Rendezvous With Destiny
Hewlett Packard Enterprise El Capitan, is an upcoming exascale supercomputer, hosted at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, United States and projected to become operational in 2024. It is based on the Cray EX Shasta architecture. Continuing its tradition as a dominant Top500 high-performance computing (HPC) site, LLNL began installing components in May 2023 for NNSA’s... Continue Reading →
"The Most Mysterious Song on the Internet" (also known as "Like the Wind", "Blind the Wind", "Check It In, Check It Out", "Take It In, Take It Out", and "Summer Blues" after lines in fan-interpreted lyrics; acronymed as TMMSOTI or TMS) is the nickname given to a cassette recording of an unidentified song, most likely composed in the 1980s. The... Continue Reading →
During the early period of the Cold War, the CIA became convinced that communists had discovered a drug or technique that would allow them to control human minds. In response, the CIA began its own secret program, called MK-ULTRA, to search for a mind control drug that could be weaponized against enemies. MK-ULTRA, which operated... Continue Reading →
On September 5, 1972, eight Palestinian militants affiliated with Black September—a militant offshoot of the Palestinian group Fatah—scaled a fence surrounding the Olympic Village in Munich. Disguised as athletes and using stolen keys, they forced their way into the quarters of the Israeli Olympic team at 31 Connollystrasse. As they attempted to enter Apartment 1, they were confronted by... Continue Reading →
SMALL TEAMS OF U.S. Special Operations forces are involved in a low-profile proxy war program on a far greater scale than previously known, according to exclusive documents and interviews with more than a dozen current and former government officials. While The Intercept and other outlets have previously reported on the Pentagon’s use of the secretive 127e authority in... Continue Reading →
In the depths of a moonlit night, a group of elite soldiers gathered, their purpose clear and their determination unwavering. The mission: to eradicate a formidable terrorist organization and secure the northern region of Iraq. This captivating tale of bravery and strategy unfolded during Operation Iraqi Freedom, specifically on March 21st, 2003, and became known... Continue Reading →
It refers to the bond that can develop between hostages and their captors in hostage-taking and kidnapping situations. In some cases, hostages may develop sympathies for their captors and their cause — and even turn against the police. Rather than a diagnosis of a disorder, experts describe it as a psychological coping mechanism used by... Continue Reading →
n the summer of 2006, police carried out a massive anti-terrorism sweep in southern Ontario. Seventeen people — 13 adults and four youths — were arrested in a series of June raids. An 18th individual was detained two months later. Normally referred to as one case, the so-called Toronto 18 in fact encompassed two plots,... Continue Reading →
Naomi Klein’s brilliant book, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism, describes how modern capitalism thrives on shocks and disasters. A tsunami sweeps across Asia, and developers take the chance to clear fishing communities off the coasts and build luxury hotels. Hurricane Katrina devastates Louisiana and well-connected corporations turn body retrieval into a money-making enterprise. There is nothing, it... Continue Reading →
Two weeks after leaving her position as an intelligence analyst for the U.S. National Security Agency in 2014, Lori Stroud was in the Middle East working as a hacker for an Arab monarchy. She had joined Project Raven, a clandestine team that included more than a dozen former U.S. intelligence operatives recruited to help the... Continue Reading →
Below the streets of Paris lies a maze of limestone quarries that have long played a role in the city’s history. Most are situated in the southern part of the city, which was the chosen site for the Catacombes de Paris. The need for a subterranean ossuary in the late 18th century arose from a... Continue Reading →
Maslow's hierarchy of needs is a motivational theory in psychology comprising a five-tier model of human needs, often depicted as hierarchical levels within a pyramid. From the bottom of the hierarchy upwards, the needs are: physiological (food and clothing), safety (job security), love and belonging needs (friendship), esteem, and self-actualization. Needs lower down in the... Continue Reading →
A few minutes past 2 a.m. on August 6, 2011, at a dusty forward operating base 40 miles south of Kabul, Afghanistan, the rotors of two U.S. Army CH-47D Chinooks began to turn. Operating with no lights save for the faint green glow of night vision goggles and cockpit instrument panels, the two helicopters, call signs Extortion... Continue Reading →
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On Jan. 16, 1966, a B-52G—call sign Tea 16—departed Seymour Johnson AFB, N.C. The crew completed two refuelings and an orbit near Turkey. Refueling No. 3, on Jan. 17, was their last act. For some reason, the bomber was a little too fast. The KC-135’s boom struck the B-52’s longeron, and the left wing of... Continue Reading →
