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FRANCE ANNOUNCES IT WILL WEAPONIZE SPACE WITH LASER SATELLITES

There's more space news out folks, courtesy of this story shared by K.M. And it's very intriguing space news at that, because France has announced that it plans to deploy satellites armed with powerful lasers to protect French space-based assets, and this comes shortly after the French President announced the formation of a French space force:

France to launch ‘fearsome’ satellites ‘armed with powerful lasers’ into space

There's more than meets the eye behind these lines:

It sounds like something out of a James Bond adventure, but France is to launch satellites armed with ‘powerful lasers’ into space.

The French Defense Minister Florence Parly said France was not being sucked into an arms race - and insisted the satellites would only be used to defend French space vehicles.

She said that the creation of a new French ‘space command’ announced by the president was central to a strategy to bolster defense capabilities, rather than offensive.

'If we want to be able to carry out real military operations in space, then we need to develop the ability to act alone,' Parly said, speaking at the Lyon-Mont Verdun air base.

'We reserve the right and the means to be able to respond: That could imply the use of powerful lasers deployed from our satellites or from patrolling nano-satellites.'  (Emphasis added)

The rationale here is almost exactly the same as that behind President De Gaulle's decision to develop an independent French thermonuclear and strategic missile capability back in the late 1950s, the so-called force de frappe: France, if it was to remain truly sovereign and independent, and not subject to the dictates of Moscow or, more importantly, Washington, had to have the capability to "act alone" (to quote the current article) and to possess the "right and the means to be able to respond" (to quote the current article once again).  As a result, France, which could not destroy either country "several times over" did develop the capability - which it still has, incidentally - to deal a crushing and perhaps fatal blow to both. It was the Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD) doctrine, French-style.

Something similar is operating here, particularly in the light of Mr. Trump's announcement of an American space force.

But there's something else operating, and it's even more important. Recently Europe completed a build out of its own financial clearing system independently of the American-dominated SWIFT system based (conveniently enough) in Brussels. Russia and China have been putting the final touches on their own system, and the Japanese of course have a clearing system in widespread use in the western Pacific, think of it as their World War Two "Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere," version 2.0. All of these clearing systems are heavily reliant upon space-based communications assets, and they need to be defended. The real question is, defended from whom? The answer, given recent opposition to American unipolarism, is that they need to be defended from American space-based weapons.

So where's the high octane speculation here? So far, there isn't any. These countries are acting in their national interests, and that's to be expected. The real question, in France's case, is whether this capability is to be included in the common European military that Paris and Berlin have signaled they want to create. That remains to be seen, but with the integration a few years ago of large French and German defense contractors (See: German, French defense companies to merge) it could be that this is another step in military integration. If not - and time alone will tell - then one can expect similar moves from the other European powers to  create their own space forces.

Again, there's no high octane speculation here. So what, exactly, is my high octane speculation about all of this development of other systems of international financial clearing, with their inevitably corollary, the development of space forces to protect them? To understand my high octane speculation concerning all of this, one has to ignore the Earth-based geopolitics behind it all, and look at the development whole, and independently of that geopolitics. When one does so, an intriguing picture emerges, for what is being built out is redundancy in international financial clearing, with European, Russo-Chinese, and Japanese systems being added to the American-dominated SWIFT system. Four levels of redundancy. If, for whatever reason, the SWIFT system is taken out, three others remain to step into the void. And building out such redundancy - and the means to protect them  - is exactly what one would do if one were trying to protect those planetary systems from interdiction by "someone else." In other words, what I am suggesting is that terrestrial geopolitical motivations for doing so, while legitimate, might not be the only nor the deepest reason for doing so. I'm reminded of the observation of the late Colonel Philip Corso in his well-known book The Day After Roswell, where he stated that the Mutually Assured Destruction doctrine which lay behind the massive themonuclear weapons stockpiles of the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War (not to mention the nuclear stockpiles of the United Kingdom, France, China, and later India and Pakistan)  was as much about deterring that "someone else" as it was about deterring each other. And while we're thinking along these lines, lasers may be adequate for defending satellites or taking others out. But the real question left unanswered in the French announcement is the frequency range of those satellite-based lasers. Might this be a cover for lasers operating in the gamma-ray range of the spectrum, for GRASERS? (Gamma-ray lasers). If so, then we're looking at a defensive capability that could easily become an offensive capability, and a potentially strategic one at that.

If that sounds like science fiction, then recall Reagan's "Star Wars" concept, and the fact that the USA at the time was talking about x-ray lasers, which would have required a nuclear explosion in space to create the x-rays to be cohered into a laser beam. The rumor at the time was that when Dr. Edward Teller phoned the White House after a nuclear underground test, he was phoning to inform Reagan that the concept had worked. The only problem with the idea was, of course, that such weapons were "one shot" affairs. But then an effect - the Mossbauer effect - was discovered that under certain conditions of acoustic stress, certain materials could be made to cohere x-rays and gamma rays into a laser beam... over and over again.

So, yes, I do suspect that behind all the denials that satellite based lasers are purely for defense, that they're not talking about lasers of any ordinary type, and that the real goal is to put weapons in space capable of an offensive and strategic use, zapping asteroids, or whatever (or whoever) else may come wandering into the neighborhood.

The USA and the Russian Federation have already made "space force" announcements, and now France has joined the club. And yes, I'm walking right off the end of the twig of speculation to say that this tends to confirm my view that this may be as much about what may be going on "out there" as it is about what's going on "down here."

See you on the flip side...

 

CHINA TELEPORTS AN ELECTRON FROM GROUND TO SPACE

This story was spotted by many readers here, and passed along to me, and for good reason, because that internet of things just took another gigantic step, for Chinese scientists have now successfully teleported an electron from the ground to a satellite 300 miles up in space:

China #1 in quantum entanglement, teleports object 300 miles Read more: https://www.tweaktown.com/news/66601/china-1-quantum-entanglement-teleports-object-300-miles/index.html

Before you start having visions of "beaming up to the Enterprise" and the goofy Gramscian empire-disguised-as-a-federation  that it  represents, the real import here, as the story relates, are the implications for a "quantum based internet" all based on the principles of entanglement, and if I may add, non-locality.

The real implications here are thus not for any "just around the corner" Star Trek fantasias, but rather for communications, security, and most importantly, secure financial clearing, for what the article is not telling you is that the Chinese have also been successful in similar photon-quantum entanglement experiments and "teleporting" them into space, sending and receiving them accurately 900 out of 900 times. Ponder that one, for it means there's  (1) no signal to noise problem, (2) no attenuation of the signal, (3) no loss of data, and most importantly, (4) is utterly secure, for in the wonderful world of entanglement, one must know the exact waveform of the entanglement taking place. This mathematical description thus also functions as a kind of "encryption-decryption" key, making such communication methods much more secure than their current counterparts. Or at least, that's the theory (I remain skeptical of the claim for the simple reason that humans inevitably find ways around things, including the most secure bank vault. But that's a speculation for another time.)

The implications of that in turn are profound, for in a world where data, communications, and financial clearing are moving to space-based platforms, security and accurate data transmission are the key, and whoever cracks the problem first will dominate the future commercial and financial world; if you're planning to mine asteroids, or have a global currency or even several regional currencies, the advantage will accrue to that power which establishes those secure quantum networks. That "key" thus functions, in the emerging world, in a way analogous to the way navies have functioned in relationship to reserve currencies thus far: the country with the most powerful navy has been the country whose currency has reserve currency status.  Entanglement permits not only the secure and accurate transmission of data, but also its rapid transmission.

