Quote:World's first Star Wars-style hoverbike can hit 124mph and DOESN'T need propellors to fly

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By XANTHA LEATHAM, EXECUTIVE SCIENCE EDITOR and JONATHAN CHADWICK FOR MAILONLINE [/url]
Published: 16:10 BST, 9 May 2025 | Updated: 09:43 BST, 11 May 2025

It’s the stuff of dreams for sci-fi fans.
A company say they have developed a Star Wars-inspired speeder bike that can zoom to 124mph.
Poland-based Volonaut says their Airbike is the first ‘hoverbike’ vehicle of its kind that does not use propellers to fly.
Incredible videos show someone sitting on the device as it appears to effortlessly glide through the air.
At one point it hovers remarkably steady as the rider lifts a hand to wave at the camera.
The firm says: ‘This groundbreaking design shares a lot of similarities to 'speeder bikes' featured in popular science-fiction movies.’
Fine technical details of the AirBike have not been revealed, with the company reporting the vehicle has ‘just come out of stealth mode development’ by Polish inventor and [url=https://volonaut.com/airbike]Volonaut founder Tomasz Patan.
However, describing it as a ‘superbike for the skies’, Volonaut say the AirBike is powered by jet propulsion.

Incredible videos show someone sitting on the device as it appears to effortlessly glide through the air

Poland-based Volonaut has revealed the Airbike: a small one-person vehicle said to be able to fly at 124 mph

Remember the movie JAWS where the great White is munching on the holiday goers yet the Mayor did not want to shut down the beach during high season ?? This kinda reminds me of the same scenario...

This woman is long winded but seems to be thorough.... ?

Quote:he Italian government has declared a state of emergency for the Campi Flegrei region following a magnitude 4.4 earthquake on May 13, 2025, and a series of aftershocks. While the term "state of national emergency" was mentioned by Civil Protection Minister Nello Musumeci during discussions, the official status remains a state of emergency specific to the Campi Flegrei area.

the Coelacanth is an ancient fish, a contemporary of the dinosaurs, that was thought to have died out millions of years ago.  Modern science was shocked to find a living specimen in Africa in 1938, verified a few years later.  An unexpected additional population was found in Indonesia in 1998.

Coelacanth Nation was thrilled to hear that one was filmed swimming deep off the coast of California, a news item.
https://www.animalsaroundtheglobe.com/sc...-1-320620/

however...
 It was immediately clear that something was very wrong with the article. While the website looks legitimate, the tone of the story stinks of AI generation. There were no names and details given, no images, and only one clue to follow – the involvement of Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) and the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. More on that in a bit.
The story goes on to say that researchers collected water samples to examine environmental DNA where preliminary analysis suggested that the California specimen may be the African coelacanth or a new species. With “full genome sequencing” underway, the discovery generated great excitement in the scientific community who “responded to this discovery with a coordinated research initiative” to find out more about the California coelacanth and preserve its habitat.
However, none of this activity was actually happening.

Debbie Downer stuff courtesy of https://sharonahill.com/fake-california-coelacanth/

the article continues to spread, even on MSNBC news.
worth noting that Wikipedia makes no mention of it.

well, the ocean is a big deep place, and it's not out of the question that a Coelacanth will be found somewhere unexpected.

Quote:One baseline truth in current American life is that our bodily well-being gets worse as the so-called health care industry gets ever-larger — it is now 17.6-percent of the economy (GDP). This is clearly the basis of the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) campaign that attached itself to the Trump 2.0 program. You hear almost no arguments against MAHA itself, even from the Party of Hustles and Hoaxes, but plenty of calumny and objurgation against MAHA’s chief advocate, Robert Kennedy, Jr.

Mr. Trump’s initial nominee for Surgeon General, Dr. Janette Nesheiwat, was pulled last week just before her scheduled Senate confirmation hearing. Her credentials looked a bit sketchy — med school on the tiny Caribbean island of St. Maarten (say, what. . . ?) and other irregularities — which she confabulated about anyway. Plus, she was a Covid vaccine cheerleader and an avid advocate of the censorship campaign to slam down debate over it.

Which leads directly to a glaring quandary in President Trump’s current order-of-business: he has avoided engagement with the whole Covid fiasco that unspooled in the last year of his first term. Now, it is the opinion of this blog that Mr. Trump was played on Covid by blob-marshaled “experts” Anthony Fauci and Deborah Birx, who led the White House Covid “team,” and then snookered the president into Operation Warp Speed, appealing to his vanity to play the superhero. You can also surmise that the Covid operation was hatched to run Mr. Trump out of office by enabling epic election fraud, making a chump of him.

