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Originally Posted by Heretic
wow very nice info Zorgon, I had not idea the support they had for the show, where do you find all these wonderful things LOL
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Going places others fear to tread like .mil sites and NASA
There are three levels of info...
1) For the main stream public... glitz, pretty pictures and stories
2) For the Researchers... scientists universities etc... real data here and lots of clues if you read between the lines and follow the clues
3) Top secret stuff
But the beauty of the system is that it is so huge that while an item may be top secret at one level... you can still gather other data to show its real...
Example...
We all know people have to go to work at Area 51
Many of us know about Janet Airlines
Those that live in Vegas can go to the fence and gander at the intereting license plates in the employee parking lot... and you know something big is up when the lot is full
Now the 'MISTY' satellite was top secret... but the patent office has the patent for the Misty stealth device and that is public knowledge
The underground high speed 'trains' or 'tubes'?
LA Times reported on them in 1972 when construction started... now its back to "never happened" but there are THREE patents for nuclear tunnel machines that melt through rock
Many people know NASA.gov... but the good NASA sites have other initials in front..
Here is the paper on the Spacecraft Shields ala 1964... the FINAL REPORT form the contractor... General Electric..
ACTIVE SHIELDING CONCEPTS FOR THE IONIZING RADIATION IN SPACE
Much ado has been made by various groups about the radiation hazards Astronauts would face in Space
Well it may not be an issue...
Lets have a look at a NASA contractor report
Contract NASw-502 Final Report Rev. 31 Jan. 1964
Space Sciences Laboratory
Missile and Space Division
GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
Philadelphia, Pa.
Final Report
Contract NASw - 5 0 2
Period Covered: 1 Sept. 1962 - 31 Aug. 1963
Abstract:
Studies have been made on the problems of shielding a spacecraft from
ionizing radiation.Protons having energies between 100 and 1,000 MeV were taken as the radiation that should be excluded from the spacecraft's crew.
An electromagnetic field system using a toroidal shaped spacecraft with a
confined magnetic field is shown to be the lightest among those treated.
In general, the active shield weight is only 20% that of the passive shield
for high energy protons and for large sizes of spacecraft. The shield with a confined field weighs 30% of that for a shield using an unconfined field. If hatches are included, the use of spherical modules leads to spacecraft that are lighter than spheres, cylinders, or toruses. For spacecraft in the shape of a torus, a passively shielded hatch is not required because there are no junctions between oppositely directed magnetic fields. In that case, a spacecraft in the shape of a torus is lighter than the other shapes.
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/ca...1964021638.pdf
Revised January 31, 1964
Funny thing when I just searched for the above link to post I found a second paper I didn't have yet
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/ca...1967029898.pdf
Yes you are not the only one to have noticed the chair
My problem is not enough time to process all the data I have
