A Roskosmos facility called TsNIIMash are under suspicion for leaking information of hypersonic missile secrets to Western spies. Last week, the Russia defense ministry released video of two new hypersonic missile systems – called Kinzhal and Avangard. Russia has simply taken legacy missile platforms and increased the rocket power to break to hypersonic (mach 5+) …
The SpaceX Falcon 9 and Iridium-7 went vertical earlier today on the SpaceX launch pad at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. Weather is 90% favorable for tomorrow’s launch at 4:39 a.m. PDT, 11:39 UTC. Falcon 9 and Iridium-7 went vertical earlier today on the SpaceX launch pad at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. …
NASA has been unable to fly people from U.S. soil since the shuttle was retired in July 2011. US astronauts have flown to the international space station on Russian rockets. In 2014, NASA awarded $6.8 billion in contracts to Boeing and SpaceX to develop manned flight spacecraft. The NASA contracts allow NASA allows Boeing and …
There is an analysis on Youtube of how the need for oil for German’s Panzer tanks, Luftwaffe planes and industrial war production shaped WW2. There was also a 2011 US Air Force Command paper by Major Shawn P. Keller called Turning Point (A History of German Petroleium in WW2 and its Lessons for the Role …
The US federal government has extended five hydro dam construction licenses. * the Gathright Hydroelectric Project located in Alleghany County, Virginia; * the Flannagan Dam and Reservoir Hydroelectric Project located in Dickenson County, Virginia; * the W. Kerr Scott Hydropower Project located on the Yadkin River in Wilkes County, North Carolina; * the Jennings Randolph …
In Laos, a hydroelectric dam that was under construction has collapsed. Hundreds of people are missing and many are likely dead. Rescue efforts were underway as top government officials rushed to the site and public appeals were launched for aid. The hydroelectric dam collapsed in southeastern Laos, leaving an unknown number of people dead and …
An Oakland woman was stabbed to death on a San Francisco Bay Area BART platform Sunday night. This was the second BART related homicide of the weekend and the third fatal assault over five-days. John Lee Cowell, 27, is the primary suspect in a double stabbing Sunday night that killed one woman and critically injured …
The South Korea company that claimed discovery of $130 billion in Russian gold from a shipwreck appears to be stock and cryptocurrency scams using the stolen location of a shipwreck. In 2000, Dong-Ah Construction said they were the first to find the wreck and also said there was gold. Dong-Ah produced no gold and did …
There is a video where critics of a proposed 2015 plan to power the US with 100% renewables lay out their case. They are not anti-renewables but they are pro-math. They worked out the issues of spacing of large scale solar panels and wind turbines. Jacobson agreed with them that his base proposed system will …
The dot-com bubble was a historic economic bubble ran from 1997 to 2001. It was a period of extreme growth in the usage and adaptation of the Internet. Between 1995 and 2000, the Nasdaq Composite stock market index rose 400%. It reached a price–earnings ratio of 200. From March to November 2000, internet stocks dropped …
China now has more than 4,000 companies with blockchain in their name. (Qixin search) Blockchain is the technology behind cryptocurrencies like bitcoin and ethereum. Qukualian, the Chinese translation of blockchain, was used in the registered names of 3,078 companies so far in 2018. 555 companies applied to use names with the chinese word for blockchain …