Air Force Wants Neuroweapons to Overwhelm Enemy Minds
by admin on Dec.16, 2011, under Para Files
It sounds like something a wild-eyed basement-dweller would come up with, after he complained about the fit of his tinfoil hat. But military bureaucrats really are asking scientists to help them “degrade enemy performance” by attacking the brain’s “chemical pathway[s].” Let the conspiracy theories begin.
Late last month, the Air Force Research Laboratory’s 711th Human Performance Wing revamped a call for research proposals examining “Advances in Bioscience for Airmen Performance.” It’s a six-year, $49 million effort to deploy extreme neuroscience and biotechnology in the service of warfare.
One suggested research thrust is to use “external stimulant technology to enable the airman to maintain focus on aerospace tasks and to receive and process greater amounts of operationally relevant information.” (Something other than modafinil, I guess.) Another asks scientists to look into “fus[ing] multiple human sensing modalities” to develop the “capability for Special Operations Forces to rapidly identify human-borne threats.” No, this is not a page from The Men Who Stare at Goats.
But perhaps the oddest, and most disturbing, of the program’s many suggested directions is the one that notes: “Conversely, the chemical pathway area could include methods to degrade enemy performance and artificially overwhelm enemy cognitive capabilities.” That’s right: the Air Force wants a way to fry foes’ minds — or at least make ‘em a little dumber.

It’s the kind of official statement that’s seized on by anyone who is sure that the CIA planted a microchip in his head, or thinks that the Air Force is controlling minds with an antenna array in Alaska. The same could be said about the 711th’s call to “develop technologies to anticipate, find, fix, track, identify, characterize human intent and physiological status anywhere and at anytime.”
The ideas may sound wild. They are wild. But the notions aren’t completely out of the military-industrial mainstream. For years, armed forces and intelligence community researchers have toyed with ways of manipulating minds. During the Cold War, the CIA and the military allegedly plied the unwitting with dozens of psychoactive drugs, in a series of zany (and sometimes dangerous) mind-control experiments. More recently, the Pentagon’s most revered scientific advisory board warned in 2008 that adversaries could develop enhancements to their “cognitive capabilities … and thus create a threat to national security.” The National Research Council and Defense Intelligence Agency followed suit, pushing for pharma-based tactics to weaken enemy forces. In recent months, the Pentagon has funded projects to optimize troop’s minds, prevent injuries, preemptively assess vulnerability to traumatic stress, and even conduct “remote control of brain activity using ultrasound.”
The Air Force is warning potential researchers that this project “may require top secret clearance.” They’ll also need a high tolerance for seemingly loony theories — sparked by the military itself.
Alert! Los Angeles Rain Water is Radio Active!? – (Video)
by admin on Nov.24, 2011, under Latest News, Para Files
RADIOACTIVE Los Angeles RAIN 11-6-11 evening
6:30 pm 10-minute INTERIOR average of SECOND SANTA MONICA RAIN: 140.0 CPM^ or 221% HIGHER THAN PREVIOUS BACKGROUND!

This stunning detection suggests radon progeny generated by continuing fissile re-criticality at the three melted down and out Fukushima nuclear reactors and perhaps additional radiation caused by the Japanese government’s decision to burn over 550,000 tons of radioactive waste in October, much of which will end up as fallout.
Pockets of lethal levels of radiation have been detected at Japan’s crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in a fresh reminder of the risks faced by workers battling to contain the worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl.
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Giant asteroid is about to pass between the Earth and the moon – our closest shave for 35 years (video)
by admin on Nov.21, 2011, under Space lIfe
2005 YU55 will be 200,000 miles away on November 8
Scientists have predicted it would cause a giant earthquake or a huge tsunami if it hit Earth
The last time a rock of a comparable size passed so close was in 1976, but it was missed by NASA
An asteroid the size of an aircraft carrier is set to pass closer to Earth than the moon – the nearest anything this big has come to our planet in 35 years.
The space rock has been classed as a ‘potentially hazardous object’ because it will shave our planet .8 lunar distances away on Tuesday, November 8.

