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INTERSTELLAR TRAVEL RESEARCH BEING SPONSORED BY DARPA

In case you missed it, the boys at DARPA, according to the following article from the New York Times, are at it again, this time funding basic studies for interstellar travel by humans: Offering Funds, U.S. Agency Dreams of Sending Humans to Stars Now, something about this article mightily bothers me, and maybe it does [...]

A SPACE HOTEL FOR THE WORLD'S "ELITE"?

The always interesting Russian television English language service is proving, once again, to be a source of information their counterparts in the West do not want to talk about for some reason. Secret Space Hotel plans unearthed Of course, we've seen confident space predictions before that never came true, and there is an aura of [...]

Members:- MEMBERS ONLY VID-CHAT SCHEDULE FOR SEPTEMBER AND OCTOBER

Hey everyone. Here's the schedule for vid-chats for September and October: Sept 2, 2011 Friday: 8 PM CDT Sept 16, 2011 Friday: 8PM CDT Sept 30, 2011 Friday: 8PM CDT Oct 14, 2011 Friday: 8PM CDT Oct 28, 2011 Friday: 8PM CDT

NEWS AND VIEWS FROM THE NEFARIUM AUGUST 26, 2011

Joseph makes announcements and then concentrates on the earthquake in Virginia:

A COUPLE OF INTERESTING IMAGES OF VESTA

I have to admit, the past couple of weeks I've been following NASA's Dawn mission and its pictures of the asteroid Vesta, with some interest, and pouring over some pictures of the distant "worldlet" ever since I read a passing reference that NASA scientists were "stunned" when they saw the pictures of the asteroid. At [...]

GRIST FOR THE CONSPIRACY THEORY MILL: THE BP OIL DISASTER WHISTLEBLOWERS DEATHS

You all remember the BP oil disaster? You know, the one that went on and on, threatening global environmental catastrophe while we all watched helplessly on the news as BP did less than a stellar performance trying to get it capped? Remember, equally, how quickly that disaster dropped off the radar screen as we were [...]

EVER HEARD OF THE STOCK EXCHANGE SPECIALIST?

Are you under the illusion that the New York Stock exchange, whose antics we've all been watching so closely the past couple of weeks, is a free and open auction market? Then, according to this article, think again, and the article speaks for itself, so I will try to limit my commentary due to its [...]

DAKOTA OIL VS GEOPOLITICAL DELUSION

There is, as residents of South and North Dakota have known for decades, a vast oil reserve under the western parts of those states: Massive Oil Deposit Could Increase US reserves by 10x Development of these oil fields has finally begun, but all too slowly, and it's worth trying to explore the reasons why. According [...]

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT, NEW DOD RULES FOR PRIVATE SECURITY FORCES

In case you missed it, the Department of Defense has promulgated new rules for private security services, effective, notably enough, the day after the tenth anniversary of 9/11: DoD Policy for Privatized DoD This document is some very artful bureaucratese on how the USA is, and is not, using "mercenaries" in its ever expanding "war [...]

CONTACT WITH HYPERSONIC PLANE LOST

On August 11, 2011, it was reported that contact was lost with a new hypersonic plane under development from the US Air Force: Contact lost with hypersonic glider after launch (Update) The project, under development by the Defense Advance Research Projects Agency (DARPA), is designed to give the USA a "super-fast global strike capability," able [...]