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OF THE QULT AND THAT STRANGENESS IN THAT WIKILEAKS DUMP

So many people sent some version of this story last week that it made it almost immediately into my "finals folder" of stories to blog about. So thank you to all of you, once again, who brought it to my attention, and another "generic thank you" to all of you who take the time to send articles. Anyway, this story is about that little bit of strangeness that made it into the Wikileaks dump which occurred around the time frame of the arrest of Julian Assange. But before we get to that, first a little caveat lector; most regular readers here already know, that during my years of writing, talking, and blogging about "strange stuff" that  I've not commented much - if at all - about Wikileaks or Julian Assange. When Assange and Wikileaks first appeared, it was not a subject that was very much on my radar, and hence, to this day, I do not know much about Assange nor his operation. At the time he first appeared, I expressed some skepticism as to how it all worked, including who his sources were. I still have that skepticism. That said, I am even more skeptical and cynical about the nasty precedent and implications that his arrest portends. In some respects, I suppose, what bothered me about Assange was what bothers me about the Q-cult, or Qult as my colleague Bernard Grover calls it: it struck me as contributing to that malaise of our age, the desire to be "
on the inside" and "in the know," not that that was Mr. Assange's goal, but that seems to be one implication. Granted, Assange and Wikileaks did not concoct a labyrinth of bread crumbs for the faithful acolytes to decode and follow nor did Assange assert cryptic claims to a kind of infallibility ex cathedra et ex consensu ecclesiae Qque. That is to say, Assange at least did not, so far as we know, construct a psyop nor was he part of one. That makes his arrest - at least to me personally - very troubling.

What I find even more troubling is the possibility that the Qult has been carefully nurtured for the past couple of years, almost as if some sort of "replacement" was being prepared for the day that Mr. Assange was taken down.

Which makes the strange little document in the last Wikileaks dump, and that has been making the rounds on the Internet, even more intriguing:

Wikileaks Document Exposes a “Secret US Base on the Moon

Taking this document (and the accompanying article) as authentic for the sake of argument, we're presented with a bit of a conundrum. On the one hand, if one views the document itself, and then reads the above-linked accompanying article, one is struck by the fact that the original document states that the report that the Soviet Union destroyed a secret US moonbase was unclassified. Quite frankly, when I read the accompanying article and saw the document itself, it struck me that the headline read like one would expect to find on The National Enquirer, accompanying yet another article headlined Two-Headed Elvis Seen in Hotel Bar in Mindinao. So my first difficulty here is not only the Enquirerlike headline, but the fact that the whole thing is unclassified ab initio. Without the benefit of the whole document and possessing only its summary, we're left with not much other than the possibility that we might be looking at a summary of a newspaper article that might have appeared in some foreign media.

A second possibility here is that we might be looking at a bit of deliberate and intentional "meme-planting." After all, it would be a relatively easy thing to plant false documents for someone (like Assange) to "find" and disseminate.

But strangely enough, it took a junior Senator from Wisconsin to point out the possibility that perhaps one way to keep a "super secret" super secret is to downgrade the classification from "Super Secret" to "Kinda Secret but Not So Much," that way, one doesn't have to track the "Super Secret" document on the "Super Secret Documents Ledger". By the same token, some times the best way to hide something is just to pull it from the public awareness, but not to classify it Super Secret, nor even Kinda Secret but Not So Much, but just to leave it unclassified and on the shelf. No one else knows about it, who doesn't know the location on the shelf, and since it's So So Secret, it's above Super Secret and its ledgers; it's So So Secret it's not even classified.

But with all the strange photos of stuff on the Moon, including some strange things in the Chinese and more recently the Israeli pictures, the idea that the US may have had a So So Secret (i.e., unclassified) base on the moon is not so strange, and raises new questions: what kind of base - manned or unmanned - was it? Where was it? What was its mission? When did it become operational? When was it constructed? And who constructed it? Did this base have something to do with NASA's strange L-CROSS mission in 2009, which was designed to crash into the South Pole of the Moon? Remember that one? We were all told that the impact would be visible on Earth, so spectacular would the collision be.

When it happened, it was  - at least after all the hype - a big nothing burger. Except to a handful, who were far more excited about the fact that the impact was not visible to the naked eye. What the telescopic images revealed was rather stunning, for the impact signature was not that of impacting on a solid surface, but of impacting on, and penetrating, a roof and exploding into an empty space beneath it.

And finally, to round out today's high octane speculation, there is a bit of an odd thing in the assertion that the Soviet Union destroyed this alleged American Moonbase. On the document itself there is a space labeled TAGS< and under this heading, one reads "ARBOGAST, CEYD QUENTIN, OGEN - Operations-General, UR - Soviet Union (USSR)." Now, the way I'm reading that strange list, ARBOGAST, CEYD QUENTIN, and  OGEN" would seem to be codewords, with "ARBOGAST" perhaps being the codename for a specific project area, and CEYD QUENTIN and OGEN perhaps being specific projects within that project area. OGEN could be simply a sigil for what follows it:  "operations-General". Then we get something very suggestive: "UR - Soviet Union (USSR)." Is UR explained by what follows it, as OGEN appears to be by "operations-general", in which case UR becomes some sort of sub-project heading for the Soviet Union in whatever ARBOGAST represents? Perhaps. Or, even better, is UR intended - as one individual who sent this story to me speculated - to represent an ancient UR, Ur of the Chaldeas in Mesopotamia? And is the reference to the Soviet Union indicating that it has some sort of "project ARBOGAST" (whatever that may be) interest in Ur?

Who knows, but I find that whole chain and line of reasoning to be intriguing to entertain.

So, for the moment, color me skeptical, but willing to be open to the high octane speculations here if indeed we could find out more information and details about this document.

See you on the flip side...

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US SATELLITE APPROACHES CHINESE AND RUSSIAN SATS

A little over ten years ago, on February 10, 2009, an American and a Russian satellite collided. You may or may not remember that, but in case you don't, here's a brief review:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_satellite_collision

Now, there's a key word in the opening of the Wikipedia article's presentation of "the standard narrative" that I'm sure most readers of this website spotted immediately:

n February 10, 2009, two artificial satellites, Iridium 33 and Kosmos-2251, accidentally collided at a speed of 11,700 m/s (26,000 mph; 42,000 km/h) and an altitude of 789 kilometres (490 mi) above the Taymyr Peninsula in Siberia.[1][2][3] [4][5][6] It was the first time a hypervelocity collision occurred between two satellites – until then, all accidental hypervelocity collisions had involved a satellite and a piece of space debris. (Bold and italicized emphasis added)

As the Wikipedia review of the incident also observes, collisions of satellites do happen, but most often with debris, but the 2009 incident was the first time it had happened to two satellites, and two satellites of the world's two major nuclear powers, no less.

Needless to say, at the time that the story broke, my suspicion meter shot right into the red zone. I wasn't alone in my suspicions; Mr. Richard C. Hoagland voiced suspicions about it, as did a number of other people, and almost universally, our "suspicions" ran along similar lines: (1) both the USA and Russia maintain meticulous databases of satellites and space debris and (2) both countries monitor their satellite assets quite carefully. Additionally, (3) neither country deliberately launches its satellites so that they will be placed at risk by other satellites, and finally (4) both countries have developed the capability of maneuverable satellites. As the article also notes, the Russian satellite had been a communications satellite, but was no longer in use, and the American satellite was a communications satellite. The fact that both were communications satellites suggests that they did have a minimum maneuvering capability for making fine adjustments to their attitude, altitude, and orbits simple to maintain them in position and functioning properly.