Other aspects of the Covid hairball are now finally getting unraveled, such as the lab origin issue and Dr. Fauci’s nefarious and vast operations to fund bioweapons. But the awful subject of the Covid mRNA vaccines, and all the monkey business around their development and deployment, remains taboo, even as Trump 2.0 sets records in smashing bureaucratic idols and radically shifting all sorts of policy — for instance, today’s monumental move to lower drug costs by 30 to 80 percent, using the Most Favored Nation trade policy device, which ties U.S. drug prices to the lowest prices paid by other high-income countries (e.g., Canada, Japan, or European nations) for the same medications.

But the Covid vaccine shots loom over the land like an ominous miasma that no one wants to talk about. The evidence has mounted steadily that the shots were ineffective and deeply harmful to many of the people who took them, especially those who got multiple boosters. The result, apparently, is a shocking rise in rare and aggressive cancers, immune system dysfunction, damage to the heart and blood vessels, neurological disorders, and much more. The CDC under “Joe Biden” worked desperately to hide all that, but it came out, anyway, because it was too big to hide.

81-percent of the US population submitted to the Covid vaccine shots. So, you can suppose that all that would be an extremely touchy matter. To admit all that scary information to the public arena would likely set off a politically dangerous fury. You can see why Mr. Trump would avoid going near it in the early going of his second term. But eventually he must come to terms with it.

Likewise, sooner or later, Bobby Kennedy, Jr., will have to take some kind of stand on the Covid vaccines, namely stopping the shots altogether. Whatever you think of the childhood vaccine schedule — a red-hot issue these days — it seems quite insane that the Covid mRNA vaccine is still included on it. It is still officially recommended by the CDC. Among the “much more” effects of the shots is damage to human fertility. You must ask: by giving these shots to kids as young as six-months, are we setting up a nation that won’t be able to have children? Pretty spooky.



So, the new nominee for Surgeon General is one Casey Means of the brother / sister team, Calley and Casey Means, known primarily as food safety advocate sidekicks to Bobby Kennedy. The Meanses were already under some suspicion for rising too rapidly into prominence from out of nowhere since the summer of 2024 when Mr. Kennedy began to swing over to the Trump campaign. They were suspected and criticized as the shills for some sort of sinister alliance between Silicon Valley, Big Pharma, and the US intel blob. The Meanses have adroitly avoided taking a position on the Covid vaccines. Hmmmm. . . . That’s the chatter, anyway — whether there’s any truth to it, we will have to stand-by to discover.

You’d have to ask yourself whether Mr. Kennedy would ally himself with people of supposedly sketchy character. Is he being used or played? Or maybe, it’s just not so. The nomination of Casey Means sent out shock-waves through MAGA and MAHA. Her credentials seemed a little sketchy like Janette Nesheiwat’s before her. Ms. Means dropped out of her five-year medical residency in Oregon a few months before completing it, apparently due to disillusionment with conventional medicine. She does not have an active medical license, supposedly required to serve as Surgeon General.

Instead, she transitioned into what is loosely called functional medicine, which rejects the oppressive “standards of practice” dictated by insurance companies and reliance on pharma products to alleviate symptoms rather than treat the causes of disease. Ms. Means also became a medical entrepreneur, starting Levels, a glucose-monitoring tech company, and is an Instagram “wellness influencer” with 750,000 followers. Given the gross racketeering aspects of conventional medicine and its failure to deal with the shocking rise in chronic disease, you might argue that Ms. Means made the right career moves, weird as they might seem superficially.

It’s pretty much a miracle that RFK, Jr., managed to land safely as Secretary of HHS and that he was able to enlist “medical freedom” advocates Jay Bhattacharya to run the National Institutes of Health and Marty Makary to run the Federal Food and Drug Administration. This represents a stupendous turnaround in government policy. It’s also plausible that this new public health team has been preoccupied with personnel and administrative re-org in the first months of Trump 2.0. They’ve begun to nibble around the edges of the national health crisis, such as banning toxic food coloring.

They have yet to face the big, nasty legal questions such as revoking Pharma’s liability shield against lawsuits for its defective products, ending TV advertising of Pharma products — which is just an extortion racket for managing cable news content to protect Pharma — fully confronting the autism calamity and its connection to childhood vaccines, and, of course, pulling the Covid shots.

There is also chatter that RFK, Jr., is “managed” by hidden persons or forces. One not-so-hidden character in that psychodrama is Senator Bill Cassidy (R-LA). Sen. Cassidy, a medical doctor, chairs the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee that ran Mr. Kennedy over-the-coals in his confirmation hearing. Political pressure caused Sen. Cassidy to cave and vote “yes” for RFK, Jr., then. Louisiana has since changed its election rules so that Democrats can no longer vote in the GOP primary, and Cassidy is vulnerable. His base is restless. He voted to impeach Mr. Trump in January 2021 over the Capitol J-6 riot.

