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- Tue Jun 22, 2010 7:53 pm
- Forum: Implications
- Topic: Polywell visions: Computing
- Replies: 2
- Views: 10780
- Tue Jun 22, 2010 7:51 pm
- Forum: Implications
- Topic: Polywell Visions: Politics
- Replies: 36
- Views: 51701
We're so far ahead that even our private tech startups are the best in the world. We wouldn't need government run launch vehicles to dominate. We'd just need a few export restrictions and fees, and let our companies run wild. Our companies would launch the payloads of other countries. Our companies...
- Tue Jun 22, 2010 7:40 pm
- Forum: Implications
- Topic: Polywell Visions: Food
- Replies: 66
- Views: 88173
I'm not necessarily pessimistic just a devils advocate to the overflowing gush of optimism this site generates. I think its extremely important to have debate. Personally I think the singularity consciousness will take over soon(read Ray Kurzweil Singularity is Near) so we can add to pessimist and o...
- Tue Jun 22, 2010 7:28 pm
- Forum: Implications
- Topic: Polywell Visions: Transprotation
- Replies: 61
- Views: 84667
The purpose of a few dozen high power lasers with polywell power is that it could effectively create a "shield of defense". Also metal storm batteries could provide a defense if used as a wall of metal in the path of enemy munitions. Like the missile shield for ground, but why not make it shield a s...
- Tue Jun 22, 2010 6:22 pm
- Forum: Implications
- Topic: Polywell Visions: Food
- Replies: 66
- Views: 88173
Underground is still 2d thinking. Without the sun you can go vertical, like say an aquaponics sky scraper. I'm thinking trade tower size buildings, AWG on the roof, and polywell the whole show. They only make sense for feeding 1st world cities, but it would allow high quality local organic food some...
- Tue Jun 22, 2010 10:27 am
- Forum: Implications
- Topic: Polywell Visions: Transprotation
- Replies: 61
- Views: 84667
I mentioned this in my weapons post I should have made 1 big post. Anyway add a polywell to a larger version of Lockheed's new fancy blimp. Add dozens of plane based chemical lasers they just built for missile defense, Imaging for recon. Various missiles for precision strike ops and rail gun launche...
- Tue Jun 22, 2010 10:03 am
- Forum: Implications
- Topic: Polywell Visions: Politics
- Replies: 36
- Views: 51701
I'm sure all of them would like a somewhat weaker US. My point exactly, but an american polywell with a 10 - 20 year head start would make a stronger US, thus upsetting the balance of power between the said countries. This is a political destabilizing force unless the a US fusion multinational sell...
- Tue Jun 22, 2010 7:51 am
- Forum: Implications
- Topic: Polywell Visions: Transprotation
- Replies: 61
- Views: 84667
- Tue Jun 22, 2010 7:14 am
- Forum: Theory
- Topic: How long ago could we have built polywells? (WW II ?)
- Replies: 30
- Views: 11549
- Tue Jun 22, 2010 6:58 am
- Forum: Implications
- Topic: Polywell Visions: Transprotation
- Replies: 61
- Views: 84667
I'd guess we'd be on the crazy semi-socialist nonsense NASA road to having interplanetary vehicles that are Poly driven in just a few years. A few years that is, to grab the vision, and a decade of R&D bugled by every engineer in USG employ, fighting with each other to have a say so about where to ...
- Tue Jun 22, 2010 2:22 am
- Forum: Implications
- Topic: Polywell Visions: Transprotation
- Replies: 61
- Views: 84667
Seems like a better long term solution than Polywell/vasmir Combo, but P/V combo is closer to reality. Bussards polywell jet idea is much more elegant , but would probably take billions and require NASA to manage it, thus it will never make it past each new election. On the other hand, VASMIR is pri...
- Tue Jun 22, 2010 2:06 am
- Forum: Implications
- Topic: Polywell Visions: Politics
- Replies: 36
- Views: 51701
I understand your perspective, my issue is your assumption that polywell/cheap energy is stabilizing. I guess I would like to hear more detail on how polywell might stabilize the global status quo, assuming declining US superiority and the rising status of EU, China, India, Russia, etc. In support o...
- Tue Jun 22, 2010 1:53 am
- Forum: Implications
- Topic: Polywell Visions: Philosophy
- Replies: 0
- Views: 9854
Polywell Visions: Philosophy
For this section I'd like to pose some questions. Ethics-Disclosure is the main ethical issue, but underlying that issue is the question, who should control/regulate polywell and what should it be used for first. Overarching this is the legacy of Dr. Bussard, so the second question is what would Bus...
- Tue Jun 22, 2010 1:29 am
- Forum: Implications
- Topic: Polywell Visions: Politics
- Replies: 36
- Views: 51701
Think about one of the key elements of US geopolitical power. We don't hold grudges and once our enemies surrender we raise them up. In addition the USA for the most part has no territorial ambitions. I agree to some extent, however we don't really raise them up so much as burden them with debt ala...
- Mon Jun 21, 2010 10:02 pm
- Forum: Implications
- Topic: Polywell Visions: Transprotation
- Replies: 61
- Views: 84667
Kind of funny where I got that idea, my office has a view of the AC unit and the condenser water drips into our desert of a landscape and is the only green spot. Combined that with an unhealthy amount of scifi and there you have it. Per vaccum ionocraft, I didn't realize someone finally did a vacuum...