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Meet Blackbird: The homemade drone that hit nearly 700km/h https://newatlas.com/drones/biggs-blackbird-411mph/

Melbourne engineer Benjamin Biggs designed, built and flew the world’s fastest drone. It flies at more than half the speed of sound.

Mu original link, but paywalled link..... https://www.theaustralian.com.au/weekend-australian-magazine...


My link is paywalled - choose your own via google ...

How Mossad hacked traffic cameras to track Ayatollah Khamenei A network of operatives infiltrated the supreme leader’s inner circle. After months of watching and listening, Mossad jammed his bodyguards’ phones and then the jets struck.

My original link that is paywalled https://www.theaustralian.com.au/world/the-times/inside-isra... Has lots geeky details......



One maybe unrecognized problem, of breadboards is not so good for high speed digital circuits due to capacitance

wirewrap circuit construction would be more reliable. However high speed (if needed ) could be a problem ? from crosstalk.

I worked at a no longer extant networking equipment manufacturer as an intern in college in the late 1990's. My role was to work on software for an in-development 45Gb network switch, and a bunch of the software I wrote ran on prototype boards.

Since fabricating new boards took time and was expensive, a lot of work was done to make in situ modifications that involved an insane amount of wirewrapping. One member of the team did that all day, every day as their full time job, and I was always amazed by their ability to focus consistently at that level for so long.


Is there some kind of "magnetic microscope. Something with a head that detects magnetism, that could be made to scan (vary closely ) the surface of the floppy with out actuallyTOUCHING the surface. This data could then be decoded to the actual data. It would be a "long winded" and require lots processing , but it would avoid wearing the floppy out....?

Magnetic Force Microscopy is a known data recovery technique and the originating technology of the various aggressive disk wiping programs.

This is exactly what magnetic flux imaging does, it just uses a regular floppy mechanism with all the risk that entails.

If one built a more sensitive head mechanism that floats above the disk, one could (say) load a disk sans envelope/case and take a flux image of it without anything touching the surface.

Then one could use the existing flux processing software (possibly tweaking it) to extract the data.


I'd suggest, their is intellectual curiosity about how the rich and powerful seem to be treated differently.

Consider , others accused of such crimes, would be very quickly to court to face accusers before a judge, but in the this case it has not happened? Why?

Seems to be some unspoken protection between others?


Ghislaine Maxwell, has said she had never saw Epstein do anything untoward.... She now says, she’ll tell everything?? in exchange for immunity.

Why has Andrew not been extradited to USA.?

Any commoner would have been sent "quick smart" to face the accusations there in court?


The obvious explanation is that none of the men who abused girls via their relationship with Epstein are being prosecuted in the USA. So why should it be surprising that Andrew is not?

"...The obvious explanation is that none of the men who abused girls via their relationship with Epstein are being prosecuted in the USA...."

That's my question too. Why not. Seems they are protected.


Right, but they're not protected by being members of the British Royal Family. So it doesn't seem necessary to appeal to that factor as part of the explanation for why Andrew has not been prosecuted in the US.

I think there is a lot more of this story to play out ...

Still seems to be lots more to play out.

Example - Why all the supposed "...rich and powerful names ...." being seemingly protected ?

What do they have to hide ?


Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office

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