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BIG BANK STUDIES PREDICT SPACE INDUSTRY IN THE TRILLIONS, BUT…

Mr. B. spotted this intriguing article, and given yesterday's blog about mind control, its apparent growing use globally, and the "missing trillions", I had to blog about this one. The upshot is that some major bank studies by Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, and Bank of America Merrill Lynch have concluded that by 2040, the space industry will approach between one and almost three trillion dollars of market value; here's the article:

A trillion-dollar space industry will require new markets

Now, if you read through all that, you might be thinking, "Well, so what? This is more or less old news and we already knew space industry was going to be a 'big thing'. No news here."

I have to admit, that was pretty much my own reaction when I read it. So I went back and read it again, and that's when the big "but..." hit me. It was not what the article was saying, but rather, what it was either not saying, or merely alluding to. Here's the passages that leapt out at me, and which occasion our high octane speculationTM of the day:

Autry, though, cautioned not to be too specific about what markets might emerge to drive the growth of the overall space economy, recounting his experience in the early computer industry, where games played a much larger role than many initially expected.

“I think we haven’t seen yet what that app is on the NewSpace side,” he said. “I’m confident that it’s there, but I think the most important thing we need to do is not try too much to define the roadmap. There’s going to be some really unexpected detours, and it’ll be interesting to see what they are.”

So what is not being said, and what is only being alluded to? For the former, it's the markets themselves. Regular readers here have probably seen and read all those articles about the estimated worth of this or that asteroid's resources, with figures usually being placed in the quadrillions of dollars. The only problem is one has to go out and get them. But in those articles, the point is usually made that such a sudden influx of money and resources could adversely impact the world's economy; think of Spain after the discovery of the New World, with galleons bringing back boatloads of gold. The result of the influx of so much bullion drove up the prices of everything in Spain, and as a result, manufacturing fled to places with lower costs of doing business, like the Spanish Netherlands, whose economy "took off" as a direct result of the crash of Spanish manufacturing. Spain ended up losing its manufacturing base and suffering the consequences until the twentieth century.

But that, of course, was only true because there was no expansion of markets... which raises the question, why then go out and mine all those asteroids? Are all those quadrillions being collateralized to offsets all the quadrillions of derivatives on the books? I've suggested as much in other blogs. I've also suggested, along with Catherine Austin Fitts, that all that missing money might literally be going off planet, into some sort of very hidden market and trade with, or perhaps even tribute to... well, with "whomever."

In other words, the article's reference to not being "too specific about what markets might emerge" might be taken as an indicator that those "emerging markets" are not on this planet at all.

And that brings us to high octane speculation number two. The final statement of the article - "There's going to be some really unexpected detours, and it will be interesting to see what they are."(Emphasis added)  Indeed, one such "really unexpected detours" might indeed be an interplanetary "market" and "trade" with "whomever."

To put it country simple: I suspect a whole lot of discussion took place "off the record" at this conference, and that the real concerns are precisely how to deal with precisely such circumstances, and how to break "the news." Commerce, or tribute, might indeed be the agenda that drives "disclosure."

See you on the flip side...

JAPAN’S HAYABUSA 2 TAKES PICTURE OF ANOTHER STRANGE ASTEROID

About a week and a half ago, Mr. Richard Hoagland contacted me to come on his program to talk about that strange comet/asteroid Oumuamua, the cigar-shaped object that entered the solar system and whose behavior is just, well, bizarre, so bizarre that scientists don't really know how to explain it. It was a last-minute thing, as one of Mr. Hoagland's scheduled guests was apparently unable to make a scheduled appearance. Not having anything on the plate, I agreed, only we discovered that there were so many audio problems that night that Mr. Hoagland had to cancel the show. But one of the topics he also wanted to discuss was Japan's Hayabusa-2 asteroid space probe mission, and the very strange photograph it took of a little asteroid the Japanese Space Agency, JAXA, named Ryugu.

I hadn't seen what Mr. Hoagland was referring to, when in my inbox appeared this article from Mr. P.J., and Ms. K.M. sent along a picture of the strange object, and after reading it and seeing the picture of Ryugu, I am entertaining lots of high octane speculations. But we'll get back to those. Here's the article Mr. P.J. sent:

Dragon Dice: JAXA Captures Photographs of a “Die-Shaped” Asteroid in Space

That simply couldn't be, I thought to myself, so I went sniffing and searching, and found this bit of corroboration:

A Japanese Probe Is Closing in on an Asteroid 180 Million Miles from Earth

Japan's Hayabusa2 Asteroid Probe Snaps Best Pics Yet of Its Target Ryugu

And if one looks at this this, not only does it look like a kind of die from a dice set, or diamond composed of two pyramids stacked one over the other, there's all sorts of strange "stuff" on the surface.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I don't know about you, but I'll go ahead and say it: this looks to me like an artificial object of some sort, battered over it's long sojourn in space, but nevertheless, artificial. Not only it the object itself rectilinear, but there are some very clear rectilinear features on its surface that are in and of themselves very odd.

But that's not my problem here. My problem is the Japanese Space Agency itself, for as the articles make clear, the agency plans to land its Hayabusa-2 probe on the surface of this asteroid (which, incidentally, is spinning), but to take sample, and then return them to Earth. As you might have guessed, this is the occasion for my daily jump to the end of the twig of our trademark High Octane SpeculationTM. First, there's the name of the asteroid itself. Citing the first article shared by Mr. P.J.:

Ryugu’s shape isn’t the only association it has with myth and lore surrounding dragons; according to Spaceflight Now, its name is also evocative of these mythical creatures, borrowed from “an undersea dragon’s palace visited by Urashima Taro, a fisherman in a Japanese folk story who brings back a mysterious treasure box from the underwater castle.”

Hayabusa2 was launched in 2014, and in the days since photographs were obtained of Ryugu’s unusual shape, the spacecraft has closed its distance to approximately 20 km, with the objective of landing and extracting material for analysis, which it will retrieve and bring to Earth by the end of 2020.

