now the pentagon and its super secret of division darpa had been working on another unmanned aerial device and they're very proud of their baby the falcon hypersonic technology vehicle two so when the defense department tested their newest project they wanted to make sure that everybody knew about it. the defense department plans the second test for its super fast aircraft that can fly at a blistering speed of thirteen thousand miles per hour or twenty times the speed of sound if everything goes as planned the pentagon would be gifted with a lightning fast to be a goal capable of delivering a military strike anywhere in the world in less than an hour to give you that's right this bad boy boasts all sorts of stats that would just make your jaw drop tell darpa was so confident it even tweeted the entire testing process except the h t v two didn't do very well in fact just a few minutes after taking off darpa tweet it range assets of the last elementary with h t v two more to follow and reports show the signal was lost on the mountain

attention earthlings here dreams of going to the stars of may have just one step closer to reality darpa the fun science wing of the u.s. military has announced it's going to be awarding five hundred thousand dollars in seed money to an organization with the best plan to make interstellar travel reality in the next one hundred years i know pretty awesome right now for you too excited about the prospect of jetting to the stars any time soon there are do we say a few minor road blocks the thing is ridiculous by the way this picture by one of those road logs being that is all still a very very very long way away like a couple of centuries away but you know you've got to get the ball rolling then of course there is the price tag which is pretty impressive experts are predicting that human interest teller travel could cost somewhere in the hundreds of trillions of dollars and considering we have congressman arguing over cuts to aid for senior citizens i'm going to go out on a limb and say that the cost is going to go in the major impediment category now the ultimate goal this project would be

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to colonize other countries we spend billions if not trillions doing every year so i don't know if darpa decides to explore the potential for human travel to the stars i give them my stamp of approval and i put myself on the waiting list but let's stop the wars first. we have our thursday edition of shelling out and a member of the congressional black caucus says they're ready to challenge president obama. if this white house has turned its back on the back tracking system of. an issue free cretaceous free in-store chargers free arrangement free. three stooges free. download free bird live video. free media. tom. and welcome back broadcasting live direct from the heart of moscow this is our two glad to have with us with the headlines european leaders and of the u.s. issues strong statements calling on syria's president assad to step down just as he promises a halt to all domestic military operations and the u.n. is to send a humanitarian mission to assess the extent of the government's crackdown on protesters. at least fifteen palestinian rebels have been killed in egypt and gaza as that

i was a consultant when i left darpa in 2006. went back to texas. i wanted to look at the possibility of introducing a microunmanned system to the law enforcement community. basically in a nutshell i could probably summarize it in cost, complexity and risk. okay? those are the things you basically have to consider. with we went -- when we attacked this issue, there's a number of things that you have to consider. you're going to have to be a bundler of capabilities, okay? part of the issue is, you're going to have to consider training, providing training, providing the ability to purchase the equipment and then you're going to have to deal with the regulatory issues, okay? if you can do all those three things, you're going to accomplish your mission. and basically in the state of texas, we have this can-do attitude and we're not going to stop because we can't meet the regulatory regulations. we're going to get smart about it. we're going to talk to the regulators. we're going to learn about it and then we're going to deal with it. many times when i t

see the internet kill switch more and more being rolled out we see the pentagon in control of it and darpa here in the united states and they admit it to track and trace and shut down political speech if you could just give me one or two sentences of your prediction for sort of the implications of this especially in regards to social media and the internet it's one to be used all over the western world as a pretext to even shut down mile political speech and it's all being done because the police stood down and didn't miss these these riots in the bud from the very very beginning this is this is the beginning of the end of the internet and freedom of speech if we don't stand up and speak out against this radio host alex jones joining us from often tax us. and still ahead here on our king of the america at five pm we've heard all about the end of the world in two thousand and twelve but could it be much much sooner we'll consider this just this year alone we've had a devastating earthquake rocked japan and set off nuclear sized worries about radiation to the flooding that turned the u.s. he

sending humans to the stars it's pretty low on the totem pole for politicians i can just see it now the darpa seed money for human travel to the stars in a campaign commercial about wasteful government spending along with some turtles who got a few thousand dollars in cash but you know what they're going to see it i would rather be spending five hundred thousand dollars for humans to colonize the stars and to colonize other countries which we spend billions if not trillions doing every year so i don't know if decides to explore the potential for human travel to the stars i give them my stamp of approval and i put myself on the waiting list but let's stop the wars first. also a cause that we have our thursday edition of showing tell and a member of the congressional black caucus says that they're ready to challenge president obama so tonight we're asking if this white house has turned its that on the black community practice them. into that only a military mechanism to do the work to bring justice or. not i have every right to know what my government should do if you want to know why i pay tax

big blue will announce it produced two prototype chip with 100 researchers and $41 million from the darpaa little known pentagon agency behind some of america's most secret and futuristic research projects. ibm's new chip is made up of tiny processors that mimic the human brain neural network and one day they may allow computers to make decisions based on gathering and analyzing lots of information. it may also be able to rewire itself to learn new things that are not part of its original programming. >>> break through drug to treat skin cancer will soon be hitting the market. it was developed here in the bay area. the fda has approved zelboraf as a treatment for melanoma. the drug targets the genetic mutation found in about half the patients. the pill is the first treatment that targets a specific gene. doctors say it slows tumor growth. >> it's not really killing the normal cells. this kills only the cells who were dependent on the mutation. this is the first pill to take to shrink the mellowna and will lead to you living longer than you would have. >> zelboraf was co-developed by the r

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