Tuesday, March 25, 2025

From before Greek fire to the Airborne Laser and beyond

https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/article/greek-fire/

Was Greek_fire a technology that was derived from a much earlier point in history? 

https://www.fairobserver.com/world-news/overlapping-legacies-vedic-india-and-ancient-greece-in-conversation/

https://decodehindumythology.blogspot.com/2015/04/war-of-the-worlds_11.html

https://medium.com/@adeshbhatt/cutting-edge-technologies-in-mahabharata-523fe1650809

Ancient Indian Warfare Technology https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hilAI122U0

The battle of two armies with an ancient secret weapon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUVXoi_5LM0


Atlantis is a great mythological story and cautionary tale, but could have an ancient civilization with high technology really have collapsed? 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantis#Modern

Atlantis,_the_Lost_Continent (1961) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantis,_the_Lost_Continent#Plot Unfortunately, Atlantis,_the_Lost_Continent had a very limited budget and the special effects of the time were very basic. It's still an entertaining basic old Sci-Fi movie. https://archive.org/details/atlantis-the-lost-continent-1961

https://www.worldhistory.org/timeline/atlantis/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantis#Plato's_dialogues

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/atlantis , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErPsyBUCijM


https://screenhub.blog/2024/04/19/300-changed-a-whole-genre-for-better-or-for-worse-screenhub-entertainment/

https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/300s-leonidas-vs-russell-crowes-gladiator-zack-snyder-says-itd-be-no-contest

https://thetossup.wordpress.com/2008/12/05/gladiator-or-300


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_Castle

"In Michael Crichton's sci-fi novel Timeline, Professor Edward Johnston is stuck in the past in 14th-century Europe, and claims to have knowledge of Greek fire." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_fire#In_literature 

We Didn't Start the Fire (Bardcore | Medieval/Renaissance Style Cover) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drDs-Y5DNH8


https://musingsofamiddleagedgeek.blog/2018/01/31/2001-a-space-odyssey-50-years-of-a-future-that-never-was/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airborne_Laser , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_YAL-1#Cancellation

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Energy_Liquid_Laser_Area_Defense_System

https://www.twz.com/27039/budget-docs-show-pentagon-aims-to-loft-particle-beam-anti-missile-weapon-into-space-in-four-years

https://news.fnal.gov/2021/01/next-generation-particle-beam-cooling-experiment-under-way-at-fermilab-accelerator/

https://www.militaryaerospace.com/power/article/14283600/particle-beams-electromagnetic-weapons-sensors

https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/weapons/a26858944/pentagon-particle-beam-space-2023

https://asgardia.space/news/Deferred-Indefinitely-US-Rethinks-Particle-Beam-Weapons

https://thegreatcanadianmodelbuilderswebpage.blogspot.com/2015/07/german-orbiting-weapons-satellite.html

https://i1.wp.com/modelermagic.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/MMM_SIRIUS_MODELS_J-WARGO_2001-ASO_CHINESE_LASER_PLATFORM_009.jpg?ssl=1

2001:_A_Space_Odyssey is still one of the best sci-fi-movies ever made.

https://www.scifimoviezone.com/200105.shtml https://www.britannica.com/topic/2001-A-Space-Odyssey-film-1968

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001:_A_Space_Odyssey#Visual_effects

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/45/MatchCut.JPG Has civilization on Earth made the climb from the stone age to the space age more than once? 

Pearl Jam - Do the Evolution https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDaOgu2CQtI



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