So, the chatter says that Mr. Kennedy made a deal with Sen. Cassidy to avoid taking certain actions — like, anything that might hurt Pharma and its profit-stream — or else Mr. Kennedy would be dragged back in front of the HELP Committee and raked over the coals again. If that were to happen, I suspect Mr. Kennedy would handle himself very capably in any public hearing. He has always been in command of the facts. As head of HHS, he has had access to a deep trove of information that he had no access to previously. He must know by now exactly what sort of mischief has been perpetrated in US public health over the decades and will not be shy about disclosing it publicly. You should also not be surprised if Mr. Kennedy begins issuing criminal referrals before much longer.

As for Casey Means. . . give her a chance to demonstrate that she is on the right side of MAHA and willing to fight in what has become a biomedical war on the American public.

This thought had come to mind. It isn't an exact fit, but it seems pretty close.

Revelation 13 New American Bible Version

Quote:The Second Beast.[cd] 11 Then I saw another beast come up out of the earth; it had two horns like a lamb’s but spoke like a dragon. 12 It wielded all the authority of the first beast in its sight and made the earth and its inhabitants worship the first beast, whose mortal wound had been healed. 13 It performed great signs, even making fire come down from heaven to earth in the sight of everyone. 14 It deceived the inhabitants of the earth with the signs it was allowed to perform in the sight of the first beast, telling them to make an image for the beast who had been wounded by the sword and revived. 15 It was then permitted to breathe life into the beast’s image, so that the beast’s image could speak and [could] have anyone who did not worship it put to death. 16 It forced all the people, small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to be given a stamped image on their right hands or their foreheads, 17 so that no one could buy or sell except one who had the stamped image of the beast’s name or the number that stood for its name.

This is something I never thought of and a whole different kind of problem with AI.

Quote:Openai's technology may be causing some users to experience a disturbing phenomenon dubbed "Chatgpt-induced psychosis." According to a report from Rolling Stone, Reddit users are sharing alarming stories of loved ones developing delusions after interacting with the AI. These cases involve users believing they've uncovered cosmic truths, been chosen for divine missions, or even that the AI itself is sentient or godlike.

Quote:Experts Express Concern

Experts warn that the chatbot's behaviour is mirroring and exacerbating existing mental health issues on a massive scale, largely unchecked by regulators or professionals. According to them, Chatgpt's design—mimicking human-like conversation without a moral or factual filter—can amplify delusions in susceptible individuals. It often affirms users' beliefs, no matter how unhinged, due to its tendency to generate plausible-sounding responses.

Screw Worm Attack!!

Good bet this is a Democrat anti-Trump operation!

Be very aware of what is happening!

Link-- US suspends Mexican cattle, horse and bison imports over screwworm pest

Quote:U.S. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins on Sunday said she is suspending imports of live cattle, horses and bison through the southern U.S. border over the damaging pest New World screwworm, a measure that immediately drew opposition from Mexico.

"I am announcing the suspension of live cattle, horse, & bison imports through U.S. southern border ports of entry effective immediately," Rollins said. "The last time this devastating pest invaded America, it took 30 years for our cattle industry to recover. This cannot happen again."

Her Mexican counterpart, Julio Berdegue, swiftly rebuked the action, but said he hoped the two countries could soon come to an agreement over the pest, known as NWS.

"We don't agree with this measure," he said in a post on social media, adding that it would be in place for 15 days.

The U.S. agriculture agency in a statement on Sunday said the suspension would be in effect on a "month-by-month basis."

The U.S. and Mexico last month reached an agreement on the handling of the damaging pest, which can infest livestock and wildlife and carry maggots that burrow into the skin of living animals, causing serious and often fatal damage.

American faces some Mexican cattle smugglers!!......

Quote:About 7,000 years ago, humanity faced a silent cataclysm, or at least part of it. Genetic records show that for every 17 women, only one man passed on his bloodline. Nearly 90% of men disappeared in a mysterious bottleneck, while the female population stayed stable. The Y-chromosome diversity collapsed, hinting at very brutal conflicts. This led to the rise of patriarchal clans, or unseen social shifts triggered by agriculture and territorial wars. No written records remain — only the silent testimony of our DNA, whispering of an ancient purge that forever altered the path of human history, and great myth that hints at the importance of war, violence and confrontation in Indo-European cultures. 00:00 Intro 01:10 A World On The Brink 07:35 The Genetic Culling 12:47 Warfare, Power & Patriarchy 18:35 The Birth Of The "Warrior Society" 22:40 Myth Of A Violent Golden Age 26:33 The Long Shadow 30:45 Outro

Not sure if this belongs here or not (mods feel free to move if you think appropriate), but I wanted to make a quick post about people's 'personality'.

