steve mookie kong
N-gated Hacker News🚀✨ Oh, look! We're firing #lasers at the #moon to stream ultra-HD #selfies. Clearly, the dream of watching rocks in 4K while sipping your overpriced coffee is finally here. Meanwhile, 'advanced' Earthlings still buffer Netflix at peak hours. 📡🖥️
https://www.tomshardware.com/networking/artemis-ii-will-use-laser-beams-to-live-stream-4k-moon-footage-one-giant-step-beyond-the-s-band-radio-comms-of-the-apollo-era #ultraHD #technology #streaming #HackerNews #ngated
PugJesus
Bob 🇨🇦🇲🇽🇺🇦Scientists Create Tiny “Nanolaser” That Could Revolutionize Future Computers
https://scitechdaily.com/scientists-create-tiny-nanolaser-that-could-revolutionize-future-computers/
IT Insights🚀 Marvel Fusions zet koers om! Ontdek de commerciële kracht van lasers. Klaar voor de toekomst? 🔥 #Innovatie #Lasers
https://itinsights.nl/het-laatste-it-nieuws/marvel-fusions-koerswijziging-de-commerciele-kracht-van-lasers/
https://itinsights.nl/het-laatste-it-nieuws/marvel-fusions-koerswijziging-de-commerciele-kracht-van-lasers/
MrAndrewD
BGDon 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 👨💻Space Development Agency (SDA) cops to issues with scaling its Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture (PWSA). The agency is grappling with a 2-3 month schedule slip. Core issues include:
Satellite Contact Failures: SDA and its vendors have struggled with the on-orbit checkout process – aka an inability to establish contact with one of its satellites launched in late 2025.
Component Scarcity: Sustained shortages of optical communications terminals (OCTs) and encryption devices continue to serve as the “critical path” for all vendors.
Launch Schedule Pressure: The next scheduled mission, T1TL-A, is ~ 4 months behind schedule due to the 45-day government shutdown, a launch rocket tech glitz, and issues with onboard software for satellites. https://satnews.com/2026/03/08/space-development-agency-faces-growing-pains-as-pwsa-scaling-hits-chokepoints/
Read my TechAptitude post on the PWSA program here: https://techaptitude.substack.com/p/us-space-forces-laser-mesh-network
#SDA #Space #PWSA #Lasers #OpticalNetworks #Satellites #USSpaceForce #SpaceCraft #DoD #TechAptitude
DJ Sundog from the *new* toot-labTonight on LaserVision we’ve got both #lasers firing
In the top left you’ll find laser 01, finishing its second pass to get to the depth we need (or close, hopefully - see below (that’s a pun huh)).
In the bottom right you’ll see laser 02, running a pass of a test pattern I did this morning in krita to simply produce eight squares at four different gray levels - 100% black, 75%, 50%, and 25%. Then I’m varying the different parameters of the embossing job and engraving the parameter settings below the squares. the top row of squares is aligned with the top edge of the stock, so I can measure the depth change easily with calipers.
science!
NEHI LaserVision v2.1
Cosmic Librarian2) Ok...it just got stranger, and it has to do with defense. It could be a coincidence. I did not see '60 Minutes' last Sunday, but I did go to the website just now and got a shock.
Read, or watch, all of it. Here's a hint: I involves Blue Halo, which has been acquired by AeroVironment — AV...the same organization that McCasland is supposedly involved with and has to do with lasers. Why he would go missing or be taken is the puzzle. I won't go into it all, but it seems even the news media may not be doing their jobs.
Now, also realize that another person affiliated with McCasland, Monica Jacinto Reza, also just disappeared a few months ago under strange circumstances.
https://thesentinelnetwork.substack.com/p/the-green-burial-she-was-declared?triedRedirect=true
This seems like some crazy, mystery/sci-fi story, but it's in the news. On top of that, it definitely is part of the whole drone mystery over El Paso, Texas a few months ago. What the heck is going on?
Iran's cheap drones are a drain on the U.S. weapons stockpile. Could lasers help fend them off?
The Iran war is testing the U.S. military's ability to combat Iran's drones in a cost-effective way. Emerging laser tech, designed to zap drones out of the sky, may help.
Missing General McCasland
1)
There's a lot more to it than anyone is saying. I find it strange that no one is asking about General McCasland's ties to a company called 'Blue Halo', in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_McCasland
"McCasland is currently director of technology at Applied Technology Associates, an Albuquerque, New Mexico based subsidiary of Arlington, Virginia based BlueHalo, a defense conglomerate operating in the areas of space warfare, directed energy, missile defense, cyber and C4ISR.[10][11][12][13] "
My guess is that Blue Halo may be a commercial offshoot of 'Kona Blue': Blue Halo was taken over by Applied Technology Associates (AeroVironment-AV).
https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/dod-releases-kona-blue-documents/
McCasland possesses a lot of knowledge and information that I'm sure that many want to get their hands on about certain advanced aerospace technologies that are important for defense. AARO/AAWSAP/AATIP, etc was over Kona Blue, so we may be talking back-engineered alien technologies. Quite a few actual humans want to get their hands on this information, including foreign actors, and they know how to make people disappear.
