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Ground Stations
The NRL LACE Program operated three ground stations that provided all of the communication links
with the LACE spacecraft. Two of the three ground stations were transportable because SAS operations
required, and UVPI operations benefited from, real-time data. One TGS was stationed in Maui, Hawaii,
for the entire LACE mission. The second TGS was mounted on wheels and supported LACE from
Malabar Air Force Station, Florida, and Vandenberg Air Force Base (AFB), California. Each TGS
consisted of two 18-ft truck trailers. One trailer contained telemetry, command, communications, data
handling, and data display equipment. The second trailer contained an uninterruptable power supply, a
work area, and supporting equipment. The 12-ft-diameter antenna could be stowed in the trailers for
transporting. The third LACE ground station, tie PGS, was located in Maryland.
originally posted by: GAPeach3
a reply to: Imbackbaby
I don't do vaccines. I was born in the 60s. Had my childhood vaccines but nothing like they load poor innocent children up with now days. I think I took one flu vaccine back in the early 80s. No more since. My Mother and my 5 siblings and all our children, except for one niece, decided against getting the CV shot. We don't do the yearly flu, either. We all have had Covid several times in the last 2 years. We are a big family and get together regularly and when one gets something, we all get something. All six of us kids got the chicken pox at the same time then a few years later we all got the mumps. Lol I guess my concern was sending the sample of spit for genealogy purposes. I was trying to get through a brick wall in my research.
originally posted by: Guyfriday
here's an update on those Chinese Bio-Labs found in California.
From: MSN News
A Fox News review of court records, health reports and interviews with people who did business with Universal Meditech Inc. (UMI), a California medical supply firm, raises serious questions about its legitimacy and Chinese ties – as well as an apparently illicit biolab.
The underground biolab in the central California town of Reedley – population 25,000 – was discovered late last year and immediately set off alarm bells with local officials who said they were unaware of what was taking place inside the previously vacant warehouse.
As multiple local, state and federal governmental agencies continue to look into the biolab, a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) identified 20 different infectious agents inside the building, which was once used to package food. That report found cultures of tuberculosis, dengue, HIV, COVID-19 and malaria interspersed with old lab equipment and slipshod storage, along with dead and dying mice in an overall unsanitary environment.
“The photos both above and below of Hillary Clinton with her father-in-law Laurance Rockefeller tell the whole story. The reason why William Jefferson Clinton’s father is listed as William Jefferson Blythe Jr. is because he was actually sired by Laurance Rockefeller of the famously wealthy and powerful Rockefeller family. The false fatherhood story was obviously floated early on to hide Bill Clinton’s radioactive Rockefeller pedigree.
Now here’s the back story: .....
WASHINGTON — Vice President Kamala Harris said Wednesday that an important part of her job is the fact that she “may have to take over” if President Biden is unable to complete his term in office — and that she’s ready to do so if required.
Harris was pressed on her readiness for the Oval Office during an overseas trip — after she initially tried to deflect a question about the 80-year-old Biden’s age by pointing to his legislative accomplishments.
“Questions about the president’s age often go hand in hand with questions about how you would step in the role if necessary. Do you feel prepared for that possibility? Has serving as vice president prepared you for that job?” Associated Press reporter Chris Megerian asked Harris.
“Yes,” replied the 58-year-old vice president in Jakarta, Indonesia, where she is representing Biden at the annual ASEAN summit.
Biden is seeking a second term in next year’s election, even though he will be 86 when he leaves office.
He reportedly has been unsatisfied with Harris, despite praising her in public.
“A point of tension in their relationship is that I don’t think that the president sees her as somebody who takes anything off of his plate” due to a “fear of messing up,” a former White House official told Reuters in May.
Author Chris Whipple, an expert on West Wing staffing, wrote in his book “The Fight of His Life,” released in January, that Biden considered Harris to be a “work in progress.”
'How we made the Chernobyl rain'
Russian military pilots have described how they created rain clouds to protect Moscow from radioactive fallout after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in 1986. Major Aleksei Grushin repeatedly took to the skies above Chernobyl and Belarus and used artillery shells filled with silver iodide to make rain clouds that would "wash out" radioactive particles drifting towards densely populated cities.
"2000 Children missing, where do you think they are? Nobody seems to be talking about it either
twitter.com...
a reply to: RelSciHistItSufi
I agree it has been really quiet.
A Chinese central bank chief has claimed the digital yuan will revolutionize the way the nation makes retail payments, and suggested the CBDC could one day “completely replace” cash.
Per Yicai, Mu Changchun, Head of the Digital Currency Research Institute at the People’s Bank of China (PBoC), made the comments at the China International Financial Annual Forum this week.
Mu said it would be important to ensure that the digital yuan was accepted “in all retail payment scenarios” in Mainland China.
Eventually, the digital ruble, alongside the development of blockchain, will displace the need for banks, Russian lawmaker Anatoly Aksakov said in a meeting, a local media outlet reported on Tuesday.
“As for the role of banks, I think that their role will fade in the future with the development of blockchain,” said Aksakov, the head of the State Duma Banking Committee, speaking at a meeting at the AiF.Media club.
Blockchain technology, the infrastructure that underpins crypto, has become more widely accepted by institutions thanks to crypto becoming more mainstream. Plus, apex banks of several countries, including Russia, started exploring central bank digital currencies (CBDC) as their answer to digital assets. Russia has been conducting a pilot for its digital ruble with banks.
Central banks, however, have been worried that a CBDC would cause problems for the banking world.
The Reserve Bank of India is planning to introduce its central bank digital currency (CBDC) in the call money market, an official told reporters on Tuesday.
"RBI is now planning to go to interbank borrowing market (with CBDC), specifically call money market," the official, who did not want to be named, said.
RBI plans to use CBDCs as tokens for call money settlement, he said.
India’s CBDC is currently in a pilot phase across the retail and wholesale segments. The central bank has set a target of one million transactions a day by the end of 2023.
State-owned Punjab National Bank on Tuesday announced the launch of Central Bank Digital Currency with Unified Payments Interface interoperability feature in its digital rupee mobile application.
This move is in line with the RBI's CBDC pilot project and unleashes a new potential in India's payment ecosystem, PNB said in a statement.
Central bank digital currencies are being slowly tested in Europe, the U.S. and U.K. and are far from sure things, but payment companies are positioning themselves in case they take hold in those markets.
Mastercard last week launched a partner program for CBDCs, while Western Union and the Digital Dollar Project recently finished a test of cross-border CBDC payments. The projects are separate, but both are designed to position the payment firms to play a role if and when CBDCs are introduced in large countries such as the U.S.