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First genetically engineered super horse, designed to be faster and stronger, could be born in 2019

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Genetically modified horses will be faster and stronger than even 
champion racehorses like Frankel (pictured), and they could be born in 
2019.<br />
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Genetically engineered super-horses could 
be born in 2019 after a genetic breakthrough by a laboratory that has 
previously cloned polo ponies.</div>
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Using 
gene editing technique Crispr, scientists could create faster and 
stronger racehorses - and they have already  created a healthy embryo. </div>
Under
 current rules, the genetically enhanced animals would be allowed to 
compete at all international events, including the Olympics. <br />
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WHAT IS CRISPR?</h4>
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Crispr is a tool for making precise edits in DNA, discovered in bacteria. </div>
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The acronym stands for 'Clustered Regularly Inter-Spaced Palindromic Repeats'. </div>
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The technique involves a DNA cutting enzyme and a small tag which tells the enzyme where to cut.</div>
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Experts from Kheiron Biotech, a specialist equine cloning facility based in Buenos Aires, have <span style="font-size: 16px;">focused on the myostatin gene sequence which controls and limits the growth of muscles.</span></div>
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By changing this, the horses  will be able to develop significantly more muscle mass.</div>
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In theory,  by altering this process the animals will be able to run quicker for longer.</div>
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The process has already created healthy embryos and they are expected to be implanted into surrogate mothers within two years. </div>
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Mr Sammartino, founder of the Kheiron Biotech laboratory, told <a class="" href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2017/12/26/genetically-engineered-super-horses-born-2019-could-soon-compete/" rel="nofollow" style="font-weight: bold;" target="_blank">The Telegraph</a>: 'This technology brings additional progress in horse breeding. </div>
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'It could be possible to achieve better horses in less time.</div>
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'Our
 next big challenge is not only to export our technology, but 
fundamentally develop these scientific advances in other animals for 
multiple purposes.'</div>
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Genetic engineering can be
 seen as a short-cut to achieve the same results as traditional breeding
 but in a fraction of the time.</div>
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Genetic
 modification has been used in equine sports for over a decade, with 
cloning becoming progressively more  common since the first horse was 
cloned in 2003 by .</div>
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Last year, Adolfo Cambiaso rode six horses which were all cloned from the same animal and won the Argentinian open.</div>
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Crispr is a tool for making 
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The International Federation for Equestrian Sports (FEI) lifted a ban on cloned horses competing internationally in 2013. </div>
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Shannon
 Gibbons, an FEI spokesman, said: 'The performance of a cloned horse is 
unlikely to match that of the original horse for a number of reasons, 
including the maternal uterine environment, nutrition, training and the 
understanding that clones are not exactly the same as the original.</div>
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'Additionally,
 as progeny of cloned horses will be produced by conventional 
reproductive methods, such as natural covering or artificial 
insemination, maintaining fair play is protected.</div>
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'The
 FEI will therefore not forbid participation of clones or their 
progenies in FEI competitions. However, we will continue to monitor 
further scientific research.' </div>
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Cloning
 however, does not improve the lineage of a horse and 'improve' it in 
any way, it simply produces a genetically identical copy of the 
original. </div>
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This new development would 
allow breeders and trainers to 'customise' the DNA of their horses in 
order to produce an animal with the most desirable traits. </div>
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Currently,
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competing in any international competitions, including the Olympics.  </div>
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The results of the research will be published early next year in the journal <a class="" href="http://online.liebertpub.com/clo" rel="nofollow" style="font-weight: bold;" target="_blank">Cloning and Stem Cells.</a></div>
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Transformer like statue in ‘Oriental Science Fiction Valley‘

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Statue of a Transformer that is taller and heavier than the Statue of Liberty<br />
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<a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/china/article-5023575/Spectacular-pictures-China-s-1-billion-VR-park.html" target="blank">China
 has a $1 billion to $1.5 billion virtual reality theme park that has 
174 foot tall statue of a Transformer made of 750 tons of steel.</a> The theme park is set to open in February 2018.<br /><br />
The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statue_of_Liberty" target="blank">copper statue portion of the Statue of Liberty is 150 feet tall and weighs 225 tons.</a><br />
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The Transformer statue is 3 times the weight and is taller.<br />

The Theme park is in Guiyang city in Guizhou province.<br /><br />
The new VR park is named simply ‘Oriental Science Fiction Valley‘. 
The massive VR park spans 330 acres (134 hectares) and houses within its
 various sci-fi-inspired buildings 35 different VR attractions—including
 everything from shooters, virtual rollercoasters, to guided spaceship 
tours of the region’s most scenic spots<br />
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Introducing the DF-17

