"SKYNET"
FYI, and because you should know....
http://www.goingfaster.com/term2029/skynet.html {worth a good read}

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE CONTROLLED NETWORK DEFENSE COMPUTER SYSTEM
Recent breakthroughs in advanced microchip design and computer processing power were the impetus that led to America’s first military grade neural net based artificial intelligence, SKYNET.
The SKYNET project was constructed in the mid 1990’s and would interface and coordinate all of America’s strategic arsenal into one cohesive command structure.
The SKYNET project was located well below the surface of Cheyenne Mountain, Colorado; the original home of the North American Defense (NORAD) Command.
SKYNET would integrate with and ultimately supersede all NORAD authority and administration. The project took five and a half years to complete (1991 to 1997), displaced over two hundred thousand tons of rock hewn from the inner mountain, included over a million miles of fiber optic cable, and had an expenditure of almost a hundred billion dollars. A full time staff of six hundred and eighty-five personnel were on hand to monitor and guide SKYNET once it came online and to handle the various and sundry aspects that the artificial intelligence could not.
SKYNET’s integral components were designed to be shielded by several hundred feet of solid natural rock at the heart of the mountain, its central processing core rested on a hydraulically stabilized mount which could withstand the seismic shock and pressure of a seventy-five megaton direct hit against the mountain surface.
Backup and redundant systems were constructed in triplicate, running in non-parallel fashion to prevent multiple systems from being lost to a single first strike or follow up strikes. SKYNET was hardened and shielded against all forms of radiation and its next generation fiber optic processing made it immune to the threat of EMP. The central processing core was self healing, with multiple logic fortresses and data survival bunkers. The entire system could suffer up to 90% operating capacity loss through software failure and up to 70% hardware failure and still recover. Satellite links allowed SKYNET to upload its data to orbital assets, thereby offering terrestrial and near orbit recovery capacity in the event of system failure or damage from attack.
Two General Electric Model 12AA 500 megawatt throughput nuclear fusion reactors (total power production rated at one gigawatt) were also constructed deep underground, in hollowed out caverns which were artificially reinforced and component armored, to keep SKYNET supplied with enough power to operate as well as to provide energy for the newly installed ground and internal defense grids which protected the computer as well as the complex itself. A vast underground natural spring was tapped into by the Army Corps of Engineers to provide not only the raw material for fuel, the cooling needed for the hydrogen distillery plant and the reactors, but also to provide the base with a supply of fresh water that would be unaffected by any conceivable nuclear exchange. With the two General Electric nuclear fusion reactors online, power was not a concern, even given SKYNET’s planned upgrades and the continuation of the development of the installation.
SKYNET had been built with a sense of conservation applied to its overall programming. it was a miser, using the bare minimum assets required to do the job right the first time, conserving its assets and using them in the most efficient manner possible. This was the first hint that the computer had been built to think long term, to think proactively rather than reactively. SKYNET was intended to play a global game of political power, and to stay one step ahead of America’s enemies, to counter their moves before they even made them, and to always stand vigilant in defense of not only the mainland, but America’s allies as well. To that end, SKYNET was designed and prepared to integrate fluidly and flawlessly with attendant pseudo-super processor arrays in friendly NATO countries. SKYNET could extend itself, casting an image of its awareness, into these foreign arrays to coordinate NATO defense not only locally, but regionally and even globally. SKYNET could partition itself as needed, subdividing its processing power as required.

Now you tell us...

Read post #51..
Just sharing the info and link with you! FYI!

"SKYNET" FYI, and because you should know....

cos the scenario in 'Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines' might'nt be so far fetched after all.

When your household appliances start going haywire: ie, dishwashers doing vaccuum cleaning and vaccuum cleaners are refrigerating, you'll know something's going on deep within the bowels of Cheyenne Mountain

BTW...thanks for the link. Cynder's, it's a very interesting read indeed.

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Post 51 is very interesting Cynder-Elluh.
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I thought so!
I loved reading the article and did some reserched based on the article.

Hmmm a UFOlogist that finds information in government databases that they all think is there. A computer hacker looking for information and didnt print one page of what he found! Sounds a bit too much like "I've been caught, i might as well make up a story so i dont look stupid" to me

(If this thread get mysteriuosly disappeared, you'll know why)

I seen 'em, I did.

I seen 'em, I did.

Of course you did, Seldomseen...of course you did!! But don't crow about it too loudly, however, or the gov't will try to convince you they were out of control weather balloons doing mach 10 across your night skies. And if you're too stubborn about it, they'll hypnotise you into believing it was a squadron of old 'Tiger Moths' practising for an air show.

The U.K. Gov't released a paper earlier in the year admitting to UFO's, but it fell short of addmitting to them being of exrta-terrestial origin.....suggesting that sightings of metallic objects doing abnornal speeds and un-natural aerial acrobatics were natural phenomena.....

And then there was Chris Carter of 'X Files' fame. Sure, it was produced for the entertainment value, but he also wanted to get across that the FBI, CIA and other gov't agencies are bullshit artists....conspirators of the highest degree to hide their dirty little secrets.

