still shaking, asked Do you know who I am? as he opened Graham's book and pointed to the name of the person who wrote the preface: Robert Heinlein at which point I merely looked him in the eye and said nothing with an expression saying ...and?... He added, There is no copyright on book title. I told him that Space Studies Institute had service marked ¨High Frontier and that Graham had used it without permission. Heinlein then said simply, I don't believe you. and walked off in a huff. Heinlein, as you may recall from The Moon is a Harsh Mistresshttp://www.is.wayne.edu/mnissani/revolutionarystoolkit/TheMoonIsAHarshMistress.pdf, described a space-based kinetic energy weapon which, although of limited capacity, was of sufficient capacity to bluff a super power into submission. Just one more thing before I get to the events of February 15, 2013: A private company has now formed called Planetary Resourceshttp://www.planetaryresources.com/ which is enjoying not only a lot of positive press, but substantial and prestigious financing and they are utilizing declassified spy satellite technology to prospect for
Re: [Vo]:The Kinetic Energy Weapon (Bluff?) Theory of February 15, 2013's Cosmic Coincidence
I think a much more plausible theory is that one of those 3 large inbound comets have pulled in asteroids with them On Friday, February 22, 2013, ChemE Stewart wrote: Did you guys invent the Internet too? Terry, I like your theory better. On Friday, February 22, 2013, James Bowery wrote: Before I get into talking about the delightful coincidence of February 15, 2013 between the close Earth flyby of an asteroid and the largest meteor entry to Earth's atmosphere in over a century -- both at mutually independent vectors -- I want to talk a little about another delightful coincidence: While working at Science Applications International Corporoation's Roselle St. offices in Sorrento Valley of La Jolla, CAhttps://maps.google.com/maps?hl=enie=UTF-8q=saic+san+diego,+cafb=1gl=ushq=saichnear=0x80d9530fad921e4b:0xd3a21fdfd15df79,San+Diego,+CAei=8L0nUZuLGsjZrAHRuoHQDQved=0CKMBELYDiwloc=cids:2698751337000512967 during the Reagan administration's Star Wars project, I would frequently receive mail addressed to a prior occupant of my office there: Peter Vajk. You might recall Peter Vajk as the author of Doomsday Has Been Cancelledhttp://www.amazon.com/Doomsday-been-cancelled-Peter-Vajk/dp/0915238241 in which he modified the Club of Rome's dynamical global model to incorporate non-terrestrial resources. In 1974, I wrote the first multiplayer 3D virtual reality (first person shooter) game called spasimhttp://web.archive.org/web/20070419202019/http://www.geocities.com/jim_bowery/spasim.html in which I concocted a set of differential equations doing a mock up of the Club of Rome's model and the major theme of the game was the acquisition of nonterrestrial resources to keep the plant's population from going into revolt over terrestrial limits to growth. Vajk did his first work in this area in 1975. Oh but the delightful coincidence doesn't end there, because every day on my way to the industrial assembly area next door where I was managing the production of control software for an automated ordnance inspection system, I would walk past the Strategic Defense Initiative bays where, among other things, there were some rather impressive structures, presumably intended for orbital operation such as a very light-weight but powerful Van de Graaff generator intended to power who-knows-what. I bring up this delightful coincidence because my early involvement with Gerard O'Neill's Space Studies Institute http://ssi.org/ as Senior Associate 401 (right behind Ronald Reagan's membership number of 400) made me aware of an apparent disconnect between the DoE's solar power satellite studies and those of the non-terrestrial materials strategy popularized by O'Neill and Vajk: Not one of the studies of solar power satellites conducted by the major players such as the DoE even attempted a critical assessment of non-terrestrial materials studies. The citations were content-free dismissals. While we can chalk this up to a variety of bureaucratic characteristics, including conservatism or more simply bureaucratic stupidity, the events of February 15, 2013 lead me to suspect something more. I had a bit of a hostile encounter with an old man who showed up at a space development conference in 1983 in San Francisco where I was representing Space Studies Institute and had designed their booth. Part of the booth was the book The High Frontierhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_High_Frontier:_Human_Colonies_in_Space by Gerard O'Neill sitting next to the book High Frontierhttp://www.amazon.com/High-Frontier-Daniel-O-Graham/dp/0523480784 by Gen. Daniel Graham. Above the two books I had a sign that said The Real Thing and Cheap Imitation respectively. The old man walked up, his finger shaking in rage at the book by Gen. Daniel Graham and said, This book could save this county! I merely looked at him and told him that O'Neill's book had come out before Graham's and that Graham's didn't focus on the economics. The old man, still shaking, asked Do you know who I am? as he opened Graham's book and pointed to the name of the person who wrote the preface: Robert Heinlein at which point I merely looked him in the eye and said nothing with an expression sa
