its no good.  first off, the us alone can't put sanctions against iran because they had to get all europe to do it and they can't bring those countys back together if they start building the bomb again.  that's why kerry wants us to accept the agreement.  we can't bring those other countries back to the table again.  and israel has to be there.  the only way to force iran to stop making bombs is to threaten them with the bomb if they don't surrender.  similar to what we did to japan.  then israel could occupy them. and then they won't be able to build the atomic bomb.

Although years late and many billions of dollars over budget, the launch of this rocket will in some ways be a minor miracle. For a large bureaucracy like NASA, completing complex human spaceflight tasks is difficult. And the SLS rocket is complex both technically and politically.

Concerned about job losses after the space shuttle retired, Congress imposed this rocket on the space agency, down to dictating its various components to ensure that space shuttle contractors such as Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, and Aerojet Rocketdyne continue to receive substantial space program funding. Each contractor was given a "cost plus" contract that ensured funding but provided little incentive for on-time delivery.

The legislation creating the Space Launch System was passed in October 2010, at which time the rocket was expected to be ready for operations in 2016. One of the key legislators behind the rocket's creation was then-Florida-Senator Bill Nelson. He relentlessly fought against the Obama administration's effort to see if private companies, such as United Launch Alliance and SpaceX, could more efficiently build a large rocket for NASA. The space agency and its traditional contractors could do the job better than anyone, he said.

"This rocket is coming in at the cost of what not only what we estimated in the NASA Authorization act, but less,” Nelson said at the time. “The cost of the rocket over a five- to six-year period in the NASA authorization bill was to be no more than $11.5 billion.” Later, he went further, saying, "If we can't do a rocket for $11.5 billion, we ought to close up shop."

More than a decade later, NASA has spent more than $20 billion to reach the launch pad. And Nelson is no longer a US Senator—he is the administrator of the space agency. The shop remains open.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/08/...ly-summer/

No US Military Dogs Were Left Behind in Afghanistan, DOD Says

Pentagon officials say the caged dogs in viral photos aren’t military working dogs, all of which were evacuated.

https://www.defenseone.com/threats/2021/...ys/184984/

The crate image and others were shared online by pundits and lawmakers critical of the broader U.S. withdrawal.

"Infuriating. Biden stranded Americans. He stranded our allies. Now, he’s stranded our loyal K-9 warriors," Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., wrote on Twitter, posting American Humane's letter.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/poli...664405001/

Pentagon denies, criticizes viral reports that US left service dogs in Afghanistan

It's easy to become a priest now.  o you don't have to read or write latin anymore.  queers and molestors learn the english way.  they should go back to latin again because if they send them out amongst the people they'll have a common language to use amongst themselves.
 
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Androids are being developed that have an uncanny resemblance to people. A pinnacle example is an android crafted by roboticist David Hanson that resembles the famous and deceased science fiction writer Philip K. Dick. What makes android Dick so remarkable isn't so much his appearance as it is his ability to hold an intelligent conversation.



The creators of android Dick uploaded the deceased author's work onto the android's software, as well as conversations with other writers. If the android was asked a question that had been posed to the real Dick, the robot would answer the question as Dick would. The robot was also able to answer a series of complex questions. If the robot was asked a question that it was unfamiliar with, its software would attempt to answer the question using what is called “latent semantic analysis.


http://glitch.news/2015-08-27-ai-robot-t...e-zoo.html

BANGKOK (AP) — Thai authorities destroyed more than 2 tons of seized and smuggled ivory Wednesday, in the latest move by the government to avoid possible economic sanctions over a perceived failure to tackle the illicit trade.
 
Tusks from more than 200 dead African elephants and other items made from ivory, such as jewelry and statues, were spread across viewing tables before being crushed by a machine into small pieces that were to be incinerated later in the day.
 
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/812e0e47d...egal-ivory

Ever wonder where all the good spy stories come from?  Check out this link:

 

Espionage and Covert Operations


It's a great lecture series course on the use of spies throughout history!  Comes in 24 parts and the course book is included.

Invisibility looms large in the kingdom of childhood-in pretend play and imaginary friends, in fairy tales and comic books and other fictions for kids-but it seldom receives sustained adult scrutiny. And yet, once you get past the cloaks and the spells, invisibility is a consummately grownup matter. As a condition, a metaphor, a fantasy, and a technology, it helps us think about the composition of nature, the structure of society, and the deep weirdness of our human situation-about what it is like to be partly visible entities in a largely inscrutable universe. As such, the story of invisibility is not really about how to vanish at all. Curiously enough, it is a story about how we see ourselves.


http://slowshimogo.com/2015/04/20/sight-...isibility/

The Tokyo Sewage service in Japan serves over 13 million people over approximately a 2,200 square kilometer area.  It approached Mitsuyuki Ikeda, a researcher from the Okayama Laboratory, with an unusual problem -- it had too much "sewer mud" (also known as human excrement).


It turns out human excrement is a breeding ground for scores of bacteria.  So Mr. Ikeda cooked up an unusual solution -- make food out of the feces.

 

Link:  here

A pair of studies find that meat purchased in grocery stores and online isn't always what the labels indicate.


http://www.takepart.com/article/2015/08/...foodinc-fb


Anyone for Beaver Burgers?  :D



 

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