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I recommend the TSA sleuths that discovered Muff's material be given a Federal Employee impact performance award of $10,000. (tax-free dollars each) and a week's paid PTO.
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President Merkin Muffley's grandson?
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QotD: Prosecutor Sherri Stephan argued that it doesn't matter whether the device is a firework, because it meets the federal definition of an explosive and it posed a significant threat to the plane and passengers.
The bag also had "a can of butane, a lighter, a pipe with white powder residue.
Conclusion: Meth Head. Meth Heads do stupid sh!t when they are all whacked out on the crystal. Dissembling fireworks, additions, modifications, and re-assembly sounds about right.
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Working for TSA (post 9-11 layoff), had guy come thru airport with California-approved Seal Bomb on his way to fishing job inAlaska.
Not only did he and his approved device not make the flight, but if he would have kept his trap shut and not tossed Wifey under the bus (“She packed my stuff”), the FBI wouldn’t have tossed their house and arrested both of them for variety of charges.
[NYPOST] A Japanese cult leader who famously claimed he could channel the spirit of any living or dead person has passed away at the age of 66.
Ryuho Okawa, leader and CEO of the “Happy Science” cult, was rushed to hospital after collapsing in his home on Monday from an apparent “state of cardiac arrest.” He finally passed on Thursday night, and his cause of death remains unconfirmed, according to Fuji TV. He was channelling Trump and his heart exploded.
Okawa had remained a controversial figure for most of his life, claiming to have received “Messages of God” and to have the ability to channel the spirits of the rich and famous. Okawa would publish books based on what he said the spirits told him. Nobody ever wants to channel the poor and the obscure. Nuts always think they're Napoleon Bonapart, never Sgt. Arsicaud.
His publications included addresses from the “guardian spirits” of Jesus Christ, former President Trump, Queen lead singer Freddie Mercury and Russian President Vladimir Putin. He described his books as a form of “religious journalism.” Betcha Putin's turning over in his grave.
Okawa was born in 1956 in a rural area and graduated from the University of Tokyo. He founded the “Happy Science” cult in 1986 after he had an “epiphany” that he could speak with spirits, which told him that his mission was to “lead humanity to happiness.”
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"Ryuho?"
"Freddie...Freddie Mercury...is that you??"
Yes, Ryuho. I have good news and bad news for you."
"Tell me the good news!"
"When you arrive at the afterlife, you will be honored as a holy man of teaching and study. For eternity, you shall have souls worshiping at your feet to seek the wisdom of the gods. The great spirits of history will marvel at your knowledge and insight, and some day your name shall be mentioned in the same breath as Jehovah and Buddha."
"Freddie, that is wonderful! But what is the bad news?"
[BBC] A Jack Daniels building project is to be halted after a neighbour argued she was facing a plague of whiskey fungus caused by escaping alcohol vapours.
Christi Long, of Lincoln County, Tennessee, claimed her property was coated in the fungus, which appears as a black crust on surfaces.
It is a growing issue for people in the area, her lawyer told BBC News.
The fungus, which consumes ethanol fumes, grows on surfaces near bakeries and distilleries around the world.
Mrs Long, who runs an events venue next to several Jack Daniels warehouses, including one under construction, says the invading fungus has required her to spend thousands on power washing.
She is suing the local county zoning office, arguing it did not properly approve permits for the warehouses.
Some infuriated locals are now calling for Jack Daniel's Tennessee Whiskey, which is owned by Louisville-based company Brown-Forman, to install air filters to combat the problem.
Jason Holleman, a lawyer representing Mrs Long, says whiskey companies often speak about the evaporation process - dubbed "the angels' share" - without mentioning the resulting mould that comes with it.
"If you go on one of these distillery tours they will tell you about the angels' share that goes into the atmosphere," he says.
"And unfortunately that also results in the devil's fungus."
