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N. Korea: ICBM test used new launch vehicle, warhead able to re-enter Earth's atmosphere

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North Korea says the intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) 
it launched on Wednesday was fired from a newly-developed vehicle, and 
claims its warhead could withstand the pressure of re-entering the 
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State 
media reported on Wednesday that North Korean leader Kim Jong-un 
personally oversaw the missile test and referred to the new launcher as "<i>impeccable</i>" and a "<i>breakthrough</i>."<br />
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North Korea fired a ballistic missile which splashed down in the Sea of 
Japan early Wednesday, according to South Korean, Japanese, and US 
militaries. The Pentagon's initial assessment indicated it was an 
intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM).<br />
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Pyongyang said the missile reached an altitude of around 4,475 
kilometers (2,780 miles), more than 10 times the height of the 
International Space Station. It said it flew 950 kilometers (690 miles) 
during its flight, which lasted 53 minutes. Similar altitude and 
distance figures were previously cited by the South Korean military. It was named Hwasong-15.<br />
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North Korea's latest statement on the launch came after US Senator 
Lindsay Graham (R-SC) said the US is willing to go to war with Pyongyang
 "<i>if things don't change</i>." He stated that President Donald Trump is choosing America over regional stability, and acknowledged that "<i>a lot of people would get hurt and killed</i>" in the event of any war.<br />
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<b><a href="https://www.infowars.com/how-a-north-korean-electromagnetic-pulse-attack-could-kill-millions-and-turn-america-into-a-post-apocalyptic-wasteland/" target="_blank">North Korean EMP Attack Could Kill Millions And Turn America Into A Post-Apocalyptic Wasteland</a> </b>  <br />
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This is why North Korea’s test of an intercontinental ballistic missile is so important.<br />
North Korea had test fired a total of 22 missiles so far this year, 
but this latest one showed that nobody on the globe is out of their 
reach. In fact, General Mattis is now admitting that “North Korea can 
basically threaten everywhere in the world”, and that includes the 
entire continental United States. In addition to hitting individual 
cities with nukes, there is also the possibility that someday North 
Korea could try to take down the entire country with an EMP attack. If 
the North Koreans detonated a single nuclear warhead several hundred 
miles above the center of the country, it would destroy the power grid 
and fry electronics from coast to coast.<br />
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I would like you to think about what that would mean for a few 
moments. Suddenly there would be no power at home, at work or at school.
 Since nearly all of our vehicles rely on computerized systems, you 
wouldn’t be able to go anywhere and nobody would be able to get to you. 
And you wouldn’t be able to contact anyone because all phones would be 
dead. Basically, pretty much everything electronic would be dead. I am 
talking about computers, televisions, GPS devices, ATMs, heating and 
cooling systems, refrigerators, credit card readers, gas pumps, cash 
registers, hospital equipment, traffic lights, etc.<br />
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For the first couple of days life would continue somewhat normally, 
but then people would soon start to realize that the power isn’t coming 
back on and panic would begin to erupt.<br />
The intercontinental ballistic missile that North Korea just launched
 traveled almost 1,000 kilometers and reached a maximum altitude of 
4,500 kilometers. We have been told for decades that this would never be
 allowed to happen, but now it has happened…<br />
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This is concerning for one big reason: according to General Mattis, 
the North Korean ICBM “went higher, frankly, than any previous” and 
“North Korea can basically threaten everywhere in the world.” This was 
confirmed by North Korea missile analyst, Shea Cotton, who cited 
Allthingsnuclear author David Wright, and who told the BBC that the 
initial estimates of the ICBM test mean that North Korea can now reach 
New York and Washington DC.<br />
If we had been working hard to develop our anti-missile technology all these years, this wouldn’t be a problem.<br />
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But at this point we are way behind the Russians in this regard, and 
there is a very real possibility that a missile launched by the North 
Koreans could make it through the very limited anti-missile defenses 
that we do have.<br />
Once upon a time, discussions about a North Korean EMP threat were 
mostly hypothetical, but now that has completely changed. North Korea 
has clearly demonstrated that they are able to deliver such an attack, 
and last September Kim Jong Un publicly admitted that North Korea 
intended to develop this capability…<br />
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But most reporters missed a key threat that appeared at the bottom of
 Kim’s public statement, when he bragged that North Korea had harnessed 
“a multi-functional thermonuclear nuke with great destructive power 
which can be detonated at high altitudes for super-powerful EMP 
(electromagnetic pulse) attack according to strategic goals.”<br />
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So now we know. Launching an electromagnetic pulse attacks against 
its enemies is one of North Korea’s strategic goals. And for North 
Korea, the United States is the top enemy.<br />
And like I said earlier, all it would take would be a single well 
placed nuclear detonation to fry electronics from coast to coast. The 
following comes from the Daily Mail…<br />
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Theoretically, a sufficiently powerful bomb detonated at an altitude 
of 249 miles would wipe out all electronics in the US, save the 
southernmost top of Florida and the easternmost states – as well as 
affecting Canada and Mexico.<br />
Without power, nothing would get distributed. That means that very 
rapidly there would be no food, no water and no medicine available in 
your community. An article posted by Fox News this week used the term 
“post-apocalyptic” to describe what we would be facing…<br />
It all starts to sound very post-apocalyptic when you realize this 
means no lights or other electric-powered devices in homes and 
businesses, no water filtration, no regional food hubs, no 
transportation grid – none of the things we take for granted in modern 
civilization.<br />
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Like I stated earlier, things would be relatively fine for a few 
days, but then once everyone realizes that the power isn’t coming back 
on there would be chaos on a scale unlike anything we have ever seen 
before. The following comes from an article by Mac Slavo…<br />
The first 24 – 48 hours after such an occurrence will lead to 
confusion among the general population as traditional news acquisition 
sources like television, radio and cell phone networks will be 
non-functional.<br />
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Within a matter of days, once people realize the power might not be 
coming back on and grocery store shelves start emptying, the entire 
system will begin to delve into chaos.<br />
Within 30 days a mass die off will have begun as food supplies 
dwindle, looters and gangs turn to violent extremes, medicine can’t be 
restocked and water pump stations fail.<br />
So what kind of a “mass die off” would we be talking about?<br />
Well, some of the top experts in the field believe that “up to 90 
percent of all Americans” could end up dead if the power outage lasted 
long enough…<br />
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William Graham, chairman of the former EMP commission and its former 
chief of staff, Peter Vincent Pry, warned the hearing that such an 
