Robot Tech - Part 1
Mystery Objects: Human Manufactured Robots ?
It would appear we have only two options as to the source of PCs and their cohort objects. Either we are witnessing at the remnants of back-engineering of ET camouflage and/or UFO propulsion or a massive human robotic release into the atmosphere covering the entire planet.
Materials for the upper air distribution or creation of robotic devices, advanced energy sources, mass communications, coolants, camouflage, radar jamming or all of these in combination might produce by-products or 'waste' in the atmosphere....which may account for the "white haze" and "angel hair" falls and other strange atmospheric changes witnessed by PC observers.
Perhaps we should look (albeit superficially at publicly released levels) at what is being researched and developed at universities with government/defense department support. It is conceivable that human R&D projects have produced antigravity devices with electromagnetic properties driven by superconductivity and fashioned out of extremely cheap, light weight and close to fluid materials. Centrally core chips may be surrounded by not only needed energy sources but may bond temporarily as needed to other independent robotic hosts consisting of synthetic nanotech components.
With the ability to fly at astronomical speeds, these objects could perform various autonomous tasks from weather, geographical/terrain or human tracking information gathering-- to sensing and enzymatic neutralization of atmospheric toxins and biological /chemical weaponry.
I - Aerial Robotics
According to Intelligent Automation Inc. (IAI): "[D]uring November and December 1999, IAI was awarded $3 million dollars in new multi-year research contracts from DOD and NASA. These projects over a wide range of technology and enable us to continue along our established research paths in such areas as fuzzy logic based low power consumption, noise elimination, intelligent agent infrastructure development, robotics, system health monitoring and time modulated ultra-wideband radar."
While very little is mentioned about the capabilities of aerial robots at many universities -- other than two to ten foot drones and UAVs (aircraft and helicopter styles) that can only travel at 40 mph for 40 minutes -- there is talk about the usefullness of aerial and ground units working in unison...in "many robot" tasks and functions.
In "The Examination and Exploration of Algorithms and Complex Behaviour to Realistically Control Multiple Mobile Robots", Duncan Crombie, in his 1997 thesis examines the potential for aerial robots in the military setting:
[http://members.ozemail.com.au/~dcrombie/project/thesis/index.html# ]
"...Of a more serious nature, military applications could include offensive robotic swarms that home in on a target and attack en masse. The approach of a large number of mobile robots or drones could confuse and more easily infiltrate a security or defence system than a single large unit. Also being researched by the US military is the concept of replacing military satellites with 'constellations' of small mobile units[4]. This makes the destruction of the satellite much harder as it could still function with reduced numbers...."
IAI's communications development project 'Communications for Non Line of Sight Applications' "...employs the coordinated control of a swarm of small unmanned air vehicles (UAVs) to serve as nodes in a communications network between a ground station controller and unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs). IAI will use an OTS UAV for this project; however, we have designed and built our own micro-UAV (MUAV) and microrovers for other applications."
In addition, "[t]he Navy is testing unmanned mini-submarines at its Space and Naval Warfare Systems Centre in San Diego. It is also developing unmanned hovercraft that resemble fictional 1950s-vintage flying saucers. The flying craft gather intelligence while hovering quietly...." (see http://rense.com/general11/point.htm)
For more information regarding multi-agent robot systems, "flocking" and "swarming" (detection/collision avoidance/communication among groups of robots) AI learning and evolutionary concepts -- see the following sites and references:
http://members.ozemail.com.au/~dcrombie/project/thesis/ (Thesis Re: Flocking & Swarming Behavior)
http://www.red3d.com/cwr/boids/applet/ (Applet illustrating "Flocking" maneuvers)
http://www.aist.go.jp/NIBH/~b0616/Lab/Links.html (Applets for Neural Networks & Artificial Life)
http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/context/42936/32778 (Research In Multi-Agent Systems)
http://www.cs.unc.edu/~geom/collide/packages.html (Collision Detection Packages)
A. Wu, A.C. Schultz, and A. Agah. Evolving control for distributed micro air vehicles. In IEEE Computational Intelligence in Robotics and Automation Engineers Conference, 1999.
