Archive for the 'War' Category
X-37B Military Space Plane Wings Past 400 Days on Latest Mystery Mission
October 19th, 2018Via: space.com: The latest mystery mission of the U.S. Air Force’s robotic X-37B space plane has now passed the 400-day mark. This mission — known as Orbital Test Vehicle (OTV-5) — was rocketed into Earth orbit on Sept. 7, 2017, atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center […]
Mexican Town Practically Eliminated Crime by Throwing Out Politicians and the Police
October 19th, 2018Via: Al Jazeera:
Trump Threatens to Use Military to Shut Southern U.S. Border
October 18th, 2018Via: Reuters: U.S. President Donald Trump threatened to deploy the military and close the southern U.S. border on Thursday as more Hondurans and Salvadorans joined thousands of migrants in Guatemala headed north. “I must, in the strongest of terms, ask Mexico to stop this onslaught – and if unable to do so I will call […]
Boston Dynamics: Parkour Atlas
October 11th, 2018Via: Boston Dynamics: Atlas does parkour. The control software uses the whole body including legs, arms and torso, to marshal the energy and strength for jumping over the log and leaping up the steps without breaking its pace. (Step height 40 cm.) Atlas uses computer vision to locate itself with respect to visible markers on […]
U.S. Army 1983: “Be Intellectually Prepared to React to Possible Encounters with Intelligent, Non-Corporal Energy Forms When Time-Space Boundaries Are Exceeded”
October 10th, 2018This is a U.S. Army Intelligence document on Hemi-Sync and Itzhak Bentov’s Stalking the Wild Pendulum. The source document is “Analysis and Assessment of Gateway Process,” CIA-RDP96-00788R001700210016-5.pdf, which you can find on CIA’s Electronic Reading room. https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/document/cia-rdp96-00788r001700210016-5
Air Force Awards Launch Vehicle Development Contracts to Blue Origin, Northrop Grumman, ULA
October 10th, 2018Via: SpaceNews: The U.S. Air Force announced on Wednesday it is awarding three contracts collectively worth about $2 billion to Blue Origin, Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems and United Launch Alliance to develop launch system prototypes. The funding is for the development of competing launch system prototypes geared toward launching national security payloads. Each company will […]
Too Fat to Fight
October 10th, 2018Via: Army Times: It’s well known at this point that just under 30 percent of Americans ages 17 to 24 ? the prime age to join the Army ? aren’t eligible to join. But beyond that, almost a third of those who sit down with a recruiter to take the first steps are immediately disqualified. […]
Financial Accounts May Be “Modified” to Shield Classified Programs
October 9th, 2018Not a new policy: missingmoney.solari.com Via: Federation of American Scientists: In an apparent departure from “generally accepted accounting principles,” federal agencies will be permitted to publish financial statements that are altered so as to protect information on classified spending from disclosure. The new policy was developed by the government’s Federal Accounting Standards Advisory Board (FASAB) […]
Jumping Robot Salto-1P
October 5th, 2018Via: IEEE:
DARPA Is Making Insects That Can Deliver Bioweapons
October 4th, 2018You’ll love this one. Via: Newsweek: The U.S. government’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has been accused of trying to create a new class of biological weapons that would be delivered via virus-infected insects. The Insect Allies program was announced by DARPA in 2016. It is a research project that aims to protect the […]