In other words, both satellites, so far as we know, had minimum maneuvering capability, if any at all. Yet, they collided. This led to our speculation at the time that they had been deliberately collided. And that left open some high octane speculation possibilities: (1) either one or the other country had deliberately collided its satellite into the other in some sort of test or message/demonstration; (2) some other country or agency had hacked into the satellites' systems and had exploited any maneuvering capability to do so, again, as possibly both a test and/or a demonstration/message; or (3) some very different "outside" agency had done so.  What fueled such speculations at the time was that neither Russia nor the USA had talked about the incident very much, and both seem to have settled on the "accident" explanation rather quickly.

Case closed; nothing to see here, move along.

Well, the story appears almost to have happened again, according to this article shared by G.B.:

http://www.spacewar.com/reports/US_satellites_reported_to_have_approached_Russian_Chinese_GEO_satellites_999.html

In this case, the American satellites deliberately approached those of China and Russia:

According to the report, the US remains secretive about the activities of four operational GSSAP satellites, but by using the data from the ISON space surveillance network, operated by the Russian Academy of Sciences, the foundation has managed to reconstruct their movements since their launch in 2014. The SWF indicates that they have made approaches to Russian, Chinese, Pakistani, and Nigerian satellites, both civilian and military ones, using manoeuvring engines.

GSSAP satellites (GSSAPS) work in pairs, with one located slightly lower than geosynchronous orbit and the other a bit higher. When they were needed to inspect certain objects, they approached their targets. GSSAPS at times approached as close as 10 kilometres. Some approaches were made when the satellites were in the Earth's shadow, making their actions invisible for Earth-based telescopes, according to the report.

It's so far unclear what exactly the GSSAPS were doing and what information they had received from their studies. (Emphasis added)

Indeed, one wonders what information they "received"... and I doubt it was just "taking pictures." The reason why I doubt it is those strange UFO appearances over American ICBM bases in the 1970s, which I have talked about in the 2014 San Mateo Secret Space Program conference, and written about in the Covert Wars books. These UFO incidents were clearly national security incidents, since the UFOs apparently had been able to shut down entire flights of ICBMs, and even to reprogram targeting data remotely. Additionally, the Soviet Union experienced a similar incident in 1982 at Byelokoroviche in the Ukraine, when a flight of Soviet ICBMs actually had their launch sequence initiated by a UFO, again, remotely. This implied, as I noted at the time, an ability to scan a network remotely - perhaps even to map the "circuitry" of that network - and to alter data within it. Notably, after one such incident in Minot, North Dakota, the USAF called in the Boeing company to see if it could duplicate the phenomenon, and allegedly, Boeing was able to do so. If so, then that has profound implications, not only to the extraterrestrial hypothesis usually advanced as an explanation for some UFO activity, but also for satellite and anti-satellite capabilities.

Putting the two together yields today's high octane speculation: perhaps, again, a test was being performed in such a manner to send a message as well, and perhaps, in that context, it's no coincidence that it occurs approximately 10 years after the 2009 satellite collision. We may consider it a space version of the cat-and-mouse games that the USA's and USSR's bomber and submarine forces played with each other during the Cold War. And that means, inevitably, that Russia and China will respond, somehow, some day. The question is whether we will be told about it.

See you on the flip side...

 

 

 

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MORE DRIP DRIP DRIP… CARBON NANOTUBES CHEAPER TO MAKE THANKS TO ...

This is one of those stories that makes you go "Hmmm...." and was spotted by Ms. K.M. who sent it along with the observation that the "breakaway group" appears to be gradually leaking  more and more information about its capabilities. We'll get back to that and to today's high octane speculation in a moment. The story is an article written by Eric Mack for Forbes magazine, and it contains some rather stunning statements. Here's the story:

A Real World 'Star Trek' Replicator Is Now Possible Thanks To New Breakthrough

Now if you're like me, there's a few statements in that article that caught your eye. The first little bombshell was this:

A startup with alumni from MIT and Yale says it's made a breakthrough in creating a next-generation material that should make it possible to 3-d print literally anything out of thin air.

New York-based Mattershift has managed to create large-scale carbon nanotube (CNT) membranes that are able to combine and separate individual molecules.

"This technology gives us a level of control over the material world that we've never had before," said Mattershift Founder and CEO Dr. Rob McGinnis in a release. "For example, right now we're working to remove CO2 from the air and turn it into fuels. This has already been done using conventional technology, but it's been too expensive to be practical. Using our tech, I think we'll be able to produce carbon-zero gasoline, diesel, and jet fuels that are cheaper than fossil fuels."

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The company says their breakthrough brings down the difficulty and cost of manufacturing the material, which should allow the technology to burst out of the confines of university labs.

Following this little bombshell, toward the end of the article there's this:

"It should be possible to combine different types of our CNT membranes in a machine that does what molecular factories have long been predicted to do: to make anything we need from basic molecular building blocks," said McGinnis. "We're talking about printing matter from the air. Imagine having one of these devices with you on Mars. You could print food, fuels, building materials, and medicines from the atmosphere and soil or recycled parts without having to transport them from Earth."

A molecular factory is a long-predicted technology that, in theory, should be able to accomplish some of what the Replicator from "Star Trek" does, although not nearly as cleanly as on the show.

So look what we have:

(1) a claim that a new nano-engineering technology has been achieved dramatically lowering both cost and difficulty of manufacture; (2) a claim that this capability will basically allow Erix Drexler's old dream of genuine engineering at a molecular level, including the ability to take one kind of material and transform it bottom-up into another finished product without the usual machining; and (3) that this ability also implies an ability to reengineer basic carbonm based fuels that are both cleaner and cheaper.

Now, if you're like me, I've long suspected that such stories are one of two things: (1) pipe dreams, or (2) a "slow drip drip drip" of information into the public of things that have actually been covertly achieved, and in this case, I suspect the latter for a very interesting reason that I've blogged about before on this site: 3d printing, or to give it its more technical name, "additive manufacturing." The fundamental difference between conventional machining and additive manufacturing is not so much in the final product, but in the way the final product comes about. Say, for example, that you want to make a replacement leg for a dining room table, and you have some metal and wood-working expertise and a lathe in your shop. You go out, buy some wood, and turn out a new table leg on your lathe by subtractive machining, chipping wood away from the wood until the table leg is revealed. In the process, some of the original wood is wasted. With additive manufacturing, or 3-D printing, the new table leg is printed in three-dimensional versions of computer pixels, tiny bit by tiny bit is added to a construction until the new table leg emerges, and it emerges with notably little waste as compared to turning the leg on a lathe through the process of subtractive manufacturing.

Now scale that process down to the size of a molecule, and Eric Drexler's 1990s dream of "engines of creation", the title of his book first introducing the concept of nano-engineering to the general public, comes true. One has, as Mr. Mack puts it in his Forbes article, a distinctive step in the technology tree toward the "Star Trek replicator", which, if one knows the lore of that popular science fiction television series, produces things - including foods and drinks - by nano-engineering them into existence from other material. It is, so to speak, the ultimate in recycling. One can imagine, for example, the utility of such a technology to the problem of waste, human and otherwise. Giant landfills of garbage would be a thing of the past, as materials could be broken down molecule by molecule, and re-engineered from the molecule up into new products. Of course, this has its downside, but I'll leave that, for the moment, to your imagination.

