walking while talking thru space ?

[Widdekind]

please ponder & picture a checker-board pattern, and assign clockwise currents to white squares, and counter-clockwise currents to black squares. If all currents are individually each equal to I, then each square is enclosed, by a (squarely) circular current, of magnitude 2I. So, each square would be protected, by a solenoidal field; and the whole mesh-frame-work would also be protected, by solenoidal fields that "tesselate" (for want of worthier words). So, a honey-comb mesh-frame-work, resembling a radio-dish, could be hurled through space, and the whole frame-work would be protected from space plasma, which would be funneled & shunted through the mesh, around and away from the frame. Such a honeycomb could then cruise thru the cosmos, whilst also transmitting space-radio-signals.

 

If they dish was accelerated to transluminal speeds, then perhaps relativistic beaming head-light effects, would amplify the angular gain of the beam ?

 

Perhaps considerable energy would be stored, in the currents & EM field. If all of that energy were released, into an energy beam, a space-laser blast might result. If earth was the target, and the blast originated from ~90 AU (within our sun's heliopause), then the "spent" mesh craft would begin to burn up, plowing through the inter-planetary-medium, for ~12hours. The half-blasted earth would spin around, bringing the other hemisphere around to face an inbound burning meshy-wall of plasma, which would slam into the other half of earth. One such weapon system could perhaps dole out two hemispheres of damage.

 

If equipped with an AI, and fired across inter-galactic distances, then such a speculative (Super-)smart (space-)bullet could cruise thru the IGM in cryogenic torpor, until on-board accelerometers detected descent, down into the other guy's galaxy's gravity-well. Then, within the other guy's galaxy, the (Super-)smart (space-)bullet would whir to life, and begin low-power transceiving against the target, perhaps ultimately increasing transmission energies, at closer cosmic range.

 

In the end, at least according to the most realistic space war-games i know of, actual laser-fire would have to occur, at near-space-point-blank range, i.e. within the target's star system / astrosphere / astropause (so as also to minimize EM diffraction & reflection, at that plasma-y boundary).

[arc]

I see trees of green, red roses too
I see them bloom for me and you
And I think to myself, what a wonderful world

I see skies of blue and clouds of white
The bright blessed day, the dark sacred night
And I think to myself, what a wonderful world

The colours of the rainbow, so pretty in the sky
Are also on the faces of people going by
I see friends shakin' hands, sayin' "How do you do?"
They're really saying "I love you"

I hear babies cryin', I watch them grow
They'll learn much more than I'll ever know
And I think to myself, what a wonderful world
Yes, I think to myself, what a wonderful world

Oh yeah

Edited June 21, 2013 by arc