In a court order, Lincoln County Chancellor J.B. Cox instructed Lincoln County zoning officials to order construction to be halted after he ruled that the permitting process was never fully completed.
Mr Holleman said he anticipates asking the court to order Brown-Forman to stop using six recently-built warehouses, which are commonly known as barrelhouses, that are also near Mrs Long's property.
Brown-Forman spokeswoman Elizabeth Conway told the Lexington Herald-Leader newspaper: "We respect the chancellor's ruling and look forward to working with Lincoln County on updated permits.
"The Jack Daniel Distillery will continue to comply with regulations and industry standards regarding the design, construction, and permitting of our barrelhouses in Lincoln Co."
Brown-Forman did not respond to a BBC News request for further comment.
Jack Daniels Tennessee Whiskey was founded in Moore County, which neighbours Lincoln County, in 1866.
The fungus - named Baudoinia compniacensis - is named after the director of the French Distillers' Association that discovered it growing near cognac distilleries in the 1870s.
It has led to complaints and lawsuits from Scotland to Canada and the Caribbean.
Federal agents in Tennessee used to look for the fungus as a sign that illegal alcohol - moonshine - was being made nearby, Mr Holleman says.
The whiskey industry in Tennessee is growing, along with residential development, leading to more conflicts between distillers and homeowners.
According to the Herald-Leader, residents in at least three other counties have fought distillery expansions, arguing that the fungus would harm property values.
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Notice since COVID came along, we hear almost nothing about Lyme disease or Morgellon's syndrome? Or sensitivity to electromagnetic fields, for that matter.
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/\ Havana syndrome news appears to have slipped quietly away as well. Except in the last few days.....
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A system that selects for neurotic people.
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/\ Meanwhile, a scientific review in 2020 determined that radiofrequency energy, a type of radiation that includes microwaves, was the most likely cause of the injuries.
Experimental DARPA Anti-monitoring frequency emissions tumbler.
[Federalist] In a plot line that seems ripped right out of the hit Paramount series "Yellowstone," some 65 Wisconsin families are currently being held hostage by the Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa. The tribe has erected illegal barricades on the only roads that lead to their homes, preventing residents from entering and leaving. The only way out of the reservation is over frozen lakes that are quickly melting with the coming spring.
The yellow barricades and chained-together concrete blocks were set up 31 days ago over a bitter land dispute among two non-tribal title companies, the town of Lac du Flambeau, and the tribe. Meanwhile, racial tensions are rising, and many fear violence in a standoff that’s also shining a long-needed spotlight on the dysfunctional arrangement between Indian tribes and the U.S. federal government.
To open the roads for only 15 years, Tribal President John Johnson is demanding $20 million. It’s an amount Republican Rep. Tom Tiffany describes as tantamount to "extortion." Tiffany also says it’s unlawful since all four roads in question receive federal funding through the Tribal Transportation Program. According to Tiffany, the tribe has received a total of $218 million in federal funds since 2013.
"I’m paying taxes to be illegally blockaded on my private land," said Marsha Panfil. Panfil and her partner Mike Hornbostel own and run Hornwinkels Bear Stube, a historic bar and restaurant in the area. The pair has been considering closing their doors ever since they were blockaded because the only way in and out of their home is by crossing a frozen lake.
"I have to rent another house now so that I can continue to run my business," said Hornbostel. "Crossing a [frozen] lake with the hours that we keep just isn’t conducive to sanity," added Panfil.
Many of the blockaded homes are over 20 miles from the nearest grocery store and their residents’ jobs. Denny Pearson, another blockaded resident, crosses Ross Allen Lake every day to get to work, but he won’t be able to for much longer. "When the ice goes out, there’ll be no way to get to and from work," Pearson told The Federalist. According to Pearson, it will likely only be safe to cross the lake for another two weeks before the ice becomes too thin. That’s when locals fear tensions will reach a breaking point.
Federal Gov't will side with tribes, siting 'eminent domain.' Remaining meddlesome white settlers will be removed from their properties and told to live elsewhere.
