These are no so much well-defined spheres with distinct boundaries, but rather zones of operation that fade into one another. In a sense, they resemble the energy levels of electrons around an atomic nucleus. Briefly, these zones may be defined as: Near Earth Orbit (NEO) extending...
“Now it has fallen to two and a half.” Again Arcot turned his attention to his controls. “I'm going to try to see what the ultimate ceiling of this machine is. It must have a ceiling, since it depends on the operation of the generator to operate the power-units. This, in turn...
The history of aviation has been replete with examples of human errors in system design and operation leading to disaster, which highlight human information-processing limitations. The United Airlines incident at O’Hare field in Chicago is a case in point: Following this disaster, simulator ...
s senior aides about whether to oppose upcoming CIA drone strikes in Pakistan. When a potential strike was imminent, or if it occurred during a weekend or holiday when State Department staffers were away from government computers, the covert operation was then debated openly over unsecured ...
If you will work in co-operation, forgetting the past, burying the hatchet, you are bound to succeed. If you change your past and work together in a spirit that every one of you, no matter to what community he belongs, no matter what relations he had with you in the past, no ...
Pelley: Do you mean to say that this special capability is such an advance in military technique and technology that it reminds you of the advent of the tank and the airplane? Woodward: Yeah. It’shere, 7 minutes and 55 seconds in. ...
Look at it this way, Microsoft knows it’s Own OS’s have basically reached the end of the road. It’s why they are starting to slide NT out from under Windows and sliding Linux in ubder Windows. The Dave Cuttler project to “Make a better Unix than Unix” is kind of over, and ...
and Kharkiv that preceded Russian military support for separatists in parts of the Donbas. It was originally conceived as a short-term measure. By comparison, the joint forces operation (JFO) has a longer-term perspective; that is, until the Donbas and Crimea are fully reintegrated into the ...
The Balkans Deception: "Operation Zeppelin" The object of "Operation Zeppelin" was to pin German troops in the Balkans so that they would be weaker in France in anticipation of the Normandy landings. This was a very elaborate scheme, involving not merely the U.S. and Britain, but also Russ...
“My recommendations would be to make that a sensor-centric operation in order to make it as objective as possible.” Instead, we should look to the model of efforts like the Galileo Project, led by Harvard astronomy chair Avi Loeb, to map and study the sky on a comprehensive, routine ...