They are mostly anticipating them being flown by artificial intelligence... Chew on that one for a while.
You get a gold star for apprehending the system problem in resorting to these vehicles. In the Jetsons, the cartoon animator performs the air traffic control, with the power of God in His Creation.
You really need to get back to looking under your bed for boogeymen. Imaginary threats don't hurt anyone.
I was a champion of the Moller vehicle in the 1980s and even prepared an internal argument for why Boeing should invest in it. But 40 years have come and gone, and there is not much to show for it. So, as much as I like it, I have to put it in the category of "Some Day My Prince Will Come."
As for the electric stuff, developments are going full bore over an amazing range of potential competitors, but my own view is to think of them as equivalent to a helicopter with "Tesla" on the side. I expect charging delays and the inevitable passenger crash to put a crimp in the market.
A signature of molten iron, which can be produced by a hot enough fire. No other residue? People talk about thermite but don't seem to understand the chemistry of how it works, or why it leaves results (molten iron) that can come from other, more mundane combustion.
It took a long time for WTC7 to collapse and it resulted from an internal fire that consumed the non-structural elements of the building and weakened the steel far below its margins of safety. Carbonaceous fuels are easily hot enough to melt steel (what do you suppose we use for blast furnaces?). Nuclear sources are simple loony fantasy.
Things go "splat" only in Warner Brothers cartoons. In real life the forces of inertia are king. And it didn't turn out that way when a B-25 crashed into the Empire State Building in 1945.
Wow. What a thought. Col. Douglas MacGregor? He surely "gets" it. Or, maybe Secretary of Defense. He has a "clean the house" perspective on the U.S. military establishment.
It was their 8th album, "Dark Side of the Moon." Cover has an image of a prism splitting a white beam into colors. Pretty good album.
If I really did have 99 other things to do, I could spend 14.4 minutes on this page each day!
They found its debris field. End of mystery. You have an immense overestimation of how much popular surveillance is available when unpopulated land is involved. I once had fifteen acres of undeveloped land in a rural setting, and went out to it by myself just to look around. A five-acre portion was unharvested forest. I was in the middle of that when I realized that if something happened to me, my cries for help would not be heard by any neighbor...who would never have known that I was there. That was a creepy enough realization that I immediately got out of those woods and left for home.
Anyway, all the knee-jerk conspiracy options are so much nonsense. There have been missing airplanes before. I'm just mildly surprised that so many here are acting like it is something new.
It is not even a hypothesis if the Aispuro brothers have no familial connection to the mob woman. Now you have to track down and impugn another 2,017 Aispuros in order to make this work. When the crucial link is missing, the whole chain of logic fails. Don't bother to walk it back. Your command of "unusual" names is lacking.
Nor was I. What's your complaint?
I would like to know what weapon systems produced by Raytheon or Boeing are at issue as objects of greed. The HIMARS surface-to-surface rocket system comes to mind, but it is manufactured by Lockheed-Martin. People like to throw manufacturers' names around like they are interchangeable and guilt is assumed. Intellectually, this is no better than racism.
Losing control of an airplane AFTER THE PILOT EJECTS is par for the course. They are not equipped with remote control. If the "mishap" was a failure of the aircraft onboard systems, that easily could include any transponder signals.
A classic example was the loss of a Canadian CF-101 at the Abottsford BC Air Show in 1976, where the airplane came apart in mid-air and the wreckage landed in the U.S. https://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/wiki.php?id=54979
I agree. This would amount to the Legislative branch dictating the behavior of the Executive branch, destroying the independence of the three branches of government.
This whole chain of "logic" hinges on the ASSUMPTION that there is a family relationship between the woman and the two brothers. Names can be unusual and yet prevalent enough for coincidences. My last name is "unusual," but there are more people out there with the same surname than I can count. As for "Aispuro," it is a Basque surname and there are others who bear it. According to the 2010 census, there are 2,019 persons named Aispuro in the United States alone. https://namecensus.com/last-names/aispuro-surname-popularity/
Prove a relationship and you have a plot. Absent that, you have a flight of fancy. It just kills me that "anons" love to boast of their research skills, but fail to use them.
There is no "Dark Side of the Moon", unless you think Pink Floyd is a group of astronomers. Giving in to ignorance is only that. The far side has been the subject of photographic studies since 1959. The Lunar Orbiter probes obtained complete imagery of the Moon by 1967. Human beings saw the far side during the Apollo 8 mission in 1968, orbiting around the Moon. Probes have landed there. You should get up to date. Whatever happened to anons who researched their subjects? You must not be one of them.
Correcto!
A spectrographic signature of a molecule is as unique as a fingerprint. They don't imitate one another. There is no answer to the question: What else can it be?
If I recall correctly, amino acids have been discovered in interstellar space as well. Does it prove the presence of life? No, it only proves that their formation does not depend on biology. And that may be all that this proves.
Let's be candid. The only ones that make us "look insane" are us. Too damn credulous for a supposed population of skeptical anons.
What "comms"? You are not being very coherent. Apollo 1 was a disaster. Was that a "comm"? Are you superstitious about numbers? Accidents happen. Some buildings are constructed with no floor "13" out of superstitious fear, or deference to that fear. That's a big faithlessness to God, as I see it.
So, the asteroid approaches the Earth closer than the Moon. Do you have any idea how far away the Moon is? Unfortunately, your remark about "the Dark Side of the moon" indicates you have no understanding of what the Moon even is...since there is no "Dark Side." How do you expect to understand anything about NASA when you don't know the simplest facts about the Moon or outer space?
Not to mention that the DNA of paper mache does not match living tissue.
My mind immediately jumped to Tonto's reply: "What you mean 'we,' white man?"
Spectroscopic analysis. Very effective. No reason to doubt it. But there have been other chemicals found in interstellar space for no clear reason. Just because a chemical is produced by life does not mean that it cannot be produced by abiotic chemistry. (In fact, we produce it by abiotic chemistry, but it is complicated.)
NASA is obsessed with the "Search for Life." I consider it purely as a public relations campaign to convince the public that NASA is somehow "relevant." I also think it is part of a strategy to promote "evolution" as the origin of life, rather than Creation.
I am mindful of what happened when the Viking landers supposedly detected life on the surface of Mars---but NASA had to back-pedal at flank speed because the chemistry of the test was open to question. (Now they are trying again.)
To me, all this is a complete waste of time, resources, and money. The emphasis should be "boots on the ground---of another planet." If there is life, we will find it. Or it will find us. There is this arrogant conceit that the only way we will find something is if we diligently look for it. No consideration of the possibility that it will appear among our explorers without warning.
Thanks for the backstory. Life is busy, but I had always wondered what happened with him.