The Real Goal of Space Exploration

By Rich Kozlovich

During WWII, and right after, air craft carriers, advanced aircraft, and then jet aircraft, along with tanks were the keys to victory, and has been so for all these years.  Since the end of WWII, they've been the backbone of military effectiveness.  Well, that's over!

Some years ago there was a SciFi show that was a spin off from the Stargate series called Stargate Universe.   In one of the episodes they came across "Berserker Drones" which attacked en masse.  In spite of the advance technology of their ship, they had to develop an escape plan to avoid being destroyed.  The numbers were just too great.  

That's playing out now, and we saw how Ukraine destroyed Russia's Black Sea fleet with a drone attack.  Extensive use of massed drones is going to be impossible to stop, just like trying to defend against a killer bee hive.   

These are not people, they're machines, totally dispensable, and made to be so, and easily replaced.   The only training involved deals with technicians who are nowhere near the battle field sitting in front of a computer/video console directing the actions.  When there's a lot of drones, there will always be some that will break through.   The only effective counter measure is destroying the communication connection between the drones and the technicians.  With advancements, that's not so easy now.  

For some years I've been following this effort to create military lasers, and written about it, and just about everyone laughed, just as so many laughed at Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative, AKA, Star Wars program to shoot down Russian missiles.   It's not so funny now, and once again we see Reagan was far smarter than his critics as he saw farther, deeper, and wider, than all the arrogant, smarmy leftist snots who called him stupid.   

From all I read I knew what was on the horizon, and now we're seeing the beginnings of it, including Israel.  Even H.G. Wells saw that potential in 1895 in his book The War of the Worlds.

“However it is done, it is certain that a beam of heat is the essence of the matter. Heat, and invisible, instead of visible, light. Whatever is combustible flashes into flame at its touch, lead runs like water, it softens iron, cracks and melts glass …”

Since the discovery of laser technology in 1960 there have been amazing advancements.  Let's understand, just because the atom bomb wasn't created until 1945, the principles for an atomic bomb were outlined by physicists in the 1890's.  The same will be true of militarized lasers, and in point of fact, the Air Force actually developed a system that worked in the early 2000's. 

The problem was all of them required huge equipment and massive amounts of energy. In the early 2000s, the US Air Force tried packing a chemical laser, the Airborne Laser YAL1, onto a Boeing 747. It worked, shooting down a couple of training targets, but cost billions of dollars and was ultimately canned.

But research didn't end, and now they've come up with something called the The Laser Weapons System (LaWS):

 

......one of the first of a new breed of more compact systems based on the fibre laser. Fibre lasers can generate laser beams at efficiencies of 40%, far higher than conventional lasers, and achieve kilowatt powers. High power fibre lasers are already used in industrial cutting and welding machines, some with laser power of 100 kW and capable of welding blocks of metal parts 30 cm thick.   A 100 kW infra-red laser is exactly the ‘heat-ray’ that Wells imagined—equivalent to using a giant, kilometre-wide magnifying glass to focus the sun’s heat energy onto a single point the size of your fingernail.

 

 H.G. Wells' "invisible, inevitable sword of heat.” 

  

Here's a video showing an effective laser weapon already being used by U.S Navy. 

 

 

• Let there be lasers: Israel to surround borders with 'biblical pillar of fire  By WND News Services   February 20, 2022 - Prime Minister Naftali Bennett has announced his nation will be fast-tracking the development of a laser-based defense system for the Israel Defense Forces to use against attacks from Gaza and Hezbollah. One rabbi likens it to "the biblical pillar of fire." It's kind of like Star Wars According to Israel365News:  "The lasers, using an autonomous detection and tracking system, will superheat drones and rockets which the developers claim will catch on fire within a few seconds. The system will supplement the Iron Dome that operates against short-range projectiles with the lasers concentrating on smaller projectiles.".........
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This year the UK tested the ‘DragonFire’ Laser Weapon, and it was successful against an aerial target, claiming:

The laser-directed energy weapon (LDEW) is claimed to have the ability to hit a precision target the size of a coin from a kilometre away. Although the exact range of the weapon is classified, the ministry said that it can engage with any visible target. The MoD said that the average cost of firing the laser is around £10 per shot, meaning that the weapon has the “potential to be a long-term low-cost alternative to certain tasks missiles currently carry out.”

The real drive behind this effective long range military use of lasers is the militarization of space, including efforts to install a base on the moon. There's nothing there, what do they need a base on the moon for? A launch pad to explore space? That's not the goal. Militarization of space is the goal! It's coming, have no doubt about it. 

 

Not today, not tomorrow, but it's coming, and sooner than we think.