attack could “shut down the US electric power grid for an indefinite 
period, leading to the death within a year of up to 90 percent of all 
Americans.“<br />
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Others believe that the figure would be lower, but pretty much everyone agrees that the death toll would be in the millions.<br />
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This is one of our greatest strategic vulnerabilities, and our power 
grid could be hardened against an EMP attack for just a few billion 
dollars. This is something that I am pushing very hard for, but right 
now it is just not a priority for our leaders in Washington.<br />
In fact, they have actually pulled funding from the commission that was looking into the EMP threat…<br />
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On Sept. 30, the Congressional Commission to Assess the Threat of 
Electromagnetic Pulse to the United States of America shut its doors 
after a failure to secure funding from Congress.<br />
Sometimes I find it difficult to come up with the words to describe how incredibly foolish Congress is being.<br />
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An EMP attack is a greater threat than ever before, and yet Congress 
didn’t even want to come up with a little bit of funding for the 
commission that was working on a plan to protect us.<br />
This is yet another example that shows that we need new leadership on
 Capitol Hill, because right now the people that we have “representing” 
us in Washington seem to be completely and utterly clueless about almost
 everything.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;">Internet giants block opposing views, threaten open web – US watchdog chief
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Internet giants are deciding what content users see and 
routinely block or discriminate against content they don’t like, which 
makes them a threat to an open internet, the head of the US 
communications watchdog says.
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Federal
 Communications Commission (FCC) head Ajit Pai argued on Wednesday 
against critics who said the White House’s move to reverse the Obama 
administration’s net neutrality rules would spell the demise of the web.<br />
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Referring to so-called <em>‘edge providers’</em> – companies such as Google and Amazon that provide online services such as websites or streaming – Pai said: <em>“They
 might cloak their advocacy in the public interest, but the real 
interest of these internet giants is in using the regulatory process to 
cement their dominance in the internet economy.”</em><br />
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He was <a href="http://transition.fcc.gov/Daily_Releases/Daily_Business/2017/db1128/DOC-347980A1.pdf" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">speaking</a> at a panel on the future of internet freedom hosted by libertarian think tank R Street Institute.<br />
Edge
 providers, that also include companies such as Netflix and Facebook, 
normally use the customer's internet service provider (ISP) to deliver 
content.<br />
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Chairman Pai sets the record straight on his Restoring Internet Freedom Order, rebutting myths with facts here: <a href="https://t.co/vjEWfDAV2M">https://t.co/vjEWfDAV2M</a></p>— The FCC (@FCC) <a href="https://twitter.com/FCC/status/935554336800862210?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 28, 2017</a></blockquote>
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Taking aim at social media platforms, the FCC chief said 
Silicon Valley companies are already doing this by promoting some 
viewpoints while suppressing others. <em>“I love Twitter,”</em> said Pai.<br />
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<em>“But
 when it comes to a free and open internet, Twitter is part of the 
problem. The company has a viewpoint and it uses that viewpoint to 
discriminate.”</em><br />
The microblogging service <em>“appears to have
 a double standard when it comes to suspending or de-verifying 
conservative users’ accounts as opposed to those of liberal users,”</em> he went on, before adding: <em>“Indeed,
 despite all the talk about the fear that broadband providers could 
decide what internet content consumers can see, recent experience shows 
that so-called edge providers are in fact deciding what content they 
see. These providers routinely block or discriminate against content 
they don’t like,”</em> he reiterated.<br />
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As an example, Pai noted Twitter’s decision to prevent Republican 
Senate hopeful Marsha Blackburn from advertising a campaign video with 
controversial remarks about abortion, in which the congresswoman said 
she had fought Planned Parenthood and helped <em>“stop the sale of baby body parts.”</em><br />
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Pai said<em> “the examples from the past year alone are legion,”</em> adding that they range from <em>“app stores barring the doors to apps from even cigar aficionados because they are perceived to promote tobacco use”</em> to streaming services <em>“restricting
 videos from the likes of conservative commentator Dennis Prager on 
subjects he considers ‘important to understanding American values.’”</em><br />
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He also took aim at <em>“algorithms that decide what content you see (or don’t), but aren’t disclosed themselves,”</em> and online platforms <em>“secretly editing certain users’ comments.”</em> Earlier in October, investigative group Project Veritas <a href="https://www.rt.com/usa/406413-project-veritas-nyt-facebook/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">secretly filmed</a> Earnest Pettie, the Brand and Diversity Curation Lead at YouTube, who said he works <em>“on a team that does provide some human inputs into a lot of the machinery of YouTube.”</em><br />
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In November, Eric Schmidt, the executive chairman of Google’s parent company Alphabet, <a href="https://www.rt.com/news/410444-google-alphabet-derank-rt/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">admitted</a> that the company will <em>“engineer”</em> specific algorithms for RT and Sputnik to make their stories less prominent on the search engine’s news services. <em>“We are working on detecting and de-ranking those kinds of sites – it’s basically RT and Sputnik,”</em> Schmidt said at the Halifax International Security Forum in Canada.<br />
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Pai
 distinguished between edge and broadband providers. Many of the latter –
 including AT&T, Comcast, and Verizon – favored the repeal of 
Obama’s net neutrality rules which they say will allow the internet to 
return to the free market environment.<br />
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On the other hand, services such as Twitter, Google, and Facebook have favored the existing rules. <em>“Edge providers,”</em> Pal asserted,<em>
 “are a much bigger actual threat to an open internet than broadband 
providers, especially when it comes to discrimination on the basis of 
viewpoint.”</em><br />
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The FCC chairman vowed to lift net neutrality 
protections adopted by the watchdog under the Obama administration. 
According to these rules, broadband service providers like AT&T and 
Verizon are prohibited from cornering segments of the internet and 
charging extra fees. For example, instead of standard broadband speed, 
ISPs could soon offer variations on quality, and charge customers 
accordingly.<br />
The FCC position is that current legislation limits 
the freedom of internet companies, arguing that red tape is hampering 
investment in online service.<br />
