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Nuclear War: More like WW1 than WW3
An appeal to the imagination:An uncomfortable reality I never read or hear strategic war strategists discuss is that Nuclear War will be more like WW1 than WW3. What do I mean by this? I mean that everyone thought WW1 would… Continue reading
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Nuclear War: Tripolar Problem Part 2: Advantages of Conventional Weapons in a Strategic War
I wanted part two to discuss more about the development of artillery in the 18th and 19th century to demonstrate how changing requirements led to changing tactics. I think there is strong analogy between then and now. However; there’s an… Continue reading
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Nuclear War: Tripolar Problem Part 1
It is no longer possible to ensure MAD (Mutually Assured Destruction) in a Tripolar world where Russia, China and the US view each other as strategic competitors and where each has the policy of nuclear parity. The problem is a… Continue reading
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Logic – An elegant solution to the Grelling-Nelson Paradox
From ChatGPT: The Grelling-Nelson paradox is a self-referential paradox within the realm of logic and language. It was formulated by the German philosopher Kurt Grelling and the American mathematician Leonard Nelson in the early 20th century. The paradox arises from… Continue reading
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Musings on Black Holes
Above picture of Gargantua from the movie Interstellar. I was trying to demonstrate to myself how parallax would work for an observer near to an event horizon. My natural inclination was to create a scenario similar to Earth where parallax… Continue reading
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Black Holes: The Rainbow Event Horizon
Above picture of Gargantua from the movie Interstellar: I conjecture that the event horizon of a black hole is actually like a rainbow that appears to move as the observer moves, or, the event horizon is inaccurately defined by the… Continue reading
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Nuclear Fusion: Problems with Inertial Confinement
I was watching this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8Ouhhl1cdM and compared with what I learned here: https://www.osti.gov/biblio/5256369 I have to begin to question if this newer generation of scientists understand much of anything? I don’t meant that as much of an insult as… Continue reading
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Nuclear Fusion
I’ve been studying nuclear fusion, again, for the past month and so haven’t written much in this blog. The study of nuclear fusion excites me to actually found my company on the industrial process of making standardized inconel-718 equipment for… Continue reading
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Quantum Computing – Russia’s Progress
I wanted to branch off my usual topic of Delta-V budgets into quantum computing which is another passion of mine. Pictured is an ion-trap built by IonQ, a public company ticker: IONQ which is working on what I think is… Continue reading
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A Note on Propellant Manufacturing
Eventually I want to tackle the idea of in-situ propellant manufacturing. As was demonstrated earlier with the in-situ lunar propellant made from water via electrolysis on the surface using nuclear power; this is simply a net-negative Delta-V. If anything it… Continue reading
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