Source: BeforeItsNews.com - 8/21/13

Grumman F6F Hellcat

“There are old pilots and there are bold pilots, but there are no old, bold pilots.”

The U.S. Navy used slogans like these to emphasize the importance of flight safety when Byron D. Varner was an aviation cadet during World War II. That particular one stayed embedded in his mind through out his flying experience because he saw many would-be heroes kill themselves trying to be bold pilots. Mr. Varner hadn’t thought of this slogan for a long time until he met Rolan D. Powell, the only “old” pilot he ever knew who totally disproved it. Mr. Powell retired as a Lt. Cdr. USNR after not only serving in World War II aboard the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Yorktown, but also in Korea and Vietnam on other assignments. On November 29,1996, Rolan celebrated his seventieth birthday.

The following narrative begins on page 72 of the Varner/Powell book.

Messagetoeagle.com 23 August, 2013

MessageToEagle.com - Thanks to two studies published in Nature last Thursday, the chance of successful teleportation has considerably increased. Which is a good thing, right?

Whether or not you’ve ever been on a long-haul flight, you’ve probably fantasised about being able to magically disappear from one place and reappear in another. And a natural question for a physicist is whether there is any way to achieve this in practice.

In fact, something known as “quantum teleportation” became a reality in 1997. This first demonstration was for particles of light (photons).

Since then, physicists have also applied teleportation to other very small things, for example single atoms.

So when can we expect to just teleport ourselves to our chosen destination? You might want to sit down for this.

RT.com - 8/23/13

This undated handout image received 25 January, 2006 shows the National Security Agency(NSA) at Fort Meade, Maryland. (AFP Photo)

Top-secret national security documents leaked to the Guardian newspaper reveal that the United States government compensated the tech companies that signed on to participate in the controversial NSA spy program known as Prism.

The Guardian published on Friday new documentation attributed to former intelligence contractor Edward Snowden in which it’s suggested that the US National Security Agency spent millions of dollars making sure the biggest names on the Internet were kept compliant with an international surveillance program disclosed by the leaker earlier this year.

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