One day in 2017, maybe 2020, an international team of physicists and engineers will inject hydrogen gas into a massive vacuum chamber and blast it with microwaves, radio waves and intense beams of high energy atoms. The hydrogen will heat to 200 million degrees or more – hotter than the center of the sun.…
The Predator Drone, though best known as the CIA’s primary weapon in the war against Al Qaeda, was merely an unarmed, remote-control intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance aircraft when the Defense Department first bought it in 1994. As detailed in Richard Whittle‘s Predator: The Secret Origins of the Drone Revolution, the Predator’s configuration was derived from…
Back Country Voices aims to be heard A crowd of about 30 gathered at the Julian Town Hall on Wednesday night (December 4) for the second official meeting of the newly formed Back Country Voices, a group that sprung up in opposition to a plan that would turn most of Southern California into a federal…
Uranium miner General Atomics, maker of deadly drones and other high-tech battle gear, joins the war for San Diego mayor U-T San Diego publisher Douglas Manchester, the well-heeled Republican hotel magnate and associate of the conservative Koch brothers, has just received some more big time conservative reinforcement in his mayoral proxy war with San Diego’s…
A General Atomics MQ-9 (aka Predator B, Reaper or Guardian) UAV drone’s flight duration could be increased from days to months with the addition of a nuclear power source according to military research. Nuclear-powered unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) that would increase operational flight durations from days to months are a technological possibility today, according to…
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