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The tribe's 'Kasino' (actual word is on the naughty list) probably hasn't done too well over the last couple of years, so the tribe needed a new source of income.
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Toll roads, although manning the booths will be a challenge during the winter.
[Garowe] At least 210 people have been killed in the ongoing conflict between SSC and the Somaliland military forces, a mayor said as the international community calls for a ceasefire between the two parties, which have been wrangling for the last month.
The fighting started about three weeks ago after a local politician was rubbed out by Somaliland security forces, triggering protests in Las Anod city by locals who rejected the secession by Somaliland that rented the air. Elders from the region insisted that they want a separate state part of the Federal system in Somalia.
But in return, the Somaliland military refused to leave the city leading to intense security operations which targeted innocent civilians.
The UN said those affected are mainly women and kiddies, who have been victimized for political reasons some may not understand. The regional forces were forced to leave the city by SSC fighters last month.
The town's mayor Abdirahin Ali said 210 people have been killed in Las Anod with over 2000 people also displaced. Those displaced are currently in refugee camps with Hargeisa accusing Garowe and Mogadishu of engineering the conflict, reports which the two have vehemently denied.
Ali said over 680 people have been maimed and are admitted to various hospitals across the town which can no longer host the rising number. The United Nations ...an organization which on balance has done more bad than good, with the good not done well and the bad done thoroughly... recently expressed concerns that the conflict could end up causing a humanities crisis if action is not taken immediately.
President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud insisted that Somalia does not have any plans to interfere with the conflict but called on the two parties to embrace a ceasefire. The president further insisted that Somaliland remains part of Somalia, noting that he will, however, not use force to dictate the historical crisis.
Somaliland claimed self-independence from Somalia in 1991 after a civil war in the north during the military regime led by Mohammed Siad Barre but the region is yet to be internationally recognized despite efforts and investment on the global stage. The international community still distributes resources to the region as part of Somalia.
''The corpse count of the LasAnod conflict rises to 210 people, 680 maimed while 2,000 displaced since the start of the war last month,'' says the mayor.
Since yesterday, no fighting reported situation is calm but businesses still remain closed as most of the residents fled their houses.
UN said an estimated 185,282 individuals have been displaced, as per the interagency assessment report published on February 13th, 2023.
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] The Colombian government will transfer 70 of Pablo Escobar's hippopotamuses to a zoo in Mexico and another in India
The Medellín Cartel kingpin purchased four hippos - including three females - in the 1980s for his own zoo at his estate, Hacienda Napoles
The hippo population has grown to around 150, posing a threat to residents and the ecosystem in the central northwestern department of Antioquia
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Isn't Zeihan saying they'll lose 500 million to old age by 2050?
50-70. There will be only 500 million Han Chinese by the end of the century at best. And that is if their young start pumping out babies like crazy NOW.
[An Nahar] North Korea ...hereditary Communist monarchy distinguished by its truculence and periodic acts of violence. Distinguishing features include Songun (Army First) policy, which involves feeding the army before anyone but the Dear Leadership, and Juche, which is Kim Jong Il's personal interpretation of Marxism-Leninism, which he told everybody was brilliant. In 1950 the industrialized North invaded agrarian South Korea. Twenty-one countries of the United Nations eventually contributed to the UN force opposing the invasion, with the United States providing around 90% of the military personnel. Seventy years later the economic results are in and it doesn't look good for Juche... n leader Kim Pudge Jong-un ...the overweight, pouty-looking hereditary potentate of North Korea. Pudge appears to believe in his own divinity, but has yet to produce any loaves and fishes, so his subjects remain malnourished... vowed to strengthen state control over agriculture and take a spate of other steps to increase grain production, state media reported Thursday. But experts say it won't effectively address a worsening food shortage.