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">You can't just put fact next to your opinion and make it do. This is all bull and you know it. <a href="https://t.co/qegRedlmzc">https://t.co/qegRedlmzc</a></p>— Austin Fern (@fern0830) <a href="https://twitter.com/fern0830/status/935566897583656960?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 28, 2017</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Chairman <a href="https://twitter.com/AjitPaiFCC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@AjitPaiFCC</a>’s Restore Internet Freedom proposal is publicly available but myths still surround it. Learn more: <a href="https://t.co/41dJiz0RVN">https://t.co/41dJiz0RVN</a> <a href="https://t.co/GAFC18rxOu">pic.twitter.com/GAFC18rxOu</a></p>— The FCC (@FCC) <a href="https://twitter.com/FCC/status/935988887012376581?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 29, 2017</a></blockquote>
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The Russian Security Council has asked the country’s government to 
develop an independent internet infrastructure for BRICS nations, which 
would continue to work in the event of global internet malfunctions.
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The initiative was discussed at the October meeting of the Security 
Council, which is Russia’s top consultative body on national security. 
President Vladimir Putin personally set a deadline of August 1, 2018 for
 the completion of the task, the RBC news agency reported.<br />
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While discussing the issue, members of the council noted that “<i>the
 increased capabilities of western nations to conduct offensive 
operations in the informational space as well as the increased readiness
 to exercise these capabilities pose a serious threat to Russia’s 
security</i>.”<br />
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They decided that the problem should be addressed 
by creating a separate backup system of Domain Name Servers (DNS), which
 would not be subject to control by international organizations. This 
system would be used by countries of the BRICS bloc – Brazil, Russia, 
India, China and South Africa.<br />
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The issue of excessive dependency on global DNS has previously been 
addressed by Russia. In 2014, the Russian Communications Ministry 
conducted a major exercise in which it simulated the “<i>switching off</i>” of global internet services and used a Russian backup system to successfully support web operations inside the country.<br />
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However,
 when reporters asked Vladimir Putin’s Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov if 
the country’s authorities had been considering disconnecting from the 
global internet in 2014, Peskov dismissed these allegations as false.<br />
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“<i>Russia’s disconnection from the global internet is of course out of the question</i>,” Peskov told the Interfax news agency. However, the official also emphasized that “<i>recently,
 a fair share of unpredictability is present in the actions of our 
partners both in the US and the EU, and we [Russia] must be prepared for
 any turn of events</i>.”<br />
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“<i>We all know who the chief 
administrator of the global internet is. And due to its volatility, we 
have to think about how to ensure our national security</i>,” said Peskov. It’s not about disconnecting Russia from the World Wide Web, he added, but about “<i>protecting it from possible external influence</i>.”<br />
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<b>CCTV-4</b>. a 27-min program with Eng-sub<br />
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Type 095 nuclear submarine is (or will pretty soon be)
using the shaftless drive technology in conjunction with the IPS (integrated
electric propulsion) technology.</div>
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According to Ma Weiming during the Congress meeting
interview, Type-095/096 SSN/SSBN's propulsion system will be a generation ahead
of the next gen US SSN/SSBN.</div>
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The research and development of this nuclear submarine took five years, and used shaftless drive technology, which is believed to be the Type 095 nuclear submarine. Military experts have said that shaftless drive technology stopped using traditional mechanical propulsion shafts, and instead used an IPS (integrated electric propulsion). Traditional mechanical propulsion shafts occupy at least 50% of the length of a submarine and will produce large amounts of noise.<br />
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Shaftless drive technology is a revolutionary technology that saves a great deal of space in submarines and reduces up to 10% of noise. This has also led to the level of quietness in China's submarines surpassing the US and Russia.<br />
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The key is that the IPS can reduce noise. If this system is completely simplified, then whether they are submarines or surface vessels, their sonar signal underwater will be reduced to a very low level. If the enemies carry out a torpedo attack on all sorts of anti-submarine targets, they might not be able to acquire a target as easily as before, so if you analyze it from these perspectives, the IPS has a very large difference from systems of the past.<br />
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<b>Noise level.</b><br />
The noise of a submarine usually comes from
 the submarine's engine compartment and the mechanical structure of the 
submarine, including noise emitted by nuclear reactors, motors and 
conventional propulsion devices. One of the world's mainstream nuclear 
submarines such as Ohio, Seawolf, Borey class, Akula class noise level 
is generally 110 dB to 100 db.<br />
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 noise level there is a common saying in the world, is the submarine 
static noise coefficient is reduced by 6 dB per can let the submarine 
detection distance is shortened to half. That is to say, the submarine's
 noise level is just like the stealth performance between the nuclear 
submarine and the nuclear submarine. If the noise coefficient is low 
enough to match the background noise of the sea, the submarine will 
become a "ghost" in the passive sonar system. </div>
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 in order to improve the submarine mute coefficient, generally adopted a
 "cut", which is installed in the active silencer and change the 
internal structure and the replacement of quieter equipment. This method
 is also adopted by countries in the study of a new generation of 
submarines. </div>
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 The third-generation nuclear 
submarines headed by 095 and 096. The improvement of the nuclear 
submarine in mute system mainly includes these aspects: the new reactor 
system, the shaftless pump propulsion system, the IPS ship integrated 
power system and the IEP electric propulsion system. </div>
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 On the reactor, the third generation 
nuclear submarine uses the fourth generation cold nuclear reactor. This 
cold nuclear reactor has a lower operating temperature than the previous
 reactor, which can effectively reduce the loss of heat and the 
consumption of the cooling system. On this basis, the fourth generation 
cold nuclear reactors are smaller, more power, and are designed 
independently and safer. </div>
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 The previous 
ship is used by the host of the spindle drive the propeller system, it 
will make the submarine vibration noise in the process of moving, and 
the use of a large number of host power in the process of using, the 
submarine during use while facing two different structures. IPS 
integrated power system is all the energy into the internal system of 
whole ship electric system, both the radar and sonar system or use 
electric propulsion system. At the same time the reactor produces all 
power into electricity, the power utilization circuit system assigned to
 the ship, reduce mechanical failure and improves the mute capability of
 the submarine. </div>
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IEP
 system is to use the IPS power system, the traditional host drive shaft
 into a host power driven tail motor, reduce the overall energy loss but
 also can increase the output power of the motor. This also facilitates 
the breakthroughs of the submarine's maximum underwater speed. <br />