So the asteroid is named for a piece of Japanese folklore about a fisherman bringing back a treasure box from a dragon's underwater castle. Now, I've written in some of my books, most notably The Cosmic War: Interplanetary Warfare, Modern Physics, and Ancient Texts, that the idea of the ocean or abyss was often used as a metaphor for space itself; thus, a "castle under water" could be taken to mean a "castle under the abyss", i.e., in space. But whatever my speculations, the Japanese Space Agency clearly had both the folklore, and the castle, clearly in mind when it named this object, which, for its apparently artificial "look", could be taken to be an artificial object like a castle, with the "treasure box" being whatever the probe might manage to scoop up and return to Earth. The asteroid itself is a little less than a mile across, being almost a kilometer in width.

But I have to wonder, what are the odds that JAXA just happened to pick this asteroid to land on, named it after a bit of Japanese dragon folk lore, take samples from it, and return them to Earth, and that the asteroid should turn out to have such a bizarre and suggestive shape? Why this asteroid? It may be purely coincidental, of course. But there's been a pattern of space probes to asteroids in recent years that has been - if you've been following them - downright bizarre. NASA's probe to the asteroid Bennu produced a similarly shaped asteroid, and then of course, there was the European Space Agency's mission to asteroid Steins, which turned out to look like this:

Rosetta Flies By "Something" Very Strange

I don't know about you, but while one might be a coincidence and two a synchronicity, it seems to me that three comes close to the beginnings of a pattern, and that pattern strongly suggests that NASA, JAXA, and and the ESA knew something about these celestial bodies prior to launching their probes to them, and that they were deliberately selected prior to launch. Their unusual shape, particularly in the case of Ryugu and Steins, also suggests that they are looking for "something." Indeed, the Hayabusa-2 mission not only wants to look, but to bring some of it back. So why all the fuss and bother to bring something back from that asteroid? I suspect that if the Japanese suspected that this object might be artificial - and indeed, the language of the Japanese scientists involved with the project speaks of "structure" and its thus highly suggestive that that is indeed what they think it is - the proof of the pudding, so to speak, would be in the analysis of whatever sample they bring back, for those samples might indicate chemical composition typical of alloys and other machined objects.

Time, of course, will tell, but only if the Japanese choose to tell...

See you on the flip side...

The UFO/Aliens Dialogue Is Out!

Dialogue 275: Ufology, Abduction, Eight Theories of Alien Life is available to members in the members area under Video Dialogues. You gotta be a member, and you gotta be logged in to get it. Here's a preview:

Aliens as Business

  • The Abductee Personality
  • Religion Surrogates & The American Psyche

Theories of Alien Visitors

  1. Always Here
  2. Got Their Attention–Now What?
  3. Collaboration
  4. Prosecuting War
  5. Interdimensionality
  6. Advanced But Bumbling
  7. The Argument from Narcissism
  8. Other Theories

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SPACE, AI, AND BATTERIES: CRYPTO-CURRENCIES JUST BECAME MORE ...

This story was spotted by a number of people and it's one of those "this must be talked about" stories. The trouble is, I don't know exactly what to say about it, and apparently others don't either.  But as usual I have a lot of high octane suspicions.

The story is basic enough: a corporation, about which not much is known other than it specializes in blockchain technology, recently bought a rather large package of land outside Reno-Tahoe, Nevada: https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-01-30/unkown-group-pays-175-million-74000-acres-nevada-mysterious-ethereum-project

One story that has emerged with the rival of crypto-currencies is the massive amount of electricity it requires to "mine" them and execute transactions. Hence, many "Miners" are moving to Winnepeg, Mannitoba:

Earlier this month, we reported that a Russian businessman had purchased two vacant power stations in the Perm region with the intention of setting up a large crypto mining operation - the latest sign that miners are moving to fill the void left by China's crackdown on cryptocurrency miners, who had previously enjoyed heavily subsidized power.

As for North America, we've already noted that miners are clustering in Winnipeg City, Manitoba, the town with the cheapest electricity on the whole continent.

High Octane Speculation Number One

But a bigger clue as to what may be afoot is suggested by this revelation:

The park has managed to attract dozens of tech firms, including several notable names. Back in 2014, it made headlines when Tesla selected the park as the site for its Gigafactory. Google and Switch also have campuses there.

Tesla's gigafactory is designed to produce powerful lithium-ion batteries, which have had some problems making them for its new vehicle models:

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/25/tesla-employees-say-gigafactory-problems-worse-than-known.html

Such batteries would, of course, be a handy thing to have around for space requirements, and Tesla founder Elon Musk is well-known for his corporate space ventures. But such batteries could also, perhaps, be used or integrated in massive corporate crypto-currency transactions (call that high octane guess a "wild guess"). That suggests in its turn that perhaps the next stage of crypto-currency development is to move clearing operations off world (a handy idea for conducting financial clearing operations to and from deep space, as is the blockchain itself ).

In short, and to put it "country simple", I suspect, as high octane speculation number one, that these corporate moves are both (1) coordinated and (2) space-related.

High Octane Speculation Number Two:

Given the presence of Google, and given its relationship to the intelligence community and its interest in quantum computing, quantum encryption, and artificial intelligence, that these things are also part of the picture. Quantum encryption methods have already been amply demonstrated by China in ground-to-space and space-to-ground transmissions. And as I have written on this site previously, such steps appear to me to be part and parcel of China's and other nations' efforts to create an alternative space-based financial clearing system by-passing the West's SWIFT-based system. Such steps can also be viewed as a component of a possible wider and unified global agenda of building redundancy into the international clearing system, as Catherine Austin Fitts has suggested. In other words, they are creating not an alternative, but a back-up. If this is the case, then yet another question occurs, for building redundancy into systems is an insurance policy against disaster. The question is, who, or what, are "they" afraid of? Asteroids? or the classic sci-fi Hollywood B movie Invaders from Outer Space scenario?