Kim's measures unveiled during a recent four-day meeting were largely a repeat of his past policies. Prospects for quickly resolving its food insecurity are dim, as North Korea restricts the operation of markets and devotes much of its scarce resources to its nuclear program.
While experts believe the food situation is the worst it has been under Kim's 11-year rule, they still say they see no signs of imminent famine or mass deaths. "They've always been really skinny"
During the ruling Workers' Party meeting that ended Wednesday, Kim said his government sees agricultural development as a matter of "strategic" importance and that farming goals should be settled without fail, according to the official Korean Central News Agency.
"In order to attain the gigantic long-term objective of rural development, it is necessary to decisively strengthen the party guidance over the agricultural sector and improve the rural party work," Kim was quoted as saying.
Kim also ordered officials to overcome unspecified "lopsidedness in the guidance on farming" and concentrate on increasing farm yields. He said provincial, city and county authorities must boost their guidance on agriculture.
KCNA didn't elaborate how Kim would reinforce his government's guidance on farming. But experts say Kim's instructions were a reaffirmation of his push to restore elements of a socialist-style planned economy — under which a central authority controls the market rather than participants — on grain supply. They say that's one of the factors behind North Korea's worsened food situation.
"In our views, they're going backward and returning to the past," said Kwon Tae-jin, a senior economist at the private GS&J Institute in South Korea. "To resolve the food problem, they should let markets play a greater role. But they're rather returning to a planned economy."
South Korea's Unification Ministry said later Thursday that North Korea is expected to use local organizations in rural towns to maintain their control of the people, mobilize them as labor forces and implement previous policies. It expressed skepticism about whether Kim's push to tighten guidance over agricultural activities would lead to meaningful improvements unless it's backed by the supply of fertilizer and other key agricultural materials.
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Central planning never works well, especially in agriculture. Did we learn nothing at all from the 20th Century (yes, I know it has now been 23 years since then, but stil...)?
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[FoxNews] AZ plant expected to support battery needs for nearly 203,000 electric vehicles per year.
Reducing the need to buy lithium mined in China? Probably a good idea.
The effort to satisfy a vast demand for lithium for electric vehicle batteries moved one step forward with a $375 million loan from the Department of Energy to Li-Cycle, a battery recycling company, to build a lithium-ion battery recovery plant near Rochester, New York.
Monday's announcement is the third in the U.S. recently. Last Tuesday the large recycling firm Ecobat said it will build its first battery recycling plant in Casa Grande, Arizona.
Earlier this month, the DOE Loan Programs Office also announced a conditional $2 billion loan to Redwood Materials to build a battery recycling facility outside Reno, Nevada. It will also make new EV battery cells out of recovered copper foil and other electrochemical materials.
The Rochester facility is expected to support the battery needs of about 203,000 electric vehicles per year.
Providing the extra electricity to charge those batteries is a separate issue.
The discarded lithium batteries that are its source material will be collected and readied for transport to New York at sites including Gilbert, Ariz., Tuscaloosa, Ala. and Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
Recycling lithium is seen as far less environmentally damaging than mining it from the ground, and potentially less expensive.
Mining lithium can degrade ecosystems and contaminate lakes and rivers. But mining both domestically and internationally is expected to dramatically increase to meet growing demand for electric vehicles and other clean technologies.
The DOE announcement came within hours of another, by American Battery Technology Company, that it has discovered one of the largest known lithium deposits in the U.S. at Tonopah Flats in Big Smoky Valley, Nevada. It's estimated to contain 15.8 million tons of lithium carbonate equivalent.
The Li-Cycle announcement is the fifth project related to critical materials and EV supply chain announced under the Advanced Technology Vehicles Manufacturing Loan Program, part of DOE.
In 2021, the U.S. set a target for half of all new domestic vehicle sold to be electric by 2030.
We’d need to about double the current number of power plants to keep them moving, at rough estimate — unicorn farts won’t cut it.
A DOE National Blueprint for Lithium Batteries outlines a strategy for expanding lithium-battery manufacturing and highlights the need for raw materials and pursuit of alternatives.