None of this is, however, my high octane speculation of the day. My high octane speculation concerns more the possibility that this story might be a "drip drip drip" sort of story, of the sort that is designed to prepare the public for a dramatic and drastic shift in paradigms of "how things are done." Consider only my "nano-waste recycling" scenario. when Drexler first wrote Engines of Creation about the whole subject of nano-engineering, the topic was so bizarre and "out there" that he made an appearance on Art Bell's popular overnight radio show, Coast to Coast AM. But Drexler pointed out something in his book that should give us pause, something that in my opinion might make the "drip drip drip" interpretation of this new discovery all but certain. Drexler revealed in his book two astonishing things. First, that IBM had managed to spell out its corporate logo using a small amount of xenon atoms. And as if that were not impressive enough, Drexler also pointed out that AT&T's laboratories had successfully created the first man-made atom. That was in the 1990s, folks.

And to top off my speculation about this story possibly being one of those "slow and deliberate releases" of information about capabilities in the possession of some "breakaway civilization," I've also pointed ouy on occasion that 3-D printing itself has been around in the military and corporate worlds since at least the 1970s. Just as computers have been around since World War Two, but became a public technology affordable and practical for public use in the 1980s and 1990s, 3-d printing is now increasingly cheaper, and home versions are being made and sold as we speak. Wed the two technologies - additive manufacturing, and nano-engineering - and that "Star Trek replicator" technology is not all that far away.

And let us note something very significant. Such a technology would not only be a boon to long-term human space missions, it would be almost a prerequisite condition to their feasibility... especially if one wants not only to mine asteroids, but to manufacture, on the spot, products from what has been mined.

See you on the flip side...

 

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AI SPOOFING, A CHINESE ANTI-SAT FACILITY, AND INDIA’S ...

Yesterday I blogged about the triple, and quasi-quadruple, redundancy being built out in the world's international financial clearing systems, for now there are viable alternatives to the West's SWIFT system: Russia's SPFS and China's CIPS systems. Add to that the Japanese credit card clearing system in widespread use in the Pacific, build that out a built more, and one has a quadruple redundancy where, just a few years ago, there was only one system: SWIFT.  As I indicated yesterday, when one views this activity without the conventional down-to-earth geopolitical explanations, one is left with the question of why, and the answer is that one makes such moves as a matter of planetary, rather than individual national, security. It is the sort of move that one would expect as plans are being made to move into space and "mine" asteroids and so on, thus requiring some method or system(s) to enable what in effect will become interplanetary commerce, and to secure it against "whomever" might seek to disrupt it, be that "whomever" someone "down here" or someone "up there."

It's that context, I suspect (in today's high octane speculation) that might connect three seemingly unrelated stories, each of which, considered on its own individual merits, has its own typical "down to earth" geopolitical explanations, but which taken together, might indicate that other capabilities are being built out for space-related reasons.

The first story concerns a new technique being developed by China to use AI to create fictitious installations and modify satellite photos of the Earth, shared by Mr.V.T.:

The Newest AI-Enabled Weapon: ‘Deep-Faking’ Photos of the Earth

Here's the gist of the technology and the motivation for it:

Worries about deep fakes — machine-manipulated videos of celebrities and world leaders purportedly saying or doing things that they really didn’t — are quaint compared to a new threat: doctored images of the Earth itself.

China is the acknowledged leader in using an emerging technique called generative adversarial networks to trick computers into seeing objects in landscapes or in satellite images that aren’t there, says Todd Myers, automation lead and Chief Information Officer in the Office of the Director of Technology at the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency.

“The Chinese are well ahead of us. This is not classified info,” Myers said Thursday at the second annual Genius Machines summit, hosted by Defense One and Nextgov. “The Chinese have already designed; they’re already doing it right now, using GANs—which are generative adversarial networks—to manipulate scenes and pixels to create things for nefarious reasons.”

For example, Myers said, an adversary might fool your computer-assisted imagery analysts into reporting that a bridge crosses an important river at a given point.

It requires little imagination to see how this could be expanded to space, to create images of exo-planetary surfaces to create things that aren't there, or alternatively (and as has been alleged many times over in the past few decades) to erase things that are there.  One might even envision an expansion of the technique to be able to spoof the existence of "assets" on other celestial bodies that aren't there, or to exaggerate amounts of assets that are. Ultimately, one might envision a further expansion of the technique to spoof off-planet "threats" to create imaginary installations. The bottom line is that the capability is a unique form both of camouflage and of deception and disinformation.

With that technology in mind, consider this second article, also shared by Mr. V.T:

Satellite Photos Show Chinese Anti-Satellite Laser Base

What's interesting about this second story is that its dateline is last Monday, April 1st, thus making it possible that it is an elaborate April Fool's joke, and given the first article with its AI spoofing technique, it's a possibility that can't be entirely discounted. But suppose for a moment that it is genuine, and that the analysis it purports to give of the Chinese facilities is for the most part true. If so, two things emerge from the article as implications. The analysis of the facilities, according to the article, was undertaken by an Indian defense and photo analyst, Col. Vinayak Bhat. he alleges that the Chinese facilities are for two basic types of weapons: (1) powerful ground-based anti-satellite lasers, and (2) ground based electromagnetic pulse (EMP) weapons. Additionally, the American Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) has weighed in on the matter:

The report said Beijing "possibly already has a limited capability to employ laser systems against satellite sensors."

"China likely will field a ground-based laser weapon that can counter low-orbit space-based sensors by 2020, and by the mid-to-late 2020s, it may field higher power systems that extend the threat to the structures of non-optical satellites," the report, "Challenges to Security in Space," says.

The DIA said directed energy weapons can be used to "disrupt, damage, or destroy enemy equipment and facilities."

"These weapons, which can have effects ranging from temporary to permanent, include lasers, high-power microwaves, and other types of radiofrequency weapons," the report said, noting the difficulties in identifying the source of such attacks.

It is not known if the Xinjiang base was the source of the well-known laser illumination of U.S. reconnaissance satellites several times in August and September of 2006. The laser "painting" occurred as the satellites passed over China.

One immediate implication of these analyses is that if China has developed a ground-based laser Anti-Sat capability, then this means that it has perfected phase conjugation, allowing the beams to stay more or less coherent through atmospheric distortion (phase conjugation is a compensating mechanism for this distortion).  But what of the ground-based electromagnetic pulse component? This is where it gets even more interesting from a high octane speculation point of view:

Bhat also disclosed the locations of other facilities in China used for exotic weapons systems, including an electromagnetic pulse facility in Xinjiang.

EMP is the pulse produced by a nuclear blast or solar flare that can disrupt electronics for thousands of miles.

The photo shows a road leading in to the facility under a cylindrical EMP generator that can illuminate equipment and vehicles with EMP.

"This facility is used for researching methods of hardening Chinese military equipment and reverse effects on adversaries’ equipment using electronic components," Bhat says.

Also in Xinjiang is a mobile pulse generator—an electronic warfare system used to create electromagnetic interference that can disable satellites. (Emphases added)

An electromagnetic pulse weapon that could conceivably fry the electronic components of satellites, rendering them so much useless lumps of metal in orbit, could conceivably also to the same to aircraft, or other types of vehicles entering Chinese airspace from "wherever." In this respect, I'm reminded of some of those stories about the Roswell incident which allege that the Roswell UFO was brought down by ground based American radar. In any case, it is intriguing to ponder the fact that China has built out its financial clearing system while simultaneously building out an anti-satellite (or anti-whatever) capability, and the two things are obviously not unrelated. In this respect it is also intriguing to note that the Trump Administration has created a space force, and that President Trump plans to issue an executive order regarding precisely those electromagnetic pulse weapons. In effect, the geopolitical-exopolitical situation is such that the major powers must develop both defensive and offensive capabilities against the space assets of each other, but also against the UFO problem, and it stands to reason that the "deep states" of the major powers would do so by developing technologies that (they hope) can do double duty.

