The Perfect Spacecraft

[the_big_m_in_ok]

triffid said:

...In this way they could always tell if a nuclear device had been exploded somewhere in the world even when that nation in question denied it.Triffid

Hi triffid,
I'm not very familiar with nuclear weapons isotope emmisions with one exception: radioactive iodine.  A botched underground test in Nevada released radioactive iodine vapor into the wind over ground zero awhile ago, as in decades.
My point is:  Are there many lighter isotopes available to make detection efforts worthwhile?  Over several million square kilometers?
NOTE:
Tesla was concerned about radioactive O2, which I suppose he thought was bad enough to be a serious health concern.
Testatika has something in common with some of Tesla inventions:  Emmiting radiation.

--Lee 

[triffid]

If you will google up "nuclear chemistry" you will find a lot of answers there.Nuclear chemistry is not the same as mainstream chemistry.While I don't know a lot of particulars I was exposed to
nuclear chemistry for a year.So it makes perfect sense to me that natural lightning which makes some very shortlived isotopes just proves Telsa was correct when he talks about how  high voltage electricity can make some isotopes.Triffid

[triffid]

Back in 1979/1980 when I was there a flash had been seen from orbit and they thought it was a suspected nuclear device being exploded .The nation in question denied it but laboratory results detected the increase in background radiation.So it was concluded that this nation in question had exploded a nuclear device.It was an ally of the USA.Triffid

[triffid]

I am old enough to remember being told not to eat the snow after an above ground  nuclear test.
Whereas the natural made isotopes made during a thunderstorm are not strong enough to do much damage after a few days ,The new manmade isotopes would last a lot longer.Triffid

[the_big_m_in_ok]

triffid said:

...Whereas the natural made isotopes made during a thunderstorm are not strong enough to do much damage after a few days ,The new manmade isotopes would last a lot longer.Triffid

>>Right.  I was told by a professional landscaper that rain falling during a thunderstorm has dissolved nitrogen, which acts as a natural fertilizer.
You're probably correct in saying natural isotopes are few in number and amounts and spread out over very large areas.  No harm to anyone.

However, I've seen (on  http://www.amazing1.com  ?) that a large Tesla coil can be built from their plans.  Big voltage!    
Not a toy!  Tesla knew that.

Okay, I looked.  They do have the plans to a 1,500,000 volt "floor unit".  This might not be enough to fuse or transmute atoms.   I'm thinking 5,000,000+ volts---and Tesla's biggest coils could do that.

--Lee