But now, as always, let's crawl to the end of the twig of high octane speculation, and speculate wildly beyond the evidence. We're in Wile E. Coyote territory here, suspended above a chasm, arms and legs flailing, with nothing beneath us but, perhaps, an animated "kerplop" waiting for us at the end of our fall. As the article avers, the Chinese have now managed to "teleport" an electron, a thing, no matter how small or tiny in mass, from one point to another. We know the progression from our elementary school physics days (that is, if they're still teaching anything about physics in our schools): electrons, protons, neutrons, then atoms themselves, then molecules...  you get the picture: the next steps in the technology tree, as we step from photons to electrons in our entanglement-teleportation experiments, will be the other sub-atomic particles, and from there (if successful), to whole atoms, then to molecules, then to... once again, you get the picture. And as I've said, if you plan to mine asteroids and have any sort of permanent presence in deep space, then chemical rockets are not - I repeat - simply are not adequate nor cost-effective to the job. The German physicist Burckhart Heim recognized this decades ago, and hence, one needs a "breakthrough" of some sort - a "warp drive" or a teleportation technology, or both - to make it genuinely practical and cost effective and (note) fraught with much less risk.

Which brings me back to the subject of yesterday's blog, and the story of an AI at Lawrence Livermore (no space-related connections there! [Cough]) that has been tasked with combing through old scientific papers looking for forgotten or anomalous data and concepts. I don't know about you, but it's a safe bet that one of the things it might be programmed to look for are clues that might help solve some of those entanglement/teleportation and "warp drive" mysteries, mysteries which might be solved by some sort of exotic matter, which, let us recall, was also one of the areas that the Livermore AI was also looking in: materials science.

See you on the (kerplop) flip side...

 

 

EXPLORING PSYCHE

Yes you read that headline correctly: it's "Exploring Psyche" not "Exploring the Psyche" and if you're wondering what the big deal is, Psyche is the name of that iron-and-nickel asteroid whose estimated value is, according the the article linked below, $10,000 quadrillion dollars, or to put it differently, ten quintillion dollars, that's $10,000,000,000,000,000,ooo. But there's more.

When G.P. sent this article to me, the accompanying email stated: "I'm sensing an emerging theme!" Indeed, there is:

NASA readies mission to explore $10,000 QUADRILLION asteroid Psyche

Yes, it's official: NASA plans to launch a probe to the asteroid in 2022, and the reason we're given is the usual "we need to find out more about how the universe was formed, how planets were formed," &c &c, in other words, the usual scientific boilerplate.

The value of all the nickel and iron that NASA believes makes up 16-Psyche’s oddly-shaped space rock in the asteroid belt’s outer reaches is estimated at $10,000 quadrillion. This is a massive sum, but NASA’s Psyche mission, which has now received approval to enter the final development stages before manufacturing begins for its 2022 launch, is actually after a much bigger prize – revealing how Earth's origins. NASA researchers believe asteroid Psyche is key to understanding how planetary bodies are formed.

This boilerplate appears directly below a video purporting to show the asteroid. If one looks at the the video one notices a few "odd things" about that asteroid: square "craters", double craters, deep fissures, and so on. The video, is of course, an "artist's" rendering, but even that is suggestive that NASA might know about more about the asteroid than they're letting on. After all, NASA does stand for Never A Straight Answer.

But then there's this suggestive comment:

This is because the space scientists theorise Psyche is really the core of a planet which broke apart following a succession of apocalyptic collisions.

NASA experts hope they can observe the solar system’s distant past, when protoplanet encounters created Earth and destroyed other would-be terrestrial planets. (Emphasis added)

In other words, NASA is maintaining something that will look familiar to readers of my books (in particular, The Giza Death Star Destroyed and The Cosmic War), for if Psyche is the "core of a planet" which "broke apart" following "a succession of apocalyptic collisions" then that means there was once a planet in this solar system that Psyche was the core of. In short, NASA has now endorsed Dr. Van Flandern's "Exploded Planet Hypothesis." Interestingly, NASA has adopted the "catastrophe" model as the explanation for that explosion: a collision. This catastrophe model is made more explicit in the next sentence, that this all happened "when protoplanet encounters Created Earth and destroyed other would-be terrestrial planets." That too, is a backhanded admission that there were other "would-be" terrestrial planets. And while they're not saying it, you know what they're thinking: Mars.

So let's continue our journey to the end of the twig of high octane speculation. For those familiar with the "Philadelphia Experiment" story, the whole thing began when one Carlos Allende bought and read a copy of early Ufologist and astronomer Dr Morris K. Jessup's book, The Case for the UFO. Allende marked his copy of Jessup's book with marginalia written with various pens and in colored inks, and then mailed this along with a letter outlining his alleged experiences with the Philadelphia Experiment to Dr. Jessup and to the US Navy. To make a very long story short (for the fuller story one may consult my book Secrets of the Unified Field: The Philadelphia Experiment, the Nazi Bell, and the Discarded Theory), the Navy had a special edition of Jessup's book along with Allende's marginalia printed up by the Varo Company in Garland, Texas, and this became known as the "Varo Edition" of Jessup's book. This was then distributed to various people within the US black projects world. Significantly, I believe that one of the recipients of this edition was Dr.Wernher von Braun (again, see my Secrets of the Unified Field for the larger story.)  What concerns us here is that one of Allende's marginal  notes referred to an ancient interplanetary war fought in this solar system, and to the "great bombardment", which the context makes clear that Allende believed was fought by "the gods" hurling asteroids at each other. In other words, that ancient catastrophism was not natural, but the result of technology.

In other words, NASA is opening a very wide door with its reference to catastrophism and destroyed planets. And in doing so, it cannot be ignorant of Dr. van Flandern's original proposals for mechanisms of why a planet in the asteroid belt's orbit would suddenly break apart or explore. Those models, readers of my book The Cosmic War will recall, included a nuclear reaction in the core of the planet (which Dr. van Flandern was uncomfortable with), to a matter-antimatter reaction (which he is even more uncomfortable with), to the use of advanced technology in an experiment that "went wrong", and then, finally, "deliberate action," in other words, a war. Not mentioned by van Flandern is the idea of a bunch of rovering planetoids colliding with each other. The reason for his lack of mentioning of that model is, I highly suspect, is that the celestial mechanics doesn't appear to work, for in his model, it is precisely the explosion of that planet that created the conditions of the rovering planetoids of the asteroid belt and comets, not the other way around.

NASA, of course, won't go to "great bombardments" or van Flandern's "deliberate action" just yet, but with the apparent endorsement of the catastrophism model, they've opened the door to the question of what type of catastrophe it was, natural, or deliberate, and by going to Pysche, I suspect that their real motivation is to find out which, though they'd never admit that now.

See you on the flip side...

 

 

 

STRANGE MASS UNDER THE MOON’S SOUTH POLE

Now, before we get started on this one, I have a confession: I wasn't originally going to blog about this story at all. What changed my mind was the fact that so many regular contributors of articles here noticed the story, and passed it along. Clearly, something about it had the readers of this website exercised, and as you may or may not know, when I get large "pattern trends" of emails focusing on a story, I usually do blog about it. So, with a thank you to all of you who sent this story along, let's get started.

Scientists are now confirming that there's a strange mass anomaly under the moon's south pole, and they're attributing it to an iron-and-nickel rich asteroid that crashed into the planet approximately three billion years ago:

Huge mystery blob found under the moon's far side

What is the massive thing under the Moon’s surface?

