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Battle station is now fully operational (NIF)

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Ezechiel

Ezechiel

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March 2009, we are ready !

This is great news... another technology that could potentially provide propulsion for near light-speed travel.

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http://www.gizmag.com/national-ignition-facility-megalaser/11165/

NIF's 192 giant lasers, housed in a ten-story building the size of three football fields, will deliver at least 60 times more energy than any previous laser system. When all of its beams are operational later this year, NIF will focus about two million joules of ultraviolet laser energy on a tiny target in the center of its target chamber. When all that energy slams into millimeter-sized targets, it can generate unprecedented temperatures and pressures in the target materials – temperatures of more than 100 million degrees and pressures more than 100 billion times Earth's atmosphere - conditions similar to those that exist only in the cores of stars and giant planets and inside a nuclear weapon. The resulting fusion reaction will also release many times more energy than the laser energy required to initiate the reaction. These qualities will allow the NIF Project and related NIF & Photon Science programs to pursue their three complementary missions of future energy, national security and unlocking the secrets of the universe.
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For some reason the National Ignition facility (government site) is not accessible right now ?!

https://lasers.llnl.gov/programs/nif

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Commence primary ignition, General !

After years of delay and hundreds of millions of dollars in overrun costs, "the project is, for all intents and purposes, completed", says NIF director Edward Moses. He will now focus on ramping up the 'shots' of laser light.
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http://thedragonstales.blogspot.com/2009/02/nif-complete-ready-to-begin-ramp-up.html

Black project ?

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This is unusual ?! A 3.5 billion $ project of capital importance was completed and no news anywhere :confused:

The Lawrence Livermore national ignition facility (NIF) web site is back up... if anyone is interested :D ... your tax money at work !

https://lasers.llnl.gov/programs/nif/

This world is truly upside down :rolleyes:
 
Wouldn't that be something if that is where some of the 3 trillion dollars unaccounted for has gone to?

Imagine trying to sell this project to the public, and how much trouble you may encounter convincing joe and jane q public this is necessary. It would certainly be easier to just pay for it out of hidden money, and then present the public with a fait accompli...

Regardless, it is very exciting, even though I do not completely understand it.
 
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