Styropyro – The brightest laser pointer in the world!
An evening pause: Much of the electronics described here is over my head, but the final result is quite astonishing.
Hat tip Tom Wilson.
Readers!
Please consider supporting my work here at Behind the Black. Your support allows me the freedom and ability to analyze objectively the ongoing renaissance in space, as well as the cultural changes -- for good or ill -- that are happening across America. Fourteen years ago I wrote that SLS and Orion were a bad ideas, a waste of money, would be years behind schedule, and better replaced by commercial private enterprise. Only now does it appear that Washington might finally recognize this reality.
In 2020 when the world panicked over COVID I wrote that the panic was unnecessary, that the virus was apparently simply a variation of the flu, that masks were not simply pointless but if worn incorrectly were a health threat, that the lockdowns were a disaster and did nothing to stop the spread of COVID. Only in the past year have some of our so-called experts in the health field have begun to recognize these facts.
Your help allows me to do this kind of intelligent analysis. I take no advertising or sponsors, so my reporting isn't influenced by donations by established space or drug companies. Instead, I rely entirely on donations and subscriptions from my readers, which gives me the freedom to write what I think, unencumbered by outside influences.
You can support me either by giving a one-time contribution or a regular subscription. There are four ways of doing so:
1. Zelle: This is the only internet method that charges no fees. All you have to do is use the Zelle link at your internet bank and give my name and email address (zimmerman at nasw dot org). What you donate is what I get.
2. Patreon: Go to my website there and pick one of five monthly subscription amounts, or by making a one-time donation.
3. A Paypal Donation or subscription:
4. Donate by check, payable to Robert Zimmerman and mailed to
Behind The Black
c/o Robert Zimmerman
P.O.Box 1262
Cortaro, AZ 85652
You can also support me by buying one of my books, as noted in the boxes interspersed throughout the webpage or shown in the menu above.
just skimmed quickly, is this a real thing?
Terminator (1984)
“Phased plasma rifle, in a 40-watt range”
https://youtu.be/X1hLe8rSir0?t=30
Yes it’s real. He has done many power electronic projects in the past, check out his YT channel.
Shiny!
I think I need to talk to this guy about a project…
He better be careful.
He could put his eye out with that thing.
Reminds me of my childhood, scrapping grocery store scanners and laser copiers. (All made irreverent when the laser pointer became common, even on my Skill saw)
Now I keep it simple, with young grandchildren around, melting iron with giant magnifying glass from a old rear projection TV. No better way to teach them to respect fire then handing them a stick of wood and watch it catch fire instantly. Someday I will show them my 1st tesla coil made simply from a 6 V ignition coil from an old beetle… The higher the voltage, the longer the spark!
My last project with them was making a compact high pressure air air pump out of an old refrigerator motor. (They refuse to learn how to patch bicycle tires… They rather play with their phones)
My last electrical experiment was a simple Jacobs ladder made from an old neon sign transformer.
My first was a true success. At 6 I found out that 110 volts didn’t kill me but melted a wall socket and a few large areas of the skin on my hand.
My second experiment was an even greater success a year later.
Joe,
Quub Microsatellites sounds like a fascinating cutting edge technology. You have access to real data, unfiltered by political assumptions.
Are you allowed to release your findings? Or is it strictly controlled by the customer, are they confidential findings?
NASA has been caught fudging the Earth observation data for political reasons… are you in the position of personal first hand knowledge to know what the real science “is” and what it means for us? If the exaggeration is just chicken little claiming the sky is falling?
Do you have real concerns/discoveries that you can share?
Do you have a comment about so many earth observation satellites continuously installed by China? What are they really? (Their actions destroying their countries environment speak louder then their claims of environmental concerns)
Not I, but the company I work for finds deep heavy metal underground ore deposits with sensitive gravity detectors. (Gravity strongly increases over ore deposits)
The WEF would tell you we need to reduce the population because were running out of resources. Absolutely not true, modern technology with modern mining techniques have discovered more resources then we can use in a 1000 years;
“In a new study, scientists have discovered previously unrecognized structural lines 100 miles or more down in the Earth that appear to signal the locations of giant deposits of copper, lead, zinc and other vital metals lying close enough to the surface to be mined, but too far down to be found using current exploration methods”
“Up to now, all such deposits have been found pretty much at the surface, and their locations have seemed to be somewhat random. Most discoveries have been made basically by geologists combing the ground and whacking at rocks with hammers. Geophysical exploration methods using gravity and other parameters to find buried ore bodies have entered in recent decades, but the results have been underwhelming. The new study presents geologists with a new, high-tech treasure map telling them where to look”
https://scitechdaily.com/deep-earth-structures-discovered-that-may-signal-enormous-hidden-metal-lodes/
New claims are at an all-time high, most are kept secret to avoid competition and government intrusion. Some new discoveries;
https://mine.nridigital.com/mine_australia_mar20/new_mining_finds_across_australia
The deeper they mine, the hotter it becomes. Remote sensing and automation is a necessity. Developing equipment that will function reliably in extremely hot conditions of near 1000° will be the next technological barrier to break.
The good news is, water that boils can be turned into electricity providing the energy needs of the equipment. Eventually, entire underground city’s will spring forth in large caverns independent from above ground politics. (Also underground cities in the ocean, near ore deposits of the sea vents like west of Vancouver, are also likely to happen in the near future)
We are developing technology that will be used on Mars, moon, mercury and possibly Venus. The future is here now, and you are part of it. I hope we skip “destroying everything” of the “build back better” mentality of the fascist and jump in to the “new Renaissance” of the space-age!
Stripped serial number on the diode and from China=Chinese military part.
Watching this, I thought to myself that the 555 timer is probably the longest manufactured IC out there.
Thanks for that tip M Puckett. I have to deal with counterfeit chips in my hobby, and most of them are from China, but I did not know that fact.
As a kid I remember probing around in the back of a tv with a volt meter. When one circuit burned out the meter the experimenting zeroed in on that circuit. Found I could cut cardboard with the spark (when I turned up the control pots to max.). Know now what I was playing with was deadly dangerous.
Jay, I am just applying Occam’s Razor. Seems obvious giving the nature, the redaction and the source.