The research, theory and mobile robot competitions at college campuses abounds -- but can they fly now...and fly with extreme speed and agility as appears to be exhibited on video and eyewitness reports? The size of the PC objects caught on tape appear to be ranging from 10-20 feet in diameter certainly not the size of MAVs or other micro aerial designs. Do these designers have at present the capability of flying spherical bodies 20 feet in diameter which can hover, attach to other bodies and operate at these extreme speeds?
According to Virginia Young, chief of the concept lab in Alabama's Aviation Missile Research Development and Engineering Centre -- robot functions are still limited by shortcomings in artificial intelligence. For now, systems run by remote control within sight of the operator, or are guided by the operator using the machine's onboard sensors. Truly autonomous robots that think for themselves are at least a decade away.
What are we to believe? Are there no MAVs or aerial robots flying in our atmosphere? Or are there UFO-like robots already deployed with complex sensors to hover and zip over our communities and through our upper atmosphere--collecting enormous bits of information regarding the climate, weather, government and military projects (i.e., over-the-horizon radar, mass communications, bio/chem checks, pollutant decontamination) and the personal lives of US and world denizens?
With what appears to be a limitless speed, agility and energy supply for these "objects" in the sky -- is there human technology that can make this enormous feat possible?
Anti-Gravity & Superconductors
Although there is certainly much research into the area of antigrav Mach8+ high G force flight with anti-detection devices and materials, no evidence as of yet has surfaced that any government, military, corporate entity has mastered the capability of flight exhibiting by these contrail-associated objects.
While little is surfacing on the prospects of black project anti-gravity flight of objects large or small, some discoveries are coming to light as described in the November 2000 issue of IEEE "The Institute". Greg Gillespie reports that a Finnish researcher discovers a gravity-change effect:
"Dr. Eugene Podkletnov, a researcher at the Tampere University of Technology, Finland, reported that during a superconductivity experiment, tests showed a small drop in the weight of objects placed over a device made up of a rotating superconducting ceramic disk suspended over a magnetic field produced by three electric coils enclosed in a cryostat. The latest experiments by the Finnish researchers have reportedly registered a 2 percent drop in the weight of objects suspended over the cryostat..."
(See Superconductors and Gravity research by NASA Marshall Space Flight Center regarding YBCO superconductors and gravity at http://www.inetarena.com/~noetic/pls/Papers/msfcuah1.html and http://www.space.com/businesstechnology/technology/anti_grav_000928.html for the 9/28/00 Space.com article outlining the story of research and development)
Although various energy sources are on the theoreticians tables, at present what flying robots are presented in publicly accessed publications and in Aerial Robot Competitions are fuel powered and propeller driven vehicles. (see http://tracers.8m.com/uav.htm)
II - Advanced Materials Research
New advanced alloys and materials are being researched and developed which exhibit at least some of the aspects of the "mystery objects" possible composition...but do they cover all the components necessary and are they in current usage in aerial flight?
The constituents of PC-related objects would likely be heat-resistant, light-weight, highly flexible, inexpensive materials -- each robot utilizing atmospheric elements and self-produced energy/gases and containing autonomous artificial intelligence MEMs units with numerous sensors/attentuators. [The cost of creating and distributing the propeller gas-powered aerial craft (micro/small macro) currently being tested have been quoted at approximately $1000 a bot.]
The PC objects witnessed and photographed worldwide appear to be acutely flexible and adaptable to various functions. The white vapor-enveloped core are surrounded by shape-changing darker units which either make use of the white object in some way and/or propel it through the atmosphere. What advanced materials manufactured by humans could accomplish these feats while moving through the atmosphere from 0-hover to 30K feet per second?
The answer might lie with latest greatest science-military-corporate brainchild ...the new generation of polymers...chains of carbon atoms with links with other atoms such as oxygen, silicon, sulphur & phosphorus (most common) some forming cystalline or semi-crystalline solids...other liquids or melts.