Re: [Vo]:The Kinetic Energy Weapon (Bluff?) Theory of February 15, 2013's Cosmic Coincidence
The measured velocity vectors are inconsistent with that theory. On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 3:29 PM, ChemE Stewart cheme...@gmail.com wrote: I think a much more plausible theory is that one of those 3 large inbound comets have pulled in asteroids with them On Friday, February 22, 2013, ChemE Stewart wrote: Did you guys invent the Internet too? Terry, I like your theory better. On Friday, February 22, 2013, James Bowery wrote: Before I get into talking about the delightful coincidence of February 15, 2013 between the close Earth flyby of an asteroid and the largest meteor entry to Earth's atmosphere in over a century -- both at mutually independent vectors -- I want to talk a little about another delightful coincidence: While working at Science Applications International Corporoation's Roselle St. offices in Sorrento Valley of La Jolla, CAhttps://maps.google.com/maps?hl=enie=UTF-8q=saic+san+diego,+cafb=1gl=ushq=saichnear=0x80d9530fad921e4b:0xd3a21fdfd15df79,San+Diego,+CAei=8L0nUZuLGsjZrAHRuoHQDQved=0CKMBELYDiwloc=cids:2698751337000512967 during the Reagan administration's Star Wars project, I would frequently receive mail addressed to a prior occupant of my office there: Peter Vajk. You might recall Peter Vajk as the author of Doomsday Has Been Cancelledhttp://www.amazon.com/Doomsday-been-cancelled-Peter-Vajk/dp/0915238241 in which he modified the Club of Rome's dynamical global model to incorporate non-terrestrial resources. In 1974, I wrote the first multiplayer 3D virtual reality (first person shooter) game called spasimhttp://web.archive.org/web/20070419202019/http://www.geocities.com/jim_bowery/spasim.html in which I concocted a set of differential equations doing a mock up of the Club of Rome's model and the major theme of the game was the acquisition of nonterrestrial resources to keep the plant's population from going into revolt over terrestrial limits to growth. Vajk did his first work in this area in 1975. Oh but the delightful coincidence doesn't end there, because every day on my way to the industrial assembly area next door where I was managing the production of control software for an automated ordnance inspection system, I would walk past the Strategic Defense Initiative bays where, among other things, there were some rather impressive structures, presumably intended for orbital operation such as a very light-weight but powerful Van de Graaff generator intended to power who-knows-what. I bring up this delightful coincidence because my early involvement with Gerard O'Neill's Space Studies Institute http://ssi.org/ as Senior Associate 401 (right behind Ronald Reagan's membership number of 400) made me aware of an apparent disconnect between the DoE's solar power satellite studies and those of the non-terrestrial materials strategy popularized by O'Neill and Vajk: Not one of the studies of solar power satellites conducted by the major players such as the DoE even attempted a critical assessment of non-terrestrial materials studies. The citations were content-free dismissals. While we can chalk this up to a variety of bureaucratic characteristics, including conservatism or more simply bureaucratic stupidity, the events of February 15, 2013 lead me to suspect something more. I had a bit of a hostile encounter with an old man who showed up at a space development conference in 1983 in San Francisco where I was representing Space Studies Institute and had designed their booth. Part of the booth was the book The High Frontierhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_High_Frontier:_Human_Colonies_in_Space by Gerard O'Neill sitting next to the book High Frontierhttp://www.amazon.com/High-Frontier-Daniel-O-Graham/dp/0523480784 by Gen. Daniel Graham. Above the two books I had a sign that said The Real Thing and Cheap Imitation respectively. The old man walked up, his finger shaking in rage at the book by Gen. Daniel Graham and said, This book could save this county! I merely looked at him and told him that O'Neill's book had come out before Graham's and that Graham's didn't focus on the economics. The old man, still shaking, asked Do you know who I am? as he opened Graham's book and pointed to the name of the person who wrote the preface: Robert Heinlein at which point I merely looked him in the eye and said nothing with an expression sa
