On Sunday, Novemember 21st, the U.S. Air Force, in conjunction with the United Launch Alliance (ULA), launched a top secret spy satellite for the National Reconnaissance Office using a Delta 4 heavy launch vehicle. In recent past years, the USAF has conducted several successful launches. In all of these cases, the launches carried various imaging [...]

“The first look through the windows of the observation deck into the two long high-bay areas was stunning.” This is how Siegfried Hecker, a Stanford University scientist, describes what he saw at a North Korean Nuclear facility. The statement comes from a November 2010 report Hecker posted online about a tour he conducted at a [...]

I am sure that growing up and even today you have heard the old adage, “When life gives you lemons, make lemonade.” Many people think that it is just poetic advice for people who are kicked from one unlucky situation to another. Then, there are others who embrace its true meaning; turning everything life throws [...]

In 1994, the Defense Airborne Reconnaissance Office (DARO) published Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Program Plan. This plan is an overview that defines a UAV and how it was used during wartime, in particular Operation Desert Storm. The plan also points out the fact that, in 1994, UAVs had not yet reached their maximum potential. An [...]

On June 20, 1945, the American government hired a genius rocket scientist to head up and develop its missile program. The genius rocket scientist was Wernher von Braun, inventor of the V-2 rocket. The V-2 was also the world’s first long-range combat-ballistic missile and the first known human invention to achieve sub-orbital spaceflight. However, von [...]

What is scientology? Is it a path to enlightenment? Is it a harmless belief system embraced by over-zealous Trekkies? Or is it something more sinister? Something like an evil Satanic Cult? Every religion (or cult) has its critics. Critics who are armed with their own theories about how and why a cult’s ideology is wrong. [...]

Many people know about the California gold rush that started when James W. Marshall discovered gold at in Coloma, California in 1848. For the next century, individuals and companies worked diligently at mining the gold out of the mountainsides and streams of California. Early miners were able to pan gold out of the rich gravel [...]

John Lennon is most famous as one of the founding members of The Beatles. He is also known as the Beatle who caused the band to break up because of his marriage to Yoko Ono. However, after his career with The Beatles ended, he also became famous for his run-ins with various law enforcement agencies. [...]

Many times the FBI receives calls from local law enforcement agencies for help on various cases. It is widely known that the FBI receives a lot more funding and possesses much more resources than our hometown police force. However, no matter how much funding they have or how many resources are at their fingertips, there [...]

Around the turn of the 19th century, a revolution was sweeping through China. This revolution was China’s resistance to the outside world coming in and (what locals felt as) taking over. These local people were frustrated and appalled at the Western influences seeping into their culture. They also opposed the vast number of Christian missionaries [...]