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https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/AD1012150.pdf https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/AD1012150.pdf Gravitational Detection of Submarines, PM Moser 1989
by meindnoch 3y ago
https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/AD1012150.pdf https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/AD1012150.pdf
Gravitational Detection of Submarines, PM Moser 1989
- moffkalast 3y agoThat then makes single SLBM drone swarms the new meta. Spread them over a large enough area and it'll just seem like tectonic activity.
- perihelions 3y agoLook at what paper actually says: flat "not achievable" in the abstract; and the scaling laws on page 4 are third- and fourth- inverse powers of distance (!!!!); and on page 7 they're considering ranges of the same length scale as a submarine itself (few hundreds of meters), and even there it's hopeless. This one's never going to happen. Geologic mass concentrations are an entirely different story: you get a gravitational monopole, which is a more reasonable inverse square law. (No monopoles for a submarine, because by design they have a mean density equal to water—as the paper explains).
- Eliezer 3y agoWhat an excellent retrospectively obvious point!