Musings Regarding The Brandenburg Hypothesis

[Canine]

Could the material be configured so as to produce the outcome without fission device initiation? In other words, could Dr Brandenburg's theorized mass of fissile material be slammed into something so hard that no initiator(s) is/are required?

That is to say, is speed and geometry enough to make the results the good doctor alleges occurred over Mare Acidalium and Utopia Planum?

or are multiple fission initiators needed within the larger mass in order to propagate the reaction and to produce the boom?

The reason why I am asking is because the Brandenburg device might have had a quantifiable shelf-life and that shelf-life would have been shorter or longer depending on how it initiated its' reaction (ie. with a chemical bang).

If that could be determined, so might it's time spent in transit, which could help us make assessments as to its' origin..

[Canine]

For those new to the matter, here is a link to the paper so you can get up to speed


https://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2015/eposter/2660.pdf

[Littleenki]

After spending hundreds of hours poring over Mars Lander imagery and videos from Jimmy Roberts and others it is completely plausible, dare I say obvious, that there was a major event on Mars or events, sometime in the distant past.

Questions of whether a civilization was destroyed or whether the events affected an already dead planet are valid imho.

So much of the rubble looks like what structures made of concrete would look like after a massive explosion, and to us the only capable weapon would be nuclear, which aligns with the data presented.

Also we have discussed here many times how we may have come from that disaster ourselves or some segment of our genetics could still indicate that with the proper research or new emerging technology.

Could the Bhagavad Gita war be describing what happened on Mars as well, and could there be some truth to the Sitchin translations, or maybe even a better question...could Mars be Nibiru?

Remember Buzz Aldrin stated there is a monolith on one of Mars moons...could it be an observation station and could someone like Elon Musk get there to in estigate it before the government does and starts lying to us again like they do everything?

Ill have to seek more on this subject to add more useful commentary but this is definitely the kind of Post we could all enjoy discussing at length.

Cheers!
Le

[Canine]

In order to get some key terms onto the table and better describe the thing I have decided to frame my musings as the thought experiment:

Exploring the Inertial Assembly Mechanism, Materials Composition, Materials Constraints and Morphology of Aerodynamic and Acceleration-Assembled Staged Nuclear Devices.

As of yet, I haven't come up with a cooler nickname, but as for the device in question, I think of it as the 'Brandenburg Device', with Type 1 being what the Dr favors in his paper (ie.a bigger version of what we build) and Type 2, Type 3 etc, will be the speculative designs like in the title.

I've also wondered if a dial-a-yield relativistic kill vehicle (RKV) might resemble this. Perhaps sometimes you don't want to ablate the whole hemisphere down to bedrock or give the planet a new ring, you just want to take its' atmosphere. Maybe its' preferable to have something that can do both or just one.

We've all associated relativity and nukes because of the physicists but in this case it's the physics that give one cause. And I think of the light cones and frames of reference and how that would affect things.

A device the size of the one envisioned in the paper, if moving at the speed it would need to move, for as long as it would have had to travel would have it's light cones all over the place and they would all be compressing into a singular mass once it hit it's target. And at certain speeds, there is the hypersurface of the present that everything is slamming into.

These matter energy interactions are beyond the scope of my ken. It's Penrose Sarfatti territory.

Ultimately, I'm trying to figure out how long each type of Brandenburg Device could sit in storage/transit.

[Littleenki]

Ill be honest here, Im not the best at cipherin' so lay it out and lets stare at it for a bit.

A nuclear "weapon" doesnt always have to start out being considered a weapon.

If a nuclear "device" was to decide to go out of its job requirements a lot could happen.

Interesting stuff here Canine, thanks for sharing it with us!

Le

[Canine]

A Variable Disc array arranged around a lithium-deuteride filled cylinder would fulfill the function of a gun-type weapon, which could also be triggered by sudden deceleration.

And I'm taking into account that extreme speed allows for assembly of a super massive amount of fissile material without possibility of a 'fizzle'.  Such speed also allows for a fissile material matrix or metamaterial to achieve the same results.

Polonium and Tritium are nixed. High explosives are nixed. They don't last long enough.

Electronics not being necessary is also a factor in my musings.

For 'spacing' and configuration ceramics would be used in place of less stable materials. Fogbank therefore is nixed.

Another thought that Tritium brought to mind...If Tritium were a part of this thing, it could be used for storing helium 3, which it decays into. And helium 3 has other applications, but those take electronics so I won't focus on them yet.

When it comes to the Brandenburg Hypothesis, I prefer to think of it as a part of a system and not a one-off.

That is to say, this constitutes a method for addressing potential threats and is likely a refined operation using proven weapons. Wherever they are, they likely did this to everyone they could, which might have left evidence that could be analyzed from earth with our sensors.

[Littleenki]

Well damn..honk honk😎

Far Beyond my pay grades.

Le