High Octane Speculation Number Three:

Lately there have also been stories suggesting that large Nevada casinos have been using the "down time" on their computerized slot machine networks to mine crypto-currencies, and a number of stories have also circulated that certain types of nefarious groups, including "neo-Fascist" types of group, have been using crypto-currency speculation to fund their "operations." Additionally, there have been all sorts of financial wheelings and dealings connected to last year's tragic Las Vegas shooting, which was quickly followed up by the arrest of Saudi billionaire prince Al-Waleed bin Talal, who had major stakes both in the Mandalay Bay Hotel and in communications technologies. (AL Waleed, incidentally, has recently been released by the Saudi government, after the "shakedown" operation was concluded. Some have suggested that his release is only the beginning of his problems, with further troubles looming courtesy of the US government.) In any case, it looks as if this land purchase is directly related to corporatizing and vastly expanding the crypto-currency phenomenon (already futures are being traded).

Finally, there are of course other possibilities, including the possibility that all three of these scenarios are in play, and that they are somehow all intertwined.

This may be, and I strongly suspect is, a development to watch carefully.

See you on the flip side...

 

RUSSIA, ADVANCED PROPULSION, AND ET MARKETING

There's been a lot of hype on the internet lately concerning the limited hangout position of the Pentagon's recent announcement of having conducted a UFO project at the request of former US Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada, and concerning the announcement of former Blink 182 band member and UFO enthusiast Tom DeLonge's corporation whose board looks like a Who's Who of black projects research gurus. This comes at a time that Dr. Skidmore of Michigan State University has written articles confirming missing trillions of dollars from the US budget, confirming the statements of former US Housing and Urban Development Assistant Secretary Catherine Austin Fitts. It's convenient timing, to say the least.

Now, to add to the stories, there's yet another, according to this article shared by Mr. J.S.:

The Pentagon’s Secret Search for UFOs

Now, I am calling all this a "limited hangout position" because of several statements, including this one:

The Pentagon, at the direction of Congress, a decade ago quietly set up a multimillion-dollar program to investigate what are popularly known as unidentified flying objects—UFOs.

The “unidentified aerial phenomena” claimed to have been seen by pilots and other military personnel appeared vastly more advanced than those in American or foreign arsenals. In some cases they maneuvered so unusually and so fast that they seemed to defy the laws of physics, according to multiple sources directly involved in or briefed on the effort and a review of unclassified Defense Department and congressional documents.(emphasis added)

Now, many in the UFOlogy community, including researcher Richard Dolan (see his multi-volume study UFOs and the National Security State) and many others, have argued persuasively and in my opinion quite convincingly and compellingly that these USO studies have in fact been a more or less permanent feature of covert American military interest and research since at least the end of World War Two. I too have contributed my own speculations to this picture with investigations of the funding mechanisms that would be needed for such a study, concluding that a hidden system of finance would be necessary both to insure a continual flow of money and to ensure continued secrecy. The purpose of the research in the long term was to acquire the technologies that would be able to emulate UFO performance and achieve parity or near parity with it. As a secondary objective, such research would have been seeking the origins - human or otherwise - of whomever was behind the UFO phenomenon.

Hence, the disclose of a project of a mere decade's length and running into mere "multi-millions" is far short of what the UFOlogy community has been arguing for many decades. It is, if I may put it country simple, no big deal.

There's yet another "twist" here that, again, upon examination, isn't much of a twist:

The Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program, whose existence was not classified but operated with the knowledge of an extremely limited number of officials, was the brainchild of then-Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.), who first secured the appropriation to begin the program in 2009 with the support of the late Senators Daniel Inouye (D-Hawaii) and Ted Stevens (R-Alaska), two World War II veterans who were similarly concerned about the potential national security implications, the sources involved in the effort said. The origins of the program, the existence of which the Pentagon confirmed on Friday, are being revealed publicly for the first time by POLITICO and the New York Times in nearly simultaneous reports on Saturday.

One possible theory behind the unexplained incidents, according to a former congressional staffer who described the motivations behind the program, was that a foreign power—perhaps the Chinese or the Russians—had developed next-generation technologies that could threaten the United States. (Emphases added)

Again, experienced researchers in UFOlogy have long known about the UFO programs of Russia and China, and it stands to reason those nations would view the UFO phenomenon in a similar way to the USA, i.e., as a national security threat. And it stands to reason their responses would be similar: develop deeply black research programs and financing mechanisms to investigate and emulate the technologies and performance of UFOs to parity or near parity.

What is odd here however, is the less than typical language used in the context of the Russian and Chinese assertions. In an age when Russia seems to have replaced the former conspiracy-central theories of Masons, Zionists, Bankers, and/or Jesuits and the Vatican in the conspiracy mongering of the the US deep state, one would have expected stronger language from a mouthpiece like Politico. Instead, we get the very suggestive sentence, "One possible theory behind the unexplained incidents... was that a foreign power - perhaps the Chinese or the Russians-had developed next-generation technologies that could threaten the United States."(Emphases added) Why the subjunctive "perhaps" with the wonderfully ambiguous past perfect simple tense "had developed"? The statement leaves open the possibility of some other foreign power besides Russia and China actually achieving some sort of "next generation" technology, and having done so ina past whose terminus ante quem is left conveniently undefined...

...and as anyone might expect who has read my various books on that possibility, that statement caught my eye.

The "door", in other words, is being left open for further "disclosure" and "development" of the narrative.