Silk-like polymers and new metal alloys are changing our world -- used in the development of everything from exceedingly strong materials for aircraft to semiconductor nanoparticles and superconductors. (For a review of the attributes of polymers see "Building with Snakes - the Physics of Long-Chain Molecules" a lecture by Adrian R. Rennie) Silk-like synthetic polymers may be connected to the substance within persistent contrails and falling "Angel Hair". See more about "Angel Hair" and its potential connections with UFOs and persistent contrails at http://tracers.8m.com/AHair.htm)
Bioactive polymers will be used as biological sensors-- sensing physical functions and blood levels of pharmaceuticals. Electroactive polymers that can "move" upon electrical stimulation can be used one day to replace damaged muscles and in the meantime used as windshield wipers on a Mars-bound robot. Optoelectric polymers are now used to create thin film transistors, electro luminescent flat panel displays and chemical sensors.
Of particular interest to materials researchers are smart materials, especially shape memory alloys, and their application to the construction of robots...Research on shape memory alloys has produced melt-grown single crystal shape memory rods of Cu-12 to 14% Al-3 to 4% Ni, about 1/8 inch diameter and one foot long demonstrating "step-like" behavior. Some exhibit heat-based movements -- contracting with heat and expanding with cool temperatures.
The memory rods are also superelastic and they have a reactive stress of up to 400 MPa. They are being used as actuators, thermosensitive elements, superelastic hinges, flexible electrical contacts and probes, and antennae. Specifically, researchers have made robot arms with finger grippers with four degrees of freedom, a robotic "pipecrawler", a thermosensor for channel blocking in response to a fire...and other exceptionally flexible and responsive materials. (for general information about shape memory alloys (SMAs). (See http://www.u-net.com/epr/electron/issue2/feat0401.htm for information about Shape Memory Alloys)
Ongoing research at major universities at universities in the US and overseas continues regarding electrically controlled tunable holographic filters using photorefractive lithium niobate and barium titanate. These can be used in fiber optics, for tunable semiconductor lasers and as monochromic light sources. Barium titinate is also at the core of visual units of newly developed robotics.
Without any features of conventional aerodynamic flight and sweeping away the problems of material heating and drag of bluff spherical or oval shaped objects, what is keeping these 'magic machines' aloft and together?
While strong, light-weight and flexible materials are being created -- are these the substance of the PC objects? To solve this mystery, more evidence from persistent contrails, falling remnants and even the object themselves which can be realistically connected to specific contrails will be necessary to show a link to advanced materials created in private and public laboratories around the globe.
The Visitors
At this point, the question must be asked: Are these three areas of research -- aerial robotry, advanced antigravity and energy systems and advanced materials development -- at a stage of fruition whereby a combination these areas could produce these "mystery objects" apparently being transported and released via contrails into the atmosphere? Clearly, this goal is evident in the types of research being conducted worldwide at this time.
Important questions arise when considering this conundrum regarding above and below ground research projects. If, for instance, undercover secret deployment of multichannel communication and biosensor/ tracking devices within aerial robots are currently being deployed over populated areas worldwide via persistent contrails -- who is responsible for this great undertaking? Why would the earth's governments shell out billions of dollars in R&D funds to develop devices that are already being deployed?
Certainly there must be tremendous cooperation and coordination among every nation to allow craft of any sort to fly overhead releasing hundreds or thousands of objects (whether for military testing/deployment, environmental monitoring or spy purposes, etc.). What would be the ultimate risk if a foreign power suddenly discovered these devices swooping over their military bases or intelligence facilities? It does seem that there would have to be a world-wide mass collusion if this is an ongoing human operated project...
Interestingly enough, the Tracers website is being visited regularly by military air intelligence and logistics command units in addition to major research institutes, universities and a number of DARPA sponsored projects (including Micro Electro Mechanical Systems [MEMs] research) that are currently involved in robotics, advanced materials and superconductivity, aircraft, UAV and aerospace projects. (See http://tracers.8m.com/visits.htm). Exploring these public and private entities has been most revealing in not only potential motive for the visits (many visits by leading researchers leaving behind their email addresses) -- but these burgeoning multi-million dollar research projects and industries.
Many questions come to mind when considering the purpose of such visits. Are these government and research institute scientists interested because these PC objects are the product of their own research projects? Are they concerned that other countries are utilizing these objects in projects worldwide? Or are they attempting to emulate the complex behavior of the objects -- not truly aware of their origin?
The Mystery Continues...