Oystein
Penultimate Amazing
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Here's one of the Directed Energy Directorate's locations where they blow up little soda cans, BigAl:
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Is this near the WTC?
Here's what happens to them when they blow them up:
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How much material is depicted there? Order of magnitude in, say, metric tons.
Here's what the Directed Energy Directorate's sister agency, the Space Vehicles Directorate, concerns itself with:
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Do they have any such devices up there? What are the power and energy capabilities of these devices today, and what were they in 2001? Order of magnitude in Joules and Watts will do.
And here's simply an oldie but a goodie:
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The Boeing YAL-1, right? First airborne test was 2007. Oldie? What do you call systems that existed in 2001, if that is an oldie?
It has a Megawatt-class laser that can shoot pulses for 5 seconds.
One MW for 5 seconds, that's 1x106W * 5s = 5*106 Joules.
That is about the energy content of 225 grams of this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nutella
So dou you suggest that if I eat 225 grams of Nutella (which I can easily do in an hour, with good German bread), I should have enough power and energy in me to completely dustify a 110 story office building?
P.S.: The YAL-1 is said to have the capacity to destroy a ballistic missle, i.e. make it crash.
I can do that after eating Nutella: I have then the power to lift a hammer and bang on the missle a few times such that it would be too damaged to fly with good control.