Natural phenomena hold many portals to the underworld like the Batagaika Crater in the Eastern Siberia tundra. The gates of this fiery depth are in the middle of the Turkmenistani desert. Approximately 160 miles north of the capital Ashgabat, an enormous crater burns with sulphuric flames, illuminating the clouds above and blasting heat for miles... Continue Reading →
In the month of May 1997 an Indian Air Force MiG-25R a.k.a NATO designated FOXBAT flew deep inside Pakistani territory for reconnaissance and intelligence gathering as part of a routine flight conducted for the past 16 years unchallenged at that point of time. After gathering sensitive intelligence, on its return voyage it broke the sound... Continue Reading →
The Dunning-Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which people wrongly overestimate their knowledge or ability in a specific area. This tends to occur because a lack of self-awareness prevents them from accurately assessing their own skills. A classic example of the Dunning-Kruger effect would be an amateur chess player overestimates their performance in the upcoming chess... Continue Reading →
On July 24th, 1989 rescue helicopters were searching for some missing hikers from Tokyo near the 7,514-foot Mount Asahi (Asahidake) on Japan’s northernmost island of Hokkaido, located in the northern part of the Daisetsuzan National Park. The pilots noticed a giant SOS laid on the ground, made from birch logs near the start of the... Continue Reading →
First Photograph Ever (1826-27) First Still Shot (1837) First Photo Of Paris/Humans (1839) First Selfie (1839) First Photo Of Moon From Earth (1840) First Photo Of A President - John Quincy Adams (1841) First Photo Of Sun (1845) First Photo Of New York (1848) First Color Photo (1861) First Photo Of War (1870) First Photo... Continue Reading →
A gravity hill, also known as a magnetic hill, mystery hill, mystery spot, gravity road, or anti-gravity hill, is a place where the layout of the surrounding land produces an optical illusion, making a slight downhill slope appear to be an uphill slope. Thus, a car left out of gear will appear to be rolling uphill against gravity. There are hundreds of recognised gravity... Continue Reading →
Occam’s razor (also known as the “law of parsimony”) is a problem-solving principle which serves as a useful mental model. A philosophical razor is a tool used to eliminate improbable options in a given situation. Occam’s is the best-known example. In simpler language, Occam’s razor states that the simplest explanation is preferable to one that is more... Continue Reading →
Most will encounter a G Force if at all, on a rollercoaster. Symptoms of encountering g’s include “graying out,” or passing out, due to blood flowing out of your brain and into your lower extremities. If you’re a fighter pilot, encountering and fighting g’s is an occupational hazard, and fighting against them is second nature. Higher G’s... Continue Reading →
Ice cold heart, its a sinner's den. Wrapped in blood and crying in pain. Praying for life, like a wounded bird. Who will absolve and open its chain? Good and ugly, we take in our stride. And act as if there is nothing to hide. Life is a roller-coaster that has lost path. Like a... Continue Reading →
JUST AFTER dusk on the night of Feb. 10, 1970, the jungles near the U.S. Army’s Fire Support Base Chamberlain in South Vietnam came to life with a cacophony of spine chilling sounds. Mournful wailing, sobbing, and baleful shrieks filled the air — unearthly sounds that seemed to be coming from everywhere, but nowhere in particular. And... Continue Reading →
As I settled into my seat for a flight to Bucharest, the man sitting next to me told me his name was Carter and began chatting amiably. Carter was an award-winning partner at a large architecture firm. Though he loved the creative part of being an architect, working with demanding clients was maddening. Sometimes he... Continue Reading →
The mind can have a powerful influence on the body, and in some cases, can even help the body heal. The mind can even sometimes trick you into believing that a fake treatment has real therapeutic results, a phenomenon that is known as the placebo effect. But it is much more than just positive thinking.... Continue Reading →
Around August 5, 1996 (the date that belongs to one of the only surviving examples of the strange posts), hundreds of odd messages began sliding into discussions across Usenet. They consisted of blocks of seemingly nonsensical strings of words that read like terrible slam poetry. The only thing they shared was an equally meaningless subject... Continue Reading →
On April 2, 1978, there was a loud explosion on Bell Island which caused damage to some houses and the electrical house wiring in the surrounding area. Two cup-shaped holes about two feet deep and three feet wide marked the major impact. A number of TV sets in Lance Cove, the surrounding community, exploded at... Continue Reading →