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China carried out the first flight-tests of a new kind of ballistic 
missile with a hypersonic glide vehicle (HGV) in November, The <a href="https://thediplomat.com/" target="_blank">Diplomat</a> 
has learned.<br />
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According to a U.S. government source who described recent intelligence 
assessments on the People’s Liberation Army Rocket Force (PLARF) on the 
condition of anonymity, China recently conducted two tests of a new 
missile known as the DF-17.<br />
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The first test took place on November 1 and the second test took place 
on November 15. The November 1 test was the first Chinese ballistic 
missile test to take place after the conclusion of the first plenum of 
the Communist Party of China’s 19th Party Congress in October.<br />
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During the November 1 test flight, which took place from the Jiuquan 
Space Launcher Center in Inner Mongolia, the missile’s payload flew to a
 range of approximately 1,400 kilometers with the HGV flying at a 
depressed altitude of around 60 kilometers following the completion of 
the DF-17’s ballistic and reentry phases.<br />
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HGVs begin powered flight after separating from their ballistic 
missile boosters, which follow a 
standard ballistic trajectory to give the payload vehicle sufficient 
altitude.<br />
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Parts of the U.S. intelligence community assess that the DF-17 is a 
medium-range system, with a range capability between 1,800 and 2,500 
kilometers. The missile is expected to be capable of delivering both 
nuclear and conventional payloads and may be capable of being configured
 to deliver a maneuverable reentry vehicle instead of an HGV.<br />
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Most of the missile’s flight time during the November 1 flight test was 
powered by the HGV during the glide phase, the source said. The missile 
successfully made impact at a site in Xinjiang Province, outside Qiemo, 
“within meters” of the intended target, the source added. The duration 
of the HGV’s powered flight was nearly 11 minutes during that test.<br />
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The HGV payload that China tested in November was specifically designed for the DF-17, the source told <i>The Diplomat</i>,
 while noting that parts of the U.S. intelligence community assess that 
the DF-17 is heavily based on the PLARF’s DF-16B short-range ballistic 
missile, which is already deployed.<br />
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“The missile is explicitly designed for operational HGV implementation 
and not as a test bed,” the source said, describing U.S. intelligence 
assessments of the DF-17. This was “the first HGV test in the world 
using a system intended to be fielded operationally,” the source added.<br />
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The DF-17, per current U.S. intelligence assessments, is expected to reach initial operating capability around 2020.<br />
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“Although hypersonic glide vehicles and missiles flying non-ballistic 
trajectories were first proposed as far back as World War II, 
technological advances are only now making these systems practicable,” 
Vice Admiral James Syring, director of the U.S. Missile Defense Agency, 
remarked in June, <a class="externalLink" href="https://www.mda.mil/global/documents/pdf/FY18_WrittenStatement_HASC_SFS.PDF" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">during a testimony</a> before the U.S. House Armed Services Committee.<br />
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Outside these missiles, China has conducted seven known tests of 
experimental hypersonic glide vehicles. These tests took place between 
2014 and 2016.<br />
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JF-12 hypersonic wind tunnel in Beijing.<br />
The innovative setup is the largest of its kind in the world and is 
capable of testing missiles and aircraft up to 6,900mph (11,100kph). The <a class="" href="http://xinwenlianbo.tv/cctvjilupian/34115.html" rel="nofollow" style="font-weight: bold;" target="_blank">TV clip</a> aired on October 8 via CCTV.<br />
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Tests of the DF-17—the first missile designed for the operational deployment of an HGV with the PLARF—followed the <a class="externalLink" href="http://www.eastpendulum.com/et-si-cest-lui-le-planeur-boost-glide-df-zf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">first-ever appearance of a physical hypersonic glider test object</a> in Chinese state media in October.<br />
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An image of a hypersonic glider-like object broadcast by Chinese state 
media in October 2017. No known images of the DF-17's hypersonic glide 
vehicle exist in the public domain.<br />
