{"id":78625,"date":"2018-05-13T11:56:23","date_gmt":"2018-05-13T18:56:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/carbon-kinetic-weapons"},"modified":"2018-05-17T10:13:21","modified_gmt":"2018-05-17T17:13:21","slug":"carbon-kinetic-weapons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/carbon-kinetic-weapons","title":{"rendered":"Carbon kinetic weapons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/carbon-kinetic-weapons.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Future wars could be much more fierce with weapons even more powerful than nukes:<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The world is progressing in many ways, but tribalism isn\u2019t going away, so new arms races in AI, drones, bio-weapons and space weapons are already under way. Forewarned is forearmed. What sort of weaponry should we expect? I\u2019ve discussed AI and bio approaches before on other blogs, so this one looks just at kinetic weaponry using advanced materials, coupled to EM acceleration systems.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/carbondevices.com\/2017\/08\/31\/using-inverse-rail-guns-for-assisted-space-launch\/\" rel=\"nofollow\"><a href=\"https:\/\/carbondevices.com\/2017\/08\/31\/using-inverse-rail-guns-for-assisted-space-launch\/\">https:\/\/carbondevices.com\/2017\/08\/31\/using-inverse-rail-guns\u2026ce-launch\/<\/a><\/a> shows a crude illustration of my invention, the inverse rail gun, which inverts the idea of using a slug on a short rail gun and uses the short rail gun to accelerate a long tape instead.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:none;\" data-attachment-id=\"137\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/carbonweapons.com\/2018\/03\/14\/carbon-kinetic-weapons\/slide32\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/carbon-kinetic-weapons2.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"960,720\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{\u201caperture\u201d:\u201d0\u201d,\u201d credit\u201d:\u201d\u201c,\u201d camera\u201d:\u201d\u201c,\u201d caption\u201d:\u201d\u201c,\u201d created_timestamp\u201d:\u201d0\u201d,\u201d copyright\u201d:\u201d\u201c,\u201d focal_length\u201d:\u201d0\u201d,\u201d iso\u201d:\u201d0\u201d,\u201d shutter_speed\u201d:\u201d0\u201d,\u201d title\u201d:\u201d\u201c,\u201d orientation\u201d:\u201d0\u201d}\" data-image-title=\"Slide32\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/carbon-kinetic-weapons2.jpg?w=300\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/carbon-kinetic-weapons2.jpg?w=500\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/carbon-kinetic-weapons2.jpg\" alt=\"Slide32\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/carbon-kinetic-weapons2.jpg 500w, https:\/\/carbonweapons.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/03\/slide32.jpg?w=150 150w, https:\/\/carbonweapons.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/03\/slide32.jpg?w=300 300w, https:\/\/carbonweapons.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/03\/slide32.jpg?w=768 768w, https:\/\/carbonweapons.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/03\/slide32.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px)  100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/carbonweapons.com\/2018\/03\/14\/carbon-kinetic-weapons\/\">https:\/\/carbonweapons.com\/2018\/03\/14\/carbon-kinetic-weapons\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Future wars could be much more fierce with weapons even more powerful than nukes: The world is progressing in many ways, but tribalism isn\u2019t going away, so new arms races in AI, drones, bio-weapons and space weapons are already under way. Forewarned is forearmed. What sort of weaponry should we expect? I\u2019ve discussed AI and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1488,6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drones","category-robotics-ai","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78625"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78743,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78625\/revisions\/78743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}