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Marlboro man leans on the windowsill of his mostly Chinese sourced electric pickup truck and uses his made-with-slave-labor iPhone to look for a charging station in the middle of nowhere.
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^#1 - You are in electric power mode and you charge the battery with your ICE engine revving at a constant speed
So it's an electric transmission with a gas-powered portable generator. At least it won't require any more power plants or drain the existing grid.
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I don’t understand why a government loan should even be necessary- batteries have to be the most concentrated ‘ore’ around; maybe the Lithium is in a hard-to-refine compound?
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The people who gave us Carter wanted to give us Adlai Stevenson and Hubert Humphrey too. Hold that image in your mind while saying "Paul Ryan Republicans."
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[FoxBusiness] Emergency SNAP benefits end after three years
As the COVID-era Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits are set to expire this month, some food banks are warning that the majority of their clients – who are working-class families – "are struggling to make ends meet."
"We serve the suburbs of Chicago and a majority of our families are working families," Northern Illinois Food Bank president and CEO Julie Yurko told FOX Business’ Jeff Flock in an appearance on "Varney & Co." Wednesday. "They are struggling to make ends meet."
In 2020, amid the public health emergency, Congress temporarily raised SNAP benefits to provide anywhere from $90 to $250 more per household depending on their assistance needs.
Congress then passed the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2023 in December 2022, giving the benefits an expiration date. Notably, President Biden announced last month that the federal government will end its COVID-19 pandemic emergency declaration on May 11.
While some states had already stopped issuing emergency allotments, other states and territories had benefits return to normal amounts starting this month. Those states include California, Hawaii, Massachusetts, Michigan, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas and 24 others.
Yurko’s food bank currently serves approximately 450,000 clients per month, which she claimed is a 55% increase from last year. The food bank president also expressed worries that numbers will only grow as food inflation rages on.
"It is crazy. Food inflation, over 10% for more than a year. We expect it to continue," she said. "And we know that the families we're serving right now are hurting because of that."
The cost of groceries saw an 11.3% increase year-over-year in January and a 0.4% increase month-over-month, according to the latest consumer price index.
Yurko additionally noted that most of their food inventory is donated canned or non-perishable goods that may be slightly damaged and not sellable on retail shelves.
"They are not going to market, so we're going to put a label on them and we're going to get them out to our families in need," she said. "It’s perfectly good to eat."
The Northern Illinois Food Bank largely relies on its 17,000 volunteers to help serve the rising number of community members.
"[The volunteers] come to us every year, give us 140,000 hours of time. That's like 60 full-time staff members," Yurko said.
Other food banks in states like New Jersey and Pennsylvania have also previously reported more families facing financial hardship amid rising everyday costs.
"A lot of people are finding that they are having to decide between paying for a bill, paying for gas, or paying for food," Chelsea Short, the director of communications at Philabundance, told Flock last August.
"The stories are the same," Community FoodBank of New Jersey President Carlos Rodriguez told FOX Business’ Lydia Hu in July. "It's just much more expensive to fill up their tank, to go to work or to drop [kids] to go to school. And then, of course, when they go to the grocery store, they get hit with another high cost."
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Store robberies have started again in my area. It has been quiet since COVID events. Evening hits as after days business more money should be on hand.
[PJMEDIA] Canada’s fake Z-cup boobs-wearing trans teacher has been put on leave for not wearing his fake boobs enough. This is a real news story. It also might be the most 21st Century scam of ... well, of the 21st Century. Bear with me here as we plunge deep into the details of this stand-out story. Woke to the extreme or Master Troll?
Shop teacher Kerry "Kayla" Lemieux, according to the Daily Mail, has "finally been suspended from her Canadian school after pictures showed her in men’s clothing, proving she does not wear the provocative attire all the time." He gained infamy last year for wearing tight clothes and comically — some would say offensively — large fake breasts, complete with protruding nipples. I could hang my hat on those.
