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Nazi Super Weapon - The Sun Gun
Posted on 8/15/15 at 11:14 pm
Posted on 8/15/15 at 11:14 pm
Not the one Stacy Keach used in the Cheech & Chong movie.
Search for "nazi sun gun" and do some reading. They were working on a mirror one mile in diameter that was to be placed into earth orbit and utilized to reflect and focus the sun's energy onto targets on the surface of the earth. Their math supported the belief that such an apperatus could be used to raise the temperature at the center of a city (or other target, any target) to 4000 degrees fahrenheit. One moment you're asleep at 3 AM; the next metal is melting and fires are starting and you don't know about it, anyway, because you're dead.
Now we could get into how far away they were from actually being able to deploy it and blah blah blah...
What matters is that WE ARE able to construct and deploy such a weapon.
Maybe it wouldn't need to be one mile wide. If it did then maybe we could make it out of a new "space age" mirror membrane stretched over a frame. None of this is with any standing. We have had space shuttles. We have had space stations. We COULD engineer and deploy such a weapon. And so my only real question is one:
Have we put such an apperatus in space? Did the Soviet Union? Are we working on it now? Was the great mirror for the Hubble Space Telescope (look that up) in part the prototype? (Was the department of defense involved in that project to any degree, in other words?)
And if not, then why? This is a VERY viable concept for a weapon that could give a nation a ridiculously overt strategic advantage. The ability to "nuke" cities without any collateral damage (including NO residual radiation)! And the ability to "nuke" hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands of targets for decades with but ONE such apperatus! Once you got it up and running you could use it almost indefinitely. All you would have to worry about then would be defending it against attack. (For THE ONLY plausible defense against it would be to destroy it. Which would be no easy task obviously. Only a handful of nations are presently equipped to consider such).
Do we have one? We damned sure SHOULD have one! If we do not have one then why not?
Search for "nazi sun gun" and do some reading. They were working on a mirror one mile in diameter that was to be placed into earth orbit and utilized to reflect and focus the sun's energy onto targets on the surface of the earth. Their math supported the belief that such an apperatus could be used to raise the temperature at the center of a city (or other target, any target) to 4000 degrees fahrenheit. One moment you're asleep at 3 AM; the next metal is melting and fires are starting and you don't know about it, anyway, because you're dead.
Now we could get into how far away they were from actually being able to deploy it and blah blah blah...
What matters is that WE ARE able to construct and deploy such a weapon.
Maybe it wouldn't need to be one mile wide. If it did then maybe we could make it out of a new "space age" mirror membrane stretched over a frame. None of this is with any standing. We have had space shuttles. We have had space stations. We COULD engineer and deploy such a weapon. And so my only real question is one:
Have we put such an apperatus in space? Did the Soviet Union? Are we working on it now? Was the great mirror for the Hubble Space Telescope (look that up) in part the prototype? (Was the department of defense involved in that project to any degree, in other words?)
And if not, then why? This is a VERY viable concept for a weapon that could give a nation a ridiculously overt strategic advantage. The ability to "nuke" cities without any collateral damage (including NO residual radiation)! And the ability to "nuke" hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands of targets for decades with but ONE such apperatus! Once you got it up and running you could use it almost indefinitely. All you would have to worry about then would be defending it against attack. (For THE ONLY plausible defense against it would be to destroy it. Which would be no easy task obviously. Only a handful of nations are presently equipped to consider such).
Do we have one? We damned sure SHOULD have one! If we do not have one then why not?
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Posted on 8/15/15 at 11:20 pm to derSturm37
Bruh.
Posted on 8/15/15 at 11:47 pm to derSturm37
I'm all for creative thought.. But practicality?
Posted on 8/16/15 at 8:02 am to derSturm37
This was never a doable weapon. A one mile diameter object in space would be impossible to maintain.
If a country deployed such a weapon, any other space capable country could render it useless with little effort.
If a country deployed such a weapon, any other space capable country could render it useless with little effort.
Posted on 8/16/15 at 2:26 pm to derSturm37
This particular device has been theorized since the time of Aristotle.
It's still just as impracticable now as it was then.
It's still just as impracticable now as it was then.
Posted on 8/16/15 at 3:10 pm to derSturm37
Awe-inspiring concept.
Just too impractical in application, however.
Just too impractical in application, however.
Posted on 8/16/15 at 3:29 pm to derSturm37
We already have nukes, why frick around with all this shite?
Posted on 8/17/15 at 3:29 pm to derSturm37
Mirror weapon? probably not. However, there was talk at onetime about positioning mirrors in space to light up battlefields at night.
Then we discovered that with night vision, heat seeking weapons and such, the night belonged to us anyway.
Here is one I always liked
Finger of God
Destroy a target with no warning with a small nuclear type (power) explosion with no radiation.
Then we discovered that with night vision, heat seeking weapons and such, the night belonged to us anyway.
Here is one I always liked
Finger of God
Destroy a target with no warning with a small nuclear type (power) explosion with no radiation.
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The idea is that the weapon would inflict damage because it moves at orbital velocities, at least 9 kilometers per second. Smaller weapons can deliver measured amounts of energy as large as a 225 kg conventional bomb. Some systems are quoted as having the yield of a small tactical nuclear bomb. These designs are envisioned as a bunker buster.
This post was edited on 8/17/15 at 3:32 pm
Posted on 8/17/15 at 3:38 pm to derSturm37
This is stupic when we can just build and 2 mile wide mirror over the city. Good job Nazi's, you just gave our solar powered coal mines a boost of juice, idiots
Posted on 8/18/15 at 7:53 am to derSturm37
To defend my territory all I woul have to do is build my own huge mirror . Face it up, if your mirror shoots at me it will shoot itself
This post was edited on 8/18/15 at 7:55 am
Posted on 8/18/15 at 9:11 am to derSturm37
The sun cannot melt steel beams
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