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Sept 10, 1813: American naval forces under the command of Oliver Hazard Perry defeated and captured an entire Royal Navy squadron of six ships at the Battle of Lake Erie. The battle was a major victory that gave the U.S. control over the strategically important lake.




Sept 10, 1939: HMS Oxley became the first (Australian) Royal Navy submarine lost during WWII. It was reported that the sub sank due to an accidental explosion resulting in 53 lives and leaving two survivors. It was not until the 1950s that the truth was revealed. HMS Oxley had been misidentified as a German U-boat and sunk by the British HMS Triton, named for the son of Poseidon and Amphitrite.


HMS Triton was sunk on Dec 18, 1940 by Italian torpedo says the Italians and/or by mines says British historians...nobody knows for sure, but it never came back to port.



Delayed launch in August has lifted off...
A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket launched the SILENTBARKER/NROL-107 mission for the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) and U.S. Space Force (USSF) from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida on Sept. 10, 2023.



Full Story:

Atlas V rocket launches the Space Force's Silent Barker 'watchdog' satellites

The exact capabilities of Silent Barker remain unknown. During Monday's teleconference, officials confirmed that Silent Barker will consist of multiple payloads, although neither the NRO nor Space Force are sharing exact numbers   — nor is either agency divulging the manufacturers and contractors with whom they are partnering to develop the Silent Barker spacecraft, Scolese said in response to a question from Space.com.

However, in 2021, Air Force Space and Missile Systems issued a contract modification to defense contractor L3 Harris, noting that the total value of its Silent Barker contract was over $283 million. A previous budget estimate conducted by the Government Accountability Office estimated the cost of the program to be $994 million, with a planned full operational capability scheduled for 2026.

Silent Barker's data will be processed by the National Space Defense Center in Colorado Springs, while the satellite itself will be operated by the NRO.

Silent Barker's launch comes after the U.S. Space Force has established units dedicated to tracking threats in orbit and even targeting enemy satellites.

A contract was issued for a "Retina" modification. More guardian eyes above our heads.

Nobel prize oxymoron..."Peaceful Nuclear Explosions" - (PNEs)



To date, 187 of 196 states have signed the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO) and 178 have ratified it. The treaty will only come into full force once China, Egypt, India, Iran, Israel, North Korea, Pakistan, and the United States sign AND ratify it.

Speaking of peaceful nukes...Nuclear fracking, anyone? Sept 10, 1969, in the second of three Project Plowshare experiments (Rulison), a 40-kt nuclear device was detonated in a 8,425-ft. shaft near Grand Valley, Colorado, to stimulate the flow of natural gas. The gas was...surprise!...too radioactive to sell.



The other two tests of nuclear explosives to increase natural gas production were Gasbuggy (29 kt, December 10, 1967), near Farmington, NM, and Rio Blanco (three 33-kt devices, May 17, 1973, near Rifle, CO), which was also the 27th and final Project Plowshare experiment.

For the 50th anniversary of the Rulison test in 2019, some residents of Parachute, Colorado, (which was known as Grand Valley in 1969) reflected on what happened that day and its consequences for their community.

Remember The First Time Colorado Tried Fracking With A Nuclear Bomb?

“We were whooping it up,” Beasley said. “We were really fortunate that we didn’t have that much damage.”

In the end the blast caused few problems for the locals. Some chimneys lost bricks, including Beasley’s. A few pickle jars fell to the ground in her pantry.

Several couples who lived within five miles of Hayward’s land ignored the evacuation and rode out the detonation. The wife of William Rankin told the Associated Press they planned to get their dogs into the station wagon and then “have a picnic down in the corn patch.”

As much as times change, the promise heard in many rural towns remains the same. There are much needed jobs and economic development underfoot, we need only unlock the riches from tight shale and other stubborn rocks. Rulison was perhaps the grandest vision of that ever put forward on the Western Slope.
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History is all that remains. The Plowshares Program faded away, its fate sealed by the lack of commercial success, public consciousness about radioactivity and the will of state voters. After the subsequent Project Rio Blanco experiment faced similar scrutiny, Coloradans approved a constitutional amendment in 1974 that requires voter approval before any nuclear device is detonated in the state. That leaves the Centennial State as a unique place where the people hold the power to grant permission for both new taxes and nuclear bombs.

Project Rulison 1969 video




A fourth experiment, Project Wagon Wheel under consideration since 1968 for a natural gas well 10 miles south of Boulder, WY, on gov’t land leased to the El Paso Gas Company, and involving five 100-kt devices—was abandoned due to heavy local opposition.

Here’s a recent and very interesting documentary about the rise and demise of Atomic Fracking in Wyoming: Project Wagon Wheel

Project Plowshare was the overall United States program for the development of techniques to use nuclear explosives for peaceful construction purposes. The program was organized in June 1957 as part of the worldwide Atoms for Peace efforts. As part of the program, 35 nuclear warheads were detonated in 27 separate tests. A similar program was carried out in the Soviet Union under the name Nuclear Explosions for the National Economy.

The Soviet PNE program was many times larger than the U.S. Plowshare program in terms of both the number of applications explored with field experiments and the extent to which they were introduced into industrial use. Several PNE applications, such as deep seismic sounding and oil stimulation, were explored in depth and appeared to have had a positive cost benefit at minimal public risk...so we were told. These 'successful' experiments were later cited as possible precedents for stopping the Deepwater Horizon oil spill disaster, according to armchair Strangelove engineers.

Two stories are circulating about what Elon actually did:

    The Ukrainian military wanted to mount an underwater drone strike against Russia’s Black Sea Fleet and asked Elon to turn on Starlink to guide the drones. After consulting with Russian officials, Elon said no.
    The Ukrainian military mounted an underwater drone strike against Russia’s Black Sea Fleet, using Starlink to guide the drones. After consulting with Russian officials, Elon turned off Starlink in that area, and the drones drifted ashore.

As of yesterday, Elon presented the first version, but his biographer, Walter Isaacson, with whom Elon also consulted as to what to do, presented a version of the second. Intermediate versions exist in various news outlets. Today Isaacson turned and said he agreed with Elon.

Elon’s reasoning for both scenarios was that he didn’t want Starlink to be used for an act of war that might escalate to nuclear war.

All this has to do with Elon’s trying to preserve his image of himself as a brilliant and compassionate humanitarian. Unfortunately, there is no way he can maintain that.

The United States Congress, back around 1980, decreed that industry can do everything better than government and has been doing what they can to sell the government off to private industry. This has a number of downsides, particularly in regard to governmental functions that involve life and death, like war and prisons. But it makes great profits for Republican fat cats, so the balance is obvious!

What nobody seems to have anticipated was that one of those private corporations might be under the personal control of an addled, ignorant, and self-important manbaby. Wo here we are.

Whichever scenario actually happened, Elon is culpable. He is culpable of conducting foreign governmental affairs without consulting the US government. He is culpable of extreme manipulability by Russian officials. He is culpable of trying to shake down the US government for additional payments for Starlink. He is probably culpable of inappropriate handling of classified material. And that’s just for this incident.

New York Times explainer gift link.

Elon’s Excellent Adventure

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THE X-FILES premiered tonight in 1993...the debunking begins.