Regina Meredith from the Open Minds show on the old network of Gaia T.V. was always one of my favorites when I had a subscription there.
This video below is an old one, but the information is even more relevant today as the topic of time travel is coming more out in the open with the public.
The discussion revolves around the first settlers of Earth and continues from there. Back then time travel was an everyday thing; it's how the people got from point A to point B.
Regina's guest discusses the "gods" of the different countries, and brings the listener through the beginning of life on Earth up to the time of Moses, and a bit beyond.
I'll stop "talking" now and let you watch it for yourself. If you like this topic, you'll absolutely love this video.
Quote:henever you see pictures of U.S. military combat aircraft, drones, and helicopters deployed on operations overseas, or even just during exercises in the United States or abroad, they're often loaded down with various missiles and other precision-guided munitions. It's no secret that the United States spends a lot on defense, but how much do each of these various weapons actually cost?
The individual prices of various air-launched munitions is an interesting and important thing to consider, especially given how many of them the U.S. military expends each year. In 2019 alone, American military aircraft, manned and unmanned, employed 7,423 munitions of various types in Afghanistan and another 4,729 in Iraq and Syria, according to official data. This year, already, they've expended 415 and 68 weapons in those same areas, respectively.
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It's also important to note that unit prices fluctuate, wildly so in some cases, depending on various factors, including the economies of scale from buying larger lots. What this means is that different services may actually end up paying different amounts for the same weapons. A single service might also find itself paying different amounts for the same munitions in the base budget and the supplemental Overseas Contingency Operations (OCO) budget, especially if the size of the various orders are significantly different.
The Department of the Navy is responsible for the Marine Corps' budget, as well. So, the unit prices that the Navy pays also apply to purchases of certain munitions destined for the Marine Corps, too. USN
What follows are the unit prices, rounded to the nearest dollar, that the various branches of the U.S. military expect to pay for various air-launched weapons in the 2021 Fiscal Year as they appear in the official budget documents. Air-to-Air Missiles:
These unit prices are averages for the entire projected 2021 Fiscal Year orders for both services, which include lots of AIM-9X-2 Block II and AIM-9X-3 Block II+ missiles, the latter of which is specifically for variants F-35 Joint Strike Fighter.
AIM-120D Advanced Medium-Range Air To Air Missile (AMRAAM) (Air Force)- $1.095 million
AIM-120D Advanced Medium-Range Air To Air Missile (AMRAAM) (Navy)- $995,018
Air-to-Surface Missiles:
AGM-88G Advanced Anti-Radiation Guided Missile-Extended Range (AARGM-ER) (Navy) - $6.149 million
This unit price is an average for the entire projected 2021 Fiscal Year order, which may include a variety of Hellfire missiles in Air Force service, including, but not limited to the AGM-114R2, AGM-114R4, AGM-114R9E, and AGM-114R12.
This is also the unit price for orders in the base budget. The Air Force is also looking to purchase a much larger number of AGM-114 variants through the supplemental Overseas Contingency Operations budget at an average unit cost $31,000.
AGM-114 Hellfire (Army) - $213,143
This unit price is an average for the entire projected 2021 Fiscal Year order, which may include a variety of Hellfire missiles in Army service, including various different variants of the AGM-114R, as well as the millimeter-wave radar-guided AGM-114L.
This is also the unit price for orders in the base budget. The Army is also looking to purchase a much larger number of AGM-114R variants through the supplemental Overseas Contingency Operations budget at an average unit cost $76,461.
AGM-114 Hellfire (Navy) - $45,409
This unit price is an average for the entire projected 2021 Fiscal Year order, which may include a variety of Hellfire missiles in Navy and Marine Corps service, including, but not limited to the AGM-114K/K2, AGM-114M, AGM-114N, AGM-114P/P2, and AGM-114Q.
This unit price is an average for the entire projected 2021 Fiscal Year order, which includes examples of the AGM-158A JASSM and AGM-158B JASSM-Extended Range (JASSM-ER).
The Air Force also expects the complete 2021 Fiscal Year JASSM order will also include the purchase of the first batch of low rate initial production AGM-158D JASSM-Extreme Range (JASSM-XR) missiles.
AGM-158C Long Range Anti-Ship Missile (LRASM) (Air Force) - $3.960 million
AGM-158C Long Range Anti-Ship Missile (LRASM) (Navy) - $3.518 million
This unit price is an average for the entire projected 2021 Fiscal Year order, which may include the GBU-39A/B Focused Lethality Munition (FLM) variants, which has a special carbon fiber body intended to reduce the chance of collateral damage, and GBU-39B/B Laser SDBs.
Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM) (Navy) - $22,208
These are the unit prices for orders in the base budget. The Air Force is also looking to purchase a much smaller number of JDAM kits through the supplemental Overseas Contingency Operations budget at an average unit cost of $36,000. The Navy is also looking to purchase a smaller number of JDAM kits through the supplemental Overseas Contingency Operations budget at an average unit cost of $23,074.
These unit prices are also averages for the entire projected 2021 Fiscal Year orders for both services and apply to the JDAM guidance kits only for 500, 1,000, and 2,000-pound class bombs.
This unit price average also includes multi-mode Laser JDAM kits.
The different JDAM guidance kits will work with a wide variety of different dumb bomb types within those classes, but some, such as the new BLU-137/B 2,000-pound class bunker buster, require certain weapon-specific modifications that impact the specific price point.
Per the Air Force budget, a standard, unguided Mk 82 500-pound class bomb has a unit price of $4,000, while 2,000-pound class Mk 84 unguided bombs cost $16,000 apiece.
It's important to note that a number of air-launched munitions that are in active service across the U.S. military, such as the AGM-65E Maverick laser-guided missiles, AGM-154 Joint Stand Off Weapon (JSOW) glide bombs, AGM-84 Harpoon anti-ship cruise missiles, and Paveway laser and multi-mode guidance kits for various types of bombs, are not mentioned above. This is because the services are not planning to buy new stocks of them in the 2021 Fiscal Year or they are included include broader sections of the budget where their exact unit cost is not readily apparent. There are requests for funds for sustainment of many of those weapons, as well as modifications and upgrades, too. The Navy is notably expecting to begin purchasing a powered derivative of the AGM-154, known as the JSOW-Extended Range (JSOW-ER), in the 2022 Fiscal Year.
Regardless, now, the next time you see a U.S. military combat aircraft, drone or helicopter, you'll have a head start figuring out just how much its loadout of bombs and missiles actually cost. Contact the author: joe@thedrive.com
Eisenhower was more than correct when he warned America about the MIC... IMO
Quote:The Unacceptable Tax Return The IRS has returned the Tax Return to a man in Kansas City after he apparently answered one of the questions incorrectly. In response to the question "Do you have anyone dependent on you?" the man wrote: ... "7.1 million illegal immigrants, 1.1 million crack-heads, 4.4 million unemployable scroungers, 80,000 criminals in over 85 prisons, plus 450 idiots in Congress and a group that call themselves Politicians.
The IRS stated that the response he gave was unacceptable.
The man's response back to the IRS was...."Who did I leave out?"
Can it be true and the worm is finally turning..? With the EU looking like last year's Notre-Dame Cathedral blaze,
is President Emmanuel Macron starting to see the light?
We'll find out soon enough.
Quote:Macron unveils curbs on foreign imams in France, in bid to combat ‘separatism’.
The gift... but it's slow-going.
'French President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday announced measures to end a programme that allowed
foreign countries to send imams and teachers to provide services without supervision in France in a bid to
crack down on what he called the risk of "separatism".
During a visit to the eastern French city of Mulhouse, Macron said the government sought to combat “foreign
interference” in how Islam is practiced and the way its religious institutions are organised in the secular country.
"The problem is when in the name of a religion, some want to separate themselves from the Republic and
therefore not respect its laws,” he said.
Macron said he plans to end a programme created in 1977 that allowed nine countries to send imams and teachers
to France to provide foreign language and culture classes without any supervision from French authorities.
Four majority-Muslim countries – Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco and Turkey – were involved in the programme, which
reaches about 80,000 students every year. Around 300 imams were sent to France every year by these countries,
and that those who arrived in 2020 would be the last to arrive in such numbers, said Macron.
The government has asked the French Muslim Council (CFCM), the body representing Islam in France, to find
solutions to train imams on French soil instead and ensure they can speak French and do not spread Islamist
views.
The measures were part of a much-anticipated intervention less than a month before municipal elections in France.
Macron’s speech came at the end of a visit to Mulhouse, home to a large Muslim community that has been the focus
of the French government’s campaign against Islamism.
The new rules were intended to counter Islamic extremism in France by giving the government more authority over
the schooling of children, the financing of mosques and the training of imams, said Macron. "This end to the consular
Islam system is extremely important to curb foreign influence and make sure everybody respects the laws of the republic,"
he told a news conference in Mulhouse.
‘We cannot have Turkey's laws on France'
The scrapping of the programme granting countries the right to send imams and teachers to France would instead be
replaced by bilateral agreements to ensure French state has control over the courses and their content starting in
September.