As the first article notes, mass anomalies have been observed on the Moon since the 1960s, and they are usually associated with craters:

The data give a loose picture of what's happening both on the surface and underground. The more mass there is, like higher topography or denser rocks, the stronger the gravity. These maps highlight a striking difference between most of the moon's large craters and the South Pole-Aitken basin.

Other large craters have what are known as mascons, short for mass concentrations. Discovered in 1968 by scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, mascons show up in gravity maps as bullseyes—a central circle of strong gravity surrounded by a ring of weak gravity and then another ring of stronger gravity. The phenomenon is a consequence of the way low-density crust and high-density mantle adjust after an impact.

The trouble is, this mass anomaly at the South lunar pole is much bigger than previously thought. In fact, it's some 1500 miles wide. According to  the second article, the real problemis not just it's size, but what it is:

"Imagine taking a pile of metal five times larger than the Big Island of Hawaii and burying it underground. That's roughly how much unexpected mass we detected." That's Peter B. James of Baylor University talking about a gigantic anomaly found beneath the Moon's surface. He's the lead author of a study published in Geophysical Research Letters describing the odd find. There are a few theories about what it could be.

The thing sits beneath the Moon's South Pole-Aitken basin, believed to be the largest intact crater in our solar system. The oval-shaped feature is thought to be about 4 billion years old, and it's big: about 2,000 kilometers across at some points.

Here's where it gets interesting, for in speculating on what it may be, the second article lists a number of possibilities:

The two most likely theories are that it's the iron-nickel core of a long-ago asteroid impact, or that it's a leftover clump of dense oxides from the cooling of the Moon's magma. Or, sure, a giant spaceship or hidden underground civilization, ahem.

It's that last joking possibility that, I suspect, was the center of everyone's attention on this story, and it is a strange thing to mention in an otherwise serious but somewhat dull article about asteroid impacts on the Moon. By mentioning it - even as a joke - I'm sure it was intended to draw people like me to it to speculate about it like flies to honey.

OK, I'm game; I'll bite and speculate. Consider the following timeline:

(1) From roughly February of 1994 to May of 1995, the USA's Clementine mission orbited the Moon, busily snapping pictures for the first complete photogrammetric mapping of that planet since the early days of the space race. Notably, Clementine was a joint mission of NASA and the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization, the re-named institution that was initially President Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative. In other words, Clementine was a military mission, and given the nature of the sensors and mapping it did, plus the fact of its name - "Clementine" - recalling the mining-gold rush song ("in a cavern in a canyon excavating..." &c &c), one may reasonably speculate that Clementine was also trying to pinpoint those mass anomalies precisely for the purpose of eventual mining operations. Given that one of the images it took was precisely of the southern lunar pole, one may also reasonably assume that the massive mass anomaly was detected by it;

(2) Then, in 2009, we had the launch of the much-ballyhooed NASA "LCROSS" mission, which was to send one of its stages crashing into a crater in the southern polar region of the Moon so that scientists could snap pictures of the resulting plume from the kinetic impact, and determine if there was water lurking in the bottom of lunar polar craters. In fact, NASA played up the mission by hyping the idea that the impact would be visible on Earth. Many people gazed up, waiting for the flash of the impact, and ... nothing. The stage had impacted, but according to an analysis of Richard C. Hoagland, the impact may have occurred in the roof of a hollow chamber, thus confining most of the visible light inside of the hollow. The small visible signature of the impact was consistent with this view.  (Mr. Hoagland also maintained that the most sensational picture from the LRO-LCROSS mission was this picture displaying a highly anomalous yellow Lunar LIM:  LCROSS LRO Lunar LIM Picture).

So herewith my high octane speculation, which makes two assumptions: firstly, that the Clementine and LCROSS missions are intimately related, with the real mission of LCROSS not simply to detect water, but the presence of high concentrations of heavy metals in the southern polar region via the impact plume of the LCROSS mission. As a corollary of this purpose, one would also be trying to test for the idea that, if heavy metals are present, are they present in such a quality and degree as to indicate and intelligent, rather than merely natural, source for them.  Secondly, those two missions are in turn related to this story of the mass anomaly at the southern pole.

In effect, what we may have just seen is that the beginning of the story - the mass anomaly itself, which perfectly connects and rationalizes the Clementine and LCROSS stories - has been deliberately withheld until now, and presented as a bit of unconnected "data" to the earlier events. In short, they've known about this mass anomaly for quite some time because Clementine in all likelihood alerted them to it. And depending on the results of that LCROSS spectroscopy, they may also know what ultimately is the cause of that mass anomaly: an asteroid, or (to quote the second article) "a giant spaceship or hidden underground civilization, ahem."

See you on the flip side...

 

OF RAILGUNS, ASTEROIDS, AND ROBERT HEINLEIN…

I never underestimate the articles that readers and contributors to this website discover and pass along, but this one is a "whopper doozie" that was spotted by B.H.  Reading it, I thought of an odd quartet of people: (1) Robert Heinlein, the famous science fiction author,  (2) J. Michael Straczynski, creator and producer of the 1990s television sci-fi series Babylon Five, (3) Dr. Carol Rosin, and finally (4) Russian Prime Minister Dmitri Medvedev. What made me think of them was this article, which almost begs that one "read between the lines" when reading it, especially since the article itself mentions Robert Heinlein specifically. We'll get back to that:

Could US Navy's Railgun Help Tap Moon's Resources?

Electric rail guns, or mass drivers as they are sometimes called: it is that technology which made me think of the above very strange and odd quartet. The article wants us to think that the rail gun will be tested on a US Navy ship. But the fact of the matter is, it already has been tested. Successfully. The only problem was the special projectiles that the weapon fires cost around $800,000 each so the Navy elected not to deploy the weapon (or so we're told... but that may not include that "space fleet" that British hacker Gary McKinnon says he saw when he hacked into American defense databases).

What's really worrying, however, is the talk of using such a device to "launch payloads" from the Moon:

Recent testing of the electromagnetic railgun under Navy auspices had the technology firing a projectile that exceeds Mach 6, approaching a velocity that hearkens back to early ideas of utilizing this machinery on the moon to hurl payloads from the lunar surface.

Mach 6 — six times the speed of sound — is about 4,600 mph (7,400 km/h) at sea level here on Earth. The escape velocity from the relatively small, nearly airless moon is about 5,300 mph (8,530 km/h).

In 1974, Princeton University professor and space visionary Gerard O'Neill proposed use of an electromagnetic railgun to lob payloads from the moon. (The basic idea, however, may originate with sci-fi author Robert Heinlein, who laid out something similar in his 1966 novel "The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress.")

"Mass drivers" based on a coilgun design were adapted to accelerate a nonmagnetic object. One application O'Neill proposed for mass drivers: toss baseball-sized chunks of ore mined from the surface of the moon into space. Once in space, the ore could be used as raw material for building space colonies and solar-power satellites.

Whew! We can relax: it's being proposed simply as a means of launching stuff we mine on the Moon.

Except that little mention of Robert Heinlein's The Moon is a Harsh Mistress doesn't envision anything so calming. Rather, in Heinlein's novel, the "Mass driver" is used to hurl rocks from the Moon to a defenseless Earth, which soon capitulates to Heinlein's lunar rebels rather than suffer an interplanetary bombardment for which it has no defenses. It was a diabolical idea, since the gravity well of the Earth was used to accelerate the already enormous velocity of the lunar railgun's projectiles. Straczynski picked up on the idea in the second season of Babylon Five, where an alien space fleet uses mass drivers for planetary bombardment, literally using asteroids to bomb its enemy into a depopulated stone age.

