Strange lights over Norway

[AlaskaDenise]

Wednesday morning, Dec. 9th, people in arctic Norway were stunned when a gigantic luminous spiral formed in the northern sky. "We are used to seeing lots of auroras here in Norway, but this was different," says Nick Banbury of Harstad who witnessed the phenomenon on his way to work "between 7:50 and 8:00 a.m. local time." Jan Petter Jorgensen took this photo:



The first reaction of many readers when they see this picture is Photoshop! Surely this must be a fake. But no, many independent observers witnessed and phtotographed the apparition. It is real.

Banbury continues: "It consisted initially of a green beam of light similar in color to the aurora with a mysterious rotating spiral at one end. This spiral then got bigger and bigger until it turned into a huge halo in the sky with the green beam extending down to Earth. According to press reports, this could be seen all over northern Norway and must therefore have been very high up in the atmosphere to be seen hundreds of km apart."

UPDATE: Circumstantial evidence is mounting that the phenomenon was caused by a malfunctioning rocket, possibly an ICBM launched from a Russian submarine. A Navtex no-fly alert was issued for the White Sea on Dec. 9th, and photographers appear to have recorded the initial boost phase of a launch below the spiral (see inset). A rocket motor spinning out of control could indeed explain the spiral pattern, so this explanation seems plausible, although it has not yet been confirmed.

More reports and videos: #1, #2, #3, #4, #5.

http://spaceweather.com/

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[AlaskaDenise]

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The link in #4 above is to a UK news report. One comment speculates it could be like HAARP. Boy the CTs will have fun with this one.

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[Emily]

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I ran across some of the videos on a blog tonight and it was a wild-looking spiral pattern. Some say a missile spinning out of control could look like that.

 

[Snowy Owl]

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UFO-show in Norway sky welcomes Obama for Nobel Prize ceremony


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkx7myyAk4s

 

[gsgs]

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Russia has a history of first denying such things and later having to admit

http://translate.google.com/transla...pirale+%C3%BCber+Norwegen&hl=en&sa=G&ie=UTF-8

Appeared in Russian online forums is an informational Meanwhile, however, that there had been from the Russian side for the concrete plans for the test period, a so-called Bulava missile. This is a submarine-based intercontinental ballistic missile of Russian production. . The rumors invoke a message of safety and weather information service for marine use NAVTEX, which is a warning of a missile test in the southern part of the White Sea for the dates of 6 bis 9. . Should have been in December 2:00 to 9:00 clock in the morning. . Again, this could be confirmed until the cut-off date of this declaration is not yet clear.

. Indeed missile tests are well known to be able to produce at least comparable to, or celestial phenomena, as many videos showing their formation time could be brought in connection with missile launches.

 

[gsgs]

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zx8i5EfmYU4

http://www.bautforum.com/space-astronomy-questions-answers/97857-strange-things-happening-sky.html

The Russian newspaper Kommersant and Vedomosti quoting defense sources in Russia as saying that the light in the sky came shortly after a Russian submarine in the area had fired a Bulava-rocket. But the rocket failed in the third step, write papers without going into detail.

It got theories about the mysterious light to explode, and betting firm NordicBet
created even odds on the proper context:

Russian rocket - 2:00
Meteor - 5:00
Northern Lights - 5:00
Swedish rocket - 6:00
Norwegian rocket - 6:00
Rocket from another nation - 10:00
Santa Claus - 100.00
UFO - 100.00

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The odds have stretched:
Others on Request.result must be confirmed by militray/meterologists
for bet to stand

Russian rocket 1.01
Northern lights 6.00
Meteor 10.00
Norwegian rocket 13.00
Swedish rocket 15.00
Rocket from antoher nation 35.00
Santa Claus 250.00


A Dutch news website reports that Russia admitted this was a failed
launch of a Bulava(?) missile, and that the defect was in the third stage.
It was apparently a launch from a submarine.

