Was "Project Daedalus" actually the plan for interstellar spacecraft or something else?

Kimmo Huosionmaa

The thoughts about "Project Daedalus" are that spacecraft, what would have the capacity for interstellar spacecraft would be very futuristic. The idea of that spacecraft would send the fusion powered probe to the nearest star system, but the technology, what would use in this project was so futuristic, that it is not even today existed. The idea was to build "Daedalus" in the orbiter of planet Jupiter, and the motor would use the helium, what is sucked from the atmosphere of the gas giant as the fuel. The helium would be injected into the motor, and the nuclear-powered laser system would make the fusion in the motor. There are many other fictional spacecraft that "Daedalus", what were most conventional visions of interstellar probes.

This system is more conventional than some plans to use interstellar ramjets for traveling the stars. Interstellar ramjets suck the ionized hydrogen through the spacecraft by using a magnetic field, but the ignition of fusion is made in the same way with theoretical "Daedalus". Fictional "Daedalus" takes the fuel to the tanks, and this makes this fictional spacecraft less sophisticated and more limited than interstellar ramjets. The thing is, that this kind of projects normally belongs to the science fiction category, and then I started to think something, what is so terrible and at the same time so fascinating thing, that nobody ever thought about this. Maybe "Project Daedalus" is actually meant for the "dream ship", the electromagnetic cannon, what has the capacity to create the electromagnetic shield at the atmosphere.

In this scenario, the ball-shaped things, what are connected to Daedalus, are actually the fuel-cells, what would pump the electric power to the electromagnetic cannon, what can terminate many targets, what has electronic equipment. In this case, the structure would use to give long-term electromagnetic radiation to the target area, what can be very large. But those electromagnetic weapons have one ability, what is ever spoken, and this makes them absolutely terrifying things. By using them the operator can take the enemy army under control or cause the psychosis and other mental disorders for targeted persons. Those weapons can put the person in the "dream world", where the target doesn't even know, what is true and what is false.

Those weapons can cause synthetic dreams in the human mind, by inducing the electricity to the nerve system, and that kind of weapons can be more dangerous than any normal EMP-weapons, what can be used against the drones and other equipment. If Daedalus is only the covert project for that kind of weapon project, that would be a very dangerous but effective tool in the hands of the military.  Those EMP-satellites could knock out any military satellite or radar and computer installation on Earth.

Sources:

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

The Jupiter's secrets, what Juno-probe can discover

Kimmo Huosionmaa

Below this text is the link to Juno-programs homepages of NASA. There are some details, what people probably don't know about this planet. The gas giant is well-known that there are massive radiation areas around it, and the planet have been well known also that it shines more radiation, than it gets from the sun. The thing causes by the very strong magnetic field of that planet, and sometimes have been speculated that there would be forming so-called micro-fusions inside that planet layer of metallic hydrogen, because if the speed of rotation of that layer is very high, and the flashes of lightning inside the atmosphere would raise the temperature of the nucleus of the planet high enough, would there happen also nuclear reactions.

The Jupiter is giving the information, how the stars are forming and also conditions near the brown drafts, what are the coldest stars, what can be found in the universe. The brown draft is cooler and smaller than the red draft, and some of them are actually smaller than Jupiter, but they are forming with heavier elements than Jupiter and in those cases, the pressure and heat are enough high, that sometimes inside those stars happens short term fusion reaction.

When there is a pause in the nuclear reactions inside brown dwarf, the star would start to get smaller, and the pressure inside the star would rise. That will start the fusion, what causes that the brown dwarf would get bigger. When the pressure would get lower, nuclear reaction inside those "cepheid dwarf" would get low, and fusion will stop. The reason, why I called brown dwarfs as "Cepheid dwarfs" is that they are acting like other cepheid-stars, but brown dwarfs are smaller than those "normal cepheids".

The red spot of Jupiter is a very interesting phenomenon because using it the scientists would get information, that would there be water in Jupiter's atmosphere. There is a little possibility, that in the clouds of that planet would be tiny organisms like bacteria or even amoebas and medusa-looking organisms, what would be hanging in the clouds of that gas giant. The idea of those lifeforms is not actually my own, I took it from the Carl Sagan's book "Cosmos", what is very interesting to read even in the almost 40 years after it was published. The idea that there would be primitive lifeforms in other planets is not new.

There are suspected to be found the bacteria in other planets and moons in our solar system. And one of the promising places after the Europa moon is Triton, the giant moon of Neptune. There are black geysers on the surface of this moon, and that has given an idea, that the life form on other planets would use volcanic heat for making energy for their processes. That would allow the bacteria level organisms existing in many moons, where are volcanic actions, what gives energy for those organisms, what are living in the weak sunlight, what couldn't maintain photosynthesis.

Sources:

https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/juno/main/index.html

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

Metallic hydrogen and planet Jupiter

Kimmo Huosionmaa

Metallic hydrogen and planet Jupiter Kimmo Huosionmaa How the planet could be warmer than the star, what it orbits? The answer is that the wind of the planet would make it warmer than it sun, or the radiation, what sun sends to it. The thing is visible in the planet Jupiter, what the higher atmosphere is about -150 degrees Celsius, but the winds are blowing about 450 kilometers per hour. And this wind causes the effect, where the entire planet would rotate in the very high speed.

This rotation of this gas giant causes extreme powerful magnet field, and the lightning inside will give brightness, but the magnet field is the main reason for the radiation of Jupiter and the radiation, what comes from this planet is so powerful, that it almost destroyed the electronics of Pioneer 10 space probe. The 1970's technology was not very sensitive, and this tells, that the magnetic forces of that planet are extremely high, and there is something, what we cannot ever face on Earth.

Inside the Jupiter is the probably metallic or crystal form of hydrogen, what is an extremely hard material. Because Jupiter is not like Earth, and it is formed of gas, there is no strict surface of the planet, and in the level, where the gas is in the form of water, the pressure would be ten times of Earth. In the layer of the metallic would be two million times of the Earth, and the liquid hydrogen-metal is forming the extreme magnet field of Jupiter. The liquid metal hydrogen is a very interesting material because it's so light, and it can be used in the extreme powerful generators, but there is a couple of problems with that. There should not found any oxygen or the metallic hydrogen would detonate.

The metallic hydrogen can be formed by using hydrogen ions, what would be pressured by using magnet field. This kind of generators can look like toruses, what locating in the space. Electricity will send to the Earth by using a very high power radio transmissions, what would transfer electricity to the electric network wireless. The idea is that that metallic hydrogen would rotate around the metal heart by using magnet field little bit like in the fusion reactors, and the thing will forming very high voltage of electricity. But the problems to create this kind of things makes this kind of projects staying in the imagination.