<i>Image Credit: <a class="externalLink" href="http://www.eastpendulum.com/et-si-cest-lui-le-planeur-boost-glide-df-zf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">CCTV screen capture via East Pendulum</a></i> <br />
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It’s unclear if the object bears any relation to the tested DF-17, but the images released in October are <a class="externalLink" href="https://twitter.com/soraywang/status/927286374193012736" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">thought to be the first</a> of any glider-like object in Chinese state media.<br />
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In addition to China, the United States and Russia are also developing 
hypersonic glider technology, but neither country is known to have 
flight-tested a system in a configuration intended for operational 
deployment to date.<br />
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DF-ZF hypersonic vehicles, which is said to be capable of achieving speeds of up to 7,680 miles per hour (12,360 kph) – or 10 times the speed of sound.<br />
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Hypersonic gliders, by virtue of their low-altitude flight, present 
challenges to existing radar sensor technology enabling missile 
defenses. By flying at a low altitude instead of reentering from a much 
higher apogee on a ballistic trajectory, adversary radars would detect 
HGVs with less time for an interception to take place before the payload
 can reach its target.<br />
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HGVs, however, are considerably slower in the final stages of their 
flight than most reentry vehicles on a ballistic trajectory. This may 
leave them vulnerable to interception by advanced terminal point defense
 systems.<br />
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In a report detailing new ballistic and cruise missile threats to the 
U.S. released this year, the U.S. National Air and Space Intelligence 
Center observed that “Hypersonic glide vehicles delivered by ballistic 
missile boosters are an emerging threat that will pose new challenges to
 missile defense systems.”<br />
<a href="https://thediplomat.com/2017/12/introducing-the-df-17-chinas-newly-tested-ballistic-missile-armed-with-a-hypersonic-glide-vehicle/" target="_blank">Diplomat</a> <br />
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THE NEW WIND TUNNEL </h3>
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 JF-12 tunnel.</div>
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To generate a the high-speed air flow needed to test hypersonic craft in
 the new tunnel, researchers will detonate tubes of explosive gases. The
 resulting shockwaves will be channeled via a metallic tunnel into the test chamber. </div>
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Officials have claimed China’s newest hypersonic craft will soon be 
tested in a secretive military-grade wind tunnel, which is set to be the
 world's fastest hypersonic facility when construction is complete 'by 
2020.  </div>
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Dr Zhao Wei, a senior scientist working on China's secretive new tunnel, told  the <a class="" href="http://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/2120072/china-builds-worlds-fastest-wind-tunnel-test-weapons" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">SCMP</a> that it will be up and running by 2020.</div>
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Because
 planes can't fly during laboratory experiments, researchers need a wind
 tunnel that can generate gusts as fast as the desired speed of the 
aircraft to simulate a flying environment.</div>
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These ground tests help researchers iron out issues with the craft before test flights begin. </div>
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The new tunnel will include a test chamber for large craft with wingspans of up to three metres (10 ft).</div>
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To
 generate the high-speed air flow needed to test hypersonic craft, the 
researchers will detonate several tubes containing a mixture of oxygen, 
hydrogen and nitrogen gases to create a series of explosions.</div>
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The blasts will generate shock waves that give off one gigawatt of wind power within a split second, according to Dr Wei. </div>
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A
 metallic tunnel will channel these shock waves into a test chamber, 
where the blast will envelope the prototype vehicle and increase its 
body temperature to 7,727°C (7,727°F), hotter than the surface of the 
sun, Dr Wei said. </div>
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The craft must be covered by special materials with state-of-the-art cooling systems inside its frame to dissipate the heat.</div>
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Without this heat shield the vehicle would warp and  could veer off course or disintegrate on a long-distance flight.</div>
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Introducing the DF-17

