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This is an Experiment (But what isn't?) Ok, it failed.   That's science for you.

China Passes U.S. in Laser Power.   China Passing U.S. and Europe in Giant Accelerators Thank Heavens we've got Elon Musk. ...'Cause the Trump Administration is shooting us in our science foot "The most powerful pulses of light the world has ever seen" (Science Magazine) Shanghai 5.3 million billion watts 5.3 PETAWATTS, up and running. And they are building a 100 PETAWATT model.  These super powerful, super short pulse lasers are opening vast new areas of research, and the U.S.A. is not leading the pack. Even Romania and the Czech Republic will soon zoom around us. Russia, of course is planning the Czar Bomba of lasers, a 180 PETAWATT monster.  " Largely missing from the fray are U.S. scientists, who have fallen behind in the race to high powers." sayeth the National Academy of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine. And... DONALD TRUMP WANTS A BIG PA RA DE Big, sophisticated accelerators are coming on line in China China

Not Russian, Floridian! A source of millions of bots... If you haven't read this amazing investigative report , please look at it. LLLllliiiiiikkkkkkeeee MMmmmeeee !!!! I admit, I'm preoccupied with bots and trolls... the roaring background noise of social media and "Comments" sections.  This amazing NYTimes investigative report uncovers whole new dimensions of the bot-ocracy. Not getting enough "likes" on your brilliant Twitter account? Just buy 10,000 more for a pittance! And who's to say the Russians aren't getting some of their ubiquitous bots from this American scam machine? Oh, it's a winding trail we travel. Olde Scooter's Botmania Symptoms If They Can Do This to Twitter The Russians Really Like My Blog 50,000 Twitter Bots and Counting The Russians are (still) here! The Russians are (still) here! Rebuttal (to some rudenecks) Cluster Trolls Obsession Cured (not!) Obsessed? Who Me? Classic NASTYBOT Examples

50,000 Russian Bots ....Think What They Can Do to "Comments!" There has been a lot of attention to all the bots on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Reddit, etc. My fixation has been on "Comments" bots/trolls. It all started with the bots on Breitbart for me. That's where I coined " NASTYBOT, " ( More examples ) Go ahead. Pet me.  ...those gross insults that were amping up the snarling, the American-on-American hatred. Somehow Breitbart was the perfect platform for these Russian cyber-clusterbombs. Actual nasty humans jumped right in and became "NASTYBODS," ever eager to follow the worst bully on the schoolyard. Gradually, the word is penetrating the semi-attentive among us to understand how many millions of bots are polluting the social media environment. It took a long time. HOW LONG ? The Really Big Story (of course) came in the New York Times . And this army of bots doesn't even count the Russian ones!! The OTHER

What's Really Going On While We All Watch the Clown Show (Nunes memo, et al) We are all prisoners of REGULATORY CAPTURE * Yassah, Master Oligarch, just call if you need anything else! It's called "Regulatory Capture," and the Trump Administration foxes are capturing the heck out of some very important hen houses. Republicans have advanced towards their key objective of “regulatory capture”. Regulatory capture is defined by George Stigler, a Nobel laureate economist, as “a form of government failure which occurs when a regulatory agency, created to act in the public interest, instead advances the commercial or political concerns of special interest groups that dominate the industry or sector it is charged with regulating.” Now, because of direct action by Donald Trump, with a nod from the Republican Congress, virtually all Departments and agencies in our Federal government is headed by someone from the industry or who has advocated for the industry that

Finally! Commercial Development of Unmanned, Solar-Powered Flying Wing ... with a little $help from our friends. Remember - fifteen years ago! - When you first saw this beast?      Now this amazing feat of aeronautical engineering is going to be developed further and become a spot so high in the sky you'll hardly ever see it. It can be a "flying cell tower" to bring telecom to emergency zones (It would have been a life saver over Puerto Rico). TV can be transmitted from it. Photo surveys over vast areas can be done. It can fly for weeks... maybe more! And it's now 95% owned by a huge Japanese  telecom company,   SoftBank Corp.      The American entrepreneurs (Monrovia, CA) who developed these flying wonders for NASA couldn't find an American partner, so the biggest (by far) Japanese telecom company is starting a dual venture with American company Aerovironment to utilize these mostly solar (some hybrid with fuel cell) platforms.      I wish (silly

Was there  Beef? ... Money, from Russia to the NRA? Another (potentially) YUGE story , and we are all waiting for the other shoe to drop! >>>>>>>>>>>                                                  All used to boost the Trump campaign and to demonize Hillary Clinton _________________________________________________________________________________ McClatchy, one of my journalism heroes, broke a big story on Jan18th, a head-snapper. Their investigative unit is very, very good, and McClatchyDC.com is staying on the story, now with such as Esquire, Rolling Stone, The Observer, Yahoo News... a big list of news organizations... are on the story.  Check out all the coverage here . The allegation that Russia funneled money into the NRA – to directly support Trump's presidential bid – is staggering. Until now, we've understood the Russian support of Trump to have been oblique, delivered by a cadre of Facebook and Twitter trolls, and by