That's science fiction. But if you've been following some of my blogs over the years related to the dangers of weaponizing space, you'll see the relevance of railguns/mass drivers to the affidavit of Dr. Carol Rosin, and to the statements of Russian Prime Minister Dmitri Medvedev shortly before the Chelyabinsk meteor incident in February 2013. Dr. Rosin, you'll recall, maintained that Dr. Wernher von Braun told her shortly before his death that the effort to weaponize space would be promoted in five phases in the following order: as a defense against (1) Communism, (2)  terrorists, (3) "nations of concern", (4) asteroids, and finally (5) extra-terrestrials. Railguns/mass drivers are the original "rod of God" technology, able to fire projectiles whose sheer mass-energy kinetic impact can rip through the strongest armor, or, if large enough, asteroids. And as I've also pointed out, Dmitri Medvedev called for an international planetary asteroid defense system prior to the Chelyabinsk incident. When queried about what sorts of weapons would be involved, Medvedev stated that themornuclear armed missiles could be fired at asteroids to destroy them, and then went on to indicate other means, which were unspecified. Railguns/mass drivers would certainly fall into that unspecified category.

And let it be noted: this is not a technology that we need to guess at; it already exists. The real question is not whether it exists, but how far it has been taken. There are some - myself included - who entertain the idea that the Chinese chemical plant explosions may actually have been a demonstration of the "rod of God" techn0logy, for one simple reason: in the first of those explosions, the crater left was very narrow and deep, not the type of crater signature that would typically result from a chemical explosion. Then there were the strange remarks made by general Mattis to the reporter who asked him if a military response to North Korean provocations might include "kenetic weapons," i.e., railguns/mass drivers/"rod of God" weapons. Mattis' affirmative reply no doubt had them burning the midnight oil in Pyongyang and Beijing.

So why am I exercised about this article? Simple: because we've been given a clue how weaponizing space will be "sold" to a skeptical public: we need such technologies for mining and exploiting space assets. And, oh, look! This technology could not only launch stuff into space, but could do double duty as an asteroid-busting defense system. It's not a weapon; it's a launch system (shades of Gerald Bull).

The bottom line? I suspect this is the beginning of yet another "meme" that we'll be hearing more and more of, as talk about the technology is gradually ramped up to accustom the general population to the idea that it could be used to mine asteroids, as well as bust them apart if need be.

See you on the flip side...

THE SECRET SPACE PROGRAM IMPLICATIONS OF THE JEDI CONTRACT

This has been a week when my normal routine of blogging and pre-scheduling blogs has been thrown right out the window. I've had to reschedule a couple of blogs, and just throw out a couple (which I've never done before), to blog about things that readers have sent me that had to go immediately to the top of the list.

Well, that's the case here, when S.H. found an article about the Pentagon's (or as we like to call it here, the Pentagram's) much-hyped JEDI contract. JEDI, in case you didn't know, stands for Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure. And if you've been following all this, you've been breathlessly waiting to see if the US government would award the contract to Mr. Gates - who has officially "apologized" for the Common Core fiasco - or to Mr. Bezos, who wants to burn books, move everything to "the cloud", and let the Clowns In America control it all. In short, JEDI is about moving the defense communications (and, one might add, archives) from "down here" to "up there."  Now, everyone knows what I think about ebook platforms and the dangers they pose, so I won't rehearse that again here.

But if you're like me, or indeed, like S.H. who shared the article, you've probably had this uneasy queasy feeling in the pit of your stomach about this whole JEDI contract business, without really knowing why. It's like trying to grab a bar of wet, lathered-up soap with wet hands; whatever "it" is that is disturbing about it, it seems constantly to elude our grasp.

But when S.H. shared this article, something in it popped out, and many things that were blurry and nebulous came into clear focus, so much so that I abandoned my original blog schedule to blog about this one:

Finally, a look inside DOD’s commercial cloud JEDI contract

There were four paragraphs in this article that brought many - though not all - of my misgivings about this subject into focus. Three of them are right up front, and one of those paragraphs comes a little later. Here they are:

At a heavily attended industry day, top defense officials from the Pentagon’s Cloud Executive Steering Group described the acquisition process for the massive cloud migration that will stretch across the entire expanse of DOD, focused primarily on commercial platform-as-a-service (PaaS) and infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) offerings. The 10-year contract will likely be worth billions, though a specific price ceiling hasn’t been floated publicly yet.

The time has come for the Pentagon to flip the expectations about its use of cloud, said Chris Lynch, director of the Defense Digital Service team leading the procurement.

“We want to bend the Department of Defense around the commercial cloud,” Lynch said, meaning the department wants to adapt to embrace the existing strengths of the expansive commercial cloud and not limit that with excessive customization. “I can’t make that point enough. We want it here, and we want it out in those austere environments. We want to bring this to the warfighter.”

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The cloud is “the type of technology driving the change that we in the DOD need to embrace,” Lord added. “It’s driven by the private sector globally at a scale which the DOD cannot compete with. … If we leverage commercially available cloud solutions, we will have the foundational technology in place that we need to deliver better software to our warfighters faster, with better security and at a lower cost. And that software will be easier to maintain.” (Emphasis added)

Now there's a couple of things to note here:

(1) The Pentagram is turning even more of its communications functions over to corporations 'in the cloud', or to put it in their terms, they "want to bend the Department of Defense around the commercial cloud."

(2) Those functions are a component of its warmaking capability.

It's that "bending around" that grabbed my attention, for it is a euphemistic admission for something that I've been maintaining all along that would inevitably come with the commercialization of space: the weaponization of space. It's an admission that those assets "up there" need to be defended, and this language is meant both to reveal, and conceal, that purpose at one and the same time.

But I also strongly suspect this language implies something else much more significant, namely, an admission that the capability already exists to protect those assets. The reason for this conclusion is that the Pentagon would hardly move much of its C4 capability - command, control, communications, and cyber-warfare - to "the commercial cloud" if the means of protecting those capabilities were not already operational. Otherwise, the whole venture would simply expose the American military to a single unprotected point of failure - the cloud - jeopardizing strategic and operational capabilities on a global basis, and waste a lot of money in the process. To draw somewhat clumsy analogies, it would be like building a dreadnought during the First World War, putting the best and most capable ordnance on it, and leaving the entire expensive ship completely unarmored, or like building an unarmored tank. That "bending" of the Department of Defense around the cloud is thus, in my high octane speculative opinion, a tacit admission that the protection problem is, from the Pentagram's point of view, "solved" and that the technologies to do the protecting are already operational, hence, Mr. Trump's "space force."

In other words, this whole move to "the cloud" is thus a major component of the secret space program.

And there's another disturbing implication, for the cloud is about information, and its control. And if the technologies are extant and operational, then that means information has been put into lock down.

See you on the flip side...

MORE DRIP DRIP DRIP? SATURN’S DISAPPEARING RINGS…

Yesterday you might have noticed there was no blog, and before we get to today's Saturnalia, I want to say a few words about what happened. Normally I go through all the emails in my "finals folder" on Sundays, and pull which articles I want to blog about for the coming week, trying to notice any "trends" in all the articles people send. Sometimes I get behind for whatever reason, and that's what happened Sunday. But it's  what happened Monday that really messed things up. Normally, if I can't get enough blogs done on Sunday, I try to stay ahead enough that I can make up time the following Monday or Tuesday. This time, however, mother nature was not very accommodating. The weather turned so foul that for most of the day Monday there were either severe storms, or warnings for them, and of course that panicked my little pooch, who was in quite a state all day. It was, without too much exaggeration, a day of dawn-to-dusk tornado watches and warnings,  including a quick 20 minute trip to the storm shelter for Shiloh and me, and for the better part of two hours the sirens were blaring away, making all the neighborhood dogs howl (except for Shiloh; she only howls at fire engines).

