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J-10D Fan-Art Pictures

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J-10D. Fan-art ....<br />
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Most likely J-10D equipped with sawtooth WS-10X TVC nozzles <br />
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AVEN (axial symmetrical vectored nozzle).<br />
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A stealth weapons pod.<br />
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Picture base on the suggestion from Zhongnanhaibaobiao<br />
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AVEN (axial symmetrical vectored nozzle). Basically, all circle vectored nozzles are AVEN.<br />
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From the movie. <br />
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J-10D Fan-Art Pictures

J-10D. Fan-art .... Most likely J-10D equipped with sawtooth WS-10X TVC nozzles AVEN (axial symmetrical vectored nozzle). A st...

Fireworks illuminate skies across the globe

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Fireworks explode near the Sydney Opera House as part of new year 
celebrations on Sydney Harbour, Australia, December 31, 2017. © David 
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Major cities across the globe have welcomed the start of 2018 
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 Australia made a valiant effort with its New Year’s Eve pyrotechnics, 
but it’s fair to say that Sydney still reigns supreme with its 
world-famous (and almost deafening) fireworks display.<br />
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along the Yarra River during New Year's Eve celebrations in Melbourne 
early on January 1, 2018. © Mal Fairclough / AFP<br />
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JF-17 "Fierce Dragon" BLOCK3 fighter aircraft began to design the use of AESA radar

