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Originally posted by stcaf
Exopolitics Hong Kong exposes Roswell debris received from Chuck Wade, to a flame. Ordinary household foil is used as a comparison.[edit on 15-1-2010 by stcaf]
Originally posted by Maybe...maybe not
reply to post by stcaf
G'day stcaf
Regarding the Roswell "wreckage":
I don't believe those guys have wreckage from Roswell.
Regarding the Grimsley videos:
I believe that all of the Grimsley videos I have seen show birds & satellites, except for that delta-shaped object.
I'm not sure what that is.
I recall that in one of the very long & very detailed previous threads about Grimsley's videos, Phage conjectured it could be a group of military planes in a refuelling formation.
Regarding McKinnon:
I've been saying right from the beginning of this case that.....
I don't believe he found evidence of anything, but he did find some cryptic wording & terminology that is of interest.
The problem is, the only people who can clarify that cryptic wording & terminology are the people who are taking action against him.
So.....we're stuck!
I have also stated right from the beginning that McKinnon will not end up being extradited to a jail in the USA.
The worst that will happen to him is some sort of minor sentence or home detention or good behaviour bond in the UK.
Kind regards
Maybe...maybe not
[edit on 15-1-2010 by Maybe...maybe not]
[edit on 15-1-2010 by Maybe...maybe not]
Originally posted by FiatLux
Originally posted by Maybe...maybe not
reply to post by stcaf
Regarding the Grimsley videos:
I believe that all of the Grimsley videos I have seen show birds & satellites, except for that delta-shaped object.
I'm not sure what that is.
I recall that in one of the very long & very detailed previous threads about Grimsley's videos, Phage conjectured it could be a group of military planes in a refuelling formation.
Kind regards
Maybe...maybe not
I disagree about the Ed Grimsley videos. First of all, birds reflect little or no light at night. Also, satellites do not make a 90 degree course change in less then a second. I use night vision myself, and have watched these things do this. Have you or has Phage?
Plasma Actuators:
AFRL is laying the groundwork to develop revolutionary hypersonic aerospace vehicles. Researchers are examining the feasibility of replacing traditional mechanical actuators, which move like wing flaps to control an air vehicle’s flight control surfaces, with plasma actuators that require no moving parts and are more reliable.
As part of the Boundary Layers and Hypersonics program, AFRL conducted a wind tunnel test to evaluate the feasibility of using plasma actuators for airframe flight control. In AFRL’s Mach 5 Plasma Channel wind tunnel, engineers used a strong electric field to ionize air around an air vehicle model to create plasma. The plasma-heated air successfully exerted force on the model and demonstrated that the plasma actuator concept is a viable area for further study and development. The program focuses on characterizing, predicting, and controlling high-speed fluid dynamic phenomena, including boundary layer transition; shock/boundary layer and shock/shock interactions; and other airframe propulsion integration phenomena such as real-gas effects, plasma aerodynamics, magneto-hydrodynamics, and high-speed flow heat transfer.
(Mr. R. Kimmel, AFRL/VAAA, (937) 656-7868)
Abstract:
Some imaging tasks and modalities (e.g., interferomet-ric SAR) require managing a dynamic spatio-temporal configuration of sensors (whether electro-optic or RF) over a wide area. One promising approach is to mount each sensor on a separate unpiloted vehicle, and endow the population of such vehicles with the ability to con-figure themselves and coordinate their actions to create and maintain the required sensor configuration. This paper describes some scenarios where such a capability would be useful, identifies technical issues that need to be addressed, suggests general principles and techniques that we have found useful in dealing with such scenarios, and describes a specific example that we have constructed and tested in a simulation environment.
Issues:
Coordinating multiple UAV’s for such sensing scenar-ios requires spatial and temporal coordination and the alignment of distinct roles within the team. Spatial co-ordination distributes units over the area being ob-served, and includes such tasks as determining the maximum spread between vehicles and the minimum acceptable number of revisits per unit area, assigning sectors to each unit, causing a team to converge in a specific location, or stationing UAV’s in a particular formation. Temporal coordination ensures that all UAV’s act at the right time or with the right frequency, provide their input at the right moment, and assume their designated locations and operating roles at the right time for the constellation to work as a whole. Team co-ordination seeks to optimize the assignment of individual vehicles to roles in terms of their preferences or con-straints (e.g., the configuration of individual vehicles), managing the formation, coordination, maintenance, and dispersion of groups of vehicles.
Conventional (non-autonomous) approaches require humans to fly each UAV. This approach is costly both in terms of manpower and (since all communications must go through the control center) bandwidth, and in addition can be a difficult cognitive task. Autonomous coordination among the aircraft permits the use of local nearest-neighbor communications (reducing band-width), and our experiments show that simple local algorithms can yield robust self-organization sufficient to satisfy these missions.