Experts have calculated that if something of that size were to hit Earth it would cause a 4,000 megaton blast, a magnitude 7.0 earthquake, and if it hit water a 70-foot high tsunami would spread within 60 miles of the crash site.
The last time a rock this big passed so close was in 1976, but it was missed by everybody, including NASA.
Near-Earth asteroid: 2005 YU55 will shave our planet .8 lunar distances away on Tuesday, November 8
NASA’s Near-Earth Object manager Don Yeomans said this week that they are to carefully study 2005 YU55, which will be 200,000 miles away, because it will give ‘clues as to what it was like when our solar system was forming.’
‘Without objects of this type, we probably wouldn’t be here,’ he added.
It will not be visible to the naked eye, but amateur astronomers could see it if they use a telescope at least 6in in diameter as it approaches from a sunward direction.
Encounters of objects this large, this close to our planet, will not happen again until 2028 when an asteroid will pass near Earth to within .6 lunar distances.
NASA will use its super-sensitive Goldstone radar antennas in California’s Mojave Desert, usually used to study quasars, as well as map planets and comets.
Scientists say they can reconstruct the shape of the asteroid with a resolution as fine as 13 feet using their instruments and plan to do similar studies at Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico.
2005 YU55 was ‘imaged’ in Puerto Rico on April 19 last year.
The data collected has allowed the Near-Earth Object Program Office at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) to refine the space rock’s orbit, enabling scientists to rule out any possibility of an Earth impact for the next 100 years.
A NASA spokesman said: ‘We hope to obtain images that should reveal a wealth of detail about the asteroid’s surface features, shape, dimensions and other physical properties.’
Barbara Wilson, a scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory added: ‘While near-Earth objects of this size have flown within a lunar distance in the past, we did not have the foreknowledge and technology to take advantage of the opportunity.
‘When it flies past, it should be a great opportunity for science instruments on the ground to get a good look.’
mysterious star discovered in Constellation Leo Perplex Scientists
by admin on Nov.21, 2011, under Space lIfe
mysterious star discovered in Constellation Leo Perplex Scientists
Astrophysicists in Germany, France and Italy have found a very old star of the constellation Leo, whose existence is a complete mystery to them. SDSS J102915 172 927, unlike the other stars “of the same age,” which appeared soon after the Big Bang, has a smaller mass, which does not fit into the modern theory of star formation mechanisms.
Age of the star SDSS J102915 172 927, which is located just to the edge of the solar system, the researchers have more than 13 billion years, while the age of the universe itself is only somewhere around 13.75 billion years. Weight of the newly discovered star is less than 0.8 solar masses. Stars that have formed the eve of the universe as a rule contain little or no heavy metals.

It is believed that in that distant era, 75 percent of the material universe was hydrogen, 25 per cent – helium, and a very small amount of lithium. Stars have higher metal concentrations are the products of a thermonuclear bomb reactions and supernova explosions. Low-mass stars in the universe began to occur after heavy elements cooled clouds of interstellar matter up to the point where gravity starts to exceed the pressure of the hot gas cloud collapse and star.
Analysis of the data the Very Large Telescope (VLT) through the X-shooter spectrograph UVES, and showed that some of the heavy elements in the star SDSS J102915 172 927 is about 20,000 times smaller than the sun. According to one study participants, Perkarlo Bonifacio Paris Observatory, the newly discovered star is relatively dim, and the researchers have not been able to identify the elements heavier than helium is its composition. “The first spectra of this faint star, we found traces of only one” heavy “element, calcium,” he said. “Finding other metals, we had to significantly expand the program’s findings.”
Star contains forty times less than the Lithia this should in theory be the target. For Lithia break, the substance was a warm up to temperatures of more than two million degrees Kelvin. “We had to spend the extra time for the telescope to study stars in more detail,” said Bonifacio.
The researchers drew attention to the limited amount of carbon and oxygen to promote cooling protostellar clouds and create the necessary conditions for the formation of Low-mass stars: it was well below the threshold. So, on the other hand, the older the star, the more its configuration must match the configuration of the universe the early stages of evolution, after all consisted exclusively of light elements, and its weight is greater. However, SDSS J102915 172 927 does not confirm this rule. It has a low concentration of the metal, and at the same time is a small mass.
“The standard theory interprets the corresponding low-mass stars and low metal content should not be, because the cloud point on which they appear does not shrink,” says Elisabetta Kaffal European Southern Observatory (ESO). “We did not expect to find a star in the” forbidden zone. “This means that we may have to revise some of the models of star formation mechanisms.”
This means either that the astronomers were wrong age of the star, or it formed later (after all, its age was defined on the basis of “Metal City”), or its formation is not according to the “Classic” scenario. Finally, it is a theory that the Big Bang have been some of the unique event, and such explosions occur from time to time. So, SDSS J102915 172 927 could not be there, for example, before the Big Bang. At least, that gave birth to most of the objects in the universe. Then everything is explained – so it is lightweight and low metals.
However, according to astrophysicists, SDSS J102915 172 927 is not yet unique, they were able to calculate a few “primitive” stars of low metal city. “Now we will examine the VLT, to check whether they are” primitive, “said Dr. Kaffal.
US Navy’s ‘UFO-Like’ Stealth Drone Takes Flight
by admin on Oct.18, 2011, under Space lIfe
The U.S. Navy reached a new milestone for a futuristic new stealth drone when it successfully retracted its landing gear and flew in cruise configuration for the first time, engineers announced Tuesday.
Developed by Northrop Grumman, the X-47B is a tailless, strike fighter-sized unmanned aircraft designed to take off from and land on moving aircraft carriers at sea. New images released today depict a futuristic, almost UFO-like vehicle.

