Gort’s Directed Energy Weapon, An Observation by James Pate Williams, Jr.

Today, I was reading a review of the movie, “The Day the Earth Stood Still”. The film was released on September 18, 1951. The reviewer referred to Gort, the planetary defending robot, as having a laser beam eye. However, the laser on Earth was invented by Theodore H. Maiman on May 16, 1960. Science fiction authors had written about death rays (directed energy weapons) since almost the invention of the fictional genre. Perhaps these deaths rays were composed of x-ray or gamma-rays. The Strategic Defense Initiative (also known derisively by the Fourth Estate, the press, as the “Star Wars” ABM [Anti-Ballistic Missile defense] program]) a 1980s President Ronald Reagan proposed and supported DARPA funded strategic ballistic defense program envisioned x-ray or gamma-ray lasers to knock out multiple ICBMs (Inter-Continental Ballistic Missiles) in their vulnerable launch phase or ballistic outer space flight phase. The problem with these high energy lasers is that most of the designs used a nuclear weapon to initiate the lasering action. Lately, there are some high-energy lasers that were being tested about 10 years ago by the United States Department of Defense: https://www.darpa.mil/program/high-energy-liquid-laser-area-defense-system

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

https://www.darpa.mil

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

Author: jamespatewilliamsjr

My whole legal name is James Pate Williams, Jr. I was born in LaGrange, Georgia approximately 69 years ago. I barely graduated from LaGrange High School with low marks in June 1971. Later in June 1979, I graduated from LaGrange College with a Bachelor of Arts in Chemistry with a little over a 3 out 4 Grade Point Average (GPA). In the Spring Quarter of 1978, I taught myself how to program a Texas Instruments desktop programmable calculator and in the Summer Quarter of 1978 I taught myself Dayton BASIC (Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) on LaGrange College's Data General Eclipse minicomputer. I took courses in BASIC in the Fall Quarter of 1978 and FORTRAN IV (Formula Translator IV) in the Winter Quarter of 1979. Professor Kenneth Cooper, a genius poly-scientist taught me a course in the Intel 8085 microprocessor architecture and assembly and machine language. We would hand assemble our programs and insert the resulting machine code into our crude wooden box computer which was designed and built by Professor Cooper. From 1990 to 1994 I earned a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from LaGrange College. I had a 4 out of 4 GPA in the period 1990 to 1994. I took courses in C, COBOL, and Pascal during my BS work. After graduating from LaGrange College a second time in May 1994, I taught myself C++. In December 1995, I started using the Internet and taught myself client-server programming. I created a website in 1997 which had C and C# implementations of algorithms from the "Handbook of Applied Cryptography" by Alfred J. Menezes, et. a., and some other cryptography and number theory textbooks and treatises.

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