And there, precisely, my misgivings lie, for how might one control the narrative in the increasingly sophisticated information age and an increasingly cynical and skeptical public? After all, this is the same swamp that gave us "social security" and "the magic bullet" and who fed us the line that Waco was "to protect the children" and that quarter-mile high steel and concrete cantilevered buildings were brought down by airplane fuel, weakened steel, and pancaking floors. How would one go about controlling the UFO narrative? Well the tried and true techniques of data obfuscation and guilt-by-association would have to be done, only this time around, by very clever marketing operations. For the Kentucky-fried gullible that inhabit the subject, more whistleblowers telling absurd stories about blue chicken McNuggets will do.

But the more sophisticated will have to be handled differently, with fiction containing just enough concepts borrowed from researchers (without attribution, of course), doling out real nuggets of genuine information, building up trust over time, and in the process, subtly spinning the aforementioned researchers' concepts, and establishing that marketing group as the gatekeepers not only of "real" information, but of the narrative interpretation to be fastened upon it.

Caveat emptor.

See you on the flip side...

 

US DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE ANNOUNCES FULL AUDIT

You'll recall that yesterday I blogged about a story in which the U.S. Department of Defense was unable to account for about 44,000 people, or the operational equivalent to about 2-3 divisions, or a corps. And you'll recall that the reasons for the "lost personnel" were astonishingly similar to the reasons we've all heard over the years for all the "missing money," which (so the story goes) boil down to essentially two things: (1) there is no unified or single system of record keeping and hence (2) money(or people) fall through the cracks. To a certain extent, this is understandable and even justifiable: one doesn't want one's potential enemies to know exactly how big (or small) one's military is, nor the financial and/or production resources backing it up. Factories producing tanks above ground can be counted and their production estimated. Installations below ground are harder to detect and their purpose and production can largely only be guessed at.

To put all this "country simple": the very admissions we've seen about missing money and  "unaccounted for personnel" suggest quite strongly the appearance of a "breakaway civilization", a hypothesis advanced by well-known UFO/national security researcher Richard Dolan, who first advanced this idea in his multi-volume UFOs and the National Security State.  His basic thesis is germane to my high octane speculation today, for he advanced the idea that, over time, with enough money and secret research, by "unaccounted for" personnel using hidden financing, this group in effect would pull away from the overt civilization of the "surface world" by having access to technologies and capabilities far in advance of it.

Which brings us to this story on the U.S. Department of Defense's website shared by Mr. G.L.R.:

Officials Announce First DoD-Wide Audit, Call for Budget Certainty

Again, one can view this call for budget certainty as a national security issue as well. Certainly while on the one had one doesn't wish to telegraph to potential enemies the actual strength and disposition of one's military nor the financial and production resources at its disposal, on the other hand being totally confused about it doesn't help either, for it renders accurate operational planning difficult if not impossible. Something like this concern appears to lurk behind the article's initial comments:

The audit is massive. It will examine every aspect of the department from personnel to real property to weapons to supplies to bases. Some 2,400 auditors will fan out across the department to conduct it, Pentagon officials said.

"It is important that the Congress and the American people have confidence in DoD's management of every taxpayer dollar," Norquist said.

Audits are necessary to ensure the accuracy of financial information. They also account for property. Officials estimate the department has around $2.4 trillion in assets. "With consistent feedback from auditors, we can focus on improving the processes of our day-to-day work," the comptroller said. "Annual audits also ensure visibility over the quantity and quality of the equipment and supplies our troops use."

The DoD Office of the Inspector General hired independent public accounting firms to conduct audits of individual components – the Army, Navy, Air Force, agencies, activities and more – as well as a departmentwide consolidated audit to summarize all results and conclusions.

"Beginning in 2018, our audits will occur annually, with reports issued Nov. 15," Norquist said.

But there's a problem here, and with the problem, comes today's "high octane speculation." Note the hiring of "public accounting firms to conduct audits" of the individual services and various related agencies. This, it will be recalled, was precisely the problem encountered by Congresswoman McKinney years ago: there was no clear picture of which corporations were running the department's databases in the first place. Nor, we can imagine, will these firms be given complete access to black budget matters, and beyond that, they certainly will not even consider the likelihood of what I have been calling "the hidden system of finance."

So why the hullabaloo to get a "complete audit"? One obvious reasons is that it is "swamp politics as usual," namely, pretend to be doing something in order to shut the people and Congress up about the utter farce of the federal budgetary process, and how far afield it is from Constitutional budgetary procedure.

But there's another possibility, and with it, comes my "high octane speculation." One might hire such firms to get a general picture of where money was being siphoned out of the defense budget and, quite literally, disappearing into a black hole if one suspected that there was a real problem, that that "breakaway group" had metastasized to enormous proportions, and was literally feeding off the host. One might do it, in other words, if one had come to the conclusion that it was now so completely "broken away" that it had become a national security threat of its own, the threat consisting of its enormous appetite for money. Or as I suggested yesterday, missing trillions and missing personnel are two symptoms of the same "breakaway civilization" coin. If this reading of the situation be the case, then this implies something else, namely, that among all the other signs of deep state factional infighting we've seen going on lately, that one can add to it this as well. And that means that this process will have to be scrutinized very closely.

See you on the flip side...

 

THAT GLOWING SIBERIAN BALL THING…

Mr. S.C. spotted this one, and I have to blog about it because it is a small bit of confirmation for all you Tom Bearden fans out there.

Russia, it seems, is experiencing some sort of UFO flap in recent days, and among these, there is a very large "glowing ball" that has been seen in Siberia, and when I saw this, I couldn't help but laugh and think of Colonel Bearden, who not only reported and wrote about this phenomenon decades ago, but made an arguably good case that what we were seeing was not UFOs, but very human, and very Russian technology. Here's the story from the U.K.'s Daily Mail:

Enormous glowing ball is seen over northern Siberia after fuel from four Russian rockets tested overnight created an illusion in the sky (but locals thought it could be a UFO)

As one can gather from reading the article, the Russian government is explaining all this (or perhaps, explaining all this away) as the simple result of Russian ICBM tests of its Topol missiles in the Arctic as part of its recent wargames military exercises. It's more "nuclear saber" rattling, in other words, from a country that hardly needs to rattle its nuclear saber, because pretty much everyone in the world knows that Russia has hydrogen bombs and missiles, and lots of them.