The Mona Lisa effect is the phenomenon in which certain portraits appear to direct their gaze at observers almost regardless of where observers are located with respect to the picture. This phenomenon has been well known for almost 2,000 years, yet it has not been studied much. The effect does not essentially depend on the... Continue Reading →
Agrippa (a book of the dead) appeared in 1992 as a collaboration between artist Dennis Ashbaugh, author William Gibson, and publisher Kevin Begos, Jr. Gibson's text focused on the ethereal, human-owed nature of memories retained over the passage of time (the title referred to a Kodak photo album from which the text's memories are taken). Its principal notoriety... Continue Reading →
From medieval witch hunts in Europe to contemporary “witch doctors” in Tanzania, belief in witchcraft has existed across human societies throughout history. Anthropologists have long been fascinated by the phenomenon, but have struggled to study it with quantitative methods—our understanding of how and why it arises is therefore poor. A study conducted in one Chinese region... Continue Reading →
In late 2016, USA diplomats and other employees stationed in Havana (capital of Cuba) reported feeling ill after hearing strange sounds and experiencing odd physical sensations. The symptoms included nausea, severe headaches, fatigue, dizziness, sleep problems, and hearing loss, which have since come to be known as the Havana Syndrome. The more chronic problems suffered by Havana personnel included mainly vestibular processing and cognitive problems as well as insomnia and headache. While the symptoms... Continue Reading →
We should read The Art of War by Sun Tzu as a guide on how to deal with potential conflicts in our lives. It doesn’t matter if it’s in the business world or personal world, we can all learn something. Here are some of the best quotes from the book: The greatest victory is that which requires... Continue Reading →
I hide my tears when I think of you, and invariably chant your name. Although I smile and seem carefree, the pain in my heart is the same. I know that you don't remember me anymore, you don't even need to try. There's miles to go for you sweetheart, I know not why you cry.... Continue Reading →
On the morning of the 7th August, 1962 the world woke up to a shocking situation. That night the body of the famous actress Marilyn Monroe had been found dead in her bathroom. The media soon confirmed that it was suicide. In the months that followed 303 young people took their lives. The Werther effect once again hit the front pages... Continue Reading →
Smiling Buddha (MEA designation: Pokhran-I) was the assigned code name of India's first successful nuclear bomb test on 18 May 1974. The bomb was detonated on the army base Pokhran Test Range (PTR), in Rajasthan, by the Indian Army under the supervision of several key Indian generals. The American intelligence community in the Nixon era missed India's preparations for a nuclear weapons test and was caught unawares when... Continue Reading →
On 22 September 1979, sometime around 3:00am local time, a US Atomic Energy Detection System satellite recorded a pattern of intense flashes in a remote portion of the Indian Ocean. Moments later an unusual, fast-moving ionospheric disturbance was detected by the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico, and at about the same time a distant, muffled thud was... Continue Reading →
The Miranda warning is part of a preventive criminal procedure rule that law enforcement are required to administer to protect an individual who is in custody and subject to direct questioning or its functional equivalent from a violation of their Fifth Amendment right against compelled self-incrimination. The wording used when a person is read the Miranda... Continue Reading →
Why is life so ugly and ill made? I feel lonely, lost and afraid. Like the last dance and a long kiss goodnight. Touch with your soul and make me sacred. Shadows of love still waits for sunrise. Like a journey to darkness otherwise. Feels so near yet far from my destiny. Committed to... Continue Reading →
When a person lies, he or she experiences a "Pinocchio effect", which is an increase in the temperature around the nose and in the orbital muscle in the inner corner of the eye. In addition, when we perform a considerable mental effort our face temperature drops, and when we have an anxiety attack our face... Continue Reading →
The Secret Internet Protocol Router Network (SIPRNet) is "a system of interconnected computer networks used by the U.S. Department of Defense and the U.S. Department of State to transmit classified information (up to and including information classified SECRET) by packet switching over the 'completely secure' environment". It also provides services such as hypertext document access and electronic mail. As such, SIPRNet is the DoD's classified version of the civilian Internet.... Continue Reading →
In aerobatics the Cobra Maneuver, is a dramatic and demanding maneuver in which an airplane flying at a moderate speed suddenly raises the nose momentarily to the vertical position and slightly beyond, before dropping it back to normal, effectively making the plane a full body air brake which momentarily stalls the plane. The maneuver relies on the ability of the plane to... Continue Reading →