 

[tropical]

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zx8i5EfmYU4

http://www.bautforum.com/space-astronomy-questions-answers/97857-strange-things-happening-sky.html

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Russian rocket - 2:00
Meteor - 5:00
Northern Lights - 5:00
Swedish rocket - 6:00
Norwegian rocket - 6:00
Rocket from another nation - 10:00
Santa Claus - 100.00
UFO - 100.00
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You Tube simulation - is it an "borg" cube or what

If it realy could stands up from the next gived link discussion that:

"Something leaking fuel whilst spinning in orbit would produce a perfect spiral. And there is no 'light beam'. It may look like one, but look at other photographs, and it's clearly a different fuel leak from the same object being left along it's orbital track."

What was the meaning of the other pletora of various rockets launched in the few hours period there? Warm solidarity?
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Green beam ... green laser ... green environment

At the moment of reading the tittle, it seems as the CERN magic particle searching folks switched on one of the supposed little black holes "perfect spiral" ...

 

[AlaskaDenise]

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Shucks, it's just a Russian rocket misfiring.

I hoped we had a photo of an ionispheric heater in action (not that I support the idea), since there is a facility that can do this in northern Norway.

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[tropical]

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yeah, a perfect leakeage spirale rocket

 

[tropical]

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http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/EISCAT
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At the Ramfjordmoen facility (near Tromsø, Norway) they also operate an ionospheric heater facility, similar to HAARP. Additional receiver stations are located in Sodankylä, Finland, and Kiruna, Sweden. The EISCAT Headquarters are also located in Kiruna.

EISCAT is funded and operated by research institutes and research councils of Norway, Sweden, Finland, Japan, China, the United Kingdom, and Germany.
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An ionospheric heater is an array of antennae which are used for heating the ionosphere, and which can create artificial aurora borealis. Current facilities

The United States has three ionospheric heating facilities: the HAARP, the HIPAS, near Fairbanks, Alaska, and (currently offline for modifications) one at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico.

The European Incoherent Scatter Scientific Association (EISCAT) operates an ionospheric heating facility, capable of transmitting over 1 GW [https://e7.eiscat.se/groups/Documentation/BasicInfo/] [1] (1,000,000,000 watts) effective radiated power (ERP), near Tromsø in Norway.

Russia has the Sura ionospheric heating facility, in Vasilsursk near Nizhniy Novgorod, capable of transmitting 190 MW ERP. antenna is a transducer designed to transmit or receive radio waves which are a class of electromagnetic waves. In other words, antennas convert radio frequency electrical currents into electromagnetic waves and vice versa.
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ionosphere is the uppermost part of the atmosphere, distinguished because it is ionized by solar radiation. It plays an important part in atmospheric electricity and forms the inner edge of the magnetosphere.
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Auroras (or aurorae) [sing: aurora] are natural colored light displays, which are usually observed in the night sky, particularly in the polar zone. Some scientists therefore call them "polar auroras" (or "aurorae polaris").
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High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP) is an investigation project to "understand, simulate and control ionospheric processes that might alter the performance of communication and surveillance systems.
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Fairbanks, Alaska
Motto: The Golden Heart City

Coordinates:
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Arecibo Radio Telescope

Organization: Cornell, NSF, NASA
Location: Arecibo, Puerto Rico
Wavelength: radio (3 cm–1 m)
Built: 1963
Telescope style: spherical reflector
Diameter: 305 m, 1000ft
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EISCAT is an acronym for the European Incoherent Scatter Scientific Association. They operate three incoherent scatter radar systems, at 224 MHz, 931 MHz in Northern Scandinavia and one at 500 MHz on Svalbard, used to study the interaction between the Sun and the Earth as
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In radio telecommunications, effective radiated power (ERP) is determined by subtracting system losses and adding system gains to the actual electrical power output of a transmitter.
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Tromsø (help info ) (Romsa in Northern Sami, nominative case, Tromssa in Finnish) is a city and municipality in the county of Troms, Norway.
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The Sura Ionospheric Heating Facility, located near the small town of Vasilsursk about 100 km eastward from Nizhniy Novgorod in Russia, is a laboratory for ionosphere research. Sura is capable of radiating about 190 MW, effective radiated power (ERP) on short waves.
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Vasilsursk (Russian: Васильсу́рск) is an urban-type settlement in Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Russia, located on the Sura River. Population: 1,329 (2002 Census); 1,871 (1989 Census).
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[tropical]