Around midnight, the severest parts of the storms were over (supposedly), so not having had much sleep, I headed to bed early, thinking to get a good night's sleep. (Midnight is early for me, folks). Around 6:20 in the morning, however, a very anxious and nervous Shiloh woke me up. I could not figure out why until about two minutes later, the storm sirens went off again, leaving me scrambling to round her up, get her leashed, and rush to the shelter. I turned on the radio to hear that a tornado had touched down a few miles from where I live, but the storm and rain and lightning were so bad, and I heard the radio say that the tornado had tracked north of me, that I decided to watch the storm carefully, listen to the radio, rather than chance running to the shelter with all the lightning. Most of the morning was spent listening to sirens, watching the lightning, and trying to keep my little pooch calm.

So, it was a day and a half of dawn-to-dusk-to-dawn storms, sirens, and little sleep.  I've not seen such a prolonged series of storms in my life. And, I may have more to say about that subject tomorrow. In any case, now you know why I'm a day behind on the blogs, which may be a bit "spotty" this week, as I also have to prepare for company, and try to get some other "website stuff" completed.

... which brings us to today's, or rather, what would have been yesterday's, blog.

As one might imagine, it concerns space, and yet another curious "connect the dots" episode of high octane speculation. The story?

"Experts" are concerned that man might cause Saturn rings to disappear, through an excess of mining, according to this article shared by G.B.:

Saturn Rings In Danger Of Disappearing Because Of Humans, Scientists Warn

What has these exo-planetary environmentalists so exercised? Get this:

A group of scientists recently warned that Saturn’s famous rings could disappear eventually, no thanks to humans.

According to Inverse, asteroid miners and tech billionaires could plunder precious rocks from space, including the icy rings of Saturn, in the very near future.

This theory comes from a study conducted by a group of researchers who wrote for the upcoming issue of Acta Astronautica. The group suggested that relevant policymakers must come up with a clear set of guidelines and restrictions that should be strictly followed by everyone in the space industry.

“If we don’t think about this now, we will go ahead as we always have, and in a few hundred years we will face an extreme crisis, much worse than we have on Earth now,” Martin Elvis, senior astrophysicist at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory and one of the two authors of the paper, said. “Once you’ve exploited the solar system, there’s nowhere left to go.”

...

Aside from the rings of Saturn (which could be an abundant source of rocks and ice), humans could also mine the iron on the asteroid belt. The asteroid belt’s iron content is so abundant that even if only one-eighth is mined, it is still a million times more than what is found on Earth. Another example is Helium-3 which is said to be abundant in the moon and could be worth more than gold in the future.

So, because of what might be done in the future, best to get those regulations in place now. Any time I hear calls for regulation my first instinct is to wonder which corporations the policy is intended to benefit.

But that's not what sent my high octane speculation imagination into action. What set it into action was the fact that my suspicion meter went immediately into the red zone. It went into the red zone because there was something both entirely new, and somewhat old, in this article. What was new was the shift in the "space mining meme", which hitherto has of course been talking about mining asteroids, or the Moon, or even on occasion Mars and other planetary bodies in the Solar System, to mining of Saturn's rings. For most people in the world that will seem but the normal extension and development of the "space mining" idea. But to those in the alternative research field, that "mining of the rings of Saturn" might sound rather like the 1986 book by former NASA scientist Norman Bergrun called The Ringmakers of Saturn.

The title of the book alone is enough to convey the idea of its contents. Bergrun argued on the basis of deep space  probe photographs of the rings of Saturn - whether plausibly or implausibly is left to the reader to decide - that "someone" was out there, with a very advanced and, as it turns out, very large technology, and that this "someone" was both mining Saturn's rings, as well as helping to construct them. I have the book, and have read it, and must confess that I found the photos on which Bergrun based his arguments to range the whole spectrum, from implausible to more plausible. But the point now is not whether his argument made sense, but rather that it is simply there, and has been there for more than three decades. One can imagine what shock waves that someone of Bergrun's stature and background, saying what he said, must have sent through the space establishment.

Indeed, the silence concerning his book was deafening, and whether one wants to admit it or not, many of the pictures that Bergrun analyzed did contain some highly anomalous features. What no one seemed to notice at the time was that Bergrun, along with George Leonard, was one of the first to voice the idea of space mining, and to do so not in the sense of a future activity, but of a present reality. Leonard, of course, wrote the classic Someone Else is on the Moon, in which he argued that some NASA and Soviet photos seemed to showed mining activity on the Moon.

Which brings us back to today's Saturnalia and the high octane speculation, which we may pose as a series of questions: is the whole "mining meme" being put out to cover-up an activity already taking place? or conversely, to draw attention to it? Is talk of the disappearance of Saturn's rings preparation for an event that "they" know is already happening? And if that activity is already taking place, do "they" know who is doing it, and how? Or are "they" themselves doing it? Are "they" in contact with who is doing it? And if so, has Whoever-is-doing it told "them" to stay away and mind our own business, and is that the reason that we're now also hearing about the need to regulate space mining activities before we've even begun (officially and publicly, at least) to do so?

Whatever the answer to those questions may be, the peculiar fact remains that we've now added Saturn's rings to the space-mining inventory, and I cannot help but recall the myth of the gigantomachy and the War of the Titans from Greek mythology, and how Saturn (Chronos) choked to death, eating a rock...

See you on the flip side...

 

SENATOR CRUZ: SPACE FORCE IS TO PROTECT AGAINST SPACE PIRATES

In yesterday's News and Views from the Nefarium, I speculated about what I thought would be the next "meme" to be pushed by Mr. Globaloney, and the latest "twist" in GMO geopolitics. I noted that the opening of a case against Mon(ster)santo's corporate "black ops" division by French prosecutors might be seized upon to create a push for a consistent global policy about GMOs, about heirloom seeds, and the creation of international institutions with enough teeth to back them up. I'm not on the globaloney band wagon, of course, but that is my suspicion. Similarly, we've been tracking another emerging "meme" in the past few days, that of coupling global polanetary issues (like asteroid strikes) and the emerging talk of an international effort to create a planetary asteroid defense system. Yesterday's blog referred to high level talks between NASA's Jim Bridenstine and Roscosmos' Dmitri Rogozin.

I don't know about you, but there's no doubt in mind that there has been an "upward trend" in the amount of space-related stories, and most of them concentrating on the idea of some sort of "threat" that's "out there" that we "down here" need to prepare for. I've even advanced the idea that things such as "carbon footprint taxes" and all the other usual globaloney might be the chosen funding mechanism to create these weapons systems.

In keeping with that "upward trend" of stories, many people spotted this story and passed it along(and thank you to all of you who did):

Ted Cruz warns Space Force is needed to battle space pirates

Senator Cruz is saying something I've been arguing for a long time, namely, that with the coming commercialization of space and all the talk about mining the Moon and asteroids, not to mention the fact that both the USA and the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg have now passed laws stating essentially that whatever resources corporations might manage to find out there, they own those resources. Stop and let that one sink in, for the way I'm reading those laws, they might also apply to any artifacts or technologies that might be found out there, say, on Mars or the Saturnian moon Iapetus. But the bottom line is, that commercialization will require protection of space assets, and that in turn will require the weaponization of space to protect those assets from "whatever" (asteroids) and "whomever".  It's this that Senator Cruz recently addressed in the US Senate:

“Since the ancient Greeks first put to sea, nations have recognized the necessity of naval forces and maintaining a superior capability to protect waterborne travel and commerce from bad actors,” said Cruz, the chairman of the subcommittee on aviation and space, adding, “Pirates threaten the open seas, and the same is possible in space. In this same way, I believe we too must now recognize the necessity of a Space Force to defend the nation and to protect space commerce and civil space exploration.”