shaft free pump system is a more "science fiction" design. The pump 
system refers to the use of a conventional propeller system to wrap it 
up and push forward with the pressure of the blade.<br />
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The annular duct can
 effectively reduce the noise generated by the propeller rotation and 
improve the diversion effect, but it is still a motor axis propeller on 
the whole. The shaftless pump propulsion system improves the motor shaft
 propulsion to pure blade propulsion, and spreads the blades to the 
inside of the pipe. It uses the motor inside the pipe to drive the inner
 blades of the whole pipe to rotate, reducing the natural vibration of 
the shaft system, and further reducing the noise coefficient.<br />
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<b>Japanese 
scientists have for the first time documented that lightning can spark 
nuclear reactions in the earth’s atmosphere, an event that happens via 
the release of antimatter.</b><br />
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Lightning
 is awesome — in the old-fashioned sense of ‘awesome,' as in that which 
inspires real awe. Lightning anywhere is a spectacular, incredibly 
powerful, burst of electricity that can set houses aflame, cause power 
widespread outages and generally terrify people, alongside its 
unshakeable pal, thunder. </div>
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Little do we know, though, that lighting, 
by its nature, is a natural particle accelerator that can force 
electrons to move at near-light speed. Electrons, moving at such speeds 
collide with atoms in the atmosphere, which, in theory, causes a tiny 
nuclear reaction — a reaction that scientists have long speculated, even
 prior to the discovery of the neutron, according to <a href="https://theconversation.com/thunderstorms-create-radioactivity-scientists-discover-87946">The Conversation</a>.</div>
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The theory existed, and after humanity went into space, satellites 
repeatedly registered x-rays and gamma-rays traveling up from Earth 
into outer space during violent thunderstorms. In 2015, however, a team 
of US and Japanese researchers unexpectedly stumbled upon lightning that
 pushed the gamma radiation flow downward, not upward. The particles 
were registered by several radiation detectors set up by the team 
near the Japanese town of Uchinada.<br />
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"The total fluence of gamma-rays 
at the ground was calculated to be approximately ~100,000 photons/cm2, 
much larger than the total combined fluence of all TGFs observed 
by satellites since 1994," the researchers later wrote. "This is one 
of the brightest gamma-ray flashes ever seen on the ground," said Joseph
 Dwyer, the author of the 2015 research, <a href="https://gizmodo.com/thunderstorm-turns-into-a-nuclear-reactor-and-blasts-wi-1818550036">according</a> to Gizmodo.</div>
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An amount of gamma energy that immense is assumed to do 
something nuclear by researchers. But no one has observed proof 
of atmospheric naturally-occurring nuclear reactions, particularly 
as scientists looked for the kind of rogue neutrons usually created 
during nuclear reactions, and found none. </div>
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On
 February 2017, however, a group led by Teruaki Enoto from Kyoto 
University in Japan observed a thunderstorm while hunting for radiation 
and anything nuclear. During their observations, they witnessed a flash 
which lasted less than one millisecond and caused a similar powerful 
flash of gamma radiation registered between 0.5 and 1.7 kilometers away,
 according to Enoto's study abstract, <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/nature24630">published</a>
 in Nature.com.<br />
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After that, the radiation level subsided sharply 
during a span of some 40 milliseconds, and remained extant — in what 
scientists describe as an "afterglow" — for some 30 seconds, which was 
long compared to previous findings.<br />
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Why would the radiation linger for such a long period? As 
Chemistry World explained, when atmospheric oxygen-16 and nitrogen-14 is
 hit by high-energy particles, unstable radioactive isotopes of these 
two gases form; gradually decaying into stable carbon-13 or nitrogen-15,
 and that decay is accompanied by an emission of positrons, the 
antimatter analog of electrons.</div>
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Yes, <em>that</em> antimatter, the one which annihilates 
in contact with normal matter. This mutual annihilation has a specific 
energy signature — of 0.511 megaelectronvolts — and that was precisely 
what the Japanese scientists registered.</div>
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"This line [on the graph] is a 
conclusive indication of electron-positron annihilation, and represents 
unequivocal evidence that photonuclear reactions can be triggered 
by thunderstorms," explained experimental physicist Leonid Babich 
from the Russian Federal Nuclear Centre, in a commentary on the research
 in Nature.</div>
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What this indicates is that the scientists have now 
discovered the second only known natural source of radioactive isotopes 
on Earth, the first being cosmic rays, discovered in 1912 by Austrian 
scientist Victor Hess.</div>
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But while it appears to now have been proven — that there 
is a working nuclear reactor up in our sky that spits antimatter 
from time to time — there is no need to panic. The amount of radiation 
humans receive is barely higher than your average dental x-ray, or so we
 are told. Besides, we as a species have lived within this atmospheric 
reactor for a very long time and appear to be multiplying speedily 
nonetheless.</div>
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"Since the radioactive isotopes are 
short-lived, spatially restricted, and [comprise a] relatively small 
amount compared to usual background radiative environments, I think 
there is no health risk from this phenomena," Enoto <a href="https://www.sciencealert.com/thunderstorms-observed-triggering-nuclear-reactions-in-the-sky-lightning-gamma">told</a> Science Alert.</div>
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thunderstorm," Dwyer says. "There are a half-dozen ways a thunderstorm 
can kill you if you're inside."</div>
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Would you pay $25,000 for this RoboDog?