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<b><a href="http://www.eastpendulum.com/airshow-china-2016-radar-aesa-klj-7a" target="_blank">KLJ-7A</a></b><br />
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<a class="externalLink" href="https://quwa.org/2017/11/21/klj-7a-proposed-aesa-radar-jf-17-undergoing-tests/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">KLJ-7A: PROPOSED AESA RADAR FOR JF-17 UNDERGOING TESTS | Quwa </a><br />
"<b>CCTV News footage shows that the Nanjing Research Institute of 
Electronics Technology (NRIET) <a href="http://errymath.blogspot.co.id/2016/11/klj-7a-aesa-fire-control-radar-for-jf-17.html" target="_blank">KLJ-7A </a>is undergoing tests with the China
 Flight Test Establishment’s 711 unit.</b>.<br />
In comparison to current-generation mechanically-steered radars, AESA 
radars provide key defensibility gains against electronic warfare (EW) 
jamming and enemy radar detection. Instead of relying on a single array 
that transmits a different frequency per-single-pulse, AESA radars 
utilize many arrays – i.e. transmit and receive modules (TRM) – that can
 each transmit in a different frequency. <b>In unison, these TRMs enable a single AESA radar unit to transmit in different frequencies simultaneously.</b><br />
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East Pendulum was informed by NRIET deputy director Wang Hongzhe that 
the KLJ-7A has a range of 170 km, though it is unclear if this is 
against 5m² RCS (radar cross-section) or 3m² RCS targets. It can track 
15 targets and engage four simultaneously. <b>Though equipped with 1,000 TRMs, it is not known if the <a href="http://www.eastpendulum.com/airshow-china-2016-radar-aesa-klj-7a" target="_blank">KLJ-7A’s</a> TRMs are built from gallium arsenide (GaA) or gallium nitride (GaN).</b>"<br />
KLJ-7A AESA radar has 1,000 transmit/receive modules (TRM). This means 
it is equivalent to the F-16 Block 60 AESA radar in the number of 
transmit/receive modules. 
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Recently CCTV showed the footage on
a special theme titled “‘China’s magic weapons’ for export: Secret in seeing
hundreds of miles away”, focusing on description of many types of new radar
developed by the 14th Research Institute of China Electronics Technology Group
Corporation. The functions of its radar include those for aircraft fire
control, AEW&C, air and missile defense and detection of artillery location,
etc. used on China’s homegrown aircraft carriers, Chinese Aegis warships,
anti-stealth radar, etc. Some of their export versions have sustained the tests
of real war abroad.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">It first describes the
KLJ-7A active phased array radar used on FC-1/JF-17 fighter jet with a range of
170km.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">According to a military
expert who would rather remains anonymous, the radar is in the main equivalent
to that used by F-35.</span></div>
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<b>"Fierce Dragon" BLOCK3</b><br />
December 28 published "China Aviation News" published an article "for 
you, thousands of times," reported the beginning of the aviation 
industry in Chengdu in October from the "Xiaolong" third batch (BLOCK3) 
preliminary design work to Some progress. "Fierce Dragon" is a fighter 
jet development project jointly carried out by China and Pakistan. 
According to the information disclosed by Pakistan, the aircraft will 
use advanced active phased array radar to become another new card in 
China's aviation industry in the international market .<br />
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Pakistani Air Force equipment "Fierce Dragon" fighter<br />
"Fierce Dragon" BLOCK3 may use a similar F-10B \ C head design to accommodate the new loop control system<br />
The report mentioned that by the end of October 2017, the blockbuster 
joint development of China-Pakistan Fighter Dragon "block3, which 
attracted worldwide attention, ushered in a new major node - into the 
preliminary design stage.<br />
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The first task in the preliminary design stage was zoning coordination, 
which said in the report that "this is an important part of the 
preliminary design of the aircraft." How to draw the top-down design of 
each system and organic integration of each system on the aircraft 
Comprehensive, the formation of the overall optimal ability is the new 
connotation and the key to the coordination of zoning. "<br />
Military aircraft, the time window is very valuable, fleeting. 
Therefore, Chengdu actively planned that under the organization of party
 chief Tan Xin and model chief Yuan Bing, the headquarters of the 
general department quickly set up the "Xiaolong" three batches of 
coordinating member commandos with the chief coordinators as the 
backbone.<br />
With the strong support of fraternal professionals, over 90% of the 
coordination projects were completed in the first month, creating a new 
speed for model zoning coordination.<br />
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According to the report, "Different countries and different users have 
different understandings, needs and understandings of aircraft. Based on
 the suggestions made by users based on many years' trial experience, 
relevant experts in zoning coordination team visited the ground handling
 brigade of the aerospace industrial test flight station In-depth 
exchange of aircraft maintenance issues, access to first-hand 
information. Collection of up to hundreds of issues.<br />
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The report mentions that "the mayor is the key position for the 
coordination of zoning work." This sub-district coordination is a 
brand-new one and facing such thorny problems as the center of gravity 
and the lack of design input by foreign products. The theoretical basis 
and a good sense of engineering, in the design of various factors in 
advance to consider various uncertainties, high-quality completed a 
district work. A program before will learn more about other types of 
practices as well as three batches of aircraft related system principles
 program, from the whole machine analysis of the pros and cons of 
weighing, and then gives a detailed overall program. Meticulous work 
attitude and style, so that the relevant professional trust.<br />
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"Fierce Dragon" partition coordination work results, Fierce Dragon full-size model<br />
The first flight of the prototype Xiaolong 01 is basically in accordance
 with the technical status of the full-size frozen model made<br />
"As the design of the top input, customer demand is always changing. 
Sometimes a change in demand, will lead to a series of professional 
design changes involved. Just as the cockpit ventilation difficult to 
change the coordination of the direction, in many research Captain Wang 
