DARPA accidentally detects SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket reentry by listening to Earth’s atmosphere

[ad_1] Researchers with the U.S. military’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) have successfully used Earth’s atmosphere as a sensor to detect a distant disturbance. DARPA’s AtmoSense program aims to study how sound waves or electromagnetic frequencies travel through Earth’s atmosphere, and to find ways to use these waves as a “global sensor” to detect…

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Echo Chamber: Winston Peters, Whale Pilot

[ad_1] Call him Winnie, call him from Ishmael, but never call Winston Peters from a man who has no phrases. Echo chamber It is the dispatch of the spinoff of the Press Gallery, recapitulating the sessions of the house. The columns are written by the Lyric Waiwiri-Smith policy reporter and Wellington editor Joel Macmanus. The…

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