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Laikago – named after Laika, a Soviet dog who was the first living 
creature to orbit the Earth – weighs 22kg, a bit less than a common 
Labrador. It’s some 60cm tall.<br />
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“It is a kind of medium automatic robot, a robot-dog in short,” Wang 
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The four-legged mechanical pet is able to run on grass and can 
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No doggy-doo, vet visits or bones – now everyone can buy a robot 
canine online and enjoy spending time with their new four-legged friend,
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Life forms on Earth may also exist on other planets, according 
to a theory on micro-organisms from our solar system. Scientists 
studying interplanetary dust have posited that the powdery matter is 
capable of transporting tiny organisms across the cosmos.
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Edinburgh-based
 scientists claim bacteria and micro-animals called tardigrades can 
survive the hazardous journey, suggesting that alien bugs may have 
arrived on Earth in the same way. Even some plants can survive the 
ordeal of space travel.<br />
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Powerful streams of space dust can travel at up to 43.75 miles 
per second (70km/s). The two-way traffic would be able to send 
bio-particles spiralling out of Earth’s gravitational pull and beyond 
the atmosphere, according to the researchers.<br />
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<i>“The proposition
 that space dust collisions could propel organisms over enormous 
distances between planets raises some exciting prospects of how life and
 the atmospheres of planets originated,”</i> said study leader Professor Arjun Berera of the University of Edinburgh’s School of Physics and Astronomy.<br />
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<i>“The streaming of fast space dust is found throughout planetary systems and could be a common factor in proliferating life.”</i><br />
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European
 Space Agency (ESA) scientists found traces of interstellar dust in one 
of Saturn’s ice rings, made of material that originated from its moon, 
Enceladus. The team examined 36 interstellar dust grains, which is more 
than five times the number previously detected. The grains were mainly 
made of calcium, iron, magnesium, silicon and oxygen.<br />
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Previously, scientists have concluded that impacting asteroids 
and comets could import new life to earth, while researchers from 
Columbia University say life on Earth may have been transported from 
Mars.<br />
Giovanni Cassini was the first astronomer to recognize this 
dust in interplanetary space, and its presence around the Sun, through 
telescopic observations in the 17th century.<br />
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The possibility of 
importing life, or the raw ingredients of life, to Earth has been 
considered in the past. The Panspermia theory, as it is known, was first
 proposed in 1871. Space enthusiasts have long debated the possibility.<br />
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<i>“We can find pieces of Mars here on Earth and we suspect that there are pieces of Earth on Mars,”</i> Columbia University’s Caleb Scharf told Business Insider.<br />
<i>“If that material can carry living organisms on it, it’s possible that we are Martian.”</i><br />
The new research was part-funded by the Science and Technology Facilities Council and published in the journal Astrobiology.<br />
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The hangar in the background of the above photo has also piqued 
intense interest: It appears that <b>J-20s can be parked in an ordinary 
hangar rather than one with constant temperature and humidity</b>, while the
 <b>US Air Force’s multirole F-35 Lightning II fighters are very expensive 
to maintain as they must be kept in a highly regulated environment to 
protect their ultra-delicate stealth coatings.<br />
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This means J-20s are more economical and easier to manage and can 
respond to emergencies more quickly than F-35s, noted an observer.<br />
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It has been reported that the US and British militaries have decided to 
reduce the F-35’s airborne time, rather than splurging money on an 
aircraft that is mocked by Chinese media as “eye candy.”<br />
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Beijing-based military magazine Ordnance Industry Science and Technology
 has also revealed that <b>J-20 appear to be 20.77 meters in length, 
featuring a long and slim fuselage, with a wingspan of 12.99 meters and 
merely 15 tons in empty operating weight</b>, after analyzing photos of the 
fighters. Judging from these specs, the fighter will be more nimble in 
real combat than foreign estimates.<br />
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With its compact dimensions and airframe, the J-20 may have no limits on
 takeoff from or landing on the next generation of aircraft carriers, 
Chinese news portal Sina reports, citing a source with the Dalian 
Shipyard, where the construction of China’s first nuclear-powered 
carrier is said to have commenced. <br />
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Android phone users may turn off their location services 
settings, take out their SIM card or restore their device to factory 
settings, but Google still collects their location data, according to a 
new report. 
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For the past 11 months, devices running on Android software have been sending <i>“Cell ID codes,”</i> which contain data on the addresses of nearby cellular towers, to Google, according to a report from <a href="https://qz.com/1131515/google-collects-android-users-locations-even-when-location-services-are-disabled/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Quartz</a>.<br />
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After Quartz discovered the devices were collecting data, Google admitted to the practice.<br />
<i>“In
 January of this year, we began looking into using Cell ID codes as an 
additional signal to further improve the speed and performance of 
message delivery,”</i> a Google spokesperson told Quartz.<br />
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The latest Archetype in Action <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Jungian?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Jungian</a>! <a href="https://t.co/hegCsuc8oX">https://t.co/hegCsuc8oX</a> Thanks to <a href="https://twitter.com/LisaMarchiano?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@LisaMarchiano</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/JillianPage1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JillianPage1</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/elanvahe?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@elanvahe</a></div>
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Every 
time a device with a cellular data or WiFi connection came within range 
of a new cell tower, it would broadcast the addresses of nearby cellular
 towers and send the data to Google. However, the company said the data 
is <i>“distinctly separate”</i> from Location Services, which sends a device’s location to the applications.<br />
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Cell ID data only provides an approximate location of a mobile 
device, not a precise GPS location. However, a hacker could use other 
nearby cell towers to triangulate a user’s location to within a 
quarter-mile radius. A more narrow radius could be obtained for users in
 urban areas, where cell towers are much closer together.<br />
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There are more than 200,000 cell phone towers in the US, with a maximum range of less than 22 miles, according to <a href="https://www.statisticbrain.com/cell-phone-tower-statistics/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Statistic Brain</a>.<br />
Google
 noted that the Cell ID data sent to their servers was encrypted, but 
Quartz noted that a hacker could divert the data to be collected by a 
third party through the use of spyware or other means.<br />
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Quartz 
found that the location-sharing was occurring on all modern Android 
devices. The report states that Android devices were sharing their 
location even when there was no SIM card installed and the user disabled
 location services.<br />
Google’s <a href="https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">privacy policy</a> states that users may have their location data collected through <i>“various technologies,”</i> including <i>“IP
 address, GPS, and other sensors that may, for example, provide Google 
with information on nearby devices, Wi-Fi access points and cell 
towers.”</i><br />
Google began using the Cell ID codes to boost their push 
notifications and messaging management system called Firebase Cloud 
Messaging, a source familiar with the matter told Quartz.<br />
A source told Fox News that the Cell ID was used to ensure the devices <i>“remain connected and that people get their messages.”</i><br />
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<i>“In
 order for Android users to receive notifications and messages quickly, 
an Android device needs to maintain a persistent connection to Google 
servers using Firebase Cloud Messaging,”</i> the source said. <i>“To maintain this connection, devices need to ping the server at a regular interval.”</i><br />
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The Cell ID was never incorporated into Google’s network sync system and all the data was <i>“immediately discarded,”</i>
 the company said. The tech giant promised to roll out an update that 
removes the cell ID collecting feature by the end of this month.<b><br /></b><br />
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Google collects location data even when location services is off and battery removed from phone. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/google?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#google</a>  <a href="https://t.co/tfGYEKb4qc">https://t.co/tfGYEKb4qc</a></div>
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<b>Smartphone apps track Android users with 'clandestine
surveillance software' </b></div>
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 Smartphone apps such as Tinder and Snapchat are being used to 
secretly monitor the activities of Android phone users, according to new
 research. </div>
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The joint study from <a href="https://privacylab.yale.edu/press">Yale Privacy Lab</a>, an initiative linked to Yale Law School, and French non-profit research group <a href="https://reports.exodus-privacy.eu.org/reports/">Exodus Privacy</a>,
 looked into 25 trackers found hidden in popular Google Play apps such 
as Uber, Tinder, Skype, Twitter, Spotify and Snapchat. The samples were 
taken from a total of 44 suspected smartphone trackers identified by 
Exodus Privacy.<br />
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The
 apps Tinder, Spotify, Uber and Amazon Echo in particular were 
identified as using Crashlytics, a Google-owned service designed to 
monitor app crash reports but which was later found to be providing 
firms with insights into users’ activities.<br />
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<em>“Publication of 
this information is in the public interest, as it reveals clandestine 
surveillance software that is unknown to Android users at the time of 
app installation,”</em> Privacy Lab said in a blog posted to its website. <em>“These
 trackers vary in their features and purpose, but are primarily utilized
 for targeted advertising, behavioral analytics, and location tracking.”</em><br />