Wei has failed to give up after the failure of the design has put 
forward new ideas in the design has been completed, the control, 
structure, strength of the professional face to overthrow the situation,
 without complaint, and actively cooperate .Zhao Suzhu, He Shuai, Wen 
Xiaoning and others are experienced "old" district governors coordinated
 by seven model divisions.All the details of the design of the aircraft,
 and even the location of the rivets, they are carefully considered to 
prevent subsequent manufacturing and use of the problem.Emitter 
installation, According to the initial design of the aircraft drum kits,
 Ho Shuai and finished products factory together, repeated attempts to 
optimize the structure of the finished product structure, in order to 2 
mm height, they carried out a full day of fine design, eventually 
removed the bulge.<br />
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Fierce Dragon BLOCK2 fighter jet is mainly equipped with air refueling 
tube to solve the Pakistan Air Force that "Fierce Dragon" shorter flight<br />
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At the Pakistani side's request, China has also designed and developed a
 two-seater JF-Jet to meet the Pakistani Air Force's demand for the same
 type of trainer and the potential users to experience the sky<br />
Observer Network military commentator said that in our aircraft design 
work methods, "zoning coordination" is part of the project development 
stage, "zoning" refers to the various parts of the aircraft design 
considerations, such as some taxonomies have "lightning Zoning "is 
mainly responsible for aircraft lightning protection design; and some 
classification rules are divided according to the different sections of 
the aircraft, such as civil aircraft design" cabin partition ", it is 
mainly part of the cabin design team. "Coordination" means that the team
 is responsible for all the different parts of the aircraft design team,
 each request, and compromise with each other, to avoid the situation of
 loss.<br />
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Being able to carry out "zoning coordination" means that the main design
 requirements of the aircraft, the major equipment chosen are broadly 
defined, and the basic design materials that can be "coordinated" can be
 found in all divisions.<br />
In addition to the drawings and documents, the results of the district 
coordination work will generally be followed by the manufacture of a 
prototype for coordination and some tests. After all the preliminary 
design work is completed, the state of the technology can be frozen and 
the detailed design stage can be completed.<br />
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According to previous reports on the development of China's fighter 
aircraft, it was mentioned that "Fierce Dragon" fighter under the 
auspices of Yang Wei, from the beginning of 2001, only 4 months to 
complete the design adjustment, the whole set of regional coordination, 
the whole machine Coordination of prototype transformation, equipment, 
pipelines, cable installation coordination, structure, system key test 
and other major node tasks, has been highly praised by users. In 
November that year to complete the state of the frozen technology, into 
the detailed design stage.<br />
With the development of "Fierce Dragon" and "Fierce Dragon" BLOCK2 
experience, <a href="http://errymath.blogspot.co.id/2015/01/jf-17-block-iii-pictures.html" target="_blank">"Fierce Dragon" BLOCK3 </a>development process is not believed 
to be slower than the original "Fierce Dragon".<br />
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Mentioned in the report, "Fierce Dragon" BLOCK3 fighter partition 
coordination encountered many problems about the first half of the 
plane, such as "center of gravity ahead of" from the Pakistani side 
mentioned the news, it should be because of the new active Phased array 
radar weight, resulting in the whole center of gravity has been more 
than the original "Fierce Dragon" fighter design of the first set the 
focus of the most restrictive, and therefore need to adjust the overall 
layout of the aircraft and flight control.<br />
Earlier, some news pointed out that the "Xiaolong BLCOK3" radar will be 
selected among the products provided by two Chinese enterprises. 
Air-cooled active phased array radar proposed by Institute of 
Aeronautics and Astronautics 607 Research Center once propagated the key
 point is that it can be retrofitted without modification.<br />
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If you follow this statement, then the "Fushun" BLOCK3 This issue may 
mean that the aircraft used by the China Electronics Technology Group 14
 Institute developed <a href="http://errymath.blogspot.co.id/2016/11/klj-7a-aesa-fire-control-radar-for-jf-17.html" target="_blank">KLJ-7A</a>-type active phased array radar, which uses 
liquid-cooled System, in order to install this system, the need for more
 substantial adjustments to the front fuselage. Prior to the F-10B, C 
fighter development process, there are also reports that the 
installation of active phased array radar, involving the front fuselage 
redesign, widening the head of the problem. In this article, it is 
mentioned that "the control, structure and intensity professionals face 
the overthrow of the rebranding" refers to the problems in this respect.<br />
Of course, it can not be ruled out that the 607 radar, although not 
required to retrofit a liquid-cooled system, weighs more heavily than 
the original KLJ-7 radar and therefore requires a partial redesign. This
 seems to be the article referred to and involves multiple partitions, 
almost completely re-design of the front fuselage is not consistent, if 
so, to modify the design is relatively simple, directly at the tail plus
 some weight will be able to solve the problem ...<br />
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As for the article mentioned in the "lack of design input of foreign 
products," Pakistani should be referring to the "Fushulon BLCOK3" to 
select part of the Western standard equipment, which is the "Fierce 
Dragon" design beginning of the phenomenon, Because the Pakistani Air 
Force is equipped with both F-16s and Fierce Dragon Fighters, in order 
to simplify logistics, some of the equipment needs to select American 
standard products. For example, the ejection chairs use the products of 
the British Martin Beck, and it is naturally impossible for Chengdu to 
find the relevant manufacturers in the United States and Britain 
Coordination, it can only be based on the relevant product thoroughly, 
leaving a margin in the design. In fact, this is also a familiar 
practice in the design of China's foreign trade fighter. There is 
nothing to be wondered about.<br />
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JF-17 "Fierce Dragon" BLOCK3 fighter aircraft began to design the use of AESA radar

