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September 2000 The latest defense against a missile may lie in your CD player. A chemical laser has destroyed an actual rocket for the first time ever. The deuterium fluoride chemical laser heats the warhead to detonation temperature in which case the rocket then becomes its own worst enemy. The time needed to heat the warhead is still a secret, but is less than a minute. The next test for the laser is scheduled for October and will attempt to shoot down multiple rockets. A Russian washing machine will make plutonium useless to would be terrorists. The device washes the chloride salts off plutonium oxides. The plutonium can then be made into a ceramic for where it is useless to terrorists. The machine does the job with less radiation exposure. A new type of printer can produce raised print and images to be used by the blind. The printer applies a special ink that is heated. When the ink is heated it rises enough to be felt by the fingertip. The next fuel for your car may be solid hydrogen. The hydrogen would then be used in fuel cells to produce electricity. The hydrogen is stored in a finely ground mixture of nickel, chromium and vanadium. The mixture forms a hydrogen sponge. Scientists believe is may be possible to alter the effects of gravity. The have proposed that a high-temperature super conducting disk. The machine works by sending atoms in a state where a large mass of them act as one. Each atom would produce its own gravitational field. When you multiply that by the millions of atoms in the disk you have a significant change in gravity. When the machine is finally built, about 5 years from now, you could place a bowling ball anywhere over the disk and it would stay there forever. The speed of light may not be the speed limit any more. One theory would require creating a bubble with a large internal volume but a tiny surface area. This could be achieved with only one gram of fuel. However, the fuel is negative energy which no one has found a way to create yet. In an experiment at the NEC Research Institute a beam of light traveling through a cesium filled chamber was clocked at more then 300,000 KM/S. Traveling faster then the speed of light may allow time travel or alien contact. Time travel may be possible if you can travel near the speed of light. Time was actually slowed in an experiment using two ultra precise clocks. One clock was flown aboard a Concorde and the other remained on the ground. When the clocks were checked the one on the Concorde was slightly behind the clock on the on the ground. The clock had lost so little time that you would need to fly for 100 years to be one ten-thousandth of a second younger than someone who stayed on the ground. |
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