And last but not least, to round out this geopolitical-exopolitical jigsaw puzzle, we have the announcement of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on March 27 of this year, that India successfully shot down a satellite in low Earth orbit, making India a bona fide "space power" and only the fourth nation to demonstrate such a capability after the USA, Russia, and China (this story was shared by Mr. G.L.R. and Mr. A.M.):

India Declares Itself a Space Power After Shooting Down Satellite

As the article indicates, the downing of the satellite was a clear geopolitical message to rival nuclear power Pakistan (and as well to the other three "space powers):

Brahma Chellaney, a security expert at New Delhi's Centre of Policy Research, said the United States, Russia and China were all pursuing anti-satellite (ASAT) weapons.

"Space is being turned into a battlefront, making counter-space capabilities critical. In this light, India's successful "kill" with an ASAT weapon is significant."

No comment was immediately available from India's old rival Pakistan. There was also no immediate reaction from China's foreign or defence ministries.

But beyond this, I cannot help but wonder if India is also playing the "deeper game" in space that I have been alluding to in yesterday's and today's blog, for the simple reason that it has long been suspected that India has had an anti-satellite capability for a number of years. Mr. Modi  merely made it "official" on March 27, but it's difficult to imagine why India would not have such a capability. For a country and culture deeply steeped in the Vedic literature, with the Ramayana's and Mahabharata's clear references to ancient advanced technologies and "wars of the gods" both "down here" and "out there," it's again difficult to believe that the "deeper game" is not part of India's defense policy...

Taking yesterday's blog about the build-out of international financial clearing redundancy, and today's story about unusual technologies and capabilities being developed by China, the bottom line is that all of these developments can clearly be rationalized adequately and solely by terrestrial financial and geo-politics. But I strongly suspect that there are potential "off-planet" reasons for their development as well...

See you on the flip side...

 

 

 

THAT METEOR EXPLOSION THAT NO ONE TALKED ABOUT

Yes, you read that headline correctly: apparently, according to this article shared by Mr. B., there was a meteor explosion - and a rather large one at that - over planet Earth that no one noticed, or as is more likely, no one talked about, until now:

Huge meteor explosion over Earth last year went unnoticed until now

The impact alleged occurred in the Bering strait, and was captured by a Japanese weather satellite. But there's something odd about the story, and as you might guess, it has my high octane speculation mind pondering some possibilities. Here's the part that made me wonder:

The giant fireball hit at 2350 GMT on 18 December over the Bering Sea, a part of the Pacific Ocean between Russia and Alaska.

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The meteor was 10 metres in diameter, had a mass of 1400 tonnes and impacted with an energy of 173 kilotons of TNT, he wrote on Twitter.  The impact energy was about 10 times that of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima in 1945.

The meteor exploded at altitude above Earth’s surface, says Alan Fitzsimmons of Queen’s University Belfast, UK. “It would have been quite spectacular,” he says.

The explosion was detected by infrasound stations around the world, which pick up low-frequency acoustic waves inaudible to humans. These stations were initially set up during the cold war to detect nuclear explosions.

It is the third-largest impact in modern times, after Chelyabinsk and a massive explosion that occurred in Siberia, Russia, in 1908. Known as the Tunguska event, the air burst flattened an estimated 80 million trees over an area of more than 2000 square kilometres.

It's that reference to Chelyabinsk which makes me wonder. My "guestimation" is that there's about a 1% possibility, or less, that my high octane speculation is true, but nonetheless, I offer it anyway, because the mention of the Chelyabinsk incident is what makes me think this is may not be your typical normal exploding meteor, but that perhaps this meteor was "not talked about" because (as Mr. B. suggested in the email containing this article) someone "took it out."

What made the Chelyabinsk meteor incident unusual was that a month prior to the incident, then Russian Prime Minister Dmitri Medvedev had appeared on Russian television talking about the need for an international cooperation to build out an asteroid-meteor defense system, and that if Russia could not obtain this, it would just have to go ahead and do it on its own. He then offered the observation that asteroids could be destroyed by missiles armed with thermonuclear weapons "or other means," which he left conveniently unspecified. Then after the meteor incident, a number of videos appeared on Russian television showing a "something" behind the meteor, just prior to its explosion, leading to speculation in Russia and elsewhere that "someone" had taken it out. The timing of the Chelyabinsk incident so shortly after Mr. Medvedev's remarks almost made it seem as if someone had "ordered up a meteor" so that it could then be exploded, punctuating Mr. Medvedev's statements rather dramatically.

And so the same thing here: meteor impacts and even exploding meteors are a relatively common occurrence, and hence they normally don't make the news unless, like Chelyabinsk, they occur over a major population center, or in this case, are relatively large. But it's that reference to Chelyabinsk itself that makes me wonder if, in fact, the incident may have more going on than meets the eye.

Granted, it's a very remote possibility, but with all the talk about space and space weapons, I don't rule it out.

See you on the flip side...

A STRANGE ADMISSION FROM NASA?

There's been a couple of articles on space this week that are even stranger when viewed together. Mr. K.M. spotted them, and passed them along.  I read them, but it wasn't until I started to read the second one that I had to sit up and take the technical arguments, or rather, the strange rhetoric of the second article, much more seriously. Was NASA resorting to mere hyperbole? Or was it resorting to a trickle of a leak and cautious "paradigm-changing rhetoric"? We'll I'll opt for the latter, which is the subject of today's high octane speculation, but I'll leave it up to everyone else to make up there own mind. After all, I've certainly walked off the end of the speculation twig more than a few times!

The first of these articles is, to be sure, rather technical, and concerns a new method of dating craters:

Asteroid Rate Jumped in Solar System’s Past

Note the first two paragraphs here:

Some 290 million years ago, as the last trilobites scuttled across the seafloor, the skies above grew just a little more ominous. At that point, large asteroids — including the impactor that would later kill off the dinosaurs — began to rain down on our planet between two and three times more frequently than they did before, according to a study published today in Science.

Researchers spotted the trend while surveying impact craters on both Earth and our closest celestial neighbor, the moon. In these records, many impact craters date back to the past few hundred million years. Older ones are few. “It was surprising,” said Sara Mazrouei of the University of Toronto, the lead author of today’s paper. “We see the footprints of it, but what really happened to cause this?”

In other words, according to this study, there was a "sudden" uptick in the amount of "stuff" raining down on the Earth and the Moon, and the final question: what caused this spike in asteroid bombardment (if we may call it that)?

Before we get to that question, there's one more bit of intriguing information about this newest study: the spike in impacts occurred more or less within the same time frame as the great extinction event, some 250,000,000 years ago, known as the "Great Dying":

From between about 290 million years ago and now, their statistical analysis showed, big impacts rattled the moon’s surface 2.6 times more often than they had in the preceding 710 million years. That jump occurred around the same time as Earth’s largest mass extinction, known as the “Great Dying,” when about 90 percent of all species went extinct. The causes of that extinction are under debate.

The article continues by noting that the method has some skeptics and doubters, but most importantly - at least for our purposes - the question of what caused this spike in impacts is left unanswered in the article.