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High-energy, spatially flat-top green pump laser by beam homogenization for petawatt scale
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http://www.sciencedirect.com/scienc...=4758774&md5=75978fef7dc03b6e6812b68e9841d912

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http://www.stormingmedia.us/62/6281/A628183.html

Optics and Acoustics

Lasers and Masers

High Energy, Ultrashort Pulse Green Laser-Light Exposure of Cultured Human Cells Yields Evidence of DNA Damage

Authors: John W. Obringer; Steve Phipps; Martin D. Johnson; AIR FORCE ACADEMY COLORADO SPRINGS CO DEPT OF BIOLOGY

Abstract:
The use of laser light for targeting devices and weapons has sharply increased the likelihood that aircrew and support personnel will be exposed to laser light during operations. The increased potential for exposure of humans highlights the need for scientifically-based safety standards for laser exposure at the ultrashort pulse lengths. Current safety standards are largely extrapolations of exposure limits at longer pulse lengths using a minimal visible lesion endpoint in the Rhesus monkey retinal model. A non-animal model for assessing laser-light damage to tissue, particularly human, is necessary for obvious scientific, political, and fiduciary reasons. We assessed the sublethal insult to human cells using a tissue culture system for specific genes that have been shown to be important in several biological processes that could lead to cancer or cell death. Using the CAT-Tox (L) (Xenometrix, Inc.) assay, it appears that green (532 nm), picosecond pulses of laser light is sensed and induces several stress response genes, including FOS, a proto-oncogene, in a roughly dose dependent fashion. Numerous other genes were also induced harbingering the presence of DNA damage. This approach provides insight into a more global methodology for characterizing environmental stressors via genetic profiling.

Limitations: APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE
Pages: 13
Report Date: NOV 1999
Report Number: A628183

 

[AlaskaDenise]

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Titre du document / Document title
Collaborative experiments by Akebono satellite, Tromsø ionospheric heater, and European incoherent scatter radar

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Résumé / Abstract
Joint experiments using the Akebono satellite and the ionospheric heating facility and European incoherent scatter radar near Tromsø were carried out in November 1990 and February 1991. In these experiments, Tromsø HF transmissions were amplitude modulated at frequencies of 2.5 and 4.0 kHz. Signals radiated from the polar electrojet (PEJ) antenna in the heated ionosphere at these VLF frequencies were detected for five passes out of seven passes of the semipolar orbiting Akebono satellite. A ground-based observation of the VLF radiation from the PEJ was made in the November campaign at Lycksele in Sweden, 554 km south of the heating facility

http://cat.inist.fr/?aModele=afficheN&cpsidt=4002376

Concerns about ionospheric heaters are present here in Alaska, as we're home to a similar facility. I've also met whale researchers who propose that this type of tinkering with eletromagnetic fields could disrupt animal migrations based partially on magnetism.

I think most of the concerns can be summed up as fear of unintended consequences from boiling a hole in the ionosphere - which is basically what the heater does.

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[tropical]

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http://mae.pennnet.com/display_arti...-weapons:-moving-from-promise-to-performance/
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The Airborne Laser will provide a speed-of-light capability to destroy all classes of ballistic missiles in their boost phase of flight.
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http://mae.pennnet.com/articles/enlarge_image.cfm?IMAGE_ID=245857&SITE_ID=MAE
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_applications
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High power boost-phase intercept laser systems use a complex system of lasers to find, track and destroy intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBM). In this type of system a chemical laser, one in which the laser operation is powered by an energetic chemical reaction, is used as the main weapon beam (see Airborne Laser). The Mobile Tactical High-Energy Laser (MTHEL) is another defensive laser system under development; this is envisioned as a field-deployable weapon system able to track incoming artillery projectiles and cruise missiles by radar and destroy them with a powerful deuterium fluoride laser. Another example of direct use of a laser as a defensive weapon was researched for the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI, nicknamed "Star Wars"), and its successor programs. This project would use ground-based or space-based laser systems to destroy incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs). The practical problems of using and aiming these systems were many; particularly the problem of destroying ICBMs at the most opportune moment, the boost phase just after launch.
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[tropical]

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http://calgary.rasc.ca/atmosphere.htm


Layering of the Atmosphere:

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(Diagram by Roland Dechesne.)</td> <td width="400"> The Earth's atmosphere is generally classified into layers (based on physical characteristics such as temperature changes. chemical composition, movement, and density).