The test flight, conducted at Edwards Air Force Base, helped validate hardware and software that would enable the X-47B to land with precision on a moving deck, the company said.
“Last week’s flight gave us our first clean look at the aerodynamic cruise performance of the X-47B air system … and it is proving out all of our predictions,” said Janis Pamiljans, vice president and Navy UCAS (Unmanned Combat Air System Carrier) program manager for Northrop Grumman’s Aerospace Systems division.
“Reaching this critical test point demonstrates the growing maturity of the air system, and its readiness to move to the next phase of flight testing.”
The aircraft is part of the U.S. Navy’s growing fleet of drones as the military looks to shift away from manned aircraft.
Northrop Grumman hopes to have successfully demonstrated the first carrier-based launch by 2013 with autonomous in-air refueling coming one year later.
UFOs filmed above BBC building in London (Video)
by admin on Sep.06, 2011, under UFO Videos
If UFOs are real and trying to get our attention perhaps they are getting a little more savvy about the way we humans work.
A new video has emerged purporting to show ‘a mothership and its fleet’ zipping around in the clouds above a BBC building in West London.

Perhaps the group of intergalactic travelers was hoping for some coverage from Auntie.
Instead they were caught on camera by a passer-by, and at least one other person who can be seen filming or taking pictures on his camera phone while the video is filmed.
In the video, the cameraman runs towards the corner of Bolsover Street and Clipstone Street where two other men are already standing, gazing skywards, one of whom is using a mobile phone camera.
As the camera is pointed upwards, over the BBC’s Yalding House, three white dots flash across the sky at great speed in a triangle formation, they are very quickly followed by two similar sized white dots.
As the camera pans down again, two people on the opposite side of the road can also been seen watching events unfold above them.
Then one larger, bright and more slow moving disc-shaped white object appears, circles around briefly and zips off.
By this time a crowd of five people have gathered on the street corner to observe. A Scottish man’s voice is heard off camera saying the word ‘UFO’.
Shortly after another Scottish man’s voice is heard saying: ‘Are you getting that up there? I couldn’t see before because the sun as flashing by.’
Far be it from us to suggest that the video is a hoax, but were people so minded then that part of London is home to a great many production houses offering both the expertise and facilities to mock up a convincing video.
Another similar video posted by alymc01 appears to have been filmed from the office of The Mill, a company which creates visual effects for the film industry.
But as the person who circulated the footage wrote in order to circumvent the cynical naysayers: ‘If you believe it’s easy photoshopped why don’t you make a video & show us all.’

The video was originally uploaded to YouTube by 31-year-old user alymc01, but it has been more widely circulated by a user called EllasVirgo, who on his YouTube profile describes himself as a farmer from Australia.
Virgo’s YouTube channel is filled with space, asteroid and UFO-related snippets, including videos with titles such as ‘More proof Nasa is lying’.
In the brief text accompanying the video Virgo wrote: ‘UFOs Over London BBC Radio 1 Building.
‘Right – took over a week to get it….but finally managed to get these critters on camera on a clear day, and even get a close-up
‘It seems to be attracting quite a crowd now when they appear
‘Can anyone explain what on earth these lights are please?’
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NASA Announces DNA discovered in meteorites
by admin on Sep.06, 2011, under Latest News, Space lIfe
NASA researchers have found the building blocks of DNA, the genetic molecule that is essential to all life forms, in meteorites, pieces of space rock that have fallen to Earth. The discovery suggests that similar meteorites and comets may have impacted Earth and assisted in life formation here.