Re: [Vo]:The Kinetic Energy Weapon (Bluff?) Theory of February 15, 2013's Cosmic Coincidence
On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 4:19 PM, ChemE Stewart cheme...@gmail.com wrote: Did you guys invent the Internet too? Terry, I like your theory better. I don't recall God's Rods. I think that would have been a bit too irreverent for the Potus. However, there were those brilliant pebbles. http://missilethreat.com/defense-systems/brilliant-pebbles/
Re: [Vo]:The Kinetic Energy Weapon (Bluff?) Theory of February 15, 2013's Cosmic Coincidence
I understand how an iron meteorite can burn in the atmosphere and create sonic booms and break into pieces. I would like to see the model energy balance that shows me how that translates to a 500 kton blast from a 10kton rock while it is still in the air and has not given up its kinetic energy. Am I missing something? On Friday, February 22, 2013, Terry Blanton wrote: On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 4:19 PM, ChemE Stewart cheme...@gmail.comjavascript:; wrote: Did you guys invent the Internet too? Terry, I like your theory better. I don't recall God's Rods. I think that would have been a bit too irreverent for the Potus. However, there were those brilliant pebbles. http://missilethreat.com/defense-systems/brilliant-pebbles/
Re: [Vo]:The Kinetic Energy Weapon (Bluff?) Theory of February 15, 2013's Cosmic Coincidence
On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 4:19 PM, Terry Blanton hohlr...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 4:19 PM, ChemE Stewart cheme...@gmail.com wrote: Did you guys invent the Internet too? Terry, I like your theory better. I don't recall God's Rods. I think that would have been a bit too irreverent for the Potus. However, there were those brilliant pebbles. http://missilethreat.com/defense-systems/brilliant-pebbles/ The importance of the ABM and START treaties to this issue are that no one even conceived of limiting kinetic energy weapons as replacements for tactical nuclear warheads. To commemorate the signing of the START I treaty -- which may well have given impetus to find non-nuclear energetic weapons of mass destruction -- on July 31, 1991, the House Subcommittee on Space held hearings on space commercialization during which I gave testimony.on legislation my coalition had promoted to privatize space launch systemshttp://web.archive.org/web/20090724062504/http://geocities.com/jim_bowery/testimny.htm -- after which I became Vice President for Public Affairs at E'Prime Aerospace, which had been given license by the Bush Administration to take control of the Peace Keeper Missle production lines for the purpose of turning them to commercial launch services by adapting the MIRV upper stage with a geostationary orbital system. The dramatic reduction of MIRVs in the strategic arsenal, on the very day that I testified, freed up a lot of resources. PS: I must apologize in advance to the pseudonymous noise source ChemE Stewart, whoever he is, for doing things with my life rather than mercilessly blathering nonsense to disrupt fragile channels of communication like vortex-l. Perhaps it would help calm him down if proclaimed myself the inventor of the wheel.
Re: [Vo]:The Kinetic Energy Weapon (Bluff?) Theory of February 15, 2013's Cosmic Coincidence
I would guess that the magnitude of the shock wave is what is being compared. The air gets compressed ahead of the meteor since it can not move out of the way. This builds up to a very powerful blast. Dave -Original Message- From: ChemE Stewart cheme...@gmail.com To: vortex-l vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Fri, Feb 22, 2013 5:33 pm Subject: Re: [Vo]:The Kinetic Energy Weapon (Bluff?) Theory of February 15, 2013's Cosmic Coincidence I understand how an iron meteorite can burn in the atmosphere and create sonic booms and break into pieces. I would like to see the model energy balance that shows me how that translates to a 500 kton blast from a 10kton rock while it is still in the air and has not given up its kinetic energy. Am I missing something? On Friday, February 22, 2013, Terry Blanton wrote: On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 4:19 PM, ChemE Stewart cheme...@gmail.com wrote: Did you guys invent the Internet too? Terry, I like your theory better. I don't recall God's Rods. I think that would have been a bit too irreverent for the Potus. However, there were those brilliant pebbles. http://missilethreat.com/defense-systems/brilliant-pebbles/