France had agreements with a number of countries, including Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia, said Macron.
But the only country with which France did not reach a bilateral agreement was Turkey.
“Turkey today can make the choice to follow that path with us or not, but I won't let any foreign country feed a cultural,
religious or identity-related separatism on our Republic's ground,” he said.
“We cannot have Turkey's laws on France's ground. No way,” Macron added.
Turkey runs a vast network of mosques inside the country and abroad under the powerful Diyanet, or Directorate of
Religious Affairs. Under President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the Diyanet budget has dramatically increased amid
criticism that the body was being used by Ankara as a foreign policy tool and an attempt to extend Turkey’s soft power.
Home to Europe’s largest Muslim community, estimated at around 6 million, or 8 percent of the population, France
has long sought to assimilate its Muslim nationals and residents in a country that holds fast to laïcité, or state secularism,
a 1905 legal principle that separated church and state and mandated the state’s neutrality on religion.
France has suffered major attacks by Islamist militants in recent years. Coordinated bombings and shootings in November
2015 at the Bataclan theatre and other sites around Paris killed 130 people – the deadliest attacks in France since World
War Two.
Most of the attackers were French or Belgian nationals who had travelled to Turkey and from there to Iraq and Syria to fight
with the Islamic State (IS) group.
Fighting ‘separatism’ or communities governing themselves
Addressing the issue of “separatism”, Macron warned of the dangers of "communitarianism" or the practice of communities
governing themselves in France. He called for better integration of Muslims in wider society.
"We are here for a reason that we share with Muslims – that is the struggle against communitarianism," he said. Macron
insisted the new measures were not anti-Islam, but were designed to aid the integration and provide opportunities for
France’s Muslims.
"What we must put in place is not, as I have sometimes heard from some people, 'a plan against Islam'.
That would be a profound mistake,” said Macron. “What we must fight is the separatism, because when the Republic does
not keep its promises, others will try to replace it."...'
Quote: After having dug to a depth of 10 feet last year, British scientists found traces of copper wire dating back 200 years and came to the conclusion that their ancestors already had a telephone network more than 150 years ago. Not to be outdone by the British, in the weeks that followed, an American archaeologist dug to a depth of 20 feet, and shortly after, a story published in the New York Times: "American archaeologists, finding traces of 250-year-old copper wire, have concluded that their ancestors already had an advanced high-tech communications network 50 years earlier than the British”. One week later, Australia's Northern Territory Times, reported the following: "After digging as deep as 30 feet in his backyard in Tennant Creek, Northern Territory, aboriginal Billi Bunji, a self-taught archaeologist, reported that he found absolutely fxxx-all. Billi has therefore concluded that 250 years ago, Australia had already gone wireless..." Makes me feel bloody proud to be an Australian!
Explanation: Thanks to CoVid-19's appearance recently upon the world at large and a greater than normal awareness of biological hazards has manifested itself ... I therefor, have become aware of an ancient contagion that plagues us all and nobody is immune to it!
RedPill78 dropped off some interesting links during his show last night, or it might have been on the Beyond the Headlines show, I forget. I watched both back to back.
Well, actually, it was a caller who gave this information while on air and I wrote it down. (I also have a book link that I might share in a different thread.)
The caller said these principles changed his life. He went from being a drug addict to a successful life today.
I haven't had time to read the entire article, but I did scan over it; looks interesting.
Read over them and let's discuss them, if you have any opinions to share.
There are some universal laws that can be found across space and time – they’re a part of how the Universe works. The 7 hermetic principles are an example of this conduct and this article explains all of them.
Quote:“The lips of wisdom are closed, except to the ears of understanding”
The Kybalion is a book published by someone(s) under the pseudonym “the Three Initiates.” It’s based on the teachings of a revered sage of the past – Hermes Trismegistus. The name translates to “thrice greatest;” referring to his mastery over the 3 planes of existence, as explained in hermetic philosophy – the physical, mental and spiritual. In Egypt he went under the name of Thoth and in Greece was known as Hermes.
Each chapter in The Kybalion is devoted to each of its seven principles or axioms that are considered universal laws. This school of thinking goes back thousands of years to the past. Let’s be honest, people were different and culture has changed but the world in its core has still stayed mostly the same.
Quote:There are 7 principles in total, which are all interconnected with each other.
Makes you want to,,,,,
Democrats will do anything to defeat President Trump and keep the Corrupt in Power.
Quote:Sources close to Bloomberg campaign tell DRUDGE REPORT that candidate is considering Hillary Clinton as running mate, after their polling found the Bloomberg-Clinton combination would be formidable force... MORE
DRUDGE has learned that Bloomberg himself would go as far as to change his official residence from New York to homes he owns in Colorado or Florida, since the electoral college makes it hard for a POTUS and VPOTUS from the same state... Developing..