But for those familiar with Lt. Col. Bearden's work, he's been reporting on these strange glowing balls in Russia since 1979, when the first incident was recorded by Iranian pilots flying near the Russian border. For Bearden, these balls were evidence of Russian testing and perfection of "Tesla" type "scalar" weapons, weapons which could conceivably and in his opinion function as missile defense shields, or which, alternatively, could be used in an offensive capacity and even - here it comes - as an electromagnetic means to induce diseases or alter human mental functioning. Bearden made the argument in several books and papers that this project began at the end of World War Two, when two things impelled the Russian secret research: (1) the capture of a German radar team under the direction of Dr. Richard Hellman (aptly named, as it turns out!), and (2) an alleged directive from Stalin to the Soviet Academy of Sciences to "find something" in the science papers of the West to do an end run around its vast nuclear superiority. Bearden gave briefings to the U.S. military on this Russian research, and then subsequently published his findings in a number of books and papers.

Regarding the first point, the German radar team captured by the Soviets had, toward the end of the war, discovered a principle of phase conjugation when interferring several radar beams on their prototypical radar stealth material: tiny balls of metal resonant to various frequencies used by British and American radar, embedded in the non-linear material of rubber, which was then used to coat the schnorkel devices of Germany's late U-boat fleet. In the tests, their radar sets were blown out, according to Bearden, by phase conjugate waves returning to the sets from the material. The Soviets took Dr. Hellman and his team to Russia, where they were used to teach the Russians everything they new, and then, like the German atomic bomb scientist Baron Manfred von Ardenne, released (in von Ardenne's case, after receiving the prestigious Stalin prize for science, the Soviet equivalent of the Nobel prize, and the only non-Soviet to ever earn it). Hellman made his way to Brazil(!) where he ostensibly continued his work for the Brazilian government. (For the details of these stories and Bearden's research, see my books Reich of the Black Sun and SS Brotherhood of the Bell).

Regarding the second point, Stalin's instructions to the Soviet Academy of Sciences, Bearden reports that the Soviets established massive bureaus to literally comb through every scientific paper and publication in western physics and mathematics journals going all the way back to the years prior to the First World War, and to pull any papers that were thought to be promising enough to investigate for "breakthroughs" and weaponization, and do an end run around nuclear weapons. While that story is too long to recount here - again, my books recount much of it - the result, according to Bearden, was the development of a whole new class of electromagnetic phenomena and weapons. Interestingly enough, if you've been following the news and pronouncements from the Kremlin lately, the Russian media is openly reporting about these things and doing so in such a way that emphasizes the idea of a "new physics."

Part of that physics is "large glowing balls of light."

You may have noticed something else peculiar about the article: the balls are being reported in the northeastern, European part of the Russian arctic, in addition to Siberia, which recalls the "Norwegian spiral" incident of 2008... remember that one? A strange glowing "spiral" appeared over northern Russia, again concurrent with a Russian ICBM test (again of a Topol missile). The missile test apparently failed, and researchers noted two odd coincident things: Angela Merkel told Mr. Obama that Germany did not want, nor need, America's missile defense shield (did they have something better?), and Mr. Obama was in Norway receiving his Nobel Peace Prize for doing...well, essentially nothing. At the time of the spiral and the missile test, Europe's EISCAT ionospheric heater, in which Germany plays the crucial role, was allegedly running at full power. That led me and others to speculate that it was "all related" and that the Russians had been sent "a message".

Which brings us back to this story of Russian missile tests, glowing balls, and Kremlin statements, for if my high octane speculation about the Norwegian spiral and the Russian 2008 missile tests be true, then perhaps the Russians just responded to that message, and sent another one back: "We fixed the problem in our missiles, and can make new and improved spirals and glowing balls too." Throw in the USS Donald Cook incidents, the McCain and Fitzgerald incidents, Cuban embassy "sonic weapons" attacks, and someone is sending a whole lot of EM warfare messages...

... but we're supposed to be worried about North Korea...

See you on the flip side...

 

WAS NEGATIVE MASS JUST SYNTHESIZED?

Space has been in the news a lot lately. Last week for example I blogged about NASA's ion propulsion experiments and about the fact that NASA is apparently staking a lot on their development and use in deep space exploration manned missions. Well they should, for as I and others have pointed out many times, chemical rockets are simply not adequate for a sustained human presence in deep space. They're about as useful as a canoe for shipping goods across the Pacific Ocean.

In that respect, I've also pointed out that NASA and DARPA both have made the investigation of "space warp" technologies a part of their long-term research projects and goals. Now there's this "little" story that, oddly enough, was reported in Russia's Sputnik online magazine, which Mr. V.T. spotted and kindly passed along:

Crushing Physics as You Knew it: Scientists Create Liquid With Negative Mass

The essence of the experiment consisted of creating a super-cooled liquid, and pulsing it with lasers:

It’s exactly what it sounds like: give a normal object a push and it’ll accelerate away from the force of your hand. Give this negative-mass fluid a shove and it does the opposite, accelerating towards the force pushing on it.

Negative mass has nothing to do with disappointing Bioware RPGs, but rather was predicted by the work of general relativity physicist Hermann Bondi, who in 1957 published a paper that argued that negative mass was just as possible as negative electric charges. Although strange, there was no reason that negative mass could not exist because it did not violate the conservation of energy or momentum.

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The team was led by Michael Forbes, a WSU assistant professor of physics and astronomy. First, they synthesized a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC), a form of matter that is created by cooling a low density gas to ultra-low temperatures. BECs are superfluids, meaning that they behave like ordinary liquids except that when stirred, they never stop moving. BECs have many strange properties and are key in the creation of other exotic forms of matter.

