rail guns and solid state lasers good enough?

fudge no! we need to make real plasma discharge weapons.
http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/153630-open-air-plasma-device-could-revolutionize-energy-generation-us-navys-weaponry

So Awesome. :cool:

it never is keep spending trillion a year on stuff you dont need

Sometimes I think we should cut back on military spending. In fact, I usually do. Then I see stuff like this.

Sometimes I think we should cut back on military spending. In fact, I usually do. Then I see stuff like this.

coolbeans90

it never is keep spending trillion a year on stuff you dont need

osirisx3

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Sometimes I think we should cut back on military spending. In fact, I usually do. Then I see stuff like this.

surrealnumber5

[QUOTE="osirisx3"]

it never is keep spending trillion a year on stuff you dont need

surrealnumber5

Why do people complain about military spending again?

I don't see this being particularly useful, the plasma would just cool and deionize upon discharge. I bet like several years and millions or billions of dollars later the private contractors solution will be to build a high power laser to heat up and ionize the air in front of the plasma ring to maybe allow it to go farther, which leaves me wondering why not stick with laser weapons.lamprey263

I don't see this being particularly useful, the plasma would just cool and deionize upon discharge. I bet like several years and millions or billions of dollars later the private contractors solution will be to build a high power laser to heat up and ionize the air in front of the plasma ring to maybe allow it to go farther, which leaves me wondering why not stick with laser weapons.lamprey263

[QUOTE="surrealnumber5"][QUOTE="osirisx3"]

it never is keep spending trillion a year on stuff you dont need

comp_atkins

[QUOTE="lamprey263"]I don't see this being particularly useful, the plasma would just cool and deionize upon discharge. I bet like several years and millions or billions of dollars later the private contractors solution will be to build a high power laser to heat up and ionize the air in front of the plasma ring to maybe allow it to go farther, which leaves me wondering why not stick with laser weapons.comp_atkins

[QUOTE="comp_atkins"][QUOTE="lamprey263"]I don't see this being particularly useful, the plasma would just cool and deionize upon discharge. I bet like several years and millions or billions of dollars later the private contractors solution will be to build a high power laser to heat up and ionize the air in front of the plasma ring to maybe allow it to go farther, which leaves me wondering why not stick with laser weapons.surrealnumber5

So I'm guessing that what they're generating is basically the plasma equivalent of a bubble ring, i.e. a plasma vortex ring in which the poloidal flow of the charged particles generates a magnetic field that sustains the torus shape.

So I'm guessing that what they're generating is basically the plasma equivalent of a bubble ring, i.e. a plasma vortex ring in which the poloidal flow of the charged particles generates a magnetic field that sustains the torus shape.

Stesilaus

[QUOTE="lamprey263"]I don't see this being particularly useful, the plasma would just cool and deionize upon discharge. I bet like several years and millions or billions of dollars later the private contractors solution will be to build a high power laser to heat up and ionize the air in front of the plasma ring to maybe allow it to go farther, which leaves me wondering why not stick with laser weapons.comp_atkins

[QUOTE="comp_atkins"][QUOTE="lamprey263"]I don't see this being particularly useful, the plasma would just cool and deionize upon discharge. I bet like several years and millions or billions of dollars later the private contractors solution will be to build a high power laser to heat up and ionize the air in front of the plasma ring to maybe allow it to go farther, which leaves me wondering why not stick with laser weapons.lamprey263

yes, nice post, and have you ever checked out the youtube channel smarter every day? he has several vids i think you might enjoy if you enjoyed posting this.

surrealnumber5

Ah, thanks for referring me to the SmarterEveryDay channel. I hadn't seen it before, but I can see myself spending a lot of time there now!

:)

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yes, nice post, and have you ever checked out the youtube channel smarter every day? he has several vids i think you might enjoy if you enjoyed posting this.

Stesilaus

Ah, thanks for referring me to the SmarterEveryDay channel. I hadn't seen it before, but I can see myself spending a lot of time there now!

:)

[QUOTE="lamprey263"][QUOTE="comp_atkins"] discoveries come from unexpected places.. you never know what may be useful or found discovered by mistake when doing research like this... as an example: the hubble telescope was initially launched w/ a crippling optical defect in it's primary mirror. in the time planning it's repair mission, scientists had to try to work w/ the fuzzy images it produced. a product of that work was better digital image enhancement techniques which clever folk realized could be used to improve cancer screening in medical imagery such as mammography... point is, you never know where research is going to take you. comp_atkins