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Plan to build world’s first experimental nuclear fusion power station

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Harness the energy that powers the sun.
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At least three Chinese cities are vying to host the world’s first experimental nuclear fusion power station after the country’s government
 threw its weight behind the ambitious project this month.<br />
Chinese scientists have been working on the 
conceptual design of the project, which offers the prospect of an almost
 unlimited supply of energy, since at least 2013, but the central 
government’s imprimatur has now taken it on to the next stage – drawing 
up the engineering blueprints.
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Shanghai, mainland China’s financial hub, has 
been joined by Hefei, the capital of Anhui province, and Chengdu, the 
capital of Sichuan province, in the race to win the lucrative project, 
which, according to some estimates, could cost more than 100 billion 
yuan (US$15.2 billion).</div>
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With completion scheduled for 2035, the reactor 
would heat hydrogen gas to a temperature 10 times as hot as the core of 
the sun. At such temperatures, atoms of deuterium and tritium, two 
isotopes of hydrogen, merge to form helium. A small bit of mass would be
 lost, creating a huge amount of energy.</div>
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Chinese
 scientists install an experimental tokamak reactor at a research 
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Fusion, the same process that has kept the sun 
burning for the past 5 billion years, is regarded as the ultimate 
solution to humanity’s energy needs. Hydrogen is plentiful in Earth’s 
oceans, and, unlike today’s uranium-fuelled nuclear power plants, a 
fusion reactor would produce no radioactive waste.</div>
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On December 6, a day after the central 
government announced it was backing the project, Shanghai’s Communist 
Party secretary, Li Qiang, and the city’s mayor, Ying Yong, led a 
delegation to China’s largest nuclear fusion research device, in Hefei, 
to discuss “matters of cooperation”, scientists working at the facility 
told the <a href="http://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2125267/chinese-cities-vie-harness-energy-powers-sun" target="_blank"><i>South China Morning Post</i>.</a></div>
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A researcher at the Chinese Academy of Sciences’
 Institute of Plasma Physics, which is based in Hefei, said Shanghai, 
home to a large pool of scientific talent, hoped to host the project.</div>
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“The city sits by the sea, with lots of water 
which can be used to dissipate the heat generated by the reactor,” said 
the researcher, who asked not to be named. “Personally, I’d like to see 
the project built by the coast, but it is not a prerequisite. The 
reactor could also be built in an inland area next to a lake or 
reservoir.”</div>
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Officials in Hefei, supported by Anhui’s 
provincial government, have told local media they mount an “all out” 
effort to have the reactor built in the city, already home to the 
Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak, which has set records for
 the longest lasting plasma – the extremely hot gas in which fusion 
takes place.</div>
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Research facilities in Sichuan, in southwestern 
China, played key design and production roles in China’s nuclear weapons
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powerful nuclear industry. </div>
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The province is already home to several 
experimental tokamak devices and Chengdu argues that its researchers 
have more experience in building sophisticated, unconventional reactors 
than those elsewhere in China.</div>
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Yang Qingwei, a Chengdu-based nuclear physicist leading the engineering design of the fusion reactor, told the <i>Post</i> several cities were competing for the project.</div>
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“There is no consensus yet, nor any decision,” 
Yang, a researcher at the China National Nuclear Corporation’s 
Southwestern Institute of Physics, said, declining to reveal the names 
of candidate locations.</div>
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Xiao Jun, a nuclear scientist studying fusion at
 the Institute of Modern Physics at Fudan University in Shanghai, said 
the cities were attracted by the potential benefits of building what was
 likely to become the world’s first fusion power plant.</div>
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“The temptation is almost irresistible,” he said.</div>
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Major nations have been striving to make nuclear
 fusion a reality for more than half a century, with the tokamak, 
invented by Soviet physicists in the 1950s, the most popular 
experimental reactor design. It uses superconductive coils to generate a
 powerful magnetic field capable of containing the plasma in a 
doughnut-shaped chamber.</div>
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The United States also tried another approach, 
known as inertial confinement, at its National Ignition Facility in 
California. It aims to use lasers to achieve fusion, but has proved more
 difficult than originally thought, and the US Department of Energy 
admitted last year that the US$3.5 billion facility might never reach 
its goal.</div>
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With strong financial backing from the Chinese 
government, Chinese researchers have extended their fusion research lead
 over the US in recent years, setting records for the longest lasting, 
most stable plasma and developing new technologies and materials in 
state-of-the-art laboratories.</div>
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year. The tokamak reactor is scheduled to produce its first plasma in 
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The planned Chinese fusion reactor will rely 
heavily on the design of the International Thermonuclear Experimental 
Reactor (ITER) under construction in southern France, but is aiming for a
 much more ambitious goal.</div>
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ITER, which has attracted investment totalling <span class="euro text-only">€</span>22
 billion (US$26.1 billion) from the European Union and countries 
including China, the US and Russia, is the most expensive scientific 
facility ever built. But it is only aiming for a fusion burn lasting 
about 10 minutes, while the researchers working on the Chinese reactor 
hope to achieve one lasting months.</div>
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Tang Jun, a fusion scientist at Sichuan 
University’s Institute of Nuclear Science and Technology in Chengdu, 
said achieving the goal would require the development of many 
technologies, instruments and materials that did not exist today.</div>
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For instance, the reactor’s inner wall would 
have to be made of super strong alloys to withstand the heat and 
bombardment of high-energy particles, the plasma would need to be 
tightly and precisely controlled to prevent destructive energy spikes 
and the electric coils would have to be bathed in a large volume of 
super-cold liquid to maintain their superconductivity, otherwise the 
magnetic field would disappear.</div>
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“This project will draw research talent from 
other cities in China and all over the world,” Tang said. “It could turn
 a city to one of the most vibrant innovation centres on the planet.”</div>
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According to a timeline posted on the website of
 the Chinese Academy of Sciences this month, the design work will take a
 couple of years, with construction starting in 2021.</div>
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But Lei Yian, an associate professor at Peking 
University’s school of physics who was previously involved in fusion 
energy research at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in the US, said 
the cities in race should realise it was a high-risk endeavour.</div>
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“I doubt the facility can be up and running in 20 years,” he said.</div>
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Fusion projects around the world have 
encountered unexpected technical challenges that have led to serious 
delays. The ITER project, for instance, was scheduled for completion 10 
years ago, but that has been postponed to the mid-2020s according to 
even the most optimistic estimate.</div>
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While China could learn lessons from ITER, and 
Chinese engineers and workers had a reputation for meeting deadlines, 
Lei said they would face huge technical obstacles to reach the targeted 
burning time.</div>
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“The cities must consider the risk that the 
project turns into a money pit,” he said, adding there were also 
environmental concerns.</div>
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When fusion starts, a large number of 
fast-flying neutrons are generated, which can not only damage the 
reactor’s components but also pose a threat to the wider world.</div>
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“If some of the neutrons escape to the 
environment outside, even at a small percentage such as one in a 
thousand, they will pose a serious threat to people living and working 
nearby,” Lei said.</div>
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‘Not from Earth’: Navy pilot recalls encounter with ‘Tic Tac’ UFO

