Supplementary Internet Resources
Chapter 1
Some more detailed basics of geology as it applies to Chapter One: “Dead Man’s Candy”
The three main types of rocks are igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic.
Physical Geology
https://courses.lumenlearning.com/physicalgeology/chapter/chapter-3-summary/
Learn more about basaltic rocks:
https://www.hunker.com/13411368/what-type-of-rocks-are-river-rocks
The equation illustrated in this reference explains the complicated factors that go into the laser heating process of rocks:
ICALEO 2004, 1803 (2004); https://doi.org/10.2351/1.5060237
20 years ago, scientists and engineers proved that sandstone, limestone and shale can be spalled, melted, or vaporized by a 2 kilowatt laser.
Gahan, B.C., Parker, Richard A., Batarseh, Samih, Figueroa, Humberto, Reed, Claude B., and Zhiyue Xu. "Laser Drilling: Determination of Energy Required to Remove Rock." Paper presented at the SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition, New Orleans, Louisiana, September 2001. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/71466-MS
Petroleum engineers use lasers to soften deep rock that could not be penetrated by more conventional means. This permits access to newer deposits of oil and gas without risking damage to normal drilling equipment that is based on mechanical action only.
Shahin Jamali, Volker Wittig, Jascha Börner, Rolf Bracke, Andreas Ostendorf,
“Application of high powered Laser Technology to alter hard rock properties towards lower strength materials for more efficient drilling, mining, and Geothermal Energy production”,
Geomechanics for Energy and the Environment, Volume 20, 2019, 100112, ISSN 2352-3808,
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gete.2019.01.001.
(https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352380818300406)
INTERNET SOURCES
US Military Special Operations
https://www.military.com/special-operations/army-special-forces.html
https://www.marsoc.marines.mil/Units/MarineSpecialOperationsSchool/SERE.aspx
Future of terrorism
https://www.paperdue.com/essay/future-threat-of-terrorism-five-to-twenty-188416
Heat Map showing all domestic terrorism events in the USA since 1970
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/terrorist-attack-map_n_1244778
A photo of President Obama and Admiral McRaven shortly after a Navy SEAL team’s successful mission killing bin Laden.
The US Navy’s NR 1 Deep submergence craft for ocean engineering and research. https://web.archive.org/web/20030429014652/http://www.chinfo.navy.mil/navpalib/factfile/ships/ship-nr1.html
Pathfinder: a proposed submarine design with tank treads by Phil Pauley
https://www.wired.com/2011/03/sub-with-tank-treads-imagined-for-ocean-floor-drives/
In 1983, Sweden reported advanced Soviet sea floor hugging submarines intruding near their Musk Island Naval base. http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,923609,00.html
Lasers
An introduction into lasers as weapons written for a general audience.
https://science.howstuffworks.com/laser-weapon1.htm
This website discusses the use of very high power lasers for military applications.
http://www.ausairpower.net/APA-DEW-HEL-Analysis.html#mozTocId27295
U.S. Navy successfully torches an outboard motor a mile away with a laser.
http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/04/14/laser.weapon/index.html?iref=allsearch
https://www.foxnews.com/tech/us-navys-laser-test-could-put-heat-on-pirates
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZ9RsLygw0M
Lasers as weapons:
https://www.osapublishing.org/abstract.cfm?URI=AIO-2011-AIWB2
Lasers in Defense and Industry
https://www.accessengineeringlibrary.com/content/book/9780071609012/chapter/chapter18https://www.amazing1.com/burning-lasers.html
https://www.nktphotonics.com/cases/coherent-free-space-optical-transmission-through-the-atmosphere/
Laser for heating, blasting, melting and cracking of rocks:
https://onepetro.org/SPEATCE/proceedings-abstract/01ATCE/All-01ATCE/SPE-71466-MS/133949
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2352380818300406
https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1186/s40517-020-00171-y.pdf
Here is a look at what the generator might look like on one of the Puppies in Chapter One:
Wireless Communications
The hybrid backbone and peer-to-peer communication technology described in this chapter is inspired in part from the following:
https://meshdynamics.com/documents/MD_MILITARY_MESH.pdf
UC- Santa Barbara’s introduction to cell phone technology
https://www.mat.ucsb.edu/~g.legrady/academic/courses/03w200a/projects/wireless/cell_technology.htm
A huge offering of network services and products: https://www.ericsson.com/en/portfolio
Worthington’s team used a technology inspired by VSAT: small satellite dish private earth stations that can communicate narrow and broad band data directly with each other via a special hub.
https://blog.bliley.com/vsat-terminals-what-are-they-and-how-do-they-work
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/v/vsat.asp
Night Vision Helmet and Goggle sets
http://www.elbitsystems-us.com/night-vision
https://gpssignal.com/nvmonoculars.htm
https://www.photonis.com/solutions/night-vision
Geology
Much of the material used to understand the earth’s terrain was taken from the CIA World FactBook and much of the geological chemical make-up and physical properties of rocks was taken from Practical Handbook of Physical Properties of Rocks and Minerals. Robert S. Carmichael (Editor), CRC Press, Inc., 1989, Boca Raton, Florida, ISBN 0-8493-3703-8.
As well as:
Lustrino, Michele, and Marjorie Wilson. “The Circum-Mediterranean Anorogenic Cenozoic Igneous Province“. Earth-Science Reviews, vol. 81, issues 1–2, Mar. 2007, pp. 1-65.
Also consulted for geology were
http://georoc.mpch-mainz.gwdg.de/georoc/webseite/Expert%20Datasets/Lustrino_Wilson07.pdf
http://geology.com/rocks/basalt.shtml
http://geology.com/rocks/gabbro.shtml
https://www.hunker.com/13411368/what-type-of-rocks-are-river-rocks
Pie charts of basic rock types elemental compositions
https://courses.lumenlearning.com/physicalgeology/chapter/3-3-crystallization-of-magma/
https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/earth-and-planetary-sciences/pyroxene
Olivines
http://webmineral.com/data/Olivine.shtml#.YDGCL3lOmh8
http://www.geo.umn.edu/courses/1001/minerals/olivine.shtml
Spectroscopy of mineral and rocks: Strong water vibrational absorption overtones and ferrous ion electronic absorption bands are in the 1100 to 1200 nm wavelength range. That range is close to the Yb-fiber emission around 1060 nm.
https://apps.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a239496.pdf
Helicopters
Hannahan’s helicopter was inspired by the “Huey” - Bell UH-1 Iroquois - and the Apache AH-64
https://www.bellflight.com/products
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xekhqxGndIU
Infrared and ultraviolet emission seeking missiles, and defenses against them
http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/05/24/air.defense/
https://sputniknews.com/military/201603151036302986-armata-active-protection-system/
https://www.militaryfactory.com/smallarms/detail.asp?smallarms_id=30