Exodus
 says more than 75 percent of the apps analyzed contained signatures of 
trackers – and the group fears that apps classed as <em>“clean”</em> simply contain trackers they have not learned to identify yet.The groups are now calling for <em>“increased transparency”</em> over the number of trackers found in Google Play apps.<br />
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<em>“The
 Exodus platform identifies trackers via signatures, like an anti-virus 
or spyware scanner, and thus can only detect trackers previously 
identified by researchers at the time of the scan,”</em> the Privacy Lab statement read.</div>
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1990: Pentagon Believed Superhero Soviets Could Shoot Lightning From Their Hands

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<b>In the twilight 
years of the Soviet Union, Pentagon staff were convinced Russian 
scientists had mastered "superhuman" capabilities, that allowed subjects
 to shoot lightning from their hands.</b><br />
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<a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4105633-CIA-RDP96-00792R000600380001-0.html#document/p1">Recently declassified documents</a> relating to the US military's <a href="https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP96-00789R003300210001-2.pdf">StarGate project</a>
 show Pentagon officials believed Soviet spies were able to manifest 
"ball lightning" by using the brain as a "superconductor" as late 
as 1990.<br />
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According to the documents, that year, a member of the Defense 
Intelligence Agency (DIA) took interest in an article from the Chinese 
Journal of Somatic Science, itself a translation and summary of an 
article from the Soviet Science and Life magazine. The staffer then 
retranslated the Chinese translation for the Pentagon's files, and 
incorporation into the StarGate program.<br />
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The article focused on "super-sensitives" — alleged masters of 
"super-perception" with "amazing abilities" that let them diagnose and 
treat illnesses "with results better than doctors" using only their 
hands. Super-sensitives would, according to the article, "feel the 
biological field with his hands" a few centimeters away from a patient. 
Moreover, their abilities were said to improve over time, to the point 
they had "super human abilities to cure ailments."<br />
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The translation also describes a conversation with the "Deputy 
Director of the Soviet Academy of Sciences Radio Technology and 
Electronics Institute and director of the Radio Electronics Remote 
Sensing Methods Graduate Body Laboratory" — over the course of the chat,
 the director allegedly said he had discovered a plant "which can detect
 evidence of a crime" and transmit it to a super-sensitive.<br />
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"When a super-sensitive is concentrating his 
thoughts, he can cause his biological field to intensify six-fold. For 
example, 200 years ago all of Europe was astounded by the discoveries of
 [Franz] Mesmer. He was the primary super-sensitive of that time. He was
 able to receive a special kind of magnetism from the Earth and because 
of this he was able to cure peoples' ailments," the article reads.</div>
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<a href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/Franz-Anton-Mesmer">Mesmer</a> —
 from whose name the term "mesmerized" is derived — was a German 
physician with an interest in astronomy, who believed that there was a 
natural energetic transference that occurred between all animated and 
inanimate objects (which he dubbed animal magnetism). His hypothesis was
 resoundingly discredited in the 1800s and he was driven into exile. <br />
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<strong>Brain Conduction</strong><br />
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<strong></strong>The article asserts the brain can have act as a 
"superconductor," which allowed super-sensitives to create "ball 
lightning" within a "channel" of energy, which they would "only have 
to concentrate."<br />
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According to discussions with a lab researcher, physicist, and 
mathematician, the Soviets had, while researching control of body 
temperature, discovered the electrical power source "is on the skin." 
So-called "super-sensitives" are even allegedly able to bring dead 
plants back to life.<br />
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"This is what that person does — he stretches out both hands 
to within 15 to 20 centimeters of shrivelled green leaves, and it looks 
like he is going to inject new life into dead cells. After several 
minutes, the leaves begin to shine, and have been restored to life," the
 article continues.<br />