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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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The International Federation for
 Equestrian Sports (FEI) lifted a ban on cloned horses competing 
internationally in 2013. It said that a cloned horse is unlikely to 
offer an advantage over a traditionally bred animal (stock image)</div>
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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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Statue of a Transformer that is taller and heavier than the Statue of Liberty<br />
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 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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<br />
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 />
<br />
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 />
<br />
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 />
<br />
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 />
<br />
“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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<img alt="China is developing aircraft capable of reaching the US west coast in just 14 minutes, reports suggest. The vehicles will be tested in China's newest military-grade wind tunnel, which will be up and running by 2020.  Pictured is the JF-12 hypersonic wind tunnel in Beijing" class="blkBorder img-share b-loaded" height="360" id="i-dfd107f6dbdbf0b1" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2017/11/09/14/4629BB4200000578-5065527-The_model_was_briefly_shown_during_a_State_run_TV_special_coveri-a-41_1510236882066.jpg" width="634" /><br />
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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<img alt="Pictured is an official artist's impression of China's DF-ZF hypersonic craft. Hypersonic vehicles travel so rapidly and unpredictably they could provide an almost-immediate threat to nations across the globe" class="blkBorder img-share b-loaded" height="423" id="i-c32b1b08d68249c7" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2017/11/09/14/462B23B400000578-5065527-image-m-55_1510237584224.jpg" width="634" /> <br />
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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 <img alt="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 (pictured in China's JF-12 tunnel) into the test chamber" class="blkBorder img-share b-loaded" height="356" id="i-ea5fdbf934d63e57" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2017/12/28/18/479CAB3800000578-5218671-image-a-11_1514486595103.jpg" width="634" /></div>
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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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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 
facility in Hefei, Anhui province, in February 2006. Photo: EPA
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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
 programme, and Chengdu’s bid is backed by the military and China’s 
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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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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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 />
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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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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 />
<br />
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
 this year, Alford co-authored the book ‘National Security Cinema,’ an 
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
 of the metal.</div>
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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
 expressed renewed interest in the technology.</div>
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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
 warship.</div>
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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
 the power generation efficiency – a thorium-powered carrier could 
operate faster and longer than existing carriers using uranium as fuel.</div>
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“But the ship will need a very different 
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 
handle the increased power,” he said.</div>
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Artist <a href="http://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2122977/china-hopes-cold-war-nuclear-energy-tech-will-power-warships" target="_blank">impression</a> of the molten salt reactor.</div>
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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
 hostile countries,” said the researcher, who asked not to be named.</div>
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“A nuclear-powered drone may be technically more
 feasible than manned aircraft because it does not require building a 
cockpit with lead to protect the human crew from radiation. It will also
 have more public acceptance. If an accident happens, it crashes into 
the sea,” the person said.</div>
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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 
development in the laboratory.</div>
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“This is where the Americans have failed,” he said.</div>
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Beijing pumping billions into the development of ‘molten salt’ reactors

Molten Salt Reactor Beijing pumping billions into the development of ‘molten salt’ reactors, amid revived interest among nations...