The BEC was created from rubidium atoms, and was then trapped in a web of lasers. A second set of lasers then agitated the BEC, causing it to rush out of the web as though it had negative mass. "Once you push, it accelerates backwards," said Forbes in a statement. "It looks like the rubidium hits an invisible wall."

It was the last statement in the article that caught my eye, however, not the results of the experiment itself, and that statement is, as one might guess, the subject for today's high octane speculation:

Although the experiment is an exciting first step, not everyone is sold on it helping us answer fundamental questions about the universe. Martin McCall, a professor of theoretical optics at Imperial College London, praised the WSU team for the successful synthesis, but told The Guardian that he doubts it will have practical applications.
(Emphasis added.)

No practical applications!?!? In a world where NASA and DARPA want the USA to be "warp capable" in a century? On the contrary, I strongly suspect that what we're looking at is precisely an experiment - a "first step" in a technology tree - to create the exotic forms of matter that would be needed to make that space-warping goal a reality. In other words, we're looking at a part of that black projects world in the guise of a "purely theoretical " experiment whose implications - so we're told - have to do with "cosmological physics" and neutron stars and nothing more. And the key here is that the editors at Sputnik are signalizing that they suspect this as well:

Some models of the universe explain the existence of phenomena like gravity and dark energy through the concept of negative mass. Wormholes, hypothetical tunnels in spacetime, may also exist through negative matter. Negative mass would carry negative energy, which could be used to create an Alcubierre warp drive, an engine which contracts space in front of it and expands space behind it to (theoretically) allow for travel far faster than the speed of light.
(Emphasis added)

Now, the editors of Sputnik will also know about NASA's Dr. Harold White, and his recalculations of Alcubierre's warp paper, and his conclusion that the factor of mass-energy conversion needed to create such a warp was smaller than Alcubiuerre's original calculation, small enough, in fact, to make it feasible that it might be achievable by human technology in the not-to distant future. In fact, it was White's recalculation that led to NASA's and DARPA's "warp drive goal." So Sputnik might just be signaling that it suspects what I suspect, namely, that experiments like this one are really in aid of that project, for if in fact what these scientists have demonstrated is a negative mass effect, and therefore that they successfully created it, then it doesn't take much imagination to see all sorts of possibilities.

To put it country simple, it's as if the Russians are saying: "We know what you're really up to, and it's not just about studying neutron stars."

See you on the flip side...

NEUTRINOS AND ALL THAT ANTARCTIC STRANGENESS

Putting this blog under the UFO category is going to seem, at first, like quite a stretch. And indeed, it is, but maybe not such a stretch as one might think, but we'll get back to that in a moment. For the present, I want to thank Mr. U. for sharing this information and his own high octane speculations, which form the nucleus for my own high octane speculations in today's daily dose of it.  So, first things first. What, exactly, are neutrinos? Well, as the accompanying video explains, they're almost the same thing as photons, they have no charge and no mass, but unlike photons they're highly energetic, and penetrate straight through solid matter with almost effortless ease. Detecting them is thus quite a challenge, for the usual methods don't work. Lots of ice however, and buried detectors in the form of light emitters, do the trick, which brings us to Antarctica and the following video:

Existence of cosmic neutrinos confirmed by Antarctic scientists

Now, the other odd thing about neutrinos is that they might thus carry modulated information, information that is the result of their having traveled so far and passed through so much to get from "there" to "here." They might thus be used for communication, if one could figure out how to modulate information into them, or conversely, tease the information out of them, thus providing a handy picture of the structure of distant space that cannot be otherwise observed.  Their ability to travel through things would make them invaluable for communication, provided that nasty modulated information problem could be solved(if indeed it is possible, a big "if" if there ever was one).

For the sake of our high octane speculative argument, however, let's assume (1) that it is possible and (2) that humans have achieved a rudimentary capability to do so. Now, granted, there's nothing in the little video nor in the article to suggest either of these assumptions is true. The video only indicates that some of these neutrinos come from within our own galaxy, perhaps from the galactic core, and some might come from outside this galaxy altogether. Nonetheless, we'll continue with our two assumptions.

Note, then, that this video and detection of neutrinos occurred in Antarctica (because of the clear nature of antarctic ice), and that it occurred in 2014, prior to the strange visits to the polar continent of US Secretary of State John Kerry and former Apollo astronaut Buzz Aldrin, who has not appeared in public at all since his antarctic visit, and Patriarch Kiril III of Moscow (to name some of the more recent strange visitors to the continent). It is Kerry's presence there that intrigues the most in this context of "modulated neutrino information" and "communication possibilities," for as I suggested at the time of his visit, the senior diplomat of the USA's presence on the continent suggests that his purpose there was not about "seeing climate change up close and personal," which was the public explanation for his visit, but rather that his purpose was a diplomatic one... that he was talking to "someone" or at least, listening to someone. Such admittedly extremely high octane speculation would explain the real motivation behind Kiril III's visit, a visit which, again, the public explanation left one thinking that there had to be more to it. In Kiril's case the explanation was that he was there simply to bless the Russian Orthodox chapel of the Russian scientific mission there.  But if this "neutrino hypothesis" is part of the picture, then the real motivations might be something quite different. Perhaps the strangeness lies in the patterns - evident in the video - that are being detected, which might indicate a non-stochastic nature, and hence, artificial origins. We don't know.

Admittedly, I'm so far out on the end of the twig on this one that I might indeed have fallen off the twig altogether.  But the presence of neutrino detectors and neutrinos themselves at the south pole does mean one very important thing: Antarctica just became even stranger.

See you on the flip side...