In 2012, a secretive group calling itself 3301 released a highly complex puzzle known as Cicada. For years, it's remained one of the internet's greatest unsolved mysteries. Cicada 3001 has been called “the most elaborate and mysterious puzzle of the internet age.” The Washington Post ranked it as one of the “top 5 eeriest, unsolved mysteries of the internet.” Six... Continue Reading →
Extraordinary Rendition, is the government-sponsored abduction and extrajudicial transfer of a person from one country to another with the purpose of circumventing the former country's laws on interrogation, detention and torture. Such renditions have predominantly been carried out by the various governments, with the consent of the other countries involved. The first known foreign rendition... Continue Reading →
Omerta is a Southern Italian code of silence and code of honor that places importance on silence in the face of questioning by authorities or outsiders; non-cooperation with authorities, the government, or outsiders; and willfully ignoring and generally avoiding interference with the illegal activities of others (i.e., not contacting law enforcement or the authorities when one... Continue Reading →
Humans naturally wonder what happens after death. While we may not have the spiritual or metaphysical answers, we do know what happens to the body as it decomposes. Though most of us have a cursory understanding of decay, not everyone knows that there are actually eight stages of death. The body goes through these specific stages... Continue Reading →
When The Golden Stars Are Shining Bright, Up In The Light Of The Moon. I Look At The Sky To See Your Face, And Wish To Meet You Soon. Though I Know Its Paradise Lost, Between You And Me. My Realm Does Not Understand, Your Thoughts Still Hurt Plenty. A Storm Rages In The... Continue Reading →
You're sitting in eight lanes of bumper-to-bumper traffic. You're more than ready to get home, but you notice, to your great dismay, that all of the other lanes seem to be moving. You change lanes. But once you do, the cars in your new lane come to a dead halt. At a standstill, you notice every lane on... Continue Reading →
As a child, ever since i became conscious and aware of my surrounding and humanity in general, my peers used to constantly remind me about god being omnipresent and affecting our lives in various ways. Its like, god is present everywhere and one should accept everything as its will, or some kind of similar crap.... Continue Reading →
What does your body shape say about your personality? From the top of your head to the tips of your toes, your body parts contain certain clues to your personality. Be it the arch of an eyebrow, length of an index finger, or the shape of your hairline, each body part reveals many things about... Continue Reading →
It is considered an effect of hindsight bias that explains claimed predictions of significant events such as plane crashes and natural disasters. Advocates of the prophetic abilities of Nostradamus are experts at retroactive clairvoyance, as are those who defend the notion that the Bible contains a prophetic code. It was only many years after the... Continue Reading →
Project Maven, also known as the Algorithmic Warfare Cross-Function Team, launched in April 2017 is reportedly a new AI (artificial intelligence) system to track terrorists and High Value Targets. It is an AI-powered algorithm that could accurately spot targets, differentiating between different objects, such as people, cars and types of buildings. A computer algorithm is... Continue Reading →
The Hannibal Directive is the code name of an order that the Israel Defense Forces has been accused of implementing regarding how field units should respond when a soldier is captured by enemy forces. First devised in 1986 by three senior army commanders, it stipulated measures to be taken when an Israeli soldier was captured... Continue Reading →
Everyone has a unique tongue print, just like fingerprints. In South Korea, there is an Emergency No.(113) to report spies. Light doesn't necessarily travel at the speed of light. The slowest we've ever recorded light moving at is 38 mph. The human nose can remember 50,000 different scents. The loneliest creature on Earth is a... Continue Reading →
In 2009, a malicious computer program smashed through a nuclear plant in Iran. The 'worm' – now known as Stuxnet – took control of 1,000 machines involved with producing nuclear materials, and instructed them to self-destruct. Stuxnet is a malicious computer worm, first uncovered in 2010 by Kaspersky Lab. Thought to have been in development... Continue Reading →
The bystander effect, or bystander apathy, is a social psychological phenomenon in which individuals are less likely to offer help to a victim when other people are present. The greater the number of bystanders, the less likely it is that any one of them will help. Several factors contribute to the bystander effect, including ambiguity,... Continue Reading →