There has been speculation from the beginning that Lemieux has been "gaming the system" and isn’t trans at all, whatever that overly-broad term might mean in his case.
Lemieux has since been repeatedly photographed dressed like a normal dude while away from school. One of his neighbors was quoted by DM claiming that Lemieux "wears prosthetic breasts extremely infrequently," and that he only "puts the breasts on to teach, occasionally when he goes for a walk or when the cops visit."
In the 21st Century, we need neighbors armed with smartphones to see if the fake femme with the massive melons is playing some kind of con. One kind of con might be getting yourself placed on paid leave for adopting a persona that, under Canadian law, basically makes you un-fireable. Students were threatened with suspension if they photographed her him.
That might be why, even with photo evidence to the contrary, Lemieux still asserts his ridiculous claim. He insisted to the New York Post two weeks ago, when the photos first emerged, "I’m not wearing prosthetic breasts. These are real." Sure you're not. They weren't there at the start of school last fall.
Although Lemieux has yet to produce any medical evidence for his "condition," he still says, "I believe — and my doctor thinks — because I have XX chromosomes as well, that has something to do with it, and hormone sensitivity to estrogen has caused it."
So that must have been someone else in those photographs: "I can’t tell you who that is because I don’t want to bring anyone else into this. I don’t want that person being thrown all over the media, but it wasn’t me."
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As a student, I would have done whatever it took to be permanently removed from the vicinity of that train wreck. If the dude was claiming they were real, I would have claimed to be lactose intolerant.
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"the dude was claiming they were real"
Dude was mocking the system and fighting back against woke culture in a way that he could.
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I would have done anything to end that nightmare despite the weirdo’s fine intentions. Maybe sitting in the front row and doing a fake soccer pratfall out of my chair if one of them brushed me would have been a workable plan. I’m sure some ambulance chaser would have facilitated bringing a sexual assault case on my behalf would have been workable.
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[Firearms News] It's common when someone refers to a subject like the best service pistol or longest serving rifle that they are talking about a certain model of firearm and not an individual unit. When it comes to "longest serving", it would be hard to rummage through inventories and find an exceedingly old piece. Such is the nature of a firearm used in military service. Normal wear and tear takes their toll. Yet every so often something is found that defies expectation and makes one rethink old notions.
There was a recent discovery at the Anniston Army Depot, where various small arms for the US Army are refurbished and upgraded before returning to unit armorers. An M2 Browning .50 caliber machine gun bearing the serial number 324 arrived from an active duty unit for maintenance and an upgrade to the M2A1 configuration. That low of a production number would have it in the original 1933 run by Colt (although FN in Belgium has been making them continuously since 1933) for an amazing run of 87 years!
Now if you are not familiar with the history of the M2, affectionately called "Ma Deuce", its life started at the tail end of World War I. The arrival of armored vehicles and heavier aircraft brought forth a call for new weapons to deal with them, as the US Army had nothing effective against either. While others started in 1917 the famed designer John M. Browning came on board in 1918. His plan was to start by enlarging his 1917 .30-caliber machine gun design. In conjunction with Winchester, the new firearm would use a scaled up version of the standard issue .30-’06 cartridge. The first prototypes were not a resounding success however. They were slow with a 500 rounds per minute rate of fire and a muzzle velocity of just 2,300 feet per second. Needless to say it didn't meet any criteria.
[FoxNews] The startup Air Company announced Tuesday that it had won a contract from the Department of Defense Innovation Unit and the U.S. Air Force for its AIRMADE "sustainable" aviation fuel.
"This will enable the production of on-site fuel, reducing emissions [and] offering a safe fuel source," the company said on Twitter.
The $65 million deal for testing production comes after Air Company CEO Gregory Constantine told Axios action was taken following a successful jet test flight last year than ran solely on unblended sustainable aviation fuel.
