Archive for the 'Space' Category
“To Inhabit the Solar System”
November 16th, 2009Via: Register: The best mad scientist autobiography this year, perhaps the only one, is Tony Zuppero’s To Inhabit the Solar System. Better still, it’s free and in time for holiday reading. It’s a long but definitely not windy 391 pages. In it, Zuppero confirms everything – bad, weird, insane, amusing or simply astonishing – you […]
Vatican Looks to Heavens for Signs of Alien Life
November 11th, 2009Via: AP: E.T. phone Rome. Four hundred years after it locked up Galileo for challenging the view that the Earth was the center of the universe, the Vatican has called in experts to study the possibility of extraterrestrial alien life and its implication for the Catholic Church. “The questions of life’s origins and of whether […]
Rogue Satellites to be Cleared from Earth’s Orbit by German Robots
October 12th, 2009I swear, it’s a real headline. Via: Guardian: Robots that rescue failing satellites and push “dead” ones into outer space should be ready in four years, it has emerged. Experts described the development by German scientists as a crucial step in preventing a disaster in the Earth’s crowded orbit. Last year it was reported that […]
India’s Lunar Mission Finds Evidence of Water on the Moon
September 24th, 2009Via: Times: Dreams of establishing a manned Moon base could become reality within two decades after India’s first lunar mission found evidence of large quantities of water on its surface. Data from Chandrayaan-1 also suggests that water is still being formed on the Moon. Scientists said the breakthrough — to be announced by Nasa at […]
Pentagon Wants ‘Space Junk’ Cleaned Up
September 21st, 2009What will be cleaned up first? Orbital space junk, or the plastic apocalypse in the Pacific Ocean? Hmm. Via: Wired: The orbit around Earth is a very messy place and the Pentagon’s far-out research arm wants to do something about it. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency put out a notice yesterday requesting information on […]
Japan to Build Space Based Solar Power System; Just Don’t Hold Your Breath Waiting for It
September 4th, 2009Via: Bloomberg: Mitsubishi Electric Corp. and IHI Corp. will join a 2 trillion yen ($21 billion) Japanese project intending to build a giant solar-power generator in space within three decades and beam electricity to earth. A research group representing 16 companies, including Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd., will spend four years developing technology to send electricity […]
LEAKED PHONE CONVERSATION: DICK WEIR, CEO OF EESTOR, WORKED FOR CIA ON A “CHIP THAT WENT INTO DEEP SPACE”; “THEY CAME AND RECRUITED ME”; CIA TOLD HIM TO GO TO LOCKHEED MARTIN WITH ULTRA CAPACITOR TECHNOLOGY; DARPA HAS BEEN INVOLVED
July 27th, 2009EEstor is a “connected” front for the release of military technology into the private sector. —EEstor: More Clues Emerge I first theorized that EEstor was connected to the Black World in 2006. Now, thanks to an astonishing leak of a private telephone conversation, you can hear Dick Weir, the CEO of EEstor, talking about how […]
Military Hush-Up: Incoming Space Rocks Now Classified
June 12th, 2009I don’t know what to do with this one. Via: Space: For 15 years, scientists have benefited from data gleaned by U.S. classified satellites of natural fireball events in Earth’s atmosphere – but no longer. A recent U.S. military policy decision now explicitly states that observations by hush-hush government spacecraft of incoming bolides and fireballs […]
Satellites to Streamline U.S. Intelligence Agency Narcotics Trafficking Operations
May 21st, 2009That’s not a misleading headline for those of us who have been paying attention. But then again, how many people have ever of SEASPRAY? This looks like an updated version of SEASPRAY, which is part of how Barry Seal was able to move tons of drugs into the U.S. It’s helpful to make sure that […]
And the Black World Said: Let There Be Light and PG&E Agreed to Buy Orbit-Generated Electricity from Solaren in 2016
April 14th, 2009Ah yes, large satellites will beam vast amounts of clean energy from the sun to earth, 24/7, base load style. Let’s try to look past the headlines… First of all, this idea isn’t quite as old as the hills, but it’s at least several decades old, depending on what you consider to be the origin […]
