A Place to Stand

 Minimum sunspots, like during the Maunder Minimum.

Don't worry, unless the LabNatConDems & beeboids are wholly dishonest the Sun has almost no influence on weather compared to a 1 in 10,000 CO2 increase. Otherwise we wouldn't be experiencinjg catastrophic warming.
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  Japan making progress in extracting methane hydrates. In case we run out of shale gas in 1,500 years. More proof that the age of plentiful energy is here as soon as the parasites get out of the way.
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 House of Lords report demolishes the case for mass immigration. Once again news from the Daily Mail, not reported by the approved media.
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On the increase in extreme weather which, if every single beeboid isn't a corrupt fascist animal, we must be experiencing.


  So we aren't.
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  Listing the history of Lord Rennard's gropings of women, about which all 6 LIB Dem women have been silent. This is young, ignorant, loudmouthed, high flying LD MP Jo Swinson, now the party's junior Equality Minister. (I met her when I was in the LDs & she was one of a number of such)

2004
CLAIM: Jo Swinson, who became the party’s youngest MP and is now equalities minister, allegedly tells a female colleague there have been problems with Rennard, who had ‘an issue with women’ but that ‘you have to put up with it if you want to get on in the party.
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  Russia calls for world meteor defence
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Another Forbes piece from James Conca about radiation's LNT theory being bogus.
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Estimate that electricity bills will go up from  their curent £1,400 to £3,500. Note (A) that the could be between £400 & £90 & (B) that only 1/3rd of electricity is used in the home but that the cost of that used elsewhere still, ultimately, gets passed on to us.

 £273 or £10,500. How do we get out of recession with that?
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The EU bidget may have been marginally reduced but they still have E£200 billion to fund ecofascist groups.
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Automated killer drones at 17,000 feet
. From an altitude of 17,500 feet a drone with a 1.8 gigapixel video camera can monitor half of Manhattan and they can zoom in and see a person waving or a bird flying. The interface shows the wide field of view all at once but 65 windows can be opened up showing zoom in views of different spots. They can see things as small as 6 inches like birds. They can make out people waving from the ground and what they are wearing. The software analyzes and tracks everything that is moving.

All of the images is archived from every UAV. The persistent monitoring means that any past time can be selected for a monitored area and what happened at that time can be played as if you were watching it live. The current system has 1.8 gigapixel video but DARPA has another project that will soon have 50 gigapixels of resolution and mass production will drive the cost to about $1000. 50 gigapixels would mean increasing resolution to make out 1 inch objects from 17500 feet or viewing a larger area at the 6 inch resolution. A live and historical feed of everything in Manhattan down to 1 inch resolution from one drone.

. German scientists are seriously developing a laser based system of weed control in order to be more "environmentally friendly" than using chemical poisons. Laser armed Robots and drones cheap enough weed control of large scale agriculture and they will have artificial intelligence algorithms and high resolution cameras to be able to tell plants from weeds. They would have the goal of having this on a large scale for better "organic farming". The laser system is currently being tested in a greenhouse. Drones or small robotic planes would fly over the fields.
 The goal of the DARPA HELLADS (High Energy Liquid Laser Area Defense System) program is to develop a 150 kilowatt (kW) laser weapon system that is ten times smaller and lighter than current lasers of similar power, enabling integration onto tactical aircraft to defend against and defeat ground threats.