The contract will allow Air Company to test whether it can make that fuel in remote locations and it includes certain milestones related to the number of gallons Air Company will produce.
The money is just for a process proof of concept, it appears, not something on-going that will pull massive amounts of the gas plants need to live out of the air. Whew!
Air Company makes the sustainable aviation fuel from carbon dioxide pulled out of the atmosphere. The startup also turns carbon into perfume and hand sanitizer.
"The contract is tiered out over the next several years," a spokesperson told TechCrunch, noting that Air Company aims to work with the Air Force to produce "tens of hundreds of gallons," and later "tens of thousands of gallons," of jet fuel.
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...In and of itself, the concept is not a bad thing - every drop of usable, consumable fuel we can create at a forward location is a drop we don't have to fly/truck in. My concern is that this is more green-pie-in-the-sky that doesn't do anything more than enrich well connected people.
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Completely impractical in the field. Green energy is low yield, logistically impractical and too vulnerable to attack. Small nukes to power is also a bad idea. You don't want your enemy to overrun the base and get their hands on a load of Highly Enriched Uranium. If for some cosmic reason the US runs out of oil, convert coal to kerosene.
doesn't do anything more than enrich well connected people.
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*Bah. Humbug!* This is akin to photovoltaic panels in that it is "useful" for niche, repeat niche applications. For example that sensor on a pole miles from the nearest electrical lines should have a solar cell bonnet. A distillery that produces gallons per day is just not cost effective for military operations that can demand fuel by the tanker load daily...
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In twenty years the military will admit that a navy as a fighting force is obsolete. The only ships that survive will be robotic. Re-thinking will have to be done on methods of air transport. By then we should have robot Marines and sixteen year old kids will handle them from offices in Nevada.
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Ocean is a way to approach if you are doing a D-Day thing. Otherwise, it's important for commercial shipping. Past that, it's not holdable territory.
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I hope they don't mean WWII US Navy "torpedo-like accuracy". Maybe best not to stand too close.
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The navy will change, but there is little chance of all navy ships being unmanned any time soon. We have, so far, been unable to automate car driving or accomplish drawn package delivery on a large scale. Sailing is more complex than either.
The need to project power and protect shipping will remain. There are enough resources in the Western Hemisphere for us to detach had we not outsourced all of our manufacturing to China.
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OTOH, human steered US Navy ships have not been doing so well lately...
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I see the game of "Who's got the biggest schwanz?" continues. (And, no, Lori Lightfoot, we don't mean you.)
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Control the Seas by any means necessary has been a Military Copybook Heading since before the Phoenicians.
I bring that particular book up not just because of Horfischer's propensity for research and his clear writing style, but because that time period had the same "Navy is obsolete" arguments because of atomics, both weaponized and propulsion.
He reminds us that the how is constantly changing, including such use of robotic picket ships deployed in and around The Arabian Peninsula.
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LRASM is up there too. Chinese navy is a big target at sea.
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Bone with 16 LRASMs is a bit faster than any ship on the water.
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I read this book (snif) It told me all I know about the subject! (sob) How dare you question my knowledge? (Waaaaaaaaaghhhh!)
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Want to know what's going on? Get a clearance. See current stuff being tested. Otherwise, please share your thoughts, but qualify your opinion accordingly.
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Mahan was an absolute visionary historian and a staunch supporter of a canal through Central America. Also had a nifty destroyer class named in his honor.
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Ender's Game.
The fancy of manned autonomous and autonomous navy vessels which the vessels which are crewed, are crewed mainly as maintenance/repair a la fast food restaurant futures.
The problem there would be lag. Played enough MMOG to know the closer one approaches a 3 second lag the less the ability to make initiative decisions.