From the highest to the lowest, these layers are called:

• Exosphere - from "outer space" down to about 500 km
• thermopause - the transition layer between the layer above and the layer below
• Thermosphere - from the Exosphere down to about 80-90 km and it includes the Ionosphere
• mesopause
• Mesosphere - from the Thermosphere down to about 50 km
• stratopause
• Stratosphere - from the Mesosphere down to about 10km and it includes the ozone layer
• tropopause
• Troposphere - from the Stratosphere down to the Earth's surface and it includes the 'Planetary Boundary Layer'

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[tropical]

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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34362960/ns/technology_and_science-space/

Russia admits missile caused UFO lights

Unusual display, seen from Norway, traced to failure of test launch

Dagfinn Rapp via Space.com
Norwegians had front-row seats for a bizarre light show: a giant spiral with a green-blue streak trailing down to the horizon.


By Clara Moskowitz

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A spectacular spiral light show in the sky above Norway on Wednesday was caused by a Russian missile that failed just after launch, according to Russia's defense ministry.
When the rocket motor spun out of control, it likely created the heavenly spiral of white light near where the missile was launched from a submarine in the White Sea.
The Russian Defense Ministry confirmed that a Bulava ballistic missile test had failed.
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"It has been established ... that the missile's first two stages worked as normal, but there was a technical malfunction at the next, third, stage of the trajectory," Reuters quoted a Defense Ministry spokesman as saying.Paal Brekke, a senior adviser at the Norwegian Space Centre Drammensvn, told Space.com that the cloud was "very spectacular."
"When we looked at the videos people submitted to the media, we quickly concluded that it looked like a rocket or missile out of control, thus the spiraling effect," Brekke said. "I think this is the first time we have seen such a display from a launch failure."
The phenomenon was seen by people all over northern Norway.
"It was a fairly stunning display, and we were really surprised to see it so well-observed," Brekke said.

Viewers described an eerie white cloud with a piercing blue-green beam coming out of it.
"It consisted initially of a green beam of light similar in color to the aurora with a mysterious rotating spiral at one end," Nick Banbury of Harstad, Norway, told Spaceweather.com. "This spiral then got bigger and bigger until it turned into a huge halo in the sky with the green beam extending down to Earth."
Banbury said he saw the lights on his way to work between 7:50 and 8 a.m. local time, or 1:50 to 2 a.m. ET Wednesday.
"We are used to seeing lots of auroras here in Norway, but this was different," he said.
Before the missile test was confirmed, many people suggested the bright light pattern might have been a UFO. Russia finally admitted to the accident, which is an embarrassing mishap for a rocket that had already failed six of 13 previous tests, according to the BBC.


The Bulava missile is designed to carry six individually targeted nuclear warheads over a range of up to 6,200 miles (10,000 km), the BBC reported. The missile had been touted as Russia's newest technological breakthrough to support its nuclear deterrent, but the numerous failures have led to second thoughts.
"This is a catastrophe ... Huge funds were siphoned off from Russia's moribund navy for the Bulava project. In fact, billions of dollars have been flushed down the drain," Alexander Khramchikhin, chief analyst at the Moscow-based Institute of Military and Political Analysis, told Reuters.
Analysts criticize Moscow's hurry to build the Bulava, as it already has a highly reliable Soviet-built Sineva submarine-based ballistic missile. They also question awarding the Bulava contract to the Moscow Institute of Thermal Technology, which has never before built missiles for submarines.