Ok... space pirates. This little statement came on the floor of the US Senate, the same Senate that according to recent stories in the media had former Democratic Majority leader Senator Harry Reid funding bills for UFO studies (as if they hadn't been studied covertly by the US military and intelligence since the 1950s). So one may either assume that Senators Reid and Cruz have been drinking too much Swampington, D.C. Koolaid and taken leave of their senses, or that, being reasonably intelligent men, they are speaking from a reasoned position, and perhaps even from a position of some degree of "inside knowledge."

It's that last possibility that informs today's foray into our trademark High Octane Speculation.  Consider what "space pirates" implies; it implies either someone "down here" with (1) the money, (2) the infrastructure, (3) the expertise, and (4) the technology to become "space pirates." It furthermore implies that they would have the means and resources to "fence" whatever space swag they went out and "pirated." It implies, in effect, either "rogue nations" or rogue groups, extra-territorial actors. On the other hand, it might imply someone "out there" with similar resources.

Either way one slices it, it's an extremely odd statement to make, and no, in this instance, I do not think Senator Cruz has been drinking too much of the Swampington D.C. Koolaid. In effect, Senator Cruz has more or less made my own prediction and line of reasoning behind space commercialization and its inevitable weaponization "official."

The real question is - which I leave it to the reader to decide - is whether or not the remark was made based upon some sort of "inside knowledge" that the rest of us are not privy to.

It's when you consider his remarks with everything else we've blogged about regarding space this week, that one gets the impression that "something" is definitely going on.  And if my "Versailles template" and "quarantine zone" hypotheses regarding space are true, then what we're also looking at is a kind of "space version" of the remilitarization of the Rhineland, and a unilateral abrogation of whatever "space Versailles"  might have been in place.

See you on the flip side...

ROSCOSMOS, NASA CALL FOR ASTEROID DEFENSE

C.V. spotted this one, and of course, it went right to the top of my finals folder this week of articles to blog about. As you recall, yesterday I blogged about the Memorandum of Understanding between the USA and the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg about space assets. One of the things I've been constantly talking and blogging about with respect to the commercialization of deep space assets is that inevitably, for good or ill, this will require the militarization and weaponization of space to protect those assets from "whomever." And, if you've been following this site for a while, you'll also know that I happen to be one of those people who believe Dr. Carol Rosin when she maintains that Dr Werhner von Braun told her what the "plan" was for putting weapons in space. It would be done, he told her, in distinct phases, with each phase being denoted by a new "enemy" requiring that weaponization: first Communism, then terrorists, then nations of concern, the asteroids, and then finally, "whomever", or extra-terrestrials.  When she first made these allegations she was roundly denounced in certain circles, but she stuck to her guns and here we are:

NASA and Roscosmos Leadership Unite in Call for Asteroid Defense: A Game Changer in Global Politics

What I find interesting here is the "lag time" and the way this story unfolded. First, you'll recall, about a month before the Chelyabinsk meteor incident, Russian Premier Dmitri Medvedev went on Russian television and called for an international effort at planetary defense against asteroids, but also added, that if Russia could not obtain this, it would have to "go it alone." When questioned about how Russia would defend itself against asteroids, Mr. Medvedev stated that it could use its consider missile-and-thermonuclear weapons arsenal, and that it had "other means" to do so, which of course he left conveniently unspecified. Then, right on cue, the Chelyabinsk meteor shows up, blows up, and within a few days of the event, a "something" is shown on Russian television seen in videos taken by locals. The "something" appears behind the meteor, which subsequently conveniently blows up. And of course Russian television was predictably entertaining ideas that maybe the UFO had taken out the wayward asteroid/meteor. Then, as I blogged last week, the current director of NASA< Jim Bridenstine, stated that, yes, indeed, NASA had tracked a "something" behind the Chelyabinsk meteor and - whew! - thank goodness it didn't "land."

It's like something out of Dr. Strangelove:

"Message received Dmitri... let's talk... could you turn down the music?"

Or to put it in Bridenstinese and Rogozinese:

Bridenstine, who has been a long-time advocate of US-Russia-China collaboration on science, described his experience in Russia at that time saying “when I was over in Russia, the head of Roscosmos Dimitri Rogozin said that was high on his agenda. As you can imagine with Chelyabinsk and Tunguska, Russia has been significantly impacted by these events, so they have keen awareness and intensity on this that I think is important.”

In 2011 Rogozin made headlines by calling for a policy which he termed “The Strategic Defense of the Earth (SDE)”. As the name implies, the SDE was a revival of the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) which President Reagan had first made to the Russians in 1983 mediated by the fascinating figure of Lyndon LaRouche. Unlike George Bush Sr’s unilateral version of the SDI later, this first version was based upon joint US-Russia collaboration of a ground and space-based system of plasma-based advanced laser technologies which would have made nuclear war strategically impossible. While the Russians rejected the offer then, Rogozin’s reactivation of the idea three decades later was a stroke of poetic irony.

Rogozin’s new design called not only for international collaboration around an anti-nuclear war policy, but additionally included asteroid defense. Rogozin was very clear in 2011 that this policy would re-channel the trillions of dollars of military hardware being built up by the anti-ballistic missile shield around Russia (and China) into a function which protects rather than destroys life. Little known in the west, Russia Today reported in October 2011 that the program focuses on “fighting threats coming from space rather than just missiles. … It would be an integration of anti-aircraft, missile, and space defenses. The system would be targeted against possible threats to Earth coming from space, including asteroids, comet fragments, and other alien bodies… The system should be capable of both monitoring space and destroying any dangerous objects as they approach our planet.” (Bold face emphasis added)

Notice that Mr. Rogozin, with whom Mr. Bridenstine has apparently "shared ideas", is calling for a defense against "possible threats coming from space, including asteroids... and 'other alien bodies.'" The language here is deliberately provocative, and of course, if it said that "possible space threats" includes asteroids, that means that they are not limited to asteroids. Indeed, Rogozin's language with its mention of "other alien bodies" leaves the door wide open for a transition to the final stage of Dr. Rosin's affidavit: extra-terrestrials.

It takes little high octane imagination to see how this could all be rolled out. Last week, for example, I blogged about the 1990s story of the Oxford professor who coupled "alien visitations" with "global warming," an intriguing development since it provided a "template of action" for the future: couple two seemingly unrelated "global issues" together but make sure at least one of those issues involves space/UFOs/Ets/asteroids, whatever. In the case of Mr. Rogozin's and Mr. Bridenstine's international planetary asteroid defense grid, one can predict that a similar template will be proposed to build out the system: carbon taxes and so on to be used to build those planet-busting electrostatic generators and gravity wave generators... you get the idea.

And for people to be on board with that, they'll have to have a planet-sized false flag, perhaps another Chelyabinsk  incident, which would imply they have the technology to throw asteroids around (as I and some others speculated at the time of the incident). Some time ago when blogging about the "space race" and "Asgardia", I speculated that it appeared that Mr. Globaloney may have abandoned the effort to usher in a global government from the "bottom up," and that it now appeared that the "top down" space-to-Earth approach appeared to be on the agenda, and that certainly seems to be the implication of this development.

