Actually, if you heavily zoom in, the spots on the pillars are distinct and sharp edged. Likely film defects. These appear elsewhere in the images. The spots in the sky appear fuzzy. The white spots on the parking lot lamps are raven poop, and they are fuzzy. Real white objects are not distinct.
Yes, AC. Back in the early 2000's my wife was at work and I was in the parking lot waiting for her to get off. I looked to the north and saw two white objects dancing around each other. Hard to guess a distance, but I would think maybe 3 or 4 miles away. I had one of the old disposable cameras in the car and I took 13 photos of the objects. A co-worker of my wife saw the objects, and she also photographed them. I scanned my photos at 600 dpi, and I would be glad to attach them to an email if you can post an address.
I am reading Homo Deus. The author spent an entire chapter describing the deplorable conditions to which we subject animals. For example, sows are placed in 2x6 cages for the gestation period of their piglets. They are quickly rebred so that they yield one litter right after another. I really did not understand the author's purpose in this focus until I hit this passage:
"In recent years, as people began to rethink human-animal relations, such practices have come under increasing criticism. We are suddenly showing unprecedented interest in the fate of so-called lower life forms, perhaps because we are about to become one."
I am amazed by all the negative, whining posts concerning life-extension. Don't any of you guys ever read? Don't you actually think!? Our technological progress is moving at an exponential rate. In 30 years or so humans will be augmented to the point of being meatware/hardware cyborgs. In some decades after that we will be hardware/software/etheral beings. I relish living into such an enhanced state, and I just hope I live long enough to start on that path. All this talk about overpopulation, etc. becomes irrelevant as we blast into this future. Dammit, we are technologists! We solve problems!
My hat is off to the team at the Salk Gene Expression Laboratory. Great Work!
Actually, there appears to be an economical alternative. Natural gas can be "cracked" into hydrogen gas and carbon black by bubbling it through a column of molten tin. The carbon accumulates as a removable layer on top of the tin, and pure hydrogen comes off the top of the column. Switching to a hydrogen economy would be difficult, but it certainly is doable. Disposing of the carbon black is a problem, but is minor compared to the continued emission of CO2. Might be able to pelletize the carbon and dump it into a deep ocean trench ( I can imagine the screech coming from the environmentalist at such a suggestion! Deafening! ) Going this route would provide a solution to CO2-induced global warming, but I really doubt that government has the will or competence to do it.
https://web.anl.gov/PCS/acsfue...http://newatlas.com/hydrogen-p...
New Scientist, Oct. 8 - 14, had a great article on cracking natural gas into hydrogen gas and carbon black. Researchers in Spain bubbled natural gas through a column of molten tin at about 1000C. Hydrogen came off the top while carbon black floated to the surface of the tin. Had a reaction efficiency of about 80%. Would be best to use the hydrogen in a hybrid vehicle - batteries would be charged by a combined cycle "engine". This engine would be a solid oxide fuel cell followed by a supercritical CO2 turbine. Could get power efficiencies in the range of 70%. This would give excellent fuel mileage from a cheap fuel. Disposing of the carbon black would be a problem, but this a minor irritant compared to emitting carbon dioxide. The exhaust from the engine would be water vapor only. A crash program probably could get us converted to this tech in 10 to 15 years. Then, the fear of climate change would become just a memory. But, considering how disfunctional our governmental institutions are, transitioning to this clean technology has a snowball's chance in hell of happening. We're doomed.
Thank you, flyingfsck. I just downloaded "The Trial" pdf, and, at first glance, it looks like an excellent counterpoint to Anonymous Coward's delusional swill.
In one frame the second object coincides with one of the legs of a lightning tower. Zooming in shows that the leg is being illuminated by the fireball. And, it appears that the object is BEHIND the leg otherwise the illuminated portion of the leg would be darkened by the occluding object.
I recorded https://www.youtube.com/watch?... with VLC. The object is visible for 4 frames before the start of the explosion. At that point the bright X of light occurs. In frame 5 the object is directly over the exploding rocket. Then, it disappears! The explosion progresses for 4 more frames. Then ANOTHER object enters the video from the lower left. This object appears to go behind the fireball. It exits to the upper right and transits for about 15 frames. Weird! Has anyone seen a video from a different angle?
Remember, back in the heat of the Snowden affair, it was rumored that he had established an insurance stash of files. And during that same time frame the existence of a hoard of Wikileaks insurance files was revealed.
https://nakedsecurity.sophos.c...
These files files were in three traunches - 3.6GB, 49GB, and 349GB. Supposedly these were encrypted with AES256. The string posted by Snowden is 256 bits long. Has anyone tried opening the Wikileaks files with this string?
Several sources have suggested that Four Corners is the site of a large meteor strike. A circular image at that location sometimes appears on:
http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/goes/w...
cold fjord, in the interview Rajesh De used the words "collect", "collection", "collecting". Since your evidently are thoroughly informed about NSA activities, can you tell us EXACTLY what these words mean within the NSA?
I'm half way thru The Future Declassified, Megatrends That Will Undo The World Unless We Take Action. Discusses points in your posting. New kind of government? Not from those clowns in Washington. Yep, we're doomed.
Xipher, if I understand CALEA correctly, it applies to the hardware manufacturers and covers voice, VOIP, and broadband internet. Does CALEA apply to the USER of the hardware. That is, if a person roots his phone and installs an encryption app, does CALEA apply?
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Actually, if you heavily zoom in, the spots on the pillars are distinct and sharp edged. Likely film defects. These appear elsewhere in the images. The spots in the sky appear fuzzy. The white spots on the parking lot lamps are raven poop, and they are fuzzy. Real white objects are not distinct.
