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       few  moments,  there in Colorado Springs, he  achieved  something
       never before done.  He had used the entire planet as a conductor,
       and sent a pulse through it.  In that one moment in the summer of
       1899, he made electrical history.  That's right, in 1899 --  darn
       near a hundred years ago.  Well, you may say to yourself,  that's
       a  nice story, and I'm sure George Lucas could make a hell  of  a
       move  about it, special effects and all.  But it's  not  relevant
       today. Or isn't it?  Hang on to your hat.

                            THE SDI AND THE TESLA COIL

            Last month we talked about an amazing hack that Nikola Tesla
       did  -- bouncing an electrical wave through the planet, in  1899,
       and  setting  the  world's record  for  manmade  lightning.  This
       month,let  me lay a little political groundwork.  Last October  I
       attended  Hackercon  2.0, another gathering of  computer  hackers
       from all over.  It was an informal weekend at a camp in the hills
       west  of  Santa Clara. One of the more  interesting  memories  of
       Hackers  2.0  were the numerous diatribes against  the  Strategic
       Defense  Initiative.   Most speakers claimed it  was  impossible,
       citing  technical  problems.  So many people  felt  obligated  to
       complain  about  SDI  that the  conference  was  jokingly  called
       "SDIcon  2.0".  Probably the high(?) point of the conference  was
       Jerry Pournelle and Timothy Leary up on stage debating SDI.  I'll
       leave  the description to your imagination -- it  was  everything
       you  can think of and more.  Personally, I was disturbed  to  see
       how many gifted hackers adopting the attitude of "let's not  even
       try".   That's  not how micros got started.  I mentioned  to  one

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       Time magazine journalist that if anyone could make SDI go, it was
       the  hackers  gathered there.  I also believe that  the  greatest
       hacker  of  them  all, Nikola Tesla,  solved  the  SDI  technical
       problem back in 1899.  The event was so long ago, and so amazing,
       that it's pretty much been forgotten; I described it last  issue.
       Let me present my case for the Tesla Coil and SDI.

                           SOVIET USE OF THE TESLA COIL

            You  will  recall I said that Tesla was born  in  Yugoslavia
       (although back then, it was "Serbo-Croatia").  He is not  unknown
       there;  he  is regarded as a national hero.  Witness  the  Nikola
       Tesla   museum   in  Belgrade,  for   instance.    There's   been
       interferences  picked  up, on this side of the planet,  which  is
       causing  problems  in  the ham radio  bands.   Direction  finding
       equipment  has  traced  the interference in the SW  band  to  two
       sources  in  the  Soviet Union, which  are  apparently  two  high
       powered  Tesla Coils. Why on earth are the Soviets  playing  with
       Tesla  Coils?   There's one odd theory  that  they're  subjecting
       Canada  to  low level electrical interference to  cause  attitude
       change.  Sigh.  Moving right along, there's another theory,  more
       credible, that they are conducting research in "over the horizon"
       radar using Tesla's ideas.  (The Soviets are certainly not saying
       what  they're doing.) When I read about this testing, it  worried
       me.   I  don't  think they're playing with  attitude  control  or
       radar.  I think they're doing exactly what Tesla did in  Colorado
       Springs.

                              COMPUTERS AND GROUNDING

            Time  for  another discussion of grounding.   Consider  your
       computer equipment.  You've doubtlessly been warned about  static
       electricity,   always   been  told  to  ground   yourself   (thus
       discharging  the static into the ground, an electrical  sinkhole)
       before touching your computer.  Companies make anti-static  spray
       for  your  rugs.  Static is in the 20,000 to 50,000  volt  range.
       Computer  chips  run  on  five to  twelve  volts.   The  internal
       insulation is built for that much voltage.  When they get a  shot
       of static in the multiple thousand volt range, the insulation  is
       punctured,  and the chip ruined.  Countless computers  have  been
       damaged this way.  Read any manual on inserting memory chips to a
       PC,  and  you'll see warnings about static; it's a  big  problem.
       Now  Tesla was working in the millions of volts range.   And  his
       special idea -- that the ground itself could be the  conductor --
       now  comes  into  relevance, nearly a  hundred  years  after  his
       dramatic demonstration in Colorado Springs. For, you see, in  our
       wisdom  we've grounded our many computers, to protect  them  from
       static.   We've  always  assumed  the  ground  is  an  electrical
       sinkhole.   So, with our three-pin plugs we ground everything  --
       the  two  flat  pins  in your wall go  to  electricity  (hot  and
       neutral);  the third, round pin, goes straight to  ground.   That
       third  pin  is usually hooked with a thick wire to a  cold  water
       pipe,  which  grounds it effectively. Tesla proved that  you  can
       give  that  ground a terrific charge, millions of volts  of  high
       frequency  electricity.   (Tesla ran his large coil at  33  Khz).
       Remember, the lightning surging off his Coil was coming from  the
       wave  bouncing back and forth in the planet below. In  short,  he
       was modifying the ground's electrical potential, changing it from
       an  electrical  sinkhole to an electrical source. Tesla  did  his