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        In the aftermath of the Pentagon disclosing videos of US Air 
Force sightings of unidentified, inexplicable flying objects, a former 
Navy pilot has come forward to reveal details of his encounter with a 
UFO. </div>
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Cmdr. David Fravor, who was a Navy pilot for 18 years, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/checkpoint/wp/2017/12/18/former-navy-pilot-describes-encounter-with-ufo-studied-by-secret-pentagon-program/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">told</a>
 The Washington Post he saw the mysterious flying object while on a 
routine training mission off the Pacific coast between San Diego and 
Ensenada, Mexico, in November 2004.<br />
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Fravor said he was ordered by command to do so some <em>“real-world tasking”</em> as there were unidentified flying objects descending from 80,000 feet to 20,000 feet and then disappearing.<br />
Officials
 told the former fighter pilot, who was the commanding officer of a Navy
 squadron of F/A-18 Hornet fighter planes at the time, they had 
encountered dozens of the objects over the previous few weeks.<br />
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The object was roughly the same size as Fravor’s plane but it had no wings and looked like a Tic Tac mint. It was <em>“just hanging close to the water,”</em> he said.<br />
<em>“As I get closer, as my nose is starting to pull back up, it accelerates and it’s gone,” </em>he said.<em>
 “Faster than I’d ever seen anything in my life. We turn around, say 
let’s go see what’s in the water and there’s nothing. Just blue water.”</em><br />
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Interestingly, he noted, it created no rotor wash – the air turbulence caused by the blades of a helicopter.<em>
 “This is revolutionary technology to be able to accelerate, go up and 
down. Think about the advances that would bring to mankind,”</em> he added.<br />
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">A former Navy pilot believes he saw "something not from the Earth" while tasked to a Pentagon program dedicated to studying UFOs <a href="https://t.co/3g4BgBFKrA">https://t.co/3g4BgBFKrA</a> <a href="https://t.co/fWuS5lzvim">pic.twitter.com/fWuS5lzvim</a></p>— Chicago Tribune (@chicagotribune) <a href="https://twitter.com/chicagotribune/status/942988584663027712?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 19, 2017</a></blockquote>
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The Defense Department analyzed the encounter, but what the object was, or what it was doing, remains a mystery. <em>“I
 think someone should have looked into it. Having talked to some of the 
other folks, it’s a big frustration that it’s coming out now and wasn’t 
discussed back in 2004,”</em> Fravor said.<br />
He was keen to dispel any notions that he was an unreliable source. <em>“I
 don’t think I was a nut-job as an officer in the Navy. I wasn’t drunk, I
 don’t do drugs. I got a good night’s rest, it was a clear day”.</em><br />
Footage of the incident was later released by the US Defense Department.<br />
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On Saturday, it emerged the Pentagon spent $22 million to study UFOs 
between 2007 and 2012. The Advanced Aviation Threat Identification 
Program was led by former military intelligence official Luiz Elizondo, 
who resigned from the Pentagon in October.<br />
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In his resignation 
letter, which was seen by the New York Times and Politico, Elizondo 
lamented the lack of funding for the project and the fact that it 
continues to be shrouded in mystery. Speaking to CNN Monday evening, he <a href="http://edition.cnn.com/2017/12/18/politics/luis-elizondo-ufo-pentagon/index.html?sr=fbCNN121817luis-elizondo-ufo-pentagon0959PMVODtopLink">said</a> there is <em>"very compelling evidence that we may not be alone”.</em><br />
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Elizondo said his program uncovered<em> "a lot”</em> of<em> "anomalous” </em>aircraft.<em>
 “These aircraft – we'll call them aircraft – are displaying 
characteristics that are not currently within the US inventory nor in 
any foreign inventory that we are aware of.”</em><br />
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Mysterious interstellar object of cigar-shaped 'comet' flies through Solar system

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   Last month, a mysterious cigar-shaped asteroid sailed past Earth, 
marking the first time an interstellar object has been seen in the solar
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        A mysterious large object that has come from a different star 
system is to be examined by one of the world’s biggest telescopes for 
signs of alien technology.
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The 
Green Bank telescope will examine a mysterious object speeding through 
our solar system to check for signs of alien signals. The observation 
begins Wednesday and will be carried out by Breakthrough Listen, a 
global astronomical program searching for evidence of other 
civilizations.<br />
The cigar-shaped body was first spotted in the 
solar system by researchers on the Pan-Starrs telescope in Hawaii in 
October, Breakthrough Listen <a href="http://breakthroughinitiatives.org/news/14" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">reports</a>.
 Named ‘Oumuamua after the Hawaiian word for “messenger,” it sped from 
interstellar space going as fast as 196,000 mph (315,000 kph) as it went
 past the sun.<br />
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The cigar-shaped object, named Oumuamua  by its discoverers, sailed 
past Earth last month and is the first interstellar object seen in the 
solar system. <br />
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Another oddity is that Oumuamua is flying 
very 'cleanly', without emitting the usual cloud of space dust that 
astronomers observe around asteroids.</div>
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Experts say this suggests it is made of something dense: probably rock, but possibly metal.</div>
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<em>“'Oumuamua’s presence within our solar system affords 
Breakthrough Listen an opportunity to reach unprecedented sensitivities 
to possible artificial transmitters and demonstrate our ability to track
 nearby, fast-moving objects,”</em> said Andrew Siemion, Director of Berkeley SETI Research Center. <em>“Whether this object turns out to be artificial or natural, it’s a great target for [Breakthrough] Listen.”</em><br />
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<em>“Most
 likely it is of natural origin, but because it is so peculiar, we would
 like to check if it has any sign of artificial origin, such as radio 
emissions,”</em> Avi Loeb, professor of astronomy at Harvard University and an adviser to the Breakthrough Listen project <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/dec/11/astronomers-to-check-interstellar-body-for-signs-of-alien-technology?CMP=twt_gu" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">told</a> the Guardian. <em>“If we do detect a signal that appears artificial in origin, we’ll know immediately.”</em><br />
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The
 telescope, which is located in West Virginia, will listen for radio 
signals from 'Oumuamua across four different radio transmission bands. 
The powerful telescope can pick up signals as small as those that come 
from a mobile phone. 'Oumuamua is located twice as far from Earth as the
 sun.<br />
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<strong></strong>The 400 meter-long celestial body is ten 
times longer than it is wide, and was thought to be an interstellar 
asteroid by many astronomers, but its shape is unlike anything seen 
before.<br />
The Breakthrough Listen project was launched by Stephen 
Hawking in 2015 and is funded by Russian billionaire Yuri Milner. It 
aims to listen for radio signals coming from potential other 
civilisations outside our solar system.<br />
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Last month, a mysterious cigar-shaped asteroid sailed past Earth, marking the first time an interstellar object has been seen in the solar system. A mysterious large object that has come…

