#watch 📲 An early proposal for the panacea - that is a ballistic missile defence shield - was to detonate #nuclear #weapons in #space and direct the resulting #energy using a novel form of #laser
The idea was dangerous, inefficient and utterly impractical - - - which should probably surprise nobody 👇🏽
🎬 No #AI video
#physics #optics #chemistry #engineering #science #warfare #war
#lowerorbit #data #projectexcalibur #US #russia #SDI #history
Video: alexandertheok #UK
New high-performance GStreamer UDP source element and SMPTE ST2110 capture
New Centricular devlog post by Sebastian Dröge
Over the past few years, I have worked on a new GStreamer UDP source element. This is finally merged now and will be part of both the GStreamer 1.30.0 release and the gst-plugins-rs 0.16.0 release. The old element uses GIO ...
Limited vs Full Range Video
HDMI, DisplayPort, and SDI — What Engineers Keep Getting Wrong If you’ve ever seen: Gray blacks Crushed shadow detail Blown highlights A “washed-out” LED wall A QC rejection for “illegal levels” There’s a very good chance you were dealing with a range mismatch. Limited vs Full range video is one of the most misunderstood topics in AV engineering. And the confusion only gets worse when you move between HDMI, DisplayPort, and SDI. Let’s fix that. First: What […]https://blog.strangerproduction.com/2026/02/16/limited-vs-full-range-video/
Invitation for the German NFDI4Earth Community and beyond 🇩🇪 :
Die Koordinierungsstelle Geodateninfrastruktur Deutschland lädt zur Präsentation der Ergebnisse der GDI-DE Nutzer- und Bedarfsanalyse ein.
🗓️ 25. Februar 2026, 10:00 - 11:30 Uhr
🗺️ Online (Zugangsdaten werden mit der Anmeldebestätigung zugesendet)
👉 Weitere Infos und Anmeldung:
https://www.gdi-de.org/jetzt-anmelden-die-ergebnisse-der-gdi-de-nutzer-und-bedarfsanalyse-sind-da
Don't get taken in by Putin's hype. All ICBMs (be they MRVs, MIRVs, MARVs or unitary warheads) have been "hypersonic" missiles since they were developed in the 1950s/60s, as their warheads re-enter at summat like Mach 18.
#MAD is still a viable doctrine - questionable if it survives U.S. development of Donald Tantrump's Golden Shower (sorry, Golden Dome) system, but we've been here before with Reagan's #SDI ('twas more economic warfare than technological - as is #Trump's SDI 2.0)
Lo SDI degli anni Ottanta entrava in rotta di collisione con il Trattato ABM del 1972 che limitava i sistemi antimissile proprio per evitare una nuova corsa agli armamenti. Molti critici parlarono di una rottura delle regole condivise che avevano ridotto il rischio di guerra nucleare. La stessa questione si ripropone oggi con il Golden Dome di Trump. E rischia di far saltare il rinnovo del trattato New START per le armi nucleari, trattato che scade il 5 febbraio 2026.
Lo “scudo spaziale” di Reagan, ufficialmente Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), lanciato nel 1983, fu molto criticato per una serie di motivi. Oggi Trump lo rilancia con il nome di Golden Dome.
Durante la Guerra fredda reggeva l’idea della deterrenza nucleare: nessuno attacca perché sa che verrebbe distrutto a sua volta (la famosa distruzione reciproca assicurata).
Lo scudo spaziale prometteva di rendere “inermi” i missili nucleari nemici.
#GoldenDome #SDI #Reagan#Trump #arminucleari
Susan Ville
Centricular Ltd
Jenkins. Tom Jenkins. 🤮🤢🤮
eric.howell
NFDI4Earth
Philip C James
Werner Keil
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