In closing, the article's author says anyone who doubts the veracity 
of these apparent superhuman capabilities are "stupid" and "arrogant."<br />
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think all animals in the world are as simple as you? We have entered 
another realm. The skin is a very complex biological living machine. It 
is a primary object of our long-term research. The body's electric power
 source results from friction generated [static] electricity," the 
article concludes.</div>
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The
 StarGate project was established in 1978 at Fort Meade, Maryland, 
by the DUA and SRI International (a California contractor) 
to investigate the potential for psychic phenomena in military and domestic intelligence applications.<br />
<br />
Ingo Douglas Swann was the man behind the project. He was a claimed 
psychic, artist, and author known for being the co-creator, along with 
Russell Targ and Harold Puthoff, of "remote viewing" —  a process 
in which viewers were allegedly able to view a location given nothing 
but its geographical coordinates.<br />
In one such session detailed in the StarGate files, Swann reportedly transferred his consciousness to the planet Jupiter.<br />
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Derrick Broze explores the tv show "Stranger Things" and how it relates to real government programs that explored... <a href="https://t.co/JFuLMvHnLl">https://t.co/JFuLMvHnLl</a></p>— SomeNextLevelShit (@SomeNext) <a href="https://twitter.com/SomeNext/status/932715477071224834?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 20, 2017</a></blockquote>
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Beautiful horse-riding postwoman

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A Russian postwoman who delivers mail to villages around Moscow on 
horseback has become the face of online trading platform AliExpress. 
She gained two million fans in China after a documentary about her job 
aired on a Chinese channel.<br />
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Maria Rubtsova from Moscow relocated to the capital’s suburbs to work
 for the Russian Post in 2015. Now, the 24-year-old is delivering mail 
to eight villages in her area. Unlike other carriers, she doesn’t walk 
on foot or ride a bicycle but rides a black horse named Cosmos to make 
her deliveries.<br />
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“The young woman impressed the officials from the Chinese company 
[AliExpress] … After the documentary about the amazing postwoman was 
released in China, she gained almost two million fans,” Russian Post 
said in a statement.<br />
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A report about <a href="https://www.rt.com/business/409808-russian-post-aliexpress-horse/" target="_blank">the horse-riding postwoman</a> filmed by China’s CGTN TV 
channel was aired in October. The channel reported that 90 percent of 
all packages delivered by Maria come from Chinese online stores. The 
horsewoman was even a guest at the Global Shopping Festival event held 
in Shanghai last weekend.<br />
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“I’m sure that I won’t only get pleasant impressions of China, but 
also receive new tips about how the online trade is organized,” Rubtsova
 said ahead of her trip.<br />
Apart from her job, Maria takes care of two horses, a calf, goats, ducks, hens and three dogs.<br />
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AliExpress, owned by Chinese online retailer Alibaba, is the most 
popular shopping website in Russia with a monthly customer base 
estimated at 15 million people. The company has attracted more than 100 
million international shoppers since it started in 2010, according to 
the president of Alibaba’s business-to-business unit Dai Shan.<br />
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The world’s first virtual reality theme park will finally open 
its doors to the public in southwest China this December, the company 
behind the project has announced – and footage of the facility does not 
disappoint. 
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The
 ‘East Valley of Science and Fantasy’ park is part of a more than $1.3 
billion project being developed by the animation unit of Oriental Times 
Media in Guiyang, Guizhou. Set on a sprawling 320-acre site, the project
 will also house a VR movie-making studio as well as a media research 
and development center.<br />
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One particularly eye-catching feature is the 175ft Transformer statue
 towering over the facility. The robot, which is built from 750 tons of 
steel, the equivalent of two Boeing 747 jets, cost around $15 million to
 build. The park, which will open on a phased basis starting first with 
its Alien Base area, will also be home to China’s first virtual reality 
rollercoaster.<br />
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 cost of the park could prove quite cheap when factored against the 
potential of VR in the future. In 2016, the VR market was worth around 
$2.7 billion, a figure that’s expected to climb to $22 billion by 2020.<br />
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Including augmented reality, the total market could be worth around $108 billion by 2021, according to analysis by <a href="https://www.digi-capital.com/news/2017/01/after-mixed-year-mobile-ar-to-drive-108-billion-vrar-market-by-2021/#.Wgq3yWi0OUk" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Digi-Capital</a>. A study from <a href="https://www.citibank.com/commercialbank/insights/assets/docs/virtual-and-augmented-reality.pdf" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">CitiGroup</a>, meanwhile, projects the total value of the AR market alone at $1.3trillion by 2035.<br />
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Next generation ‘robot dog’ moves just like real life pooch

