Ever heard of Nasa's blue beam project?
http://www.barentsobserver.com/fail...light-over-northern-norway.4663494-58932.html
Dammit, missed him AGAIN!
. They spin them to make them more accurate, like rifles and bullets.
Beautiful though
cheers,
Toddy
New Scientist says OUT OF CONTROL MISSILE
I hope I'm not affecting anyone's Tinfoil Hat business am I?
Erm, no they dont. they have fins for guidance and fly as a jet aircraft would or a Nasa space launch. They have advanced slightly since the V2. Bullets spin because the spiralling inside the barrel grips the bullet when the propellant forces it to expand very slighly as it travels up the barrel. Bit different to a fin stabilised guided missile.
Erm, actually they do.
Spin controlled guidance in self propelled missiles is still an actively used technique, and they've always had fins. Their sheer size meant that unless they did they had insufficient air resistane to maintain direction effectively.
cheers,
Toddy
are they still mucking about with The Large Hedron Collidor? They may have opened up a gateway to something.
"No one would have believed, in the last years of the nineteenth century, that human affairs were being watched from the timeless worldsof space.
No one could have dreamed we were being scrutinized, as someone with a microscope studies creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water.
Few men even considered the possibility of life on other planets and yet, across the gulf of space, minds immeasurably superior to ours regarded this Earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely, they drew their plans against us."