A couple of things about kilometer-long space stations. That China and maybe some other nations in the world are planning

At first, we must realize that creating the kilometer-long modular structure in the space. Is not so complicated a task as people might think. This system requires only ten to twenty Saturn V-scale rockets or modules. Those rockets will be a dock together at the Earth orbiter. The length of Saturn V is 110 meters. And maybe half of it would be left empty for use as part of the modular space station. 

In some plans, those modules are made by using the empty rocket stages. In those stages is installed needed equipment. Like docking systems airlocks, and consoles. Whatever is needed to complete the structure of the space station. The purpose of the airlock is also to act as the fire door. And deny the lack of gas in the case where the core of the space station is damaged. Every each of the modules can be changed if there are problems with them. 

But why that kind of system is causing concern? The tube-looking structure can be a mega-laser. The kilometer-long monster can create the megawatt or even gigawatt class laser ray. 

The thing is that the empty rocket stages that can be used as the part of the space station can be used as the modules of the mega-lasers. Inside the structure of the kilometer-long tube would install the laser element. That element can also be modular and the bites of the laser tube can connect to the one entirely in the space. The laser would locate in the 20 50 meters long rocket stages. And the energy for that monster would be pumped by the auxiliary satellites. 

The kilometer-long carbon monoxide laser can seem like some kind of science fiction tale. But the idea is that the laser would be at the sun side of the Earth. And the support satellites that are orbiting the Earth by using the polar trajectories would aim their mirrors to that laser. Or if those auxiliary satellites are using lasers for pumping energy to the mega-laser can be anywhere. The idea of the mega-laser has been taken from the Soviet plans. 

The original idea of the lasers is to use solar power for creating their beam. The sunlight would target the laser system by using the mirror that collects the radiation to the laser element. 

The idea was officially to create the power satellite, but there were also military purposes for that kind of satellite. The power of the laser ray of this type of system is depending on the energy load that can be loaded into the laser system. And the kilometer-long laser that has auxiliary lasers for energy pumping is creating an extremely powerful ray that can affect targets on the ground. 

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Can we create robots or computers that are more intelligent than humans? And would we need those systems for travel to distant words like icy moons of Neptune?

Can we create robots or computers that are more intelligent than humans? And would we need those systems for travel to distant words like icy moons of Neptune? 

This question is very interesting because we can connect the human-shaped or even bug-sized robot to the supercomputers by using mobile data connection and outsourcing the calculation capacities will give the ability to give even the smallest robots very sophisticated abilities. If we think the ability to connect the robots straight to human brains by using EEG-bandanas, we can think the case.

That the system would consist of the ability to connect human brains to the same interface, what allows remote-system controls the field-operating robots, that would give the robot more brain capacity than humans. And this thing has given ideas to the robots like "Data" in "Star Trek" movies.

Those robots would look like very emotional, but they would be the part of the craft"s central computer system. That device would communicate with the crew, but there might be some other missions of that machine. There has been introduced one of the most extraordinary things about the purpose of that kind of hypothetical robots. And that is the robot would act as the pineal gland for the central computer. The idea is that the robot itself is highly sophisticated microprocessor what communicates with the memory blocks of the craft.

And this kind of things would be interesting when we are thinking about a hybrid computer system, where the central computer would operate with a robot. This kind of systems might look like basically trucks. In the roller-coaster would be the central computer, what communicates with the human-shape robot, what will operate as a driver. A similar system might also installed in the normal-looking houses. This kind of ideas can be used as the base for ideas to send human-shaped robots to other planets.

Those particles or targets for intelligent space probes could be extremely cold moons of the distant planets. 

The idea is similar in many cases. The human-shaped robot can operate separately from the platform, where are the central computers. And also the system might get assistance for computing from the satellites and super-computers, what are on the Earth. The system might use many sensors for modeling the environment, and one of those systems is laser-scanner, which would model the area very effectively.

If the system operates on some icy moon, the quadcopters would use the frozen gas for the propellant of the rocket engines. The system might break water molecules or it can boil hydrocarbon or nitrogen ice by using electric arc. And this would make possible to fly above those distant and icy worlds like moons of Saturn or Neptune. 

Also, that robot would operate with quadcopters, what will scan areas, what is invisible for the robot itself. The operators, who are working with supercomputers, and the super simulations would use this model for creating the routes for those robots. When we are thinking about the form of this kind of robot or robot group, it might look like some kind of jeep and the human-shaped robots could walk around it.

The computers would be networked the human-shaped robots and the central computer, what locates in the jeep-shaped vehicle. That combination can send the "humanoid robots" to search for things like cliffs. And if those systems are operating on the planets, where are not life forms but there is an atmosphere, all of the parts of those systems might use nuclear power.

