Quick review of recent US military drone defense activities
Drones are an asymmetric threat - cheap, ubiquitous, and easy to use, but expensive and hard to defend against.
Declassified Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon
The military has officially released video evidence of phenomenon that they apparently do not understand and that demonstrates capabilities (e.g., high performance with no heat signature) that is unknown to them. All three videos are available in this post.
Apollo 11's Eagle Lunar Module Landing on the Moon
A mix Augmented & Virtual Reality view of Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landing on the Moon in their Eagle LM.
20th Anniversary of the ILOVEYOU Worm
Twenty years ago, on May 4, 2000, the ILOVEYOU worm swept through an Air Force site I happen to be monitoring with an experimental network sensor. We present a video showing what our sensor was doing and how the worm looked from that sensor’s perspective.
US COVID-19 deaths surpass US deaths in Vietnam War
As of this writing Worldometer is reporting 59,110 US deaths due to COVID-19, exceeding the 58,209 US deaths (combined combat, accidents, suicide, and murder) in the 14-year Vietnam War.
Not enough data on immunity yet
We don’t know if the antibody tests now being deployed are accurate, and even if they are accurate, we don’t yet know what the results imply.
What will the death toll be? Choose your numbers
In a nutshell, estimated death toll = Population_size * (1 - 1/R0) * IFR. And as of right now, R0 is the only variable we can really control. This is why social isolation is important, but it is also important to realize R0 may vary by region. One plan may not fit all.
Behind the scenes when typing "man ditto" on the Mac Terminal
A quick dive into what your Mac does when you use the man command from the Terminal.
WHO reports strong evidence of human-to-human transmission on Jan 23
The January 23 WHO Situation Report, citing several lines of evidence, made it clear that there was person-to-person transmission of the virus.
US death toll without early shelter in place efforts? 184,000
A quick back of the envelope calculation suggests we would have 184,000 dead in the United States right now without relatively early shelter in place efforts across the country.