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and entered the record books as the most powerful laser beam ever emitted.” 109
In tandem with endless war, lasers are also leading the way for remarkable medical advances
—and yet harnessing lasers to genetics and the creation of life sounds exceedingly like yet
another weapon, like the billion kilowatts of the Prague Asterix Laser System that produce a
7,600°F shockwave that directed at plasma containing formamide, an ancient primordial
substance, will trigger chemical reactions leading to the formation of the four RNA nucleobases
adenine, guanine, cytosine, and uracil. 110
The Cold War may have ended a quarter of a century ago, but a “space situational
awareness” race has taken its place. Ultimately, the buildup of “space surveillance assets” under
the new and upgraded Space Fence SSDS program that intends to “indirectly enable a range of
decisive responses that will enable counterspace threats ineffective” 111 is all about the new
battlespace encompassing the Earth and the heavens. Near-Earth conductivity is being amped up
with the same metal nanoparticles that have transformed the troposphere into an antenna farm.
Whether for upper atmosphere wars or lower atmosphere magic shows to wow and frighten the
masses—like the blue plasma spiral near Tromsø, Norway (December 9, 2009), the plasma spiral
the following day over the Kapustin Yar missile range on the lower Volga of Russia, and a
similar plasma spiral the year before over China 112 —a paranoid, aggressive Space Age is upon
us, “incorporating data from multiple external sources, not just military radars and
telescopes.” 113
Lasers play a role in producing the scalar or interfering waves (interferometry) discussed in
Chapter 2. In 2014, CBS News made what may have been the first ever mainstream reference to
this technology, describing it as “dual beams” from two transmitters, one beam stripping
electrons from an area in the atmosphere, the other pulsing the plasma created by the stripped
electrons to form CCN (cloud condensation nuclei) for the production of raindrops. 114 Two
interfering beams of light requiring the presence of strontium barium niobate (SBN) in the
atmosphere can also produce holograms or laser-induced plasma shapes in the air:

. . .The resultant image is a hologram that can be viewed in real time over a wide perspective or field of view (FOV).
The holographic image is free from system-induced aberrations and has a uniform, high quality over the entire FOV.
The enhanced image quality results from using a phase conjugate read beam generated from a second photorefractive
crystal acting as a double pumped phase conjugate mirror (DPPCM). Multiple three-dimensional images have been
stored in the crystal via wavelength multiplexing. 115

Haptic holography—holographs you can touch—is also now possible. With femtosecond
laser technology, 116 Japanese researchers have developed “Fairy Lights, a system that can fire
high frequency laser pulses that last one millionth of one billionth of a second” and “respond to
human touch, so that—when interrupted—the hologram’s pixels can be manipulated in mid-
air.” 117 An earlier 2008 account of “Fairy Lights” holography points out the dangers inherent in
high-frequency ultrasound generated by high-intensity femtosecond laser (not to mention the
atmospheric heat it produces):

Researchers at the University of Tokyo have demonstrated a device that can create touchable, creepily invisible
floating ‘objects’ using focused ultrasound waves. . .There’s a major catch, though: the virtual objects won’t provide
much resistance or seem very ‘hard’ because at high enough levels the aurally imperceptible ultrasound will destroy
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your eardrums.

Is Project Blue Beam coming to fruition at last? Satellites and laser-based projection systems