But if there is not the atmosphere, but there is water, the quadcopters could create oxygen and hydrogen for rocket motors by using electrolysis. In those cases, the system would take the bite of ice and melt it in the electrolysis chamber. Also, there have been ideas that if the ice is forming by some gasses like frozen nitrogen or hydrocarbon the system might use electric arcs for steaming that material, and that would make the probes fly above frozen worlds of the distant moons.

About the mysterious X-37B

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About the mysterious X-37B

The X-37B is the miniature space shuttle, which can be used as the many types of missions. It can take small satellites to the orbiter, but it can also repair them. That automatized shuttle can spend even years in space, and that thing would give a change to speculations, that this system would someday to use for bringing small asteroids on Earth for a closer look. And of course, X-37B can operate as the base for small size-human shaped robots, what can operate on the orbital trajectory.

Actually, those robots might not look like human except, they have hands, which can use similar tools with humans. The shape of those orbital operating robots might be like flashlight what has hands. And those robots can remotely be operated from Earth. The role of X-37B might be the refueling the power systems of those robots, which are remote-controlled by using data gloves and virtual reality masks. 

But X-37B is the modular system, and it can allow giving the USAF the FOBS (Fractional Orbital Bombing System) capacity. And the thing is that the nuclear bomb can simply load in the cargo bay of the X-37B, and then this shuttle would dive to the target. Or it can drop that bomb to the target. The shuttle structure allows returning the nuclear bomb to the Earth when the operation is over. And the X-37B can be used also as the HCM (Hypersonic Cruise Missile). The missile would glide from the orbital to its target by using really high speed.

The miniature shuttles can be used as the FOBS weapons, which can return the nuclear warheads to the Earth.  X-37B can be equipped with DEW (Directed Energy Weapons) like laser and microwave systems. But it can also use kinetic energy rockets and missiles against ground targets. 

This kind of miniature shuttles can be used also as the satellite-killer. It can be equipped with similar ADS (Active Denial System)-system, what used in Afghanistan but some improved variants of this "non-lethal" microwave system might be planned to install in M-1 and Israeli Merkava tanks for protecting them against anti-tank missiles by using microwaves to explode the incoming warheads before they hit to the target. If this system is installed in the spacecraft, it can terminate the space systems, like reconnaissance, communication and navigation satellites.

In the more conventional version, the X-37B can take the rocket cassette, what is used in aircraft or helicopters to the manipulator. And then use those rockets against targets what might be on the space, but those rockets can be used as the kinetic energy ammunition, what can be used against ground targets.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_Denial_System

Picture I https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_X-37

Spacecraft and quadcopters

Spacecraft and quadcopters

Quadcopters are actually tools, which can be connected to the spacecraft. And in the wildest scenarios the spacecraft, what uses WARP drive would be actually fly in the atmosphere by same way with quadcopter, and when this craft would need the extreme speed, the wheels would turn to line, and start the suck ions through the line of those rotors, and in this scenario the frames of rotors would be used as the magnetic accelerators.

Or actually, the air condition tube-shaped magnetic rail can adjust between those magnets, and it can be made by using manipulator's hand, what would pull the magnets between the frames of the rotors, and the electricity can conduct to that track by using those frames. And the auxiliary magnets would be connected to another frame, or there can be another magnet between those frames.

Egg-shaped craft, what can connect to the quadcopter. The quadcopter can operate separate and it can take the hula wheel over the craft when it should be moved, and the idea is that the power source of that may be very small size vehicle would be in the quadcopter. By using external power source might be possible to create small size interplanetary spacecraft, what can take samples from Mars or other inner planets to Earth. There could be MDD tube inside the egg, and the quadcopter can also make electric arc inside that vehicle. The electric arc can give the thrust to that system.

Small-size spacecraft can use quadcopter as the auxiliary power

Or in the more conventional system the thing can use the parachute or large Mylar balloon, and under it would create rising air by using electric arc, and this is only the electric version of the hot-air balloon, where the torch has been replaced by using electrodes, and between them is forming an electric arc. The metal covered layer can be used to transfer electricity to the system. The electricity can be delivered by using maser. what allows to transfer electricity to that vehicle from Earth by using radio telescopes or that layer can be covered by solar panels, and if those panels are targeted with laser, that allows operating the dark side of planet Venus. That thing can deliver electric power to the egg, and the magnetic channel, what would go through it.

For the last was given the idea of one scenario, what was made under the control of the national security council. The idea was that in the hostile territory would be dropped or otherwise assemble the subcritical nuclear weapons, where the plutonium bites were put in the lithium or potassium. In the crisis situation, the quadcopters would land on them, and point the microwave radiation in that device, what might explode causing a nuclear explosion, what can destroy the entire city.