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       experiment  in  1899.   There weren't  any  home  computers  with
       delicate  chips  hooked up to grounds then.  If there  had  been,
       he'd  have  fried  everything in  Colorado  Springs.  There  was,
       however,  one piece of electrical equipment grounded at the  time
       of the experiment, the city power generator.  It caught fire  and
       ended   Tesla's  experiment.   The  cause  of  its   failure   is
       interesting  as  well.  It died from "high  frequency  kickback",
       something  most  electrical engineers know about.   Tesla  forgot
       that  as  the  generator fed him power, he was  feeding  it  high
       frequency   from   his  Coil.   High  frequency   quickly   heats
       insulation;  a microwave oven works on the same principle.  In  a
       few  minutes,  the insulation inside that generator grew  so  hot
       that the generator caught fire. When the lights went out all over
       Colorado Springs, there was the first proof that Tesla's idea has
       strategic possibilities.  It gets scarier.  Imagine Tesla's Coil,
       busily  pumping an electrical wave in the Earth.  On his side  of
       the planet, he was getting 130 foot sparks, which is a hell of  a
       lot of voltage and current.  And simple wave theory will show you
       that those sort of potentials exist on the far side of the planet
       as  well.  Remember, the wave was bouncing back and forth,  being
       reinforced  on  every trip. The big question is how  focused  the
       opposite  electrical pole will be.  No one knows.  But  it  seems
       probable  that  the far side of the planet's ground  target  area
       could be subjected to considerable electrical interference.   And
       if  computer  equipment is plugged inot that  ground,  faithfully
       assuming  the ground will never be a source of electricity,  it's
       just  too  bad  for  that equipment.   This  sort  of  electrical
       interference  makes  static look tiny by comparison.  It  doesn't
       take  much  difference  in ground potential to  kill  a  computer
       connected  across it.  Lightning strikes cause a temporary  flare
       in ground voltage; I remember replacing driver chips on a network
       on  all computers that had been caught by one  lightning  strike,
       when I lived in Austin. Imagine the effect on relatively delicate
       electronics  if someone fires up a Tesla Coil on the far side  of
       the planet, and subjects the grounds to steep electrical  swings.
       The  military applications are pretty obvious -- those ICBM's  in
       North Dakota, for instance.  It's possible they could be  damaged
       in their silos, and from thousands of miles away. Running two  or
       more Coils, you don't have to bee exactly on the far side of  the
       planet,  either.  Interference effects can give you  high  points
       where  you  need  with varied tunings.  Maybe,  just  maybe,  the
       Soviets  aren't doing "over the horizon" radar.  Maybe they  just
       bothered  to read Tesla's notes.  And maybe they are tuning up  a
       real big surprise with their twin Coils.

                          "STAR WARS" AND THE TESLA COIL

            You've  heard of the Strategic Defense Initiative, or  "Star
       Wars".   We're  searching  for a way to stop  a  nuclear  attack.
       Right now, we've got all sorts of high powered research projects,
       with  the emphasis on "new technology".  Excimer  laser,  kinetic
       kill techniques, and even more exotic ideas.  As any of you  know
       that  have  written computer programs, it's darned  hard  to  get
       something  "new" to work. Maybe it's an error to focus  on  "new"
       exclusively.   Wouldn't  it be something if the solution  to  SDI
       lies  a hundred years ago, in the forgotten brilliance of  Nikola
       Tesla?   For  right  now we can  immobilize  the  electronics  of
       installations  half a planet away.  The technology to do  it  was
       achieved  in  1899, and promptly forgotten. Remember,  we're  not

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       talking vague, unproven theories here.  We're talking the world's
       record for lightning, and the inventor whose power system  lights
       up your house at night.

                               THE TESLA COIL WORKS.

            All  we'd have to do is build it. You might not believe  the
       story  about  Tesla in Colorado Springs, and what he  did.   It's
       pretty amazing.  It has a way of being forgotten because of that.
       And  I'm  not  sure you want to hear about  the  SDI  connection.
       Still, as you work on a computer, remember Tesla.  His Tesla Coil
       supplies  the  high voltage for the picture tube  you  use.   The
       electricity  for  your  computer comes from  a  Tesla  design  AC
       generator, is sent through a Tesla transformer, and gets to  your
       house  through 3-phase Tesla power.  Tesla's inventions...   they
       have a way of working..

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