And of course, to do all this will require a lot of money, much more than taxing you and I to death can possibly raise (though they'll certainly use it as an excuse to harvest more money from us). And in that respect, perhaps, now, we're being told the reason for those new FASB 56 financial reporting regulations, which effectively allow the entire federal budget to go "dark."

If these stories are linked, then it appears to me that "they" are in a big hurry, and that implies that "they" know something...

See you on the flip side...

 

THE GRAND DUCHY OF LUXEMSPACE IS AT IT AGAIN…

There has been a lot of space news to come through from the Gizars this week, so today I'm kicking off the "Space-related" part of this week's blogs. T.M. spotted this one and it's one of those "quiet but important" stories, and it concerns our old friend, the "Mouse that Roared," the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, that tiny banking country in Europe that has very large space ambitions:

Luxembourg and US agree to deepen cooperation in space

According to the article, the Grand Duchy and the USA have signed a memorandum of understanding concerning space development, but the article says little about what that memorandum of understanding contains, other than to note this:

The two countries signed a memorandum of understanding on Friday to boost research, exploration, defence, and space commerce as well as tackle problems like regulatory reform and space debris.

"It covers the broadest possible range of space activities to be undertaken by the two countries as an important next wave of economic growth," US Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said during a visit to Luxembourg to sign the deal.

Etienne Schneider, Luxembourg's deputy prime minister and economy minister, said the deal was "another important step forward" to enhance international space cooperation.

I strongly suspect, and probably many readers of this blog will as well, that this memorandum of understanding contains a few "secret protocols." But there is a hint at what is happening, and it's a strong one:

In 2015, the United States adopted the Space Act to allow for the exploration and commercial exploitation of space resources.

In 2017, Luxembourg introduced a law guaranteeing space companies ownership of resources acquired in space, the first country to do so in the 28-nation European Union.

What this portends is that bi-lateral agreements are being made to create a template by-passing existing international treaties, allowing private space corporations to claim ownership of space resources: if you can get there and mine the resources, they're yours. What Luxembourg's involvement in all this means is perhaps it is making a play, a big play, to become the space-version of The City of London, the Earth-based center of interplanetary financial clearing, and its recent moves to place satellites in orbit and then rent them out tends to confirm this view.

In support of this high octane speculation, the article notes something else:

Luxembourg has already signed space agreements with the United Arab Emirates, Japan and China as well as fellow EU countries Poland, the Czech Republic and Belgium.

In total, some 20 private firms involved in space work have established themselves in Luxembourg, officials said.

What this suggests is that Luxembourg is (1) negotiating bi-laterally with other countries to get them to acknowledge the rights of corporations established in Luxembourg to conduct space business, and (2) is perhaps also negotiating for physical infrastructure in those various countries to support any interplanetary clearing role it wishes to play.

Such a position in an interplanetary clearing system would give Luxembourg unprecedented power, and heralds the way that space will completely change the nature of geopolitical power. For example, "strategic depth" will come to mean something very different than it currently does, with depth meaning countries with a lot of land - China, Russia, Brazil, the USA - and come to me infrastructure redundancy in space, and a "depth" and dispersion of assets in space. With that kind of playing field, smaller countries like Luxembourg can play a much larger strategic role, one far beyond the limitations of their terrestrial physical size. The fact that the USA, China, and Japan have already concluded deals with the Grand Duchy also strongly suggests that there is tacit, though at this point, secret  agreement among the great powers that Luxembourg is the "designated center" of such a system.

And that means, inevitably, we'll have to talk about the Moon, but we'll have to wait until tomorrow to do that...

See you on the flip side...

GEORGE LUCAS WOULD LOVE THIS GRAVITY WAVE GENERATOR

As you might have guessed, I've been focused this week and last week mostly on "space stuff" and "strange stuff", courtesy of one of our regular reader/article contributors, "B", who has turned into quite the patent sniffer-discoverer, and this latest one is... well, let's put it this way: George Lucas would love this one, and it's one of those things that I just have to talk about, because "B" found something in this patent that will probably send your suspicion meter into the red zone, just like it did mine. Here's the patent pdf:

HIGH FREQUENCY GRAVITATIONAL WAVE GENERATOR

You've probably already noticed that this patent is relatively recent (August 2018), and you've also probably noticed that, like that "electrostatic generator" that "B" found and that I blogged about, it is also assigned to the US Navy, and it's by the same individual. And finally, you may have noticed it is by the same inventor.

Before we go any further, however, a cautionary word about patents: if one looks at patents, people are filing patents all the time for all sorts of weird stuff. Patents are a claim, not a proof, for an idea. Presumably, people actually build what they patent, and the people reviewing patents have to determine if the claim at least is possible, but in the final analysis, just because someone files a patent implies nothing about whether the idea does or does not work. The patent claims it does, but one has to build it to make sure. Obviously, I have no way of building a device as described in this patent. So with that little caveat on the record, let's dive into the high octane speculation.

If one looks in the pdf file at the first page and at the part labeled "Int. Cl. (51)", one reads the following:

B64G 1 / 40 ( 2006 . 01 )

GOIV 7 / 04 ( 2006 . 01 )

H05H 3 / 04 ( 2006 . 01 )

GOIV 7700 ( 2006 . 01 )

HO1J 61 / 16 ( 2006 . 01

which, if one goes to the Google presentation of this patent, describes the classification fields for what the patent is about( see en?inventor=Salvatore+Cezar+Pais), where these headings are decoded as follows:

B64G1/409 Unconventional spacecraft propulsion systems
G01V7/005 Measuring gravitational fields or waves; Gravimetric prospecting or detecting using a resonating body or device, e.g. string
G01V7/04 Electric, photoelectric, or magnetic indicating or recording means
H01J61/16 Selection of substances for gas fillings; Specified operating pressure or temperature having helium, argon, neon, krypton, or xenon as the principle constituent
H05H1/2475 Acoustic pressure discharge
H05H3/04 Acceleration by electromagnetic wave pressure
G01V7/00 Measuring gravitational fields or waves; Gravimetric prospecting or detecting
All of this suggests that this patent (and the one on electrostatic generators we blogged about previously) is part of that DARPA-NASA effort to brainstorm and outline the steps in the technology tree to achieve a breakthrough in exotic space propulsion, and perhaps in the DARPA-NASA goal to achieve a "warp drive capability" within a century. In short, the patent may not represent an actually constructed device, but rather the claim on the (brainstormed) idea on the basic principles necessary to do so. But in either case, I suspect this is genuine, and that it represents such a brainstorming effort, if not actual device that has already been tested in proof of concept experimentation. And as one might imagine, I'm rather intrigued by the whole idea of "electro-acoustics" that the patent seems to imply, for I've been entertaining such ideas in my high octane speculations regarding the Great Pyramid and other things for quite some time.
Interestingly enough, the patent also implies that it is concerned not only with accessing the vacuum energy of local space, but seems to confirm that the patent's core concepts are based on a Gedankenexperiment, a "thought experiment", in paragraphs 0009 and 0010:
0009 ] Local Vacuum energy state can be seen as the collective energy state ( structure , which contains the ground state of minimum energy ( baseline fluctuations ) that is the quantum vacuum , and the excited state of energy ( induced fluctuations ) generated by matter or any other source of energy in that spacetime locality . According to quantum field theory , matter , energy , and spacetime are emergent con structs which arise out of a foundational structure , which is the Vacuum energy state . Matter is confined energy , bound within fields , and may be thought of as a spectrum of different vibrational ( and possibly gyratational ) frequencies of the Vacuum energy state . The engineering of the Vacuum metastructure ( since there are multiple Vacuum structures ) has been discussed from a General Relativity perspective , and from a quantum field theory perspective . We are immersed in an ocean of energy ( the Vacuum energy state ) , yet ordinarily we seem not to interact with it . This is because under normal circumstances ( at or near equilibrium ) , the Vacuum state is homogeneous , isotropic , Lorentz invariant , in other words , it is symmetric . If this symmetry ( far - from equilibrium ) is broken and strong interactions with the Vacuum energy state become possible , the manner in which the collective fields exchange energy with one another will be affected .
[ 0010 ] If we perform a " gedanken ” ( thought ) experiment we can observe that the coupling of high frequency spin with high frequency vibration ( especially for rapidly accelerated spin / vibration of an electrically charged system ( object ) puts every point on the boundary of the object in a state of coherent superposition , thereby , inducing a macroscopic quantum phenomenon .
But "B" noticed a paragraph which, in the email "B" sent to me to bring my attention to this patent, was highlighted, and when I read it, my jaw was on the floor.
If one can manipulate gravity, electromagnetics, and acoustics to create a gravity-"warp", a "warp drive," then the same principles can be used to create warps not for propulsion, but quite literally to rip planets apart. Think of it as a kind of "space-time" shallow reef of rocks, hidden just below the surface of water in an ocean; without a lighthouse to warn of the danger, one can crash and sink a ship. For convenience's sake, let's call this paragraph (paragraph 0038) the "George Lucas Death Star paragraph":
US 2018 / 0229864 A1 Aug . 16 , 2018 [ 0038 ] The implications of colliding / focusing HFGWs generated by rapidly accelerated vibration / spin of electrically charged systems can be used in applications of propulsion as well as the extreme disruption of a planetary body ( if so desired ) since it can be shown that the energy level ( gain in potential energy ) capable of annihilating a planet such as the Earth is on the order of 1032 Joules ( which may be achieved with the concept at hand ; Eannibil ( 3 / 5 ) ( GMp ? / Rp ) ; Mp and Rp are the planet mass and radius , respec tively ) . Imagine a plurality of HFGWG devices ( a minimum of four modules ) , aligned around a planetary body or plan etoid ( asteroid / comet ) along a planar axis ( four cardinal points ) .The emitted HFGWs would impinge on each other in such a manner as to severely disrupt the vacuum energy state at a spacetime locality denoting a point of impact ( collision of gravitons with gravitons ) . At this disruption point , energy would be amplified to such a high degree as to generate a spacetime curvature singularity , leading to total destruction of the planetary body or planetoid ( which can be an asteroid or comet on an impact trajectory with Earth ). (Emphases added)
So there it is folks; one aspect of the quest for "exotic propulsion" is, like it or not, the ability to blow up Tiamat all over again planets, planetoids, or asteroids; we're looking, in my opinion, at Mr. Medvedev's "other methods" for taking out asteroids that he mentioned prior to the Chelyabinsk incident.
And of course, for all you Carlos Allende-Varo edition fans, it's worth recalling that Allende did write about "the great bombardment" when "the gods" were basically throwing asteroids at each other's planets. And of course, such a technology would be immensely flexible; one could use it not only for warp drives, or blowing up planets or asteroids, but for grabbing them and throwing them as well...
...and they're taking out patents on the idea...
Let that sink in for a moment, and I'll see you on the flip side...

 

THE “ASTEROID PORN” CONTINUES: BRIDENSTINE’S LITTLE ...

You just can't make this stuff up, folks, and it's getting to be almost predictable. What I'm talking about is that weird "uptick" in stories having to do with UFOs, ETs, asteroids, and so on. In fact, there seems to be some sort of "asteroid porn" going on lately (a term "B" used in his email to me sharing this story). "Asteroid porn" is that special brand of "fear porn" that has to do with asteroids slamming into the planet and ending all life here, and hence, our Need to put Really Big Powerful and Exotic Weapons into Space to protect ourselves from that.

Oh... did I say slammed into the planet? Tch tch, shame on me. I meant to say landed on the planet, which is the exact language that NASA director Jim Bridenstein used (and which was caught in this article by one of our regular article-sharers, "B"). And not only do asteroids not slam into the planet but land, Mr. Bridenstine used that strange language in the context of another strange admission about the Chelyabinsk meteor of 2013:

NASA Issues A Warning: Meteorites Are "A Threat To The Earth!"

Now, let it be noted that this warning comes in the same temporal context as NASA's "asteroid drill" that I blogged about last week (See https://gizadeathstar.com/2019/05/of-asteroids-and-electrostatic-generators/ and also see https://gizadeathstar.com/2013/05/asteroids-are-in-the-news-again-well-at-least-in-russia/). I've been thinking for quite some time that the Chelyabinsk meteor incident may have been a case, not of an accidental near-collision asteroid event, but of a deliberate act of someone grabbing and throwing an asteroid. What made me come up with such a "so-far-out-there-it's-orbital" scenario were the strangeness of the contexts in which the Chelyabinsk incident occurred.

In case you've forgotten that context, or my reasoning for maintaining such a far-fetched notion, there were three primary reasons: (1) About a month before the Chelyabinsk Incident, Russian Prime Minister Dmitri Medvedev appeared and gave a talk about the need for asteroid defenses, and how Russia would have to "go it alone" in creating it if other nations would not create a planetary system. Asked about how asteroids might be deflected or destroyed, Mr. Medvedev offered the less-than-comforting vision of shooting hydrogen bombs at them, and then went on to mention "other" means which, in the context, were clearly more exotic and, to be noted, were left deliberately unspecified by Mr. Medvedev. It should be noted that Mr. Medvedev also had something of a "small history" talking about very weird things - including UFOs - on Russian television. (2) In more or less the same time frame as Chelyabinsk, there was that strange episode of the collision of a Russian and American satellite, which I argued was not accidental; someone had "collided" them to demonstrate a capability. Again, I left the "someone" unspecified. (3) Videos taken from the ground during the Chelyabinsk incident in some cases showed a "something" following the meteor mere seconds before it exploded, which, of course, led some people to speculate that the "something" was responsible for the meteor's destruction.

To put all of this review "country simple," there was something decidedly odd about the Chelyabinsk incident in my mind's eye, and there still is.

And that brings us back to Mr. Bridenstine's remarks, for he specifically mentions Chelyabinsk as a reason we should all be "concerned":

Bridenstine used the meteorite that exploded over the Russian city of Chelyabinsk in 2013 as an example of just how dangerous these space rocks could be to the Earth. The Chelyabinsk meteor had “30 times the energy of the atomic bomb at Hiroshima” and injured around 1,500 people. Just 16 hours after the crash, NASA detected an even larger object that approached the earth but did not actually land on it, he revealed.

“I wish I could tell you that these events are exceptionally unique, but they are not,” Bridenstine said. “These events are not rare - they happen. It’s up to us to make sure that we are characterizing, detecting, tracking all of the near-Earth objects that could be a threat to the world.”

Now, I don't know about you, but it looks to me as if Mr. Bridenstine may be, in his peculiar choice of words, corroborating those videos shown on Russian TV of a "something" apparently following the meteor, and perhaps taking it out. His choice of words about that object not landing on the Earth suggest that it was under control.

This strange statement, plus Mr. Medvedev's own prior to the incident, make me wonder: did NASA just issue its response to Mr. Medvedev, did it just issue its own interpretation of that incident?

I don't know about you, but it makes me wonder if, indeed, we're watching the unfolding of the Rosin Affidavit in real time...

See you on the flip side...