Over 1000 drones light up sky in magnificent record

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        The night skyline of the Chinese city of Guangzhou lit up by a 
spectacular show in which hundreds of drones took to the air. In putting
 on the show, the city broke its own world record for the biggest number
 of drones involved in one performance. </div>
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Spectators
 reached for their phones to capture the dazzling light show as some 
1,180 drones soared up against the backdrop of futuristic skyscrapers, 
gleaming in different colors. Marking the end of the 2017 Fortune Global
 Forum on Thursday, the display saw the swarm of aircrafts forming the 
Chinese ideograms for <em>“innovation,”</em><em>“open”</em> and <em>“fortune.”</em> A ship and a kapok flower, the city’s official symbol, also showed up in the sky.<br />
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The eight-minute show was orchestrated by a single operator, the Asia Times <a href="http://www.atimes.com/article/china-shows-off-drone-brigade-guangzhou-fortune-forum-gala/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">reported</a>.
 The drone manufacturer eHang developed a system to manage the one-ton 
squad on a single console, enabling the aircrafts to sync with each 
other.<br />
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<em>“Drones can produce very impressive artistic effects,”</em> company official in charge of the event Li Zhiyuan <a href="http://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2123780/drones-put-spectacular-light-show-china" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">said</a>, as quoted by the SCMP. <em>“We hope that drone performances can one day replace fireworks in the business of night sky illumination.”</em> Each of the drones had a price tag of some 10,000 yuan ($1,500), he added.<br />
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Doomsday on screen: How Hollywood & video games to sell new ‘axis of evil’

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        America’s greatest enemies have been lined up for the latest 
add-on to Grand Theft Auto Online – perpetuating the old trope of an 
imminent global threat that only the US can meet.
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Within
 seconds of the opening of the trailer for the popular game’s ‘Doomsday 
Heist’ add-on, all the usual suspects are named as possible culprits 
behind a bid to start a war against the US. <em>“It has to be the Russians... or the North Koreans... or the Chinese... or the Iranians,”</em>
 a billionaire tech mogul tells his crew of true US patriots assembled 
to save the fictional state of San Andreas from total annihilation.<br />
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While
 the tone of the trailer may be somewhat tongue in cheek, it continues a
 global trend of presenting whoever happens to be the bogeymen of US 
foreign policy as the perennial bad guys. And in the eyes of the western
 entertainment industry, the new axis of evil of Russia, North Korea and
 Iran, is ripe for picking.<br />
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Some of the most successful US TV series’ of recent years were plotted 
on the concept of the foreign enemy. In the Netflix series ‘House of 
Cards,’ fictional Russian president Viktor Petrov shares striking 
similarities to the western media’s characterization of Vladimir Putin.<br />
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Similarly, ‘Homeland’ has plots that often run parallel to political 
goings on while also pushing Islamophobic stereotypes. Meanwhile, ‘The 
Americans’ bolsters Russian paranoia by  reminding the audience that 
even your next door neighbour could be a KGB officer.<br />
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Dr
 Matthew Alford, a Teaching Fellow in Politics at the University of 
Bath, whose research focus is on the relationship between screen 
entertainment and political power in Western democracies, told that <em>“popular culture provides mood music for political culture.”</em><br />
<em>“Collectively our mainstream entertainment provides considerable support for the national security state,”</em> he added.<br />
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Earlier
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in-depth analysis of the relationship between the US government and 
Hollywood. Based on thousands of pages of US military and intelligence <a href="https://medium.com/@tomsecker/national-security-cinema-the-source-documents-e8afa403552e">documents</a>
 acquired through the Freedom of Information Act, the book reveals the 
power of the Pentagon to stop a film from being made by refusing or 
withdrawing support.<br />
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One such film is ‘The Recruit’, the 2003 film starring Colin Farrell 
as a CIA agent in the making. Documents reveal the movie, which also 
featured Al Pacino as Farrell’s mentor, was heavily influenced by the 
CIA’s long-serving entertainment liaison officer, Chase Brandon.<br />
The
 blockbuster includes lines about the new threats of the post-Soviet 
world along with rebuttals of the idea that the CIA failed to prevent 
9/11.<br />
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<em>“The level of military manipulation on film scripts has 
been fairly comparable since the early years of Hollywood. Over the last
 twenty years though, there has been a real spike in the military's 
involvement in TV and the CIA has gotten much more pro-active,”</em> Alford said.<br />
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The cliché of the Russian baddy has been around so long that it’s 
perhaps no surprise that recent political allegations against the nation
 have been so easy to swallow. Is there really a need for concrete 
evidence of Russian interference in US elections when audiences have 
been digesting negative propaganda about the country and its people 
since the height of the Cold War.<br />
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However, it’s not just the Russians that get the stereotypical 
arch-villain treatment. Any one’s game as long as it doesn’t affect box 
office dollars. The 2012 remake of Red Dawn (originally about a Soviet 
invasion of the US) intended to pit the Americans against an invading 
Chinese army, but later the antagonists were changed to North Koreans in
 order to maintain access to China’s profitable box office.<br />
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<em>“The potential influence on the public of military-backed 
record-breaking blockbusters like Avatar should ring alarm bells in a 
democracy. This story of censorship has been routinely suppressed and 
soft-pedaled for decades,”</em> Alford said.<br />
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Beijing pumping billions into the development of ‘molten salt’ reactors