The Crooked House (Sopot, Poland) The Piano House — Anhui, China Dancing House | Czech Republic Mind House (Barcelona, Spain) Habitat 67 | Montreal, Canada Stone House (Guimares, Portugal) Forest Spiral | Germany Crazy House — Dalat, Vietnam Ryugyong Hotel — Pyongyang, North Korea The Solar... Continue Reading →
A domino effect or chain reaction is the cumulative effect produced when one event sets off a chain of similar events. For example, a 2012 study from researchers at Northwestern University found that when people decreased their amount of sedentary leisure time each day, they also reduced their daily fat intake. The participants were never specifically told to eat... Continue Reading →
While many tactics and general principles will remain the same, there are some very important differences between high-intensity conventional urban combat and the sort of precision Close Quarters Battle (CQB). Rule #1: The Fatal Funnel Unless the plan is to breach a wall, the likely place of entry into a potentially hostile room is through the... Continue Reading →
Behind every angry woman is a man who has absolutely no idea what he did wrong. The road to success is always under construction. If sex is a pain in the ass, then you're doing it wrong ... I would like to slip into something more comfortable - like a coma. Google request: How to disable... Continue Reading →
Your face shape tends to reveal your basic personality and your overall approach to life. While most people don't have a distinct face shape (you could have a mix of a square and round or oval and diamond-shaped face), some people do have one that you can clearly recognize. Rectangular Face Shape: This shape is squared off at the forehead and chin.... Continue Reading →
The Lucifer Effect raises a fundamental question about the essence of human nature: How is it possible for ordinary, average, even good people to become perpetrators of evil? In trying to understand unusual, or aberrant behavior, we often err in focusing exclusively on the inner determinants of genes, personality, and character, as we also tend... Continue Reading →
Kopi luwak or civet coffee, is the most expensive coffee in the world, that includes part-digested coffee cherries eaten and defecated by the Asian palm civet cat (Paradoxurus hermaphroditus). Fermentation occurs as the cherries pass through a civet's intestines, and after being defecated with other fecal matter. The feces of this cat are collected, processed and sold. It... Continue Reading →
GENERAL TIPS AND POINTS: > If your games are stored on a conventional HDD treat it to a little TLC once in a while. Clear out the old files and uninstall software you don't use. Then run a disc cleanup to get rid of the remaining garbage. While Windows has its own tools for this... Continue Reading →
The 26 code words in the NATO phonetic alphabet are assigned to the 26 letters of the English alphabet in alphabetical order as follows: Alfa, Bravo, Charlie, Delta, Echo, Foxtrot, Golf, Hotel, India, Juliett, Kilo, Lima, Mike, November, Oscar, Papa, Quebec, Romeo, Sierra, Tango, Uniform, Victor, Whiskey, X-ray, Yankee, Zulu....more
Every profession and industry has its own vocabulary. Using baseball terms to explain a football game is tough. These are some of the terms we use...The_Stratfor_Glossary_of_Useful_Baffling_and_Strange_Intelligence_Terms
Take my soul, gimme pain. Destinys child in november rain Two steps back, yesterday once more. Lost in time with memories galore. I wonder why, I wonder how. Trying to cross this river somehow. You never said, I never knew. Now am left with moments few. Take my name, give me creed. You are delirious,... Continue Reading →
Cloud computing is the delivery of computing as a service rather than a product, whereby shared resources, software, and information are provided to computers and other devices as a utility. The following PPT will be helpful to understand it further... CLOUD Computing
No one seems to be there when i long for. Sometimes i wonder, what do i do more. Times are grey, its destiny's misdeed. Am i mourning? or am i insipid!!! Its often much more than just a rogue feeling. I wonder at times, whom its killing? My soul searches for truths and answers. Did... Continue Reading →
Some famous SPECIAL FORCES taglines... "Speed, Surprise, and Violence of Action" US Army Delta Detachment "Celeritas Impetus Violentia" "The only easy day was yesterday!" US Navy SEALS "De Oppreso Liber" Liberator of the Oppressed U.S. Army Special Forces The GREEN BERET's "One Shot; One Kill" US Army Special Forces Snipers "Rendezvous With Destiny" 101ST AIRBORNE... Continue Reading →
C – Desktop processor based on the LGA 1150 package with high performance graphics H – High performance graphics K – Unlocked M – Mobile Q – Quad-core R – Desktop processor based on BGA1364 (mobile) package with high performance graphics S – Performance-optimized lifestyle T – Power-optimized lifestyle U – Ultra-low power X –... Continue Reading →
That fateful night, when i was born. A part of me, was already gone. I didn't realize, at that time. My existence is, a misunderstood crime. She broke my heart, and let me go. My heartbeats went, missing and slow. The time was awry, the life was wrong. I knew deep down, I will never... Continue Reading →
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