 

GOLDMAN SACHS, PLATINUM, AND ASTEROID MINING

I am always amazed at the careful and sharp eyes of the readership of this site, especially for their ability to spot the odd detail or turn of phrase that may indicate something significant, and, in this case,  something with profound implications. This is one of those times I have to blog not only about the article, but about the sender's - in this case, "G.L.R.'s" - insight into it. Here's the article:

Goldman Sachs: space-mining for platinum is 'more realistic than perceived'

The article notes that the price of launch vehicles - you know, the noisy chemical rocket kind - has begun to plummet, making the cost of getting up there to "get stuff" is falling accordingly:

The price of spacecraft is plummeting, thanks to reusable rockets from Elon Musk's SpaceX and Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin. It used to cost $35 million (£28 million) to send one person up on a Soyuz rocket. Today, Virgin Galactic hopes to get space tourists into space for something like $250,000 (£200,000), Goldman says. More broadly, the price of all new rockets is falling over time:

Rockets Goldman Sachs

Ok, that's nice. Falling rocket prices, tourism, trips to the Moon for vacations. All of this is, of course, couched by Goldman in terms of a "feasibility study":

Nonetheless, Goldman is bullish. "We expect that systems could be built for less than that given trends in the cost of manufacturing spacecraft and improvements in technology. Given the capex of mining operations on Earth, we think that financing a space mission is not outside the realm of possibility."
But, that's not the jaw dropper; the jaw-dropper fuels my - or rather, G.L.R.'s - high octane speculation of the day, with a little parsley and lettuce garnishments thrown in from me. While most of this article reads like the typical bland business-risk-feasibility management study, the opening paragraph is a stunner, there's no other way to put it:
Goldman Sachs is bullish on space mining with "asteroid-grabbing spacecraft." In a 98-page note for clients seen by Business Insider, analyst Noah Poponak and his team argue that platinum mining in space is getting cheaper and easier, and the rewards are becoming greater as time goes by. (Emphasis added)
As G.L.R. put it to me in the email in which the article was shared (and I am citing the exact words here): "Really? I don't recall reading that we actually were mining in space so how can an accurate comparison be done to determine that its cheaper now?"
Uhm... er... yea.
But of course, the opening paragraph of the article are the article's author's words (in this case, the author being Mr. Jim Edwards). So, perhaps were reading too much into it, parsing too closely. But G.L.R. sent along another article about the same Goldman Sachs study, and again, one finds some curious wording by a completely different article author:

Goldman Sachs says mining platinum from asteroids is a ‘realistic’ way for bankers to earn BILLIONS

In the Sun article by Mr. (or Ms.) Jasper Hamill, note the following italicized statement, which I present in context:

"Prospecting probes can likely be built for tens of millions of dollars each and Caltech has suggested an asteroid-grabbing spacecraft could cost $2.6bn."

The bank added: "Space mining could be more realistic than perceived."
(Emphasis added)

More "realistic", or is that simply a euphemism for "more real".

Now, put all this into the context of this week's previous blogs and tidbits about space, including that strange story about "the dark side of the Moon". (See

US MISSILE DEFENSE: RUSSIA, CHINA AND THE MOON

and see this:

CHINA: LET’S GO TO THE FAR SIDE OF THE MOON

and what does one have? I've stated all along that with the commercialization of space comes, inevitably, its militarization and weaponization. After all, one has to protect those developing assets from..."whomever". And I've also said, all along, that chemical rockets - cost declines or not - are just a very inefficient means of space travel, much less mining asteroids. And hence, perhaps, what we have here, is an inadvertent, or perhaps deliberate, admission that the mining of celestial bodies is already under way, and by technologies that "don't exist."

There is indeed a financial aspect to this speculation that makes some sense here, for if one has been following the financial news lately, and particularly those stories about Russia and China buying massive amounts of gold (and one assumes, to a lesser extent, silver), and the constant trickle of stories about their plans to move to gold-backed currencies, the USA and other western powers seem all too unperturbed by the news, as if they "knew something", and had their own hidden financial system, and sources of bullion and precious metals. And as I've said before, there is a lot of "missing money" that is completely unaccounted for, and no one seems inclined to look for it. Remember those quadrillions of dollars of "bad paper" on banks' books? How would one offset that? Well, a rich asteroid or two would do the trick.

Perhaps, in order to find the missing money, and the source of the West's seeming financial imperturbability, one would have to look up, to space...

See you on the flip side...

 

METALLIC HYDROGEN, TIME CRYSTALS, AND HYPER-DIMENSIONAL SPECULATION

First off, a caveat: by hyper-dimensional speculation I mean something far beyond our usual "high octane" speculation, and perhaps bordering on "sheer fantasy", but falling just short of it. In any case, this has been one of those weeks where I truly do wish I had a staff that could blog about all the stories I wanted to blog about, because there are so many. Alas, I am only one person, and have to make my selections, but these two stories were at the very top of my list, not only for what they say, but also for their implications, and the context in which they occurred.

Let's look at the first article that began to flood my email in box about a new type of matter which has just been confirmed: time crystals:

Scientists have confirmed a brand new form of matter: time crystals

So, in addition to the usual states of matter - solid, liquid, gas, plasma - we may now add a fifth, the time crystal, or to be more precise: non-equilibrium matter, a form of matter which in its ground state, oscillates, in other words, a regular lattice structure repeated not only in space such as an ordinary crystal like carborundum or diamond, but also in time as well, and this structure apparently exists without the consumption of energy to create motion:

First predicted by Nobel-Prize winning theoretical physicist Frank Wilczek back in 2012, time crystals are structures that appear to have movement even at their lowest energy state, known as a ground state.

Usually when a material is in ground state, also known as the zero-point energy of a system, it means movement should theoretically be impossible, because that would require it to expend energy.

But Wilczek predicted that this might not actually be the case for time crystals.

Normal crystals have an atomic structure that repeats in space - just like the carbon lattice of a diamond. But, just like a ruby or a diamond, they're motionless because they're in equilibrium in their ground state.

But time crystals have a structure that repeats in time, not just in space. And it keep oscillating in its ground state.