So I turned my attentions to the second article that K.M. sent along, and it contained something that really gave me pause, and set my high octane speculation "suspicion meter" into the red zone, because the second article was about the same story, but appeared on the NASA website:

The Great Dying

Here the approach is somewhat different, for rather than focusing on lunar craters, as was the case in the first article, the focus was on rather arcane types of evidence concerning the "Great Dying" here on Earth:

250 million years ago something unknown wiped out most life on our planet. Now scientists are finding buried clues to the mystery inside tiny capsules of cosmic gas.

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The case has gone unsolved for years -- 250 million years, that is.

But now the pieces are starting to come together, thanks to a team of NASA-funded sleuths who have found the "fingerprints" of the villain, or at least of one of the accomplices

What they found was this:

Deep inside Permian-Triassic rocks, Becker's team found soccer ball-shaped molecules called "fullerenes" (or "buckyballs") with traces of helium and argon gas trapped inside. The fullerenes held an unusual number of 3He and 36Ar atoms -- isotopes that are more common in space than on Earth. Something, like a comet or an asteroid, must have brought the fullerenes to our planet.

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Becker's team had previously found such gas-bearing buckyballs in rock layers associated with two known impact events: the 65 million-year-old Cretaceous-Tertiary impact and the 1.8 billion-year-old Sudbury impact crater in Ontario, Canada. They also found fullerenes containing similar gases in some meteorites. Taken together, these clues make a compelling case that a space rock struck the Earth at the time of the Great Dying.

And the conclusion from all this, as the article also notes, was an impact with an asteroid of the approximate size of Mount Everest. None of this, however, was what caught my interest. After all, catastrophe theories have been around for quite some time. What caught my interest was the strange rhetoric in which NASA couched its version of the story. There is for example, the way its article concludes:

Was the "crime" then merely an accident? Perhaps so. Nevertheless, it's wise to identify the suspects -- an ongoing process -- before it happens again.

My initial reaction, when I read this concluding statement, was to recall the Affidavit of Dr. Carol Rosin. Most regular readers of this website and of my books will be familiar with what Dr. Rosin stated in that affidavit, given several years ago to Dr. Greer's disclosure project, which was subsequently published in book form, collecting the statements of several people involved in various aspects of UFO studies, and so on. Dr Rosin, who at one time had worked for Fairchild Industries, and who in that capacity had come to know Dr. Wernher von Braun (who also went to work for Fairchild after he was "retired" from NASA), maintained in her affidavit that Dr. von Braun had told her about a long term plan to weaponize space. The plan was to invoke a string of enemies and threats that would make it necessary to place weapons in space, the first enemy being Communism, then terrorism, then nations of concern, then asteroids, and finally of course, extra-terrestrials.

I've blogged on this website previously about the occasional calls for planetary asteroid defense systems, most recently in conjunction with the Chelyabinsk meteor incident and the strange comments made by Russian Prime Minister Dmitri Medvedev a month prior to the incident. In his comments calling for asteroid defense, he disclosed the obvious implication: if one is going to destroy asteroids, one has to have some very powerful and sophisticated weapons to do so. He mentioned missiles with themonuclear bombs, and then went on to mention "other means", which went unspecified, but one may hazard a guess that energy weapons were probably high on his list of "unspecified means" to nudge asteroids aside.

Which brings us back to that closing bit of strange rhetoric from NASA, for by calling the Great Dying a "crime" leaves one hesitating. By putting it in quotation marks, does NASA simply mean to indicate that the "crime" is merely a metaphorical one, caused by an asteroid? Perhaps, and that's the most likely explanation, since the build of the article has been about precisely that. But then this is followed by an equally curious statement: "Nevertheless, it's wise to identify the suspects - an ongoing process - before it happens again." My problem here is the lack of those all-important qualifying quotation marks. "Crimes" would seem to imply the need for "suspects," but no, at this point the implied metaphorical qualifier is dropped and all we get are plain old unqualified suspects. Read from the template of Dr. Rosin's Affidavit, in other words, the rhetorical construction would seem to be able to support either the penultimate or ultimate threats needed to weaponize space: threatening asteroids, or threatening suspects, criminals capable of inflicting planetary mass extinction, perhaps by lobbing asteroids. (Just for kicks, think of Carlos Allende's notes referring to the "great bombardment" in the secret Varo edition of Morris Jessup's The Case for the UFO here folks. And for real kicks, remember my argument in Secrets of the Unified Field that one of the recipients of said secret Varo edition was - you guessed it - Dr. Wernher von Braun [see pp. 292-296])

There was something else in this article that suggested to me that my parsing of the concluding statement was not just crawling off the end of the twig. Earlier in the article, there was another set of statements that were either simply rhetorical and metaphorical, or else a bit of deliberate "meme-planting" and "conditioning":

Some perpetrator -- or perpetrators -- committed murder on a scale unequaled in the history of the world. They left few clues to their identity, and they buried all the evidence under layers and layers of earth.

This is interesting because the qualifying quotation marks around "crime" are altogether missing in these statements. What we have are a perpetrator or perpetrators, whose crime is now specified as murder (of a scaled unequaled in the history of the world), and so on. Of course, the obvious interpretation, given the context of the rest of the article, is that it is simply one grand metaphorical construction, the "criminals" committing the "murder on a scaled unequaled" &c being simply asteroids.

But my high octane suspicion meter is still in the red zone even as I try to talk myself out of the idea that a very subtle message is being sent and a subtle meme is being planted, because again, NASA draws attention to its lack of metaphorical qualifiers in these strangely worded statements, those all-important quotation marks, by including them - once - in its concluding statement, but nowhere else where similar language is employed.

So yea, you can call me crazy, but I do think that what we're witnessing in this NASA article is the beginning of a slow "drip drip" that eventually is going to acknowledge some sort of "ancient cosmic war" paradigm, in order to get prepared for a future one.

See you on the flip side...

 

RT: NEW DNA TECHNIQUE COULD HELP IN THE SEARCH FOR ET

...yes, you read the title of this blog correctly, and the article in question was sent by Mr. S.D., and as you can imagine, it has my high octane speculation transmission running in overdrive. In fact, this article is so bizarre in its implications that I had some difficulty determining just where I should "file" it: transhumanism? Cosmic war? Call it conspiracy? UFOs? You tell me? In the end I decided on "Cosmic war" because...well, we'll get to that.

The article itself if short on details, and long on implications, so without further ado, here it is:

Reprograming life? Gamechanger DNA could revolutionize medicine, help us find aliens

The long and short of it is this:

Researchers at the NASA-funded Foundation for Applied Molecular Evolution have created a new form of the DNA double helix with an additional four nucleotides dubbed ‘hachimoji DNA’ (from the Japanese words for ‘eight letters’).

DNA code, which makes up all biology and chemistry observed by mankind, consists of the nucleotides or ‘letters’: adenine (A), thymine (T), guanine (G) and cytosine (C).

Now, we have the new, artificial ‘letters’ labeled P, B, Z and S that introduce dozens of new chemical parameters that, in turn, generate thousands of potential genetic templates that didn’t previously exist.

Advocates of the technology say that, as a species, we need to test the limits of DNA to try and predict just how far life can evolve.

(What could possibly go wrong?)

This will help us defeat incurable diseases and viruses in the future here on Earth, as well as assisting in our search for extraterrestrial elsewhere in the solar system and wider universe. (Emphasis added)

Now, reading this, my first impression was a question: What on earth is NASA doing trying to figure out new models of DNA evolution and to predict them. My next thought was, "whew! this all sounds theoretical, no need to worry." But then I recalled that strange X-Files episode where a DNA sample is brought by Scully to a laboratory for analysis, and the mystified geneticist informs her that the sample can contained a fifth base pair, which (the geneticist said) by definition had to be extra-terrestrial.

