NASA Ames Director Simon “Pete” Worden revealed Saturday that NASA Ames has “just started a project with DARPA called the Hundred Year Starship,” with $1 million funding from DARPA and $100K from NASA.
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Talks with private investors such as Larry Page of Google are under way. One interesting notion begin pushed here is the use of microwave thermal thrusters with beamed propulsion during the launch phase.
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Personally I think NASA is a red herring. I believe all of the real space exploration is being done by the military in top secret anti-gravity ships like the TAW-50
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Developed during the early 1990s, the capabilities of this war-bird are
jaw-dropping. And the technology shows that the Defense
Department did not fail to utilize what it learned combing
through the wreckage of various UFO crashes.
The TAW-50 has speed capabilities well in excess of Mach 50,
a number the contractor calls "a very conservative
estimate." Its actual speed "is classified." Mach 1 is 1,225
kilometers per hour, (approximately 748 mph). That means
that the TAW-50 is capable of moving way faster than 38,000
mph. In comparison, the velocity required to escape Earth's
gravity is 25,000 mph. And yes, the TAW-50 does go into
space.
The TAW-50 has a SCRAM (supersonic ramjet) propulsion system
for passing through the outer atmosphere.
The TAW-50 has a crew of four. Nevertheless, the TAW-50
flies so fast that it requires computers to fly it. These
were developed by American Computer Company, who derived
them from its Valkyrie XB/9000 AI [artificial intelligence]
Guidance series. They utilize a RISC Milspec Superchip.
"There are 180 of them in the flight control system, and 64
more in the weapons guidance system," the contractor
reported.
It can carry a combined payload of glide bombs and a package
of MIRV (Multiple Independently-targeted Reentry Vehicles),
mil-speak for a group of intercontinental ballistic
missiles, each of which can seek out and strike a different
target. The MIRV pack also contains reentry-capable balloon
countermeasures to make it very difficult for laser and
other defense weapons to track down where the real MIRVs are
and intercept them.
The TAW-50 is armed with its own Kill Laser system, which
can track and immolate SAM (Surface-to-Air missiles), STTA
(Surface-To-Trans-Atmosphere missiles), ATA (Air-To-Air
missiles), and ATTA (Air-To-Trans-Air missiles). The
TAW-50's killer lasers can also knock down high-performance
fighter interceptors. The TAW's Kill Laser is much smaller
than the earlier 1980s-era SDI (Star Wars program) models,
and has a miniaturized cooling core and 500 times the
wattage. The contractor said it "uses a spontaneous
nucleonic burst to trigger the lasing [laser] effect."
In addition, the TAW-50 is armed with micro-super-explosive
HyperDart missiles. These are just a little larger than
ordinary aircraft cannon ammunition, but travel at
hypersonic speed for up to three minutes, and have enormous
explosive capability. One HyperDart can blow apart a MiG
fighter anywhere within 20 feet of the HyperDart. The TAW-50
carries several hundred HyperDarts.
Because the TAW-50 is designed to operate in space, it has
on board a two-day air supply. This air supply can be
extended by using its scoop system and traveling into the
upper atmosphere.
The TAW-50's power supply is provided by a small nuclear
power generator that the contractor said is "Normal-Inert".
The contractor said that the spaceplane uses
electromagnetoferrometric power generation by the immersion
of pellets in heavy water (deuterium) and specially-designed
coil superconductive magnets, which yield enormous amounts
of free electrons when placed in an immersion which has been
triggered into an oscillating field state flux.
The TAW-50 utilizes electrogravitics to maintain its own
artificial gravity while in weightless space, as well as to
nullify the vehicle's mass during operations.
The contractor did not reveal the size of the space
fighter-bomber except to say, "It's a pretty big thing."
The performance of the TAW-50 makes it virtually
impossible to defend against. It can hide in orbit many
hundreds of miles into space, orbiting at times at 22,000 mph.
Then, without warning, it can dive straight down through the
atmosphere at over 38,000 miles per hour on an 80-degree
attack vector, reverse direction within 150 feet of the ground
with very little loss of motion and without a glide
turn, and
almost instantly go vertically straight up at over 38,000 mph
until long after it leaves the atmosphere and resumes orbiting
in space.
The contractor noted, "Those [electro-] gravitics allow it to
change its mass to almost nothing in a moment, and reverse
direction in a second, increase its acceleration to so many
times G [Earth's gravity] it's not funny, yet they are able
to nearly nullify the G-force on the pilots. They [the
electrogravitics] are fourth generation, with the ability to
bring it to a complete standstill in under 2 milliseconds,
if need be, without crushing the pilots, and keep it there
for quite some time."
The contractor notes, "It's far too fast for tracking radars.
" And, he adds, what military aims its radars straight up?
The TAW-50 can be refueled and rearmed in orbit by docking
with the secret undeclared Military Space Station that is in
orbit. (See: www.drboylan.com... ) The
entire refueling and rearming procedure takes under 10
minutes. Who mans the gas pumps? Military astronauts trained
at the Secret Air Force Academy, located in the hills west
of the official Air Force Academy at Colorado Springs, CO.
These military astronauts rotate duty by traveling to and
from Vandenburg Air Force Base on other military antigravity
vehicles. (See: www.drboylan.com... ) The
Space Shuttles have carried the arming platforms
("classified Defense Dept. payloads") up to the secret
Military Space Station. The contractor reported that with a
few extra tanks of LOX (liquid oxygen), the TAW-50 could fly
to the Moon and back.
