Another team of US physicists recently published a paper suggesting that an unusually large solar flare from the Sun could have caused the pulse of energy.

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Human creativity, it seems, knows no bounds when it comes to inventing new ways to build a petroleum-based fire inside an enclosed metal space and then convert the resulting energy pulse into forward motion.

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Unfortunately, the lack of U.S. nuclear testing since 1992 has also contributed to uncertainty about the adequacy of steps to protect conventional military gear from the effects of high-energy, electromagnetic pulse (EMP) attacks.

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For the offense, one would utilize electronic jamming, electronic deception, directed-energy weapons, and electromagnetic pulse weapons.

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It operates by focusing a laser pulse in the air to create a high energy plasma ball (up to several kilometers away) at a target.

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This relatively minor shift, the model found, still produces enough energy to initiate a wave-like pulse of crystal-shattering snow separation that quickly propagates uphill and leads to a major release of the upper layer.

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Fast ignition also takes less powerful lasers, because the reaction rides on the energy contained in the pellet after the first pulse.

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But the biggest challenge for those reared on downhill skiing and unused to the pulse-raising effects of working against gravity is the absence of any energy-saving tow-lifts.

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