Archive for the 'War' Category
Lockheed: Practical Fusion Power Still 20 Years Away
July 20th, 2019— “$21 Trillion Dollars Is Missing from the U.S. Government” Via: The Drive: Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works is building a new, more capable test reactor as it continues to move ahead with its ambitious Compact Fusion Reactor program, or CFR. Despite slower than expected progress, the company remains confident the project can produce practical results, […]
Iran Seizes British-Flagged Tanker in Strait of Hormuz
July 19th, 2019Via: AFP: Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said Friday they had seized a British-flagged tanker in the Strait of Hormuz for breaking “international maritime rules” as tensions mount in the highly sensitive waterway. Britain however said Iran had seized two ships in the Gulf, with Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt warning of “serious consequences” if the issue was […]
U.S. Military Ordered to Reveal if Insects Were Used as Biological Weapon
July 17th, 2019Via: Independent: US lawmakers have voted to demand the Pentagon discloses whether it conducted experiments to “weaponise” disease-carrying ticks – and whether any such insects were let loose outside the lab. A bill passed in the House of Representatives requires the Defence Department’s inspector general to investigate whether biological warfare tests involving the tiny arachnids […]
Neuralink Presentation
July 16th, 2019Update: Elon Musk Says Neuralink Microchip Allowed a Monkey to ‘Control’ Computer with Brain Via: Fox: Elon Musk showed off some of what his neurotechnology company, Neuralink, has been developing Tuesday, and casually mentioned that the technology had been used “to control a computer with its brain.” “Just FYI,” he added. … Musk and other […]
United Arab Emirates Oil Tanker Goes Missing Near Iran
July 16th, 2019Update: Iran says it has seized foreign oil tanker and crew in the Persian Gulf — Via: Guardian: Tracking data showing an oil tanker that was heading towards Iranian waters and stopped transmitting its location on Saturday night has raised concerns about the status of the vessel amid heightened tensions between Iran and the US. […]
Decades Old Russian Nuclear Sub Wreck Leaking Radiation 100,000 Times Higher Than Normal
July 13th, 2019Via: ZeroHedge: Researchers in Norway have discovered radiation levels in excess of 100,000 times normal next to a Soviet-era nuclear submarine which sank in the Arctic 30 years ago – a reading which is higher than those taken 12 years ago, according to Norwegian news outlet TV2. The Kosomolets went down in the Barents Sea […]
Giant Batteries and Cheap Solar Power Are Shoving Fossil Fuels Off the Grid
July 12th, 2019If the electricity from solar plus storage is, “Cheaper than any power generated with fossil fuel,” why aren’t these systems shooting up like weeds? The availability of batteries is the bottleneck. We’ve heard about Tesla’s rumored 1GWh energy storage system and things like the 800MWh system below. This is a drop in the bucket, in […]
Skywatcher Captures Rare Image of Mysterious X-37B Military Space Plane
July 6th, 2019Via: LiveScience: Skywatcher and satellite tracker Ralf Vandebergh of the Netherlands recently caught a rare glimpse of the U.S. Air Force’s secretive X-37B space plane. Vandebergh said he’d been hunting for the robotic spacecraft for months and finally managed to track it down in May. But it took a bit longer to get photos of […]
Russia: Fire Kills 14 Sailors Aboard Navy “Research Submersible”
July 2nd, 2019Via: BBC: A fire aboard a Russian navy research submersible has killed 14 crew members, the Russian defence ministry says. The crew was poisoned by fumes as the vessel was taking measurements in Russian territorial waters on Monday. The ministry gave no details about the type of vessel. But Russian media reports say it was […]
Did U.S. Navy Patent Tic-Tac UFO Technology?
June 29th, 2019Limited Hangout: ‘Wow, What Is That?’ Navy Pilots Report Unexplained Flying Objects: At some level, there probably exists much more knowledge about the nature of the objects in the videos than we are being told… I think there’s at least better than even odds that an American is at the controls (possibly by remote) of […]