As you can imagine, it's that last sentence that has my mind speculating all over the place. We're being asked to believe that this theoretical work in "predictive evolution" might lead to the ability to search for extra-terrestrial life "elsewhere in the solar system" and then "in the wider universe". In other words, perhaps NASA is experimenting with these theoretical evolutionary parameters in specific cases, i.e., what might life (and for that matter, intelligent life) look like under the surface on Mars, or some of the moons of Saturn or Jupiter? But could we also be looking at a kind of cover story for something that has already been discovered? Perhaps so.

But there's an even deeper, or perhaps "higher" high octane speculation buzzing around in my mind, and that is: what if we are looking at a carefully disguised program searching for extra-terrestrial life on this planet? In 2015 at the Secret Space Program conference in Bastrop, TX, I pointed out that if one read certain ancient texts a certain way, then one might conclude that one was looking at some "paleoancient" genetic engineering program, i.e., the creation of a hybrid race of "demigods" from the union of a terrestrial humanoid and "the gods." If one suspected that might have happened, how would one go about proving it? What if "they" were still around? The possibility, I implied, must have sent shock waves through the post-World War Two national security state, already dealing with a growing "UFO problem," for the implication of those ancient stories was that they not only looked like us, but that they could perhaps infiltrate the organs of government.  That possibility became the theme for the last 1960s science fiction television series, The Invaders. How would one find them? In Bastrop I stated that there would be only one way: genetics.  That search might reveal chimeras, or it might reveal unknown base pairs. But in any case, the possibility exists that we might just be looking at precisely the tip of the iceberg in such a program.

See you on the flip side...

IS MUSK’S SPACEX BEING PUSHED ASIDE?

An individual who wishes to be completely anonymous - hence, I don't even get to thank this individual by mentioning initials, so this will have to do as a thank you - shared this story, and it may be one of those "quiet stories" whose true significance unveils itself only much later. The USSA's new procurement regulations and guidelines appear to be pushing out Elon Musk's SpaceX in favor of "other competitors," and we'll get back to that in a moment. Here's the story:

Lawmakers: Air Force launch procurement strategy undermines SpaceX

US Senator Diane Feinstein (D-CA) and Rep. Ken Calvert (R-CA) have written a letter challenging the new regulations:

They contend that the Air Force, in an effort to broaden the launch playing field, is putting SpaceX at a competitive disadvantage.

In a Feb. 4 letter addressed to Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson, Feinstein and Calvert — both with strong ties to the space industry — argue that the path the Air Force has chosen to select future launch providers creates an unfair playing field. Although SpaceX is not mentioned in the letter by name, it is clear from the lawmakers’ language that they believe the company is getting a raw deal because, unlike its major competitors, it did not receive Air Force funding to modify its commercial rockets so they meet national security mission requirements.

Feinstein and Calvert in the letter ask Wilson to “review how the Air Force intends to maintain assured access to space while preserving maximum competitive opportunities for all certified launch providers.” A copy of the letter was obtained by SpaceNews.

At issue are Launch Service Agreement contracts the Air Force awarded in October to Blue Origin, Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems and United Launch Alliance. The three companies collectively received $2.3 billion to support the development of space launch vehicles that meet national security requirements. The Air Force started the LSA program in 2016 to ensure future access to space and to end its reliance on ULA’s Atlas 5 and its Russian main engine.

SpaceX was widely considered a front-runner for an award but came away empty-handed. The Air Force did not disclose why SpaceX did not receive LSA funds.

Now, as the individual who noticed and sent this story along speculated, what appears to be happening is that the procurement procedures have been altered to favor Blue Origin, i.e., Jeff Bexos and the Amazon interest, Northrup Grumman, i.e., the military interests (directly), and United Launch Alliance, a joint venture of Boeing and Lockheed Martian...er... Lockheed Martin. I also blogged recently about Musk being contacted by CERN to help bore its new tunnels for its Even Bigger Collider, which may, according to my anonymous speculator's lights, be Musk's way of trying to bore back "in" to the "inside."

And I have to admit, I find those speculations to be worth pondering. But I have my own "high octane speculation" corollaries to add to what may be happening. In a nutshell, what may be happening is the attempt to deliberately restructure the emerging space-based economy, and in typical mercantilist fashion, to shape and tailor that economy so that "approved players" remain more or less in control. And crucial to this process, though not mentioned in the article itself, are the recent FASB regulations, which effectively take the entire Federal budget "black". That's a pretty handy thing to have around when you're doing business with the Bexos/Amazon/CIA complex in a skewed procurement process. And that means, for the USA, more inefficiency in space, as large conglomerates can suck even more money from the tetes of an entirely black federal budget in the name of space, for ever smaller returns.

In short, what we're seeing here is that in spite of all the hype about the emerging space-based competitive market, the USSA, for its part, intends to see that the same players have "most favored procurement status." All others need not apply.

There's something else that will result from this, and that is, Europe will respond with its own version, cementing the role of the large French and German defense industries in their space program, leaving independent contractors like Mr. Musk out in the cold once again, unless he plays his cards well there.

But don't lose heart, Mr. Musk, there are lots of other players out there: India, China, Japan, Russia, Brazil, Israel, Luxembourg...

See you on the flip side...

CERN AND MUSK’S BORING MACHINES

Remember that story last week that I blogged about, conCERNing CERN's desire to build an even bigger collider of approximately 100km underneath a sizeable chunk of Switzerland? Well, guess who they're talking to about boring through all that rock? Here's a hint: I also blogged about Elon Musk's purported new boring tachnology. Yea, you guessed it, CERN is talking to Musk about using that technology to bore the tunnels for its new mega-collider (thanks to the individual who sent this story, who wishes to remain completely anonymous):

Elon Musk says he talked to CERN about building tunnels for its biggest ever particle collider

Now, you might recall that Musk's alleged new boring machines utilize electricity (so we're told) and that they are measurably faster than conventional boring machines. So it comes as no surprise that CERN's conCERN seems to be about the speed that they can build their new monster collider:

Musk said CERN's director, Fabiola Gianotti, talked to him about his tunnelling company potentially digging tunnels for a new particle accelerator, which would be four times larger than the (LHC). Musk's Boring Company is an infrastructure firm mostly focused on building new tunnels to ease traffic congestion.

Musk said the Boring Company could help save billions of euros.

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Musk founded the Boring Company in 2016, and the company unveiled its first test tunnel in December, and its tunnelling equipment currently makes headway about 14 times slower than a snail— although Musk said at the launch party for the tunnel, "Aspirationally, we should be slightly faster than a snail."

As you might have guessed, this story sent my Suspicion Meter, if not into the red zone, then at least into the orange zone, with the occasional twitch of the needle into the really deep maroon zone, for I have a high octane speculation-as-suspicion here, and it requires reading between the lines. In the previous blog on Musk's boring machine (See MUSK'S NEW BORING MACHINE NOT BORING), I noted the following:

Elon Musk’s Boring Company recently completed a 1.25 mile tunnel in Los Angeles. In 2019, Elon Musk will start building a third generation all-electric tunneling machine which should be fifteen times faster. Currently, tunneling machines have about 20 meters per day speed. The third generation tunneling machine, Prufrock, will have a digging speed of about 300 meters per day.