So there...Will Smith's Men in Black mightn't be so far fetched after all...gov't agencies and aliens working hand in hand

The U.K. Gov't released a paper earlier in the year admitting to UFO's, but it fell short of addmitting to them being of exrta-terrestial origin

Link

So THERE! See?

LOL...

Seriously. O.K. We're driving from Idaho down to L.A. for a couple of weeks, and we stop for gas right next to Area 51. I'll be sure to get souveniers(sp?) just to PROVE it!

O.K. We're driving from Idaho down to L.A. for a couple of weeks, and we stop for gas right next to Area 51. I'll be sure to get souveniers(sp?) just to PROVE it!

That'll prove nothing much ....just wait til my mate, Zod, revisits from his home-world of Nebulatia. I'll get him to visit WC and say a few words. Now that'd be proof

We want a ride!

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The alien has placed the mothership on autopilot,

and is traveling toward earth,

in a commuter craft.

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Gravity is not an attractive force, it is centrifigul in nature. If the world stopped spinning you'd 'fall' off. Antigravity is nothing more than creating a sympathetic field 180 degrees out of phase with our gravimetric field. Mass, the amount of, and density of an object determines how strong the gravity 'field' is. Surrounding our planet is what's known as a gravity 'well', a curviture of space created by the mass of our planet. The more mass an object has the greater the curviture. Match the field to the same polarity and like sameness (unlike opposites that attract)the two fields will repel from each other. Antigravity is the same thing. As far as UFO's are concerned, look to your history of the technologies developed by the Nazi Regime during WWII. Their experiments with antigravity and 'UFO' wannabes is well documented. Uncle Sam confiscated that technology after he helped kick their collective asses. The powers that be in this country know full well the advantages antigravity and the affect it will have on those whose pecket books are overstuffed with oil money. Then there are the 'Aliens'. Our galaxy is one of approximately 250 billion galaxies in the observable universe. Our galaxy holds about the same number of stars. Whose to say that Aliens don't exist. The only way to know one way or the other is see the proof. Until that happens all conjecture is just that and nothing more. Have a nice day.

Curvature and pocket(as opposed to curviture and pecket, they're local trademarks) should be read into my post. Sorry for the 'oops'.

And SKYNET...DUH!!! Ancient history.

Gravity is not an attractive force, it is centrifigul in nature. If the world stopped spinning you'd 'fall' off.

Oh, okay! So if gravity is a centrifugal force, and the moon is devoid of this, how come all those probes N.A.S.A. sent up there haven't fallen off....and Neil Armstrong wasn't sucked immediately into space instead of taking that first step (giant leap for mankind) on its surface?

Actually, Earth's gravitational force is a combination of atmospheric pressures, the planetary mass revolving aound a molten core, the axis being on a slight tilt, tidal movements and vulcanic activity....the fact that the Earth's surface is not a solid mass but made up of tectonic plates which keep it in a constant state of dynamic change, yet constant in atmospheric and gravitational states.

Planets which have been observed to consist of a single crust, and thus are devoid of tectonic plates, oceans, rivers and vulcanic activity, are said to have such dense atmospheric pressures and gravitational forces that they are incapable of sustaining life as we know it.

Earth is the only planet in our solar system exhibiting all these essential life giving/sustaining characteristics, which is probably why scientists and religious people (who are usually in disagreement about the origins of life) agree there are no aliens and mankind is the only intelligent lifeform. It is a narrow-minded and rather naive assumption which fails to consdider the possibility of Earth-like planets in distant solar systems that may very well sustain intelligent life forms ....civilisations far in advance of our own and capable of inter-stellar travel.

G'day, ET, how's things?

I love gravity...

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The Alien would like to report,

that the commuter craft is fine,

but the mothership seems to have fallen

into a black hole.

The Alien is going to try to pull it out

using a tractor beam.

The Alien isn't able to give an accurate time frame

for the procedure at the moment.

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I love gravity...

just can't stop laughing at this!!


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I love gravity...

Has its uses....but can be the worst enemy of old age.

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From my favorite "Star Trek" episode.

"Where no man has gone before"


Kirk grabs a heavy rock and prepares to

throw it at Mitchell, hesitating only for an

instant as he bids goodbye to his friend.


Kirk: "Forgive me, Gary.


But Kirk has used up precious seconds

with his farewell and now Mitchell"s powers

are regenerated!


Gary: "I will forgive you for a moment, James...

but your moment is fading!


And he pushes the rock out of Kirk's hands

with such a sudden force that Kirk is hurled

to the ground!


Fast forward a few minutes.


Kirk: "Captain's log: Stardate 1313.8--Add to official

losses Dr. Elizabeth Dehner.

Be it noted that she gave her

life in performance of her duty...Lt. Gary Mitchell...

same notation.

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Let me introduce you to

the M-5 computer.

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M5 taps into the matter/anti-matter reactors as a new power source, giving it virtually unlimited power with no one able to shut the computer down

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"The Ultimate Computer"