Imagine it like jelly - when you tap it, it repeatedly jiggles. The same thing happens in time crystals, but the big difference here is that the motion occurs without any energy.

A time crystal is like constantly oscillating jelly in its natural, ground state, and that's what makes it a whole new form of matter - non-equilibrium matter. It's incapable of sitting still.

To put it country simple, a non-equilibrium ground state of matter - a time crystal - is a kind of exotic matter, the quest for which we've been hearing about in recent years, though usually in conjunction with the so called "dark matter."

The quest was initiated by a paper by Norman Yao which demonstrated their theoretical existence and provided a map by which to actually create them:

Yao and his team have now come up with a detailed blueprint that describes exactly how to make and measure the properties of a time crystal, and even predict what the various phases surrounding the time crystals should be - which means they've mapped out the equivalent of the solid, liquid, and gas phases for the new form of matter.

Published in Physical Review Letters, Yao calls the paper "the bridge between the theoretical idea and the experimental implementation".

The technique is simplicity itself, and, let it be noted, relies in some part on the idea of entanglement, with all its allusions to non-locality:

The University of Maryland's time crystals were created by taking a conga line of 10 ytterbium ions, all with entangled electron spins.

The key to turning that set-up into a time crystal was to keep the ions out of equilibrium, and to do that the researchers alternately hit them with two lasers. One laser created a magnetic field and the second laser partially flipped the spins of the atoms.

Because the spins of all the atoms were entangled, the atoms settled into a stable, repetitive pattern of spin flipping that defines a crystal.

That was normal enough, but to become a time crystal, the system had to break time symmetry. And observing the ytterbium atom conga line, the researchers noticed it was doing something odd.

The two lasers that were periodically nudging the ytterbium atoms were producing a repetition in the system at twice the period of the nudges, something that couldn't occur in a normal system.

"Wouldn't it be super weird if you jiggled the Jell-O and found that somehow it responded at a different period?" said Yao.

"But that is the essence of the time crystal. You have some periodic driver that has a period 'T', but the system somehow synchronises so that you observe the system oscillating with a period that is larger than 'T'."

Let that settle in for a moment: one inputs a periodicity of T, and out pops Tn, where Tn>T. If one has really been paying attention to various "odd details" I've chronicled in my books, one can imagine that the late Dr. Nikolai Kozyrev might be elated that this is a demonstration of his idea of "time as a force" and with a "density", a density that could be quantified by this time-lattice structure or periodicity. One might also suspect that a certain Dr. Ronald Richter would also be elated that this outlines ideas he was getting at in the 1950s(see my The Philosophers' Stone and The Nazi International respectively). Tuck all this in the back of your mind as you now contemplate that they've also not only successfully created these time crystals at Harvard, but that Harvard has also successfully synthesized metallic hydrogen, i.e., hydrogen not as a gas, but a metal:

It's real: Metallic hydrogen has been created for the first time

I'll leave it to the reader to read the whole article, but I want to point out this paragraph:

Most importantly, physicists think that metallic hydrogen could be a room-temperature superconductor, which would mean the material could conduct electricity with zero resistance - and without having to be cooled to crazy temperatures first.

We know of many superconducting materials already - we use them to create the powerful magnetic fields in our MRI machines and in maglev trains - but they're only capable of achieving superconductivity at temperatures below –269 degrees Celsius (–452.2 degrees Fahrenheit), which makes them expensive and non-practical for many purposes.

If scientists could achieve that same superconductivity at room temperature, it would be huge, because it means we could create things like power lines that don't lose any electricity between the power plant and your home. Right now, the grid loses as much as 15 percent of its energy as heat, due to resistance.

The material could also be the most powerful rocket propellant ever discovered, with incredible energy stored up in its bonds capable of blasting us to distant worlds.

Note, that by synthesizing metallic hydrogen for the first time ever, the first step in that technology tree outlined in the above quotation has been taken. Which brings us to the fourth line of that outline: "The material could also be the most powerful rocket propellant ever discovered, with incredible energy stored up in its bonds capable of blasting us to distant worlds." Metallic hydrogen in its isotopic forms - deuterium and tritium - if those could be synthesized, could then perhaps be used as fusion fuel for such propulsion systems "blasting us to distant worlds," a kind of "thermonuclear rocket."

But really, why bother with all that? Recall the experiments of Evgenny Podkletnov with circular superconductors that appeared to take on contrabaric (antigravity) properties. Now, instead of having to supercool those superconductors, simply make them of metallic hydrogen, in big enough rings, and oh, say, stack two of them upon the same axis of rotation, and counter-rotate those superconducting currents (which would have to be appropriately massive), and what do you get?

Well, before you think this rings a bell (and it does to some degree), recall NASA's proof of concept experiments in space warp technologies, being led by Dr. Harold "Sonny" White, who, you'll recall, reworked the metric of Miguel Alcubierre's paper on space warps to a smaller mass-energy conversion, and you have the NASA drawings of Dr. White's warp drive space ships with their clearly evident rings or "engines" that produce the warp. (See? I told you this would be hyper-dimensional speculation just on the fringe of fantasy.)

While all this is hyper-dimensional-speculation-just-this-side-of-fantasy, I have to wonder if it really is that, for what it appears we're being shown are the first steps in a technology tree that could lead from fantasy to reality, and in that respect, I cannot help but recall both DARPA's stated goal for the USA to become "warp capable" in a mere century, and to recall that what we're shown usually lags behind - often far behind - what we're not being shown. And I can't help recall in the context of all this hyper-dimensional-speculation-just-this-side-of-fantasy, the alleged statements of Ben Rich, that "we" had found "an error in the equations" (shades of Dr. White reworking Alcubierre's equations), and that we now could "take ET home." I cannot also help but recall President Trump's strange connection to Nikola Tesla via his MIT physicist uncle, Dr. John Trump, and the President's statements on making space a national priority.

I don't know about you, but I suspect something is definitely "up"...

See you on the flip side...