How tedious. This one shows exactly how vague I am.
Originally Posted by Jay Reynolds
Vague again as usual, lee. Please quote where the words emerging, upgrading, and injecting are used
Ok.
1. Page vi) Executive Summary
In 2025, US aerospace forces can "own the weather" by capitalizing on
emerging technologies and
focusing development of those technologies to war-fighting applications
2. Page 13 Concept of Operations
The essential ingredient of the weather-modification system is the set of intervention techniques used to
modify the weather. The number of specific intervention methodologies is limited only by the imagination,
but
with few exceptions they involve infusing either energy or chemicals into the meteorological process
Oh dear, I said injecting instead of infusing - that probably makes all the difference, eh?
3. Field experiments with lasers have demonstrated the capability.... Generating 1 watt/cm2, which is approximately the US
large power density exposure limit, the system raised visibility to one quarter of a mile in 20 seconds.
Laser systems described in the Space Operations portion of this AF 2025 study could certainly provide this
capability as one of their many possible uses.
With regard to seeding techniques,
improvements (upgrades?) in the materials and delivery methods are not only
plausible but likely.
Smart materials based on nanotechnology are currently being developed (1996) with gigaops computer capability at their core. They could adjust their size to optimal dimensions for a given fog seeding
situation and even make adjustments throughout the process. They might also enhance their dispersal
qualities by adjusting their buoyancy, by communicating with each other, and by steering themselves within
the fog. They will be able to provide immediate and continuous effectiveness feedback by integrating with a
larger sensor network and can also change their temperature and polarity to improve their seeding effects.15
As mentioned above, UAVs could be used to deliver and distribute these smart materials.
Sounds like upgrading to me. I lost count of the number of times they use the word 'development'. Doesn't that mean about the same as 'upgrade'?
And here's one just for fun -
"
The technology is there, waiting for us to pull it all together;"2 in 2025 we can "Own the Weather."
Notes
2 General Gordon R. Sullivan, "Moving into the 21st Century: America's Army and Modernization,"
Military Review (July 19
93) quoted in Mary Ann Seagraves and Richard Szymber, "Weather a Force
Multiplier," Military Review, November/December 1995, 75.
Vague, eh?
And then...It's not against the rules to look back over what people have written to find some facts. If you try, you will find; here's an example for you - and all these from one single post - let's count the facts together, shall we? And if there's any you'd like to challenge, let's hear it.
Originally Posted by Jay Reynolds
Vague again as usual, lee. Please quote where the words emerging, upgrading, and injecting are used, and considering the context, explain why the statement disturbs you so much. Regarding spending money on the document, the research paper was produced by students and faculty at the Air University for the benefit of my country(not necessarily yours). I am very happy that so long as these 'Watchmen on the Wall' are employed by me already, their expertise can be put to use to maintain my country's position as the foremost defenders of freedom in the entire world.
If you don't like it, tough shit.
Both my grandfather and father bailed your country out when it was almost on its knees.
Twice, already.
You ungrateful ass.
A least the the writers of this document had the guts to show their names, a level of honesty and responsibiity which you have yet to attain.
If anyone wants to read more of what lee didn't tell you, and probably doesn't wish you to know, this link is a good place to start.
http://csat.au.af.mil/2025/index.htm
REPLY: I urge all to read the document.
At last - your true colours are coming through: ...
the Air University for the benefit of my country(not necessarily yours). I am very happy that so long as these 'Watchmen on the Wall' are employed by me already, their expertise can be put to use to maintain my country's position as the foremost defenders of freedom in the entire world.
Great stuff: Defenders of freedom?! LOL. Really. I must have missed that meeting. The US has been responsible for the overthrowing of over 50 governments since 1945
1. Thirty of those were democratically elected governments
2. Whose 'freedom' are we talking about? Yours? Have a read of The Patriot Act - a brilliant piece of egalitarian legislation.
You borrow money from China to fund your military
3 while the working class got thrown overboard forty years ago. You can't afford it any more
4. You're doing it all on the credit card!
5 The Chinese gold card. You've shown yourself and where you're coming from. No surprise, but thanks for clarifying. Even this...
If you don't like it, tough shit.
Both my grandfather and father bailed your country out when it was almost on its knees.
Twice, already.
You ungrateful ass.
Pardon? War is a racket; get used to it. Freedom? Tell it to 900,000 dead Iraqi civilians
6(since 2003). Fact. 4.5million since 1990.
7 Fact. Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos? 3 million estimated
8. Panama? Chile? Honduras? Guatamala? East Timor? Nicaragua? Death squad El Salvador? School of the Americas (look it up people)? Training college for US sponsored terrorism
let's bundle those all into just one fact, eh 9. What was that about freedom again? Maybe it means something different where I come from.
Here's another fact about
your military: link to video of US troops in Iraq firing live rounds and throwing stun grenades at their prisoners:
10
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/174186.html ...they don't show this on Fox or CNN or anywhere in our media for some reason
11....want some more? There's some really graphic stuff if you need it.
Run up the flag Reynolds.
But which one?
US Navy building Coronado, California.
12
I make that a conservative twelve. That's 12 facts, one post.