In other words, and reading between the lines a bit in the present article, CERN is talking to Musk because:

(1) His new technology will save them money, largely in the form of labor costs, because

(2) it can bore much faster than conventional machines, and that means

(3) CERN is in a hurry.

All of this makes me wonder: why the big hurry to build an even larger collider operating at energies and with localized magnetic field strength we can only imagine? Well, if my whole admittedly wild speculations about CERN's machine are correct, and if there is indeed a hidden aspect to this project having little to do with particle physics and everything to do about manipulation of the planet, including, potentially, its magnetosphere in a series of "data correlation" experiments, then it may stand to reason that whatever experiments they were covertly running along those lines (if any), may have been successful, and the beta test (the current collider) is over, and now they need to scale it up to "full size."

Yea, I know, it's wild, but for the moment, I'm sticking with it. And it also makes me wonder, how deeply are they planning to bury this thing? And what's the composition of the rock they intend to embed it in? Interestingly enough, so far, there doesn't seem to be much information about these things, nor about the energies they intend to operate this new collider at, nor the magnetic field strengths that will be required...

See you on the flip side...

RUSSIA LOSES CONTROL OF THE “RUSSIAN HUBBLE” TELESCOPE

Speaking of Russia, you may or may not be aware that it has its own version of the problem-plagued "Hubble telescope" called the Spektr-R satellite, over which it has recently lost control, according to this article shared by Mr. G.C.:

Russia loses control over its ONLY ‘Hubble-like’ telescope, but photos are still coming

This article grabbed my attention, not so much for what the article says, but because of the speculation that Mr. G.C. offered in conjunction with it when he shared this story, and that speculation made me sit up and take notice. According to the article, the Russian space agency Roscosmos has lost the ability to control its satellite telescope, which nevertheless continues to send back pictures:

Russia has lost control over its scientific space satellite, Spektr-R, which has one of the largest space telescopes ever sent into orbit. Ground control said it is “still alive,” however, and continues to send photos from space.

It’s been several days since Spektr-R, also known as RadioAstron, stopped responding to commands from the ground in the middle of its space flight, Russian scientists said. Last Thursday, communication between mission control and the space telescope failed, and several other attempts to revive the radio link have proven unsuccessful.

Incredibly, the Spektr-R kept sending data back to Earth, however, which added a bit of intrigue to the incident. “There is still hope – the satellite is indeed alive,” Yuri Kovalev, head of RadioAstron program, wrote on Facebook.

Dubbed the 'Russian Hubble' by the media, Spektr-R is part of a small club of scientific instruments that enjoy the luxury of observing deep space without the interference of the Earth’s atmosphere. Unlike its predecessor from the 90s, however, the Russian telescope detects radio frequencies, not visible light. While its output may not be immediately stunning to the public, it is crucial for cutting-edge scientific discoveries, enabling researchers to study objects not visible or as clear to the 'naked eye,' such as black holes, neutron stars, pulsars and astrophysical masers. Spektr-R excelled at such observations, breaking several records in angular resolution during its mission. (Emphasis added)

Astrophysical masers? Now, I'm not an astrophysicist, but I imagine that there can be certain kinds of natural phenomena that could be considered "astrophysical masers." (Masers are like lasers, but they operate in the radar and microwave end of the spectrum). But, of course, the language could also cover the possibility that "someone out there" is "building masers", for typically, masers are constructed things.  If one wants to let the imagination run wild, one could even envision using an entire star's microwave emissions as the pumping source for the optical cavity of a large artificial maser. That would, of course, be a very large, and deadly, microwave oven. But hey, it would be useful for starting large fires in places where you need to pick up real estate on the cheap. But all that's a digression from my main concern and high octane speculation of the day.

There have been a host of problems surrounding these space-based telescopes, and America's Hubble has been no exception. But Mr. G.C. speculates that behind the language of "we simply lost control" that seems to accompany these incidents, that something else may be going on, that "control" is being lost because someone is interfering with these telescopes, and literally wresting control away from the owners of the satellites, in this case, Russia. After all, cyber systems are notoriously insecure, and one presumes that if hackers can hack into major banks, Sony, the Federal Reserve, and all the other hacking stories we've seen lately, that one could also hack into satellite networks. If so, that raises the stakes considerably, for it would imply that "someone" does not want those satellite telescopes to remain under the control of the nations that launch them. And to extend this high octane speculation a bit, it would make sense: let those nations (and their taxpayers) pay for sophisticated satellite telescopes, and then literally steal them. And of course, there's another implication, for if one did successfully wrest control away from the nations putting them up there, then presumably one could also control what information those nations are allowed to see from there satellites.

If all that sounds wild and woolly, that's because it is. But I cannot help but think of that episode a few years ago when a Russian and an American satellite in orbit collided with each other, with both nations denying they had any responsibility for the incident. Now, of course, one or the other, or both, could be lying. But then again, they could be telling the truth. And that would mean that someone else took control of them, and collided them... a kind of "demonstration of capability." If so, then that would mean there are other players, and they may not be the usual suspects (China, India, Japan, France, Germany &c), but perhaps extra-territorial actors, or even "someone else."

See you on the flip side...

RUSSIA, CHINA, AND THOSE IONOSPHERIC HEATERS AND OTHER STUFF: PART TWO

Yesterday I blogged about a story that seemed to have caught a lot of this website's readers' attention, namely, that Russia and China have been conducting joint experiments in ionospheric heating using the large Russian heater called SURA. My question and speculation yesterday was that they were sending messages, especially since the article reporting the story in The South China Morning Post also mentioned - without comment one way or another - that ionospheric heaters have long been thought by some in the alternative research field to be adaptable to modify the weather, create and/or steer tornadoes and hurricanes, be used for mind manipulation on a regional scale, or in other creative ways in conjunction with chemtrail spraying, like igniting nanothermite, creating weird and anomalous fires, and so on. Indeed, if my high octane speculation yesterday is true and Russia and China are "sending messages", why send them now? As I implied, but perhaps did not explicitly state yesterday, perhaps the timing, coming after the latest round of anomalous fires in California, is not accidental: "We know what you're doing, don't try it here, because we have the technology too."

OK, I grant you: that's crawling way out to the end of the twig of speculation without so much of a whiff of evidence to support it (other than the article's odd mention-without-comment of some of the suspected capabilities of ionosphere heaters).

In that story, however, there was a link to another story, from a few days earlier, but by the same author(Stephen Chen), and like the first, there were a few statements in it that "raised my eyebrows":

Operation Z machine: China’s next big weapon in the nuclear ‘arms race’ could create clean fuel – or deadly bombs

As the story notes, the "Z machine" is the USA's high energy facility to simulate nuclear explosions in order to design more efficient nuclear bombs. Now this is where it gets really interesting:

The machine is being built for the military by the Chinese Academy of Engineering Physics at China’s nuclear weapons development base in the city of Mianyang and is expected to be up and running in a few years, according to a Beijing-based nuclear physicist.

It is designed to produce about 60 million joules of energy in an instant – roughly 22 times the 2.7 million joules generated at the Sandia facility.

It does this by firing powerful electrical pulses at a target about the size of a spool of thread consisting of hundreds of tungsten wires, each thinner than a human hair.

When the pulses pass through the wires, the tungsten explodes, evaporates and creates a plasma with a magnetic field so strong that the exploded particles are forced inward.

The particles collide, producing intense radiation – mostly X-rays – and creating conditions that more accurately reflect a real nuclear explosion.