With minimal chance for contamination of the meteorite samples, scientists are confident that these meteorite specimens were formed in space. “People have been discovering components of DNA in meteorites since the 1960′s, but researchers were unsure whether they were really created in space or if instead they came from contamination by terrestrial life,” Michael Callahan, lead author of the study on the discovery, said in a statement.
The research team analyzed twelve carbon rich meteorites, nine of which were from Antarctica, to positively identify the basic elements of the chemical compounds they extracted from the samples. Testing revealed adenine and guanine, two fundamental components of DNA called nucleobases.
DNA is shaped like a double helix, or twisted ladder, and the rungs of that ladder are each comprised of two nucleobases, either a pairing of adenine and thymine or of guanine and cytosine. The ladder is essentially a long string of genetic code that tells cells in an organism which proteins to make. Those proteins then play critical roles in organism growth and function, making everything from hair to enzymes.
Scientists also found hypoxanthine and xanthine, two other chemicals used in biological processes and found in muscle tissue.
The meteorites also contained trace amounts of three molecules associated with nucleobases, called nucleobase analogs, but two of those are almost never seen in biology, providing the necessary proof that these DNA components were actually created in outer space.
In fact the only record of any of these nucleobases in biologic processes is within a virus. Callahan said in the NASA press release that “if asteroids are behaving like chemical ‘factories’ cranking out prebiotic material, you would expect them to produce many variants of nucleobases, not just the biological ones, due to the wide variety of ingredients and conditions in each asteroid,” and that is exactly what these researchers found. He says the nucleobases found, biological or not, can also be created in a lab setting, using the basic compounds hydrogen cyanide, ammonia, and water.
This finding contributes further to the growing collection of evidence that asteroids and comets are comprised of the proper chemicals to generate the building blocks of life. Some seem to have the ideal internal chemistry for the job.
“In fact, there seems to be a ‘goldilocks’ class of meteorites,” Callahan said in a statement, “the so called CM2 meteorites, where conditions are just right to make more of these molecules.”
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Iran Plans to Send Monkey into Space as Test for Manned Flights
by admin on Sep.06, 2011, under Latest News, Space lIfe
Head of Iranian Space Agency (ISA) Hamid Fazeli says the country plans to send a live monkey in space aboard the country’s domestically produced Kavoshgar 5 (Explorer 5) planet carrier.
“Kavoshgar 5 kg with a weight of 285 will blast into space with an animal (a monkey) in the next Iranian calendar month (starting on 23 July),” IRNA quoted the words Fazeli on Monday.
He further explained that Kavoshgar built 5 a structural similar to the Omid (Hope) satellite, Iran first domestically produced satellite, which has launched into orbit in 2009 to life.
The Omid satellite data processing is designed to orbit the Earth 15 times per day and the data transmitted over two frequency bands and eight antennas to an Iranian space station.
Fazeli also pointed out, provides that five monkeys, experiments are currently getting for launch. The monkeys take exercises “to resist physical and orbital pressure, acceleration, sound [boom], vibration and other elements in the lift-off.” To
The ISA head noted that certain changes were made in the subsystem of the Kavoshgar 5 rocket made and said it must use liquid fuel, since it has been modified to accelerate, more than its previous prototypes.
On 20 June, said the Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran has obtained the technology to develop different satellites and will soon be huge satellites in circular orbits at an altitude of nearly 35,000 kilometers (21,748 miles) above Earth’s surface taken.
The space capsule designed to carry the living creatures was introduced in February by President Ahmadinejad.
In February, the Iranian chief Kavoshgar 4 (IE 4) and three other national satellite Fajr (Dawn), Rasad (observation), Amirkabir I, Zafar (Victory) and the Kavoshgar 4 (IE 4) reveals planet carrier.
On 17 March, Iran successfully its first domestically produced bio-capsule “preservation of life ‘through the production of oxygen by the use of dry ice in the space of four Kavoshgar satellite carrier.
Fazeli had earlier said that Kavoshgar first mission was designed to evaluate the performance of the Space Explorer, the systems and subsystems together with the launch ramp, lift mechanism and the bio-capsule.
Iran is one of 24 founding members of the United Nations’ Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space, which was founded by in 1959.
Tehran also plans the nation’s first manned mission to space station 2019th
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