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<b>Beijing <a href="http://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2122977/china-hopes-cold-war-nuclear-energy-tech-will-power-warships" target="_blank">pumping billions</a> into the development of ‘molten salt’ reactors,
 amid revived interest among nations in the potentially safer and more 
powerful technology.</b><br />
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China is to spend 22 billion yuan (US$3.3 billion) trying to perfect a 
form of technology largely discarded in the cold war which could produce
 a safer but more powerful form of nuclear energy.<br />
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The cash is to develop two “molten salt” reactors in the Gobi Desert in northern China.
Researchers hope that if they can solve a number
 of technical problems the reactors will lead to a range of 
applications, including nuclear-powered warships and drones.
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The technology, in theory, can create more heat 
and power than existing forms of nuclear reactors that use uranium, 
while producing only one thousandth of the radioactive waste.</div>
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It also has the advantage for China of using 
thorium as its main fuel. China has some of the world’s largest reserves
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China is not alone in trying to revive the 
technology because of the potential benefits. Companies in the United 
States are working in the field, while Japan, Russia and France have all
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The Chinese project has been funded by the 
central government and the two reactors are to be built at Wuwei in 
Gansu province, according to a statement on the website of the Chinese 
Academy of Sciences. The lead scientist on the project is Jiang Mianheng
 – the son of the former Chinese president Jiang Zemin – and it is hoped
 the reactors will be up and running by 2020.</div>
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The US air force built a 2.5-megawatt molten 
salt reactor in the 1950s as part of a programme to develop 
nuclear-powered aircraft engines.</div>
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The reactors use molten salt rather than water 
as a coolant, allowing them to create temperatures of over 800 degrees 
Celsius, nearly three times the heat produced by a commercial nuclear 
plant fuelled with uranium. The superhot air had the potential to drive 
turbines and jet engines and in theory keep a bomber flying at 
supersonic speed for days.</div>
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The US project was shelved in the 1970s. 
Problems were encountered trying to reduce the size and weight of the 
reactor, and there were public concerns over the safety of the 
technology when placed in an aircraft.</div>
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Another problem was the erosion to pipes and the reactor chamber caused by the hot salt used in the fission process.</div>
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Yan Long, a researcher involved in the Chinese 
project at the Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics, said the Gansu 
facility might eventually help China develop a thorium-powered warship 
or aircraft.</div>
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He said it was now possible to build a very 
small molten salt reactor and that after years of research and 
government funding, scientists had developed special alloy and coating 
materials to prevent chemical corrosion.</div>
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The reactors in Gansu were designed to demonstrate the feasibility of the technology, he said.</div>
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The research facility in Gansu will be built by a lake with high salt levels, according to the project blueprints.</div>
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Both reactors will be underground and the heat 
they generate will reach 12 megawatts. The heat will be channelled to a 
power generation plant, several factories and a desalination plant by 
the lake to produce electricity, hydrogen, industrial chemicals, 
drinking water and minerals.</div>
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After the experiment, China may move on to commercial or military use of the technology on a larger scale, Yan said.</div>
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“We are now developing new materials for 
warships. The materials must come with relatively low cost for mass 
production and they must be compact and light, otherwise the reactor 
won’t fit in a ship,” he said.</div>
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Chen Fu, a thermal physicist at the Harbin 
Institute of Technology involved in the development of new power 
generation systems for China’s navy, said the heat generated by a 
thorium molten salt reactor could be perfect to help generate power on a
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“It should be able to generate enough electricity for propulsion and electric equipment on an aircraft carrier,” he said.</div>
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Chen said the higher the temperature, the higher
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operate faster and longer than existing carriers using uranium as fuel.</div>
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structure to accommodate the new power source. It will be a difficult 
and tricky job because the rest of the ship must be strengthened to 
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A military drone researcher in Beijing said a 
molten salt reactor could be used on a new generation of large, 
endurance drones operating at very high altitudes because it could be 
made very small and its operation did not require water.</div>
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“These drones would stay aloft over the oceans 
such as the Pacific. They would serve as a platform for surveillance, 
communication or weapon delivery to deter nuclear and other threats from
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“A nuclear-powered drone may be technically more
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cockpit with lead to protect the human crew from radiation. It will also
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Yan said, however, that the aircraft research 
project still faced many challenges. To mount a reactor on an aircraft 
would require ultralight, super-strong materials which were still under 
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Navy to scrap $500mn next-generation railgun

