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USAF’s Ultrawideband Laser Networks
7:21AM Jesus Diaz | The US Air Force is not only experimenting with lasers to kill missiles. They are now using them to transmit data from planes and drones at 35km and enabling quantum encryption. They did it with adaptive optics. More »
Random Stuff
Large Insect Crashes Air Force Missile Truck
5:09AM Jesus Diaz | Surprisingly, this is not the first time a US Air Force missile truck has crashed this year. However, it is the first time they probably needed to call SHIELD or The Avengers to fight the crash culprit: “a large insect”. More »
Science
Space Fence To Defend Astronauts, Satellites Against Orbital Debris
8:20AM Jesus Diaz | The International Space Station and the space shuttle Discovery almost had to dodge some deadly space debris yesterday. Again. NASA is not installing any lasers soon, but the US Air Force is moving forward on their own object defence plan. More »
Computers
Classic Computing: SAGE Protected US From 1960s Invasions
11:34AM Brian Lam | Dag Spicer from the Computer History Museum leaned over and unscrewed a bolt. Underneath, it read, “I am Going Mad”. The operator’s job was to look for cold war bombers that never came. I would go mad, too. Look: More »
Weapons
Massive Ordinance Penetrator Is Not What You Think
1:20AM Jesus Diaz | Smile, you GBU-57A/B Massive Ordinance Penetrator you! Or like I like to call you: Mr. Holmes, the 30,000 lb (13.6 metric tons) buster precision-guided bunker buster. That’s 11.3 tons heavier than the largest bunker-buster available, buster. More »
Vehicles
US Military Wants Airplanes to Run On Coal
11:00PM Jesus Diaz | The U.S. Defence Advanced Researh Projects Agency–aka DARPA aka The Guys Who Run Area 51 and Have a Pact with the Aliens to Abduct the Entire Human Race in 2012–has turned its eyes to coal for aeroplane fuel. There’s only one problem: coal-to-liquid fuel technologies are too expensive and produce too much pollution. Until now. More »
Vehicles
