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To: tntpal who wrote (17649)	2/14/2009 3:47:40 PM
From: axial	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71456

Tesla was one of the great innovators, and as such, had a wide range of ideas: some achievable, some not. HAARP may be prctical implementation of Tesla's ideas, or it may not. Very few people know for sure. en.wikipedia.org However, all directed energy weapons arrays suffer from the same problems. Star Wars has different meanings to different people, but when used in the sense of directed-ray technology, several related technologies ALSO must be developed: [1] Instantaneous, always-on sensors and tracking [2] Provision, maintaining and operating dozens of energy-discharge weapons, capable of accurately projecting HUGE amounts of energy from many locations. [3] Complete immunity to weather, clouds, temperature stratification, RF refraction and "bounce" [4] Tracking that can correctly distinguish between "decoy" and "real" MIRV warheads moving at ~17,000 mph, and therefore, not wasting shots on decoys [5] Rays that can defeat ablative coatings on warheads. [6] Cross-linking targeting in microseconds, across thousands of miles, so that different weapons waste shots at the same target. [7] Ability to overcome mass attacks, consisting of land-based MIRVed ICBMs, submarine-launched MIRVed ICBMs, and low-level subsonic missiles: dozens of missiles, at different altitudes and speeds, coming from different directions. --- The odds against success are astronomical. The probability that 10 to 20 50-megaton weapons would reach their destinations is very high. Probably another 10 to 20 low-yield weapons (1 to 5 megatons) would also reach their destinations. All the money, and Star Wars technology would not be able to defeat a mass attack. The two countries engaged in attacks would annihilate each other, just as they would have with MAD. MAD has one primary benefit: instead of wasting money on the military-industrial complex for useless technology, hospitals, schools and roads can be built. MAD works just as well for Iran as it did for Russia: the leaders (not just ordinary people) know they will be reduced to radioactive debris if they use nuclear weapons. If that doesn't stop them, nothing will. Jim