Archive for the 'Space' Category
The Pentagon Is Experimenting With Using Artificial Intelligence To “See Days In Advance”
August 2nd, 2021“Remember the one about better broadband Internet options for rural customers? haha” And now… Global Information Dominance Experiments (GIDE) use Starlink. I went looking for how they are using Starlink and couldn’t find much, except this gibberish on an Air Force press release. I bolded the parts that might relate to Starlink: In addition to […]
Amazon Acquires Facebook’s Satellite Team
July 14th, 2021Via: Datacenter Dynamics: Amazon has acquired Facebook’s satellite team to boost its Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite efforts. First reported by The Information and confirmed by Business Insider, Amazon has acquired more than a dozen satellite Internet experts from the social media company. The Information reports the Facebook employees – including physicists as well as […]
Classified Briefing: “UFOs Could Pose a Pressing Threat to America’s National Security”
June 16th, 2021#uapyellowcake Via: New York Post: Capitol Hill lawmakers said Wednesday that UFOs could pose a pressing threat to America’s national security, as the pols emerged from a highly classified briefing with Navy and FBI officials on the unexplained phenomena.
$1.2 Million Worth of Cocaine Washes Ashore at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station
June 13th, 2021Via: Fox: Multiple packages of cocaine washed ashore on a beach at Cape Canaveral last month, the US Space Force said. … A Brevard County Sheriff’s Office narcotics agent performed a field test on one of the packages and verified that it was cocaine. In all, 24 packages weighing nearly 30 kilograms were seized from […]
China Lands Spacecraft on Mars
May 14th, 2021Via: Reuters: An uncrewed Chinese spacecraft successfully landed on the surface of Mars on Saturday, state news agency Xinhua reported, making China the second space-faring nation after the United States to land on the Red Planet. The Tianwen-1 spacecraft landed on a site on a vast plain known as Utopia Planitia, “leaving a Chinese footprint […]
1952 Novel by Wernher von Braun: Mars Ruled by Elon
May 7th, 2021Via: The Sun: ELON Musk’s plot to colonise other worlds may have been predicted by a German scientist 70 years ago. Writing in his 1952 science fiction novel “Project Mars”, engineer Wernher von Braun described a man called “Elon” who ruled over the Red Planet. One passage of the book – a fantasy blueprint for […]
SpaceX Successfully Lands Starship Rocket
May 6th, 2021Via: PhysOrg: SpaceX managed to land its prototype Starship rocket at its Texas base without blowing it up on Wednesday, the first time it has succeeded in doing so in five attempts.
“We can’t do a thing to stop UFOs – it could be America’s biggest spy failure since 9/11, warns ex-Pentagon investigator”
April 30th, 2021Tell me another one, Lou. Let me guess… Lockheed Martin, et al. will need a few trillion more dollars to deal with the, “Threat.” Via: The Sun: “There is something in our skies, we don’t know what it is, we don’t know how it works, we don’t know fully what it can do, we don’t […]
NASA Rover Makes Oxygen From Martian Atmosphere
April 22nd, 2021Via: NPR: After making the first powered flight on another world, NASA’s Mars 2020 mission has managed another key first that could pave the way for future astronauts by making breathable oxygen out of the wispy Martian air. NASA announced that an instrument aboard the rover had successfully extracted carbon dioxide from the atmosphere on […]
NASA’s Ingenuity Helicopter Successfully Hovered for 40 Seconds in Mars’s Thin Atmosphere
April 20th, 2021Via: Scientific American: NASA has pulled off the first powered flight on another world. Ingenuity, the robot rotorcraft that is part of the agency’s Perseverance mission, lifted off from the surface of Mars on 19 April, in a 40-second flight that is a landmark in interplanetary aviation. “We can now say that human beings have […]