Actually, the files are too big to attach. So, I put the photos in Google Drive. https://drive.google.com/drive... I hope this works.
Yes, AC. Back in the early 2000's my wife was at work and I was in the parking lot waiting for her to get off. I looked to the north and saw two white objects dancing around each other. Hard to guess a distance, but I would think maybe 3 or 4 miles away. I had one of the old disposable cameras in the car and I took 13 photos of the objects. A co-worker of my wife saw the objects, and she also photographed them. I scanned my photos at 600 dpi, and I would be glad to attach them to an email if you can post an address.
I am reading Homo Deus. The author spent an entire chapter describing the deplorable conditions to which we subject animals. For example, sows are placed in 2x6 cages for the gestation period of their piglets. They are quickly rebred so that they yield one litter right after another. I really did not understand the author's purpose in this focus until I hit this passage: "In recent years, as people began to rethink human-animal relations, such practices have come under increasing criticism. We are suddenly showing unprecedented interest in the fate of so-called lower life forms, perhaps because we are about to become one."
Soylent Green https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
I am amazed by all the negative, whining posts concerning life-extension. Don't any of you guys ever read? Don't you actually think!? Our technological progress is moving at an exponential rate. In 30 years or so humans will be augmented to the point of being meatware/hardware cyborgs. In some decades after that we will be hardware/software/etheral beings. I relish living into such an enhanced state, and I just hope I live long enough to start on that path. All this talk about overpopulation, etc. becomes irrelevant as we blast into this future. Dammit, we are technologists! We solve problems! My hat is off to the team at the Salk Gene Expression Laboratory. Great Work!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Actually, there appears to be an economical alternative. Natural gas can be "cracked" into hydrogen gas and carbon black by bubbling it through a column of molten tin. The carbon accumulates as a removable layer on top of the tin, and pure hydrogen comes off the top of the column. Switching to a hydrogen economy would be difficult, but it certainly is doable. Disposing of the carbon black is a problem, but is minor compared to the continued emission of CO2. Might be able to pelletize the carbon and dump it into a deep ocean trench ( I can imagine the screech coming from the environmentalist at such a suggestion! Deafening! ) Going this route would provide a solution to CO2-induced global warming, but I really doubt that government has the will or competence to do it. https://web.anl.gov/PCS/acsfue... http://newatlas.com/hydrogen-p...
New Scientist, Oct. 8 - 14, had a great article on cracking natural gas into hydrogen gas and carbon black. Researchers in Spain bubbled natural gas through a column of molten tin at about 1000C. Hydrogen came off the top while carbon black floated to the surface of the tin. Had a reaction efficiency of about 80%. Would be best to use the hydrogen in a hybrid vehicle - batteries would be charged by a combined cycle "engine". This engine would be a solid oxide fuel cell followed by a supercritical CO2 turbine. Could get power efficiencies in the range of 70%. This would give excellent fuel mileage from a cheap fuel. Disposing of the carbon black would be a problem, but this a minor irritant compared to emitting carbon dioxide. The exhaust from the engine would be water vapor only. A crash program probably could get us converted to this tech in 10 to 15 years. Then, the fear of climate change would become just a memory. But, considering how disfunctional our governmental institutions are, transitioning to this clean technology has a snowball's chance in hell of happening. We're doomed.
Thank you, flyingfsck. I just downloaded "The Trial" pdf, and, at first glance, it looks like an excellent counterpoint to Anonymous Coward's delusional swill.
The yahoo lawyer is Ron Bell. He signed off on this loathsome activity. http://legaltalknetwork.com/po...
In one frame the second object coincides with one of the legs of a lightning tower. Zooming in shows that the leg is being illuminated by the fireball. And, it appears that the object is BEHIND the leg otherwise the illuminated portion of the leg would be darkened by the occluding object.
I recorded https://www.youtube.com/watch?... with VLC. The object is visible for 4 frames before the start of the explosion. At that point the bright X of light occurs. In frame 5 the object is directly over the exploding rocket. Then, it disappears! The explosion progresses for 4 more frames. Then ANOTHER object enters the video from the lower left. This object appears to go behind the fireball. It exits to the upper right and transits for about 15 frames. Weird! Has anyone seen a video from a different angle?
Remember, back in the heat of the Snowden affair, it was rumored that he had established an insurance stash of files. And during that same time frame the existence of a hoard of Wikileaks insurance files was revealed. https://nakedsecurity.sophos.c... These files files were in three traunches - 3.6GB, 49GB, and 349GB. Supposedly these were encrypted with AES256. The string posted by Snowden is 256 bits long. Has anyone tried opening the Wikileaks files with this string?
My name is Talking Barbie, and you'd better be nice to me.
Sounds like somebody has been messing with your stapler!
Firethorn, http://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.c... says that the F-35a also is a POS.
A follow-up to my prior post: http://www.pbase.com/merriwolf...
Several sources have suggested that Four Corners is the site of a large meteor strike. A circular image at that location sometimes appears on: http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/goes/w...
cold fjord, in the interview Rajesh De used the words "collect", "collection", "collecting". Since your evidently are thoroughly informed about NSA activities, can you tell us EXACTLY what these words mean within the NSA?
I'm half way thru The Future Declassified, Megatrends That Will Undo The World Unless We Take Action. Discusses points in your posting. New kind of government? Not from those clowns in Washington. Yep, we're doomed.
I give the NSA a lot of credit though. They're tough competitors. A real class act.
Xipher, if I understand CALEA correctly, it applies to the hardware manufacturers and covers voice, VOIP, and broadband internet. Does CALEA apply to the USER of the hardware. That is, if a person roots his phone and installs an encryption app, does CALEA apply?
I agree. Check out http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...
Wonderful, Orp. Absolutely beautiful work. Kudos.