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        The US Navy is turning its attention away from a decade-long, 
electromagnetic railgun program, opting instead, for a less expensive 
alternative that uses the projectiles as ammunition in existing guns, 
rather than a next-generation weapon. </div>
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Last week, the Congressional Research Service released a <a href="https://fas.org/sgp/crs/weapons/R44175.pdf">report</a>,
 which said the Pentagon is looking to divert from a decade-long 
electromagnetic railgun (EMRG) program, but are planning to use the 
projectiles developed in the program, which are compatible with its 
current powder artillery gun systems.<br />
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Instead of relying on 
traditional explosive propellants like gunpowder, EMRG uses electrical 
currents to fire a projectile at speeds of up to 5,600 mph, or more than
 seven times the speed of sound.<br />
The Navy has been developing the 
EMRG since 2005 in conjunction with defense contractors General Atomics 
and BAE Systems. Testing the weapon has cost an estimated $500 million, 
according to <a href="http://www.popularmechanics.com/military/weapons/a21174/navy-electromagnetic-railgun/">Popular Mechanics</a>.<br />
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The
 Office of Naval Research (ONR), which is focused on developing new 
technologies for the service, broke the world record for muzzle energy 
with an EMRG prototype in 2010. Researchers fired a 23-pound projectile 
at 32 megajoules, enough to propel a projectile up to 100 nautical miles
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electromagnetic railgun (EMRG)<br />
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In July, the Navy released a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QO_zXuOQy6A">video</a><span style="margin-left: 5px; margin: 0; padding: 0;"></span>, showing they were able to fire 4.8 shells a minute. In 2013, the Naval Sea Systems Command <a href="https://govtribe.com/project/rfi-for-fabrication-of-prototype-mount-for-naval-railgun">called</a> for the ONR to develop a railgun that could fire 10 shells a minute and store up to 650 shells.<br />
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In 2015, the Navy estimated that EMRG weapons could be installed on a Zumwalt (DDG-1000) class destroyer by the mid- 2020s. <br />
However, the report states that there are <em>“a number of significant development challenges”</em> with the weapon which would require <em>“years of additional development work,”</em> adding, that <em>“ultimate success in overcoming them is not guaranteed.”</em><br />
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Apart
 from the costs, the electromagnetic fields necessary to operate the 
weapons require a significant amount of energy, much more than most Navy
 vessels can currently generate.<br />
Instead, the Department of Defense (DoD) has <em>“particular interest”</em>
 in a hypervelocity projectile (HVP) program, according to the report. 
The US Navy began the HVP program after they realized the low-cost 
guided projectiles designed for the EMRG could also be fired from their 
existing powder guns.<br />
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The projectiles are compatible with guns currently installed on cruisers, which provides the Navy with a <em>“potential for rapidly proliferating HVP through the cruiser-destroyer force.”</em> The Pentagon is also interested in the projectiles because they have the potential to be utilized <em>“across multiple US military services.”</em><br />
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When
 fired from 5-inch powder guns, HVP projectiles can achieve a speed of 
Mach 3, half the speed of the EMRG, but twice the speed of conventional 
rounds fired from 5-inch guns.<br />
The guided projectiles can also be used to intercept anti-ship cruise missiles (ASCMs) and anti-ship ballistic missiles (ASBMs).<br />
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<em>“They hit with the impact of a train slamming into a wall at 100 miles per hour,”</em> the report states, citing a piece from the <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/can-mattis-make-peace-through-technology/2016/12/21/ed617156-c6f3-11e6-bf4b-2c064d32a4bf_story.html?utm_term=.2ede8ff270ca">Washington Post</a>. <em>“The
 high-speed, hence high-energy projectiles, which cost just $25,000, can
 radically improve fleet-protection capabilities: A barrage of them 
could counter an enemy’s more expensive anti-ship missiles.”</em><br />
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The
 Strategic Capabilities Office (SCO), an arm of the Pentagon created to 
develop new technologies, has reportedly been reallocating funds from 
the EMRG to the HVP program, which has the potential to leave the <em>“supergun”</em> project <em>“dead in the water”</em> by 2019, a defense contractor told <a href="http://taskandpurpose.com/navy-electromagnetic-railgun-budget/">Task and Purpose</a>.<br />
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SCO spokesman Chris Sherwood said his division has not abandoned the EMRG program, but are focusing on <em>“developing
 the [HVP] for use in existing powder gun systems to give the Navy and 
Army near-term, cost-effective long-range fires and missile defense 
solutions.”</em><br />
<em>“SCO shifted the project’s focus to 
conventional powder guns, facilitating a faster transition of HVP 
technology to the warfighter,”</em> Sherwood told Task and Purpose. <em>“Our priority continues to be the HVP, which is reflected in the program’s budget.”</em><br />
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Task
 & Purpose conducted an analysis of the Navy’s 2018 RDT&E 
funding request and found that funds for the Power Projection Applied 
Research fell more than $75 million due to  cuts from railgun barrel 
testing.<br />
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<em>“Money is being put into HVP, and not railgun projects, which is why the two are being split,”</em> a senior legislative official told Task and Purpose. <em>“We’ve
 been able to rescue some of this funding, but Big Navy sees different 
opportunities, and because [the railgun] is a major challenge, they 
don’t want to explore it.”</em><br />
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Technology of the future: Robots use foresight to imagine actions

Technology of the future: Robots use foresight to imagine actions

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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 
Earth's atmosphere. </div>
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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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