Quote:Humans have a “natural” lifespan of around 38 years, according to a new method we have developed for estimating the lifespans of different species by analysing their DNA.
Personal Disclosure: This has come as a sudden shock to me and I am not sure how to deal with it!
According to that study I have been dead for nearly an entire decade and nobody told me!
How the hell does this affect my bucket list?
P.S. NO!, You CAN NOT Have My Stuff!
Explanation: I like to keep abreast of advances in the 3D printing world and here is two technologies that can be mated together for a big benefit IMO ...
Quote:Printers that use a stereolithography process, also known as SLA, work slightly differently. Models are still built up layer by layer, but instead of extruding melted plastic, a high definition beam of light hardens a photosensitive liquid resin into thin layers. It allows for much higher detail given the precision of the beam of light, but it can still be a time-consuming process.
What the EPFL researchers are doing differently is, instead of using a single laser to build up a model layer by layer, they’re bombarding a vat of resin, or other photosensitive materials such as biological gels, with multiple lasers coming from several directions at the same time. By carefully controlling the direction of the beams and their intensity, a 3D model seemingly appears to materialise out of thin air, in a process that takes about 30 seconds.
The plastic butterfly printed from the researchers’ cooking oil-derived resin showed features down to 100 micrometres and was structurally and thermally stable. (Photo: Don Campbell, University of Toronto)
Quote:To turn cooking oil into usable resin requires a fairly straightforward chemical process. Once the oil is filtered and cleaned (a rare time when overcooked, extra crispy french fry bits aren’t welcome) a photoinitiator is added which causes the oil to undergo a significant change in its physical properties when exposed to light. The resulting resin is then suitable for 3D printers that use stereolithography techniques to build up a 3D model. Instead of melting plastic that’s solid at room temperature and extruding thousands of thin layers to build up a model, stereolithography starts with a container filled with ever-increasing thin layers of liquid resin that are hardened with light until a model is finished.
A litre of cooking oil waste yielded 420 milliliters of resin, which is a little less than half of its original volume. One test involved 3D printing a plastic butterfly and the results included details as small as 100 micrometres in size, while the model itself was thermally stable meaning it wouldn’t melt or become structurally fragile at or above room temperature. Furthermore, the 3D printed models are completely biodegradable, with a sample that was buried in the ground losing 20 per cent of its overall weight after hungry microbes worked away at it for a period of two weeks.
Quote:ArticleVisible Light Photoinitiator for 3D-Printing of ToughMethacrylate Resins
Bernhard Steyrer1, Philipp Neubauer1, Robert Liska2and Jürgen Stampfl1,*1Institute of Materials Science and Technology, TU Wien, 1060 Wien, Austria;bernhard.steyrer@tuwien.ac.at (B.S.); e1328884@student.tuwien.ac.at (P.N.)2Institute of Applied Synthetic Chemistry, TU Wien, 1060 Wien, Austria; robert.liska@tuwien.ac.at*Correspondence: juergen.stampfl@tuwien.ac.at; Tel.: +43-1-588-013-0862Received: 28 November 2017; Accepted: 18 December 2017; Published: 19 December 2017
Abstract: Lithography-based additive manufacturing was introduced in the 1980s, and is still the method of choice for printing accurate plastic parts with high surface quality. Recent progress in this field has made tough photopolymer resins and cheap LED light engines available. This study presents the influence of photoinitiator selection and post-processing on the thermo-mechanical properties of various tough photopolymers. The influence of three photoinitiators (Ivocerin, BAPO,and TPO-L) on the double-bond conversion and mechanical properties was investigated by mid-infrared spectroscopy, dynamic mechanical analysis and tensile tests. It was found that 1.18 wt %TPO-L would provide the best overall results in terms of double-bond conversion and mechanical properties. A correlation between double-bond conversion, yield strength, and glass transition temperature was found. Elongation at break remained high after post-curing at about 80–100%, and was not influenced by higher photoinitiator concentration. Finally, functional parts with 41 MPa tensile strength, 82% elongation at break, and 112◦C glass transition temperature were printed on a405 nm DLP (digital light processing) printer.
Keywords: photopolymer; photoinitiator; additive manufacturing; digital light processing
So with full vat stereolithography using waste oil as the base material being converted to 3D printed items, we can now print almost anything within mere seconds! Bravo and Huzzah!
P.S. I hope to add more to this thread, but that requires some further research to be done.
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