So these vessels would need fast CPU processing and energy generation, both of which technology continues on a bold curve. Decentralize the processing and information systems and integrate them into the hull itself. This would of course generated heat, which would be water cooled. In the event of main comm transmission being degrade can use the metal itself, if a bit inefficient, is precedent with classic technology such like speaker wire. Enough memory access to navigate on its own with pre-scanned information as well as the programming to navigate using passive means. Microwave tech used to heat surrounding environment to obscure detection including bending light enough to throw off visual signal.
This decentralized CIC if you may would allow a about even split in twain to allow all functioning operations to occur and take additional instruction.
On the manned ships, there could be a hierarchy of local Enders to take override manual control of a situation.
Main weapon systems, offense and defense, will be in the electromagnetic arena, though booms on bogeys in the form of missiles/torpedoes will still be integral as part of the weapons package, lasers and rail guns/hypersonics will be primary. Over the Horizon and Point Defense.
In base, Eder Prime can send out orders from where ever, and filter through various command structures down to the autonomous vehicles - air, sea, land - to execute. Those vehicles would never be out of the fight short of the destruction of all critical systems of a unit, such as gun autoloader or power train systems or battery/power generation being degraded.
Jamming may be an issue, but if there is a physical connection that can be avoided by launching wire connections to at least surface vessals to connect to said following vessels by magnetic harpoons; the water itself could be used to transmit signals as well. That method would due well with proper encryption technology which is coming along swimmingly in itself.
Such task forces could be assigned to any role, including freighter convoy escort.
3-D printing could allow 'bubbles' in the process to increase buoyance as well as construction automation. A 'slime' could be applied an allow the CPU to organize the 'slime' into the necessary form to repair damages. using metallic based polymers.
In the event of losing communication, the coding falls to the last known event default order of operations. Every vehicle has a special behavioral operation, knocks and bangs, which distinguish it, and even a special alert status, to tell friend from foe. The coding is formidable, except AI for lack of a better term, could code out such a scenario.
Tactical EMPs, if not already a thing, would be potent weapons, so said targets would need to be shielded and able to 're-start- itself.
The Real World gets a vote, and the sea is a harsh mistress, so something like the advent of copper plating for the age of wooden ships and iron men would have to come about. But that is what is being play tested today, perhaps including that US sub which nosed an object not too long ago.
#24
Obviously the Mahan Class there are no current member, but they performed with distinction in WWII, that's WW11 to you Tiktokrs. They were ahead of their time and the record shows.
#25
Personally, I think it isn't T-1000s which are the future of global warfare, but along the lines of biotics and chemistry inspires nanotechs.
If you will, imagine nanotechs built of materials which combined with a toxic biotic creates an inert material a biological material such as a human can excrete naturally.
It is the human nature to kill remotely, discretely, as possible, and the arc shows. The spear, the arrow, the firearm. They have all been used as liberally as possible, when possible, and that would fit in killing the opponent as best as possible. Nukes and Chemicals are messy yet effective.
Imagine, if you will, a Dr. Strangelove, imagined over 60 years ago, weapons designed to initiate by default if a no-go code is not received on a periodic schedule.
#27
Folks far in the future met doom
One fine day, sans a single kaboom,
And they all got to play,
Though I'm sorry to say
That they never knew who had fought whom.
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[BenarNews] A Philippine governor whose province is believed to be among four new locations chosen to host U.S. troops at military bases did not hold back in stating his opposition to the reported decision, during testimony before the Senate on Wednesday. Filipino defense and security officials also testified at the hearing but they all refused to reveal the names of the locations of the bases when grilled with questions about them.
During his testimony Gov. Manuel Mamba of Cagayan, a province at the northern tip of Luzon island that directly faces Taiwan, said he believed his jurisdiction had been selected under a newly expanded bilateral military deal with the United States but that he had not been notified.
"Please do not ram into our throats what is not acceptable to us," Mamba told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing chaired by Sen. Imee Marcos, the sister of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.
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#3
Where are the rubles under his mattress? He's being paid off by the fucking Russians. Arrest his sorry ass. Put a drone strike through his fucking traitor window.
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