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It may move like a cheery family dog, but as a first look at the latest 
creation from Boston Dynamic reveals, the SpotMini is anything but. <br />
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The robotics firm posted a sneak preview of the newest version of its 
SpotMini robot to YouTube Monday. The robot appears a sleeker and more 
agile upgrade on the rather less sure-footed prototype unveiled in June 
last year.<br />
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The new teaser video finishes on the caption ‘coming soon,’ but it’s 
unclear whether Boston Dynamics is referring to the release of a retail 
version or simply a longer video of its robot dog scampering about on 
the lawn.<br />
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Once
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telecoms and technology firm SoftBank earlier this year. In February, 
Boston Dynamics showed off its parkour robot Handle, demonstrating some 
impressive jumps and also showing it could be put to practical use 
moving boxes.<br />
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The development of the firm’s humanoid Atlas robot has also caused 
further alarm among those already deeply troubled by the rate at which 
robots are getting better at human tasks. A <a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/1705.08807.pdf" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">study</a>
 from Oxford and Yale University, based on responses from more than 300 
AI experts, said AI could automate all human tasks by 2053.<br />
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New Firefox quantum browser uses 30% less memory than other browsers

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<a href="https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2017/11/14/introducing-firefox-quantum/" target="blank">Firefox is releasing its new quantum browser which uses 30% less memory than other browsers.</a><br />

Firefox Quantum is over twice as fast as Firefox from 6 months ago, 
built on a completely overhauled core engine with brand new technology 
stolen from our advanced research group, and graced with a beautiful new
 look designed to get out of the way and let you do what you do best: 
surf a ton of pages, open a zillion tabs, all guilt free because Firefox
 Quantum uses less memory than the competition.<br />
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It has a new User Interface (UI) that is called Photon, and its goal 
is to modernize and unify anything that we call Firefox while taking 
advantage of the speedy new engine. You guessed it: the Photon UI itself
 is incredibly fast and smooth.<br />

As part of our focus on user experience and performance in Firefox 
Quantum, Google will also become their new default search provider in 
the United States and Canada.<br />
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‘A lost world below the surface’: Russian explorers film in world’s biggest cave with drone (VIDEO)

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A group of <a href="https://www.rt.com/news/409621-son-doong-cave-russians" target="_blank">Russian travelers</a> explored one of the most 
spectacular yet least visited natural landmarks in the world - the Son 
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world’s biggest known cave, formed as a result of a cave in caused by a 
mountain river at least two million years ago, was stumbled upon by a 
local logger in 1991, who then lost its location before finding it again
 in 2009. At at its widest, it measures 150 by 200 meters, stretches for
 over 5 kilometers, and has a volume of 38,5 million cubic meters, about
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Son Doong was entirely closed to visitors until 2013, and the Russian team of six spent a year arranging permits for the trip.<br />
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Their journey through the cave took four days of arduous climbs 
interspersed with spectacular sights, such as some of the world’s most 
imposing stalagmites, fast-running streams, and an underground forest.<br />
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Only about 2,000 outsiders 
are thought to have traveled to the remote location, and fewer than a 
dozen have filmed inside with a drone. Only limited tours costing 
several thousand dollars are made available each year, and those sell 
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But the government wants to 
capitalize on what has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2003, and
 has proposed a cable car route through the cave. A spate of protests 
delayed construction in 2014, but the $200 million plan that would allow
 hundreds to visit the cave each day, remains on the table.<br />
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‘A lost world below the surface’: Russian explorers film in world’s biggest cave with drone (VIDEO)

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JF-12 Hypersonic Wind Tunnel

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Built in 2012, the JF-12, dubbed ‘Hyper Dragon,' has been a carefully
 kept secret. The 2.5 meter wide, 265 meter long installation reportedly
 cost almost $7 million to construct and is capable of creating wind 
speeds up to 10 times the speed of sound, or about 7,680 mph. At those 
speeds, the air temperature in the tunnel can reach 5400 degrees 
Fahrenheit, testing the impact of <a href="https://sputniknews.com/military/201711121059020855-china-hypersonic-plaes-teased/" target="_blank">hypersonic travel</a> on structural 
materials.<br />
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The <a href="https://www.popsci.com/chinese-hypersonic-engine-wins-award-reshapes-speed-race" target="_blank">JF-12 Hypersonic Wind Tunnel</a> began operations in March 2014. It 
is the world's largest hypersonic wind tunnel, capable of achieving 
speeds of Mach 5 to Mach 9.<br />
JF-12 tunnel conducts its tests every two days, and each test lasts only one-tenth of a second.<br />
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The JF-12 can produce speeds of up to Mach 9 (NASA's hypersonic wind tunnel reaches to only Mach 7).
 The JF-12 would provide Chinese scientists with a convenient way to 
observe supersonic airflow of different scramjet configurations, in 
addition to directly testing material durability in laboratory 
conditions, rather than having to make difficult and expensive 
high-altitude engine test flights.<br />
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JF-12 Hypersonic Wind Tunnel

Built in 2012, the JF-12, dubbed ‘Hyper Dragon,' has been a carefully kept secret. The 2.5 meter wide, 265 meter long installation...