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Originally posted by FTL_Navigator
Greetings Zorgon,
All I can say is that what you say can be unofficially confirmed
Originally posted by zorgon
Now then where do I sign up lol
Originally posted by weedwhacker and was wondering what say you about their purported young age, as a star cluster, and therefore unlikely candidates for established lifeforms, and planetary environments suitable for life?
Originally posted by kinda kurious
Nice diversion WW.
Originally posted by Phage
reply to post by wonderworld
"Breaking the sound barrier" creates no visible effects. In fact the term is archaic. There is no barrier and nothing breaks. Perhaps you are referring to the phenomenon known as a Prandtl-Glauert condensation cloud. This is an effect created by the rapid compression and decompression of air and can occur at speeds much lower than the speed of sound.
Another misconception about supersonic flight is that a sonic boom occurs when the "sound barrier is broken". Any time an object is flying faster than the speed of sound it creates a shock wave. That shock wave travels with the object. When the shock wave passes over an object (or observer) a sonic boom is experienced. The sonic boom is not created at the instant the object exceeds the speed of sound, it is a continuous phenomenon.
(BTW Zorgon; flagged the thread. The data is good and the implied connections are right in line with ATSy stuff. Good job on avoiding overt speculation about what it all means.)
[edit on 8/15/2009 by Phage]
During a recent test, a Navy laser using a tracking system from Raytheon shot down four unmanned aerial vehicles
In a grainy, black-and-white video that looks like a home movie of a UFO attack a sleek aircraft streaks through the sky one minute, only to burst into flames the next and plummet into the sea. The silent video, which Raytheon Co. debuts Monday at the U.K.'s Farnborough International Air Show 2010, however, is not science fiction. The defense contractor says it depicts part of a test conducted in May during which the U.S. Navy used a solid-state laser to shoot down unmanned aerial vehicles over the Pacific Ocean.
During the test, the Navy's Laser Weapon System (LaWS), guided by Raytheon's Phalanx Close-In Weapon System sensors, engaged and destroyed four UAV targets flying over water near the Navy's weapons and training facility on San Nicolas Island in California's Santa Barbara Channel, about 120 kilometers west of Los Angeles. The Phalanx—a rapid-fire, computer-controlled, radar-guided gun system—used electro-optical tracking and radio frequency sensors to provide range data to the LaWS, which is made up of six solid-state lasers with an output of 32 kilowatts that simultaneously focus on a target.
Originally posted by Somamech
Electric Propulsion Demonstration Module (EPDM)
There are two quicktime videos in this link which I can't help but think of Starship enterprise
code8200.nrl.navy.mil...
Originally posted by Phage
reply to post by zorgon
Yup. It was done.
www.abovetopsecret.com...
www.abovetopsecret.com...
[edit on 9/8/2010 by Phage]
Originally posted by davidmann
Originally posted by Phage
reply to post by wonderworld
good job on avoiding overt speculation on what it all means...
That is a classic. Can I use it as a signature, please?
Thanks for the thread Z. I'm afraid I do know what it all means.
Mr. Mann - please explain, and for the love of Pete - share what you know.
BTW, that is one hell of an impressive list of foes you've got there - by design?
edit on 8-9-2010 by Yukitup because: edit to try to fix the quote issue...
Originally posted by Chadwickus
I believe the first was a preemptive strike.
The second was a "see I told you so and I rest my case" thread.
Originally posted by Exuberant1
reply to post by zorgon
With Regards to Sea launch;
Even when they show us the rockets they use in televisions shows and documentaries, things like the Engines are blurred out because that info is still Classified. We do not have a need to know.:
[atsimg]http://files.abovetopsecret.com/images/member/48d3899f738a.jpg[/atsimg]
*The censoring of the classified engines begins at around 6:00:
Hidden in plain sight...
Zorgon, this is your find from way back in 2007, I just grabbed a screencap out of it so people could see what I was talking about. In any case, I figured it would be a good example to show how things are concealed.
So with sea launch platforms, not only do we not know what they are launching or where they are launching from - we don't even know what they are launching with....
Originally posted by DJM8507
Any thoughts on that? Have they been declassified?