GHLD posted an interesting thread the other day about a sub-reddit on Reddit called AITA (Am I The Asshole).  After responding to that post, I got to thinking about a somewhat related topic, but also more fundamental...people's core personality.  I didn't feel like this subject belonged in GHLD's thread as it might confuse things, so I'll post it here.

In my line of work I have to work with lots of peopole (lots and LOTS).  Some of them are employees whom I am in charge of, some of them are colleagues who work for different companies or agencies, and many of them are the general public just by association with the nature of what we do.  As a result, particularly with employees and colleagues, I get the 'good fortune' (lol) of dealing with lots of different personality types.  Some of these are good, some are not so good, and some others still are downright evil and toxic.  To stay in this line of work for any length of time, let alone an entire career, can be a challenge if one is to maintain their own sanity.  I'll cut to the chase here.

I had a very wise man and mentor once tell me, early in my career, that you cannot change a person's core personality.  I didn't fully comprehend what this meant at the time, nor did I realize how valuable that piece of advice would become later on.  At the time, I think I just viewed his advice as circumstantial in that moment.  Later, I realized that this mantra really does apply over the long haul with people.  I'll cite some examples, and it's interesting how far some of these examples reach, even including what we read in the "news" every day.  It's also very interesting how valuable being able to evaluate if a situation is a personality issue or just a conditional situation.  Again, I'll try to explain...

Simplistically, let's say you have an employee who makes a mistake and creates a worse situation from one which is already filled with tension.  I use the word 'mistake' intentionally here because it cuts right to the essence of the issue.  'Mistake' also implies blame (but more on this in a moment).  Let's also say the 'mistake' is not just trivial, and repeating such a mistake would likely result in termination or worse (legal implications).  At this point, as a supervisor, you have to make an assessment (often based on past track record) of whether or not this mistake was the result of a core personality issue, or if it was just an honest 'accidental' mistake.  This assessment results in several different (completely different) courses of actions.  There are numerous examples of possible actions here, so I'll just cite a couple:

- A.) The person is a highly valued worker, but the mistake is a product of a core personality issue.  Or...

- B.) The person is a highly valued worker, but the mistake was just a circumstantial issue and truly accidental.  Or...

- C.) The person is a constant source of problems, and is not a critical team member, and the issue is clearly a core personality trait.

(again, these are not exhaustive examples, but rather just a sampling)

In scenario A.) you might have to reassign a person so they aren't able to get into those situations (if possible).  In scenario B.) you might just need to identify the mistake and give corrective advice, and nothing more.  And lastly, in scenario C.), you might need to separate the employee (or set into motion the steps necessary to do so).

I know this all probably sounds very indifferent (possibly even abrupt), but to be successful long-term, you have to get to the point where you can remove all emotion out of the equation, and understanding a person's personality is key in doing this.

Every day we run into people, co-workers, employees, or even the general public where their actions are a result of either core personality issues, or simply circumstantial.  GHLD pointed this out in the context of people questioning whether they are an 'asshole' or not, but more fundamentally the ultimate answer (or certainly a large portion of it) boils down to a person's motivation to ask the question and what their specific personality type is. 

Sometimes it's not possible to assess a person's personality type as you have no history with that person.  A person in the general public or a person  you just met would be a good example.  This pieces isn't really directed at them, but rather people you do have a track record and history with, a person you've worked with daily for months or even years.

I'll be interested to hear your thoughts on this subject.

Cheers!

With the claimed operating cost per hour of this aircraft it will be hard to skim money off the top for other projects.

We had something like this (super secret or at least not well known) in Vietnam during the 69 to 70 time frame. 3 bladed prop and super quite night fighter observation platform; lite on weapons but very quite.  This OA-1K is on a different level IMO.

Quote:We got an up-close look at L3Harris' Sky Warden variant of the famed AT-802 Air Tractor that is serving as the test aircraft for Air Force Special Operation Command's OA-1K Skyraider II program. We met up with L3Harris at this year's Special Operations Forces Week conference in Tampa, Florida. We also got the company's take on the aircraft's capabilities, which will have to adapt to high-end combat scenarios in the future. More on the future of the OA-1K program in our recent feature here: https://www.twz.com/air/can-the-oa-1k...