This report was supplemented with information from Reuters.
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http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2009/12/09/2147455.aspx

Light show sparks UFO buzz

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[tropical]

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http://www.earthpulse.com/src/subcategory.asp?catid=1&subcatid=1

Background of the HAARP Project

Prepared by Rosalie Bertell, Ph.D., GNSH

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High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program, HAARP (1993)

The HAARP Program is jointly managed by the US Air Force and the US Navy, and is based in Gakona, Alaska. It is designed to "understand, simulate and control ionospheric processes that might alter the performance of communication and surveillance systems." The HAARP system intends to beam 3.6 Gigawatts of effective radiated power of high frequency radio energy into the ionosphere in order to:

• Generate extremely low frequency (ELF) waves for communicating with submerged submarines
• Conduct geophysical probes to identify and characterize natural ionospheric processes so that techniques can be developed to mitigate or control them
• Generate ionospheric lenses to focus large amounts of high frequency energy, thus providing a means of triggering ionospheric processes that potentially could be exploited for Department of Defense purposes,
• Electron acceleration for infrared (IR) and other optical emissions which could be used to control radio wave propagation properties
• Generate geomagnetic field aligned ionization to control the reflection/scattering properties of radio waves,
• Use oblique heating to produce effects on radio wave propagation, thus broadening the potential military applications of ionospheric enhancement technology.

Poker Flat Rocket Launch (1968 to Present)

The Poker Flat Research Range is located about 50 km North of Fairbanks, Alaska, and it was established in 1968. It is operated by the Geophysical Institute with the University of Alaska Fairbanks, under NASA contract. About 250 major rocket launches have taken place from this site, and in 1994, a 16 meter long rocket was launched to help NASA "understand chemical reactions in the atmosphere associated with global climate change." Similar experiments, but using Chemical Release Modules (CRM), have been launched from Churchill, Manitoba. In 1980, Brian Whelan's "Project Waterhole" disrupted an aurora borealis, bringing it to a temporary halt. In February 1983, the chemical released into the ionosphere caused an aurora borealis over Churchill. In March 1989, two Black Brant X's and two Nike Orion rockets were launched over Canada, releasing barium at high altitudes and creating artificial clouds. These Churchill artificial clouds were observed from as far away as Los Alamos, New Mexico.
The US Navy has also been carrying on High Power Auroral Stimulation (HIPAS) research in Alaska. Through a series of wires and a 15 meter antenna, they have beamed high intensity signals into the upper atmosphere, generating a controlled disturbance in the ionosphere. As early as 1992, the Navy talked of creating 10 kilometer long antennas in the sky to generate extremely low frequency (ELF) waves needed for communicating with submarines. Another purpose of these experiments is to study the Aurora Borealis, called by some an outdoor plasma lab for studying the principles of fusion. Shuttle flights are now able to generate auroras with an electron beam. On November 10, 1991, and aurora borealis appeared in the Texas sky for the first time ever recorded, and it was seen by people as far away as Ohio and Utah, Nebraska and Missouri. The sky contained "Christmas colors" and various scientists were quick to blame it on solar activity. However, when pressed most would admit that the ionosphere must have been weakened at the time, so that the electrically charged particle hitting the earth's atmosphere created the highly visible light called airglow. These charged particles are normally pulled northwards by the earth's magnetic forces, to the magnetic north pole. The Northern Lights, as the aurora borealis is called, normally occurs in the vortex at the pole where the energetic particles, directed by the magnetic force lines, are directed.
Conclusions

It would be rash to assume that HAARP is an isolated experiment which would not be expanded. It is related to fifty years of intensive and increasingly destructive programs to understand and control the upper atmosphere.
It would be rash not to associate HAARP with the space laboratory construction which is separately being planned by the United States. HAARP is an integral part of a long history of space research and development of a deliberate military nature.
The military implications of combining these projects is alarming.
Basic to this project is control of communications, both disruption and reliability in hostile environments. The power wielded by such control is obvious.
The ability of the HAARP / Spacelab/ rocket combination to deliver very large amount of energy, comparable to a nuclear bomb, anywhere on earth via laser and particle beams, are frightening.
The project is likely to be "sold" to the public as a space shield against incoming weapons, or, for the more gullible, a devise for repairing the ozone layer.
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