Now why is that interesting? Well, in the wake of the Oklahoma City Bombing, Michael Riconosciuto maintained that the bomb was a very special bomb. Riconosciuto is a man that hovers quite uncomfortably on the edges of a lot of shenanigans covered by the alternative research field, things like the Inslaw-PROMIS scandal, Danny Casolaro's murder-as-suicide with all the attendant connections to what Casolaro called "the Octopus", and so on. Casolaro, who had contacted Riconosciuto, called the latter "Danger man". Riconosciuto is indeed an odd duck, being highly intelligent, and definitely connected to black projects. To make a long labyrinthine story short, in the aftermath of the Oklahoma City Bombing, Riconosciuto maintained to one interviewer that the OKC bomb was a special type of "thermobaric" bomb that had been developed as an offshoot of the nuclear program. In his version, particulate heavy metal and combustible particles are dispersed in the atmosphere, electrically activated to create a "chain molecule" and then again electrically detonated to create a pressure wave equivalent to a tactical nuclear weapon, literally crushing and pulverizing anything in its blast field. If effect, it was a kind of "electro-molecular" bomb, using the atmosphere's oxygen as the oxident.

And the "Z machine" was probably intimately involved in the creation of such technologies.

And China wants to build a much bigger one.

As if that's not enough, the article makes mention - again without comment - of another possibility:

Z machines have been used in the development of nuclear weapons, from conventional warheads to the pure fusion bomb – a hydrogen bomb that can in theory be made in any size, cost a fraction of today’s nuclear stockpile and burn “cleanly” without producing radioactive fallout.

What comment does come in the article about this possibility comes near the end of the story, isolated from the above statement:

Lei said there had been costly failures in developing the technology in the US and Chinese scientists faced equal if not greater uncertainties because of their much more ambitious goals.

For instance, fusion could produce a large number of fast flying neutrons that will weaken or damage critical components. While the equipment was durable, researchers had not yet been able to solve the neutron problem, Lei said.

He warned the development of a pure fusion bomb would meant international nuclear weapons treaties would have to be rewritten.

“But I don’t think we need to worry about this, not until we see a real new bomb. The technology is so difficult, it remains more fantasy than real threat.”

Now in case it's not clear what's really being said here, what's really being said is that the bomb-makers are on a quest for a "clean" hydrogen bomb, that's the one with a much bigger bang than an atomic bomb. The "blast yields" of the latter are measured in kilotons, i.e., in thousands of tons of TNT. The blast yields of the former are measured in megatons, i.e., a million tons of TNT. The "bad" news is that in standard publicly-known hydrogen-bomb "how to do its", an atomic bomb is needed as the fuse to create the intense heat and pressure to get hydrogen atoms to fuse. No a-bomb, no h-bomb. And it's the a-bomb that produces all that nasty radioactive fallout.

So in other words, "they" have been chasing the idea of a "clean" thermonuclear bomb, i.e., a "hydrogen" bomb that does not need an a-bomb as its fuse. What's extremely disturbing, and odd about this story, is not just the acknowledgement that this has been a secret goal of covert thermonuclear bomb projects. It's the tense in which it is stated in the article:

Z machines have been used in the development of nuclear weapons, from conventional warheads to the pure fusion bomb – a hydrogen bomb that can in theory be made in any size, cost a fraction of today’s nuclear stockpile and burn “cleanly” without producing radioactive fallout. (emphasis added)

In other words, while the article ends with a disclaimer that such a fusion bomb is all just "theory", it initiates the topic by stating it's already been done. And that Z machines and, for want of a better term, "electro-nuclear" ignition was the key. That they are working on such stuff we can be certain. DARPA (The Diabolically Apocalyptic Research Projects Agency) at one time during the Reagan era was seriously pursuing the idea of an isomer bomb. Then there was the Red Mercury story of the 1990s, a magical mystical substance that was supposed to be a dark maroon-purplish goo, very heavy, that could initiate fusion explosions without the need for an a-bomb as the fuse. (See REALLY!?!? … RED MERCURY, AGAIN!? PART TWO)

Whatever one makes of all this, I have the uneasy feeling that China "knows something" and that it's sending clear messages. After all, this is the same country that not only wants to build a bigger better Z machine, but a bigger better version of CERN's large hadron collider...

See you on the flip side...

 

NASA’S OSIRIS REX ARRIVES AT BENNU ASTEROID…

This story was one of the top stories  that people passed along this week. NASA's Osiris-Rex asteroid probe has arrived at the asteroid Bennu, and nothing about this mission seems - to me at least - "normal." Forget all the Egyptian lore-trappings around the mission, Osiris-Rex, standing for Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith EXplorer.  It's the strange little asteroid itself, plus the curiously worded beginning of this article, that intrigues:

NASA spacecraft arrives at ancient asteroid, its 1st visitor

BEsides being diamond-shaped (from one angle) with what appears to be a parallel set of "craters" running along its equator, the little rock (it's actually not so little, being a little taller than the Empire State Building) has another set of strange features, including a pyramidal-like "something" sticking up from it:

And it's diamond shape is oddly similar to that of Ryugu, the asteroid that Japan has recently landed on:

And let's not forget the asteroid Stein's with it's very anomalous properties, that the European Space Agency a few years ago singled out (by what means we don't know) for it's own asteroid fly-by, which provoked this intriguing analysis by Richard C. Hoagland:

Rosetta Flies By "Something" Very Strange

Add to all of this the strange Oumuamua comet, the appointment of General Mark Milley of "little green men" speech fame, mix, and stir, and one has a veritable stew of strange "space stuff" going on.

So what is my high octane speculation about Bennu? Well, beyond all the religious-Egyptian trappings surrounding it, the suggestion that the Osiris-Rex mission has something to do with "security" is intriguing, and the article implies that the mission is in part designed to learn how to mount planetary defenses against the wayward asteroid (and perhaps, against anyone with the capability of lobbing them in our direction). For those with ears to hear, this conjures not only overtones of Dr. Carol Rosin's famous affidavit about the "order" that Dr. Wernher von Braun told her, the order in which the elites would proceed to argue for the weaponization of space - Communists, terrorists, nations of concern, asteroids, and finally ET threats - but it also conjures resonances of the Allende annotations to the Varo edition of Dr. Morris Jessup's book on UFOs. (See my book Secrets of the Unified Field). And given all the strange "stuff" on the surface of Bennu in some photographs, I'm sticking with my speculation that "they" are also covertly looking for something for the simple reason that when one considers the Japanese, European, and American missions to asteroids, the asteroids in question all have one odd thing in common: they're all diamond shaped (at least, from one point of view). They also seem to have curious "stuff" on their surfaces, leading one to wonder how these small rocks were actually selected for exploration.

But beyond this, there's that curious statement at the beginning of this particular article:

After a two-year chase, a NASA spacecraft arrived Monday at the ancient asteroid Bennu, its first visitor in billions of years.

First visitor in billions of years? You mean, it had other visitors? When? by whom? And while we're at it, how do you know? Or is this just a bit of bad diction and careless writing? Or is the date of "billions of years" overstated to keep the standard cosmological narrative going?

Taken on its own, I'd opt for "careless writing" for the sake of "dramatization" and a bit of rhetorical melodrama. But in the context of the Japanese mission to Ryugu, of the European mission to Stein's, of Generals making statements about fighting "hybrid armies" and "little green men" being appointed to be the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff by the Space Force President, I suspect that the statement may not be, after all, just a bit of careless dramatization.

See you on the slip side...