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Blue Origin Rocket Exploded Thursday Night During Hot-Fire Test (cbsnews.com) 73

Spaceflight Now shared their video of the explosion, which the Orlando Sentinel describes as showing Blue Origin's rocket "become engulfed in flames. The fireball expands out and covers the entire launch pad as the fuselage of the rocket can be seen crumbling into the flames."

Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos said on X.com "It's too early to know the root cause but we're already working to find it. Very rough day, but we'll rebuild whatever needs rebuilding and get back to flying. It's worth it." (SpaceX founder Elon Musk posted "Sorry to see this, I hope you recover quickly.")

It's unclear how this will impact future launches. "The rocket was destroyed," reports CBS News, "and as the smoke cleared, there was no sign of the erector-gantry used to move the New Glenn from its hangar to the pad and to raise it from horizontal to vertical. Likewise, one of two tall lightning towers was no longer visible." It was the first such on-pad explosion at the Cape since a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket blew up on nearby pad 40 on Sept. 1, 2016... Blue Origin only has one New Glenn pad, the one that was damaged in the Thursday test. The New Glenn, which has launched three times, is a heavy lift rocket designed to compete head-to-head with SpaceX Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy rockets. During New Glenn's most recent flight in April, an upper stage malfunction prevented a commercial internet satellite from reaching its planned orbit...

The New Glenn destroyed Thursday was to send 48 Leo internet satellites owned by Amazon into space [which were not on board for the hot-fire test]

Blue Origin posted on X.com that "Debris from our recent hotfire anomaly may wash ashore in the coming days/weeks. If you encounter any debris, do not touch or approach it for your safety."

"Spaceflight is unforgiving, and developing new heavy-lift launch capability is extraordinarily difficult..." NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman posted on X.com. "âWe will provide information on any impacts to the Artemis and Moon Base programs as it becomes available."

Thanks to long-time Slashdot reader symbolset for sharing the news.

Comment A doctor's job is AI-proof! (Score -1) 32

AI will get more and more powerful as time goes on. Office and IT jobs are doomed.

To any young people reading this: consider a trade like plumbing or electical work. Or, if working as a health care professional has ever crossed your mind: try Chiropractic College! After an undergraduate degree (and even that isn't always necessary), you can become a Doctor in 3-4 years depending on which chiropractic college you attend.

The money is good, the work is very rewarding, and you can go home after a long day at the office knowing you've improved the health of potentially dozens of people every day.

A doctor's job is AI-proof!

Comment Diabetes can be cured through Chiropractic. (Score -1, Troll) 20

It's a proven fact that Type 1 diabetes is a disease caused by an immune system that is out of alignment. It sees the pancreas as a foreign tissue invader and attacks the pancreas.

Intensive chiropractic treatments will destroy all the vertebral subluxations in the patient's spine and allow the nerve impulses to travel unhindered through the body's main nerve conduit. When that happens, the body's immune system goes back to proper functioning and no longer attacks the pancreas.

It can take up to two years of daily chiropractic care to reach this point. After that all the patient requires are maintenance adjustements once or twice a week.

Type 2 diabetes can be managed with daily chiropractic adjustments, but the patient must first make lifestyle changes to reduce or eliminate the need for vertebral adjustments.

Take care,
- Bob

Comment Brain cancer rates will plummet in Moscow (Score -1, Offtopic) 54

It's well documented that mobile cellular radio waves (radiation) causes brain tumors. If this outage continues for any length of time, watch the brain tumor rates in Moscow actually drop by 80%-90% in 8-10 years then jump back up in lockstep with the timeframe of the cellular system being re-enabled.

I know two chiropractors in Moscow and they are ecstatic about this. The number of vertebral subluxations which impeded the immune system and allow cancers to flourish have been increasing as people become more and more glued to their mobile devices.

Take care,
Bob
Science

Scientists Found a Way To Cool Quantum Computers Using Noise (sciencedaily.com) 7

Slashdot reader alternative_right writes: Quantum computers need extreme cold to work, but the very systems that keep them cold also create noise that can destroy fragile quantum information. Scientists in Sweden have now flipped that problem on its head by building a tiny quantum refrigerator that actually uses noise to drive cooling instead of fighting it. By carefully steering heat at unimaginably small scales, the device can act as a refrigerator, heat engine, or energy amplifier inside quantum circuits.
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Journal Journal: Where is everyone going?

Slashdor.org used to be a very busy site. I still pop in to do the occasional reading and commenting, but there seems to be far fewer people than when I first joined in 2011 or so.

Where are they going? I would like to join these new sites and continue to spread the word of chiropractic health management to the world.

Comment They need onsite chiropractic care for emergencies (Score -1, Troll) 43


When the disastrous Fukushima meltdown happened, a small group of health care professionals I am a member of called Chiropractors Without Borders offered to fly to Japan as an emergency response team.

Most people alive today have health-robbing vertebral subluxations which can affect everything from balance to fertility. A subluxated person is far more likely to have issues with radiation negatively affecting them, especially things like the thyroid.

Japan denied our request.

I would hope they learned their lesson and will have on-site chiropractic care for those workers who were inadvertantly exposed to deadly radiation. A worker who handles a radioactive rod without protection may die in days without immediate and focused chiropractic treatments.

Submission + - Putin's most feared missile downed with a song (telegraph.co.uk)

fahrbot-bot writes: The Telegraph is reporting that Ukraine forces are jamming signals for Russia's ‘invincible’ Kinzhal hyper-sonic missile with a song satirizing Russian propaganda.

Night Watch, the group operating the technology, claims to have brought down 19 Kinzhal missiles – described by Putin as “invincible” – in the past two weeks.

The team told technology website 404 Media that it is using a song and a redirection order to knock the “next-generation” missiles, which carry a 480kg payload and cost around £7.7m each, out of the sky.

Kinzhals and other guided munitions rely on the GLONASS system – Russia’s GPS-style navigation network using satellites – to find their targets. Night Watch developed its own “Lima” jamming system that replaces the missiles’ satellite navigation signals with the Ukrainian song “Our Father is Bandera”.

When the song begins, the Lima system feeds the incoming missiles a false navigation signal, tricking them into believing that they are flying over Lima, in Peru, so that they attempt to change their trajectory. Traveling at a speed of more than 4,000 miles per hour, however, the missiles become destabilized by the abrupt and unexpected change of course.

Night Watch said they developed the system after discovering that the Kinzhals used a controlled reception pattern antenna (CRPA), an antiquated type of technology for resisting, jamming and spoofing. The team told 404: “They had the same type of receivers as old Soviet missiles used to have.

“The airframe cannot withstand the excessive stress and the missile naturally fails. When the Kinzhal tried to quickly change navigation, the fuselage of this missile was unable to handle the speed and, yeah, it was just cut into two parts. The biggest advantage of those missiles, speed, was used against them.”

Submission + - DOJ Arrests U.S. Citizens and Chinese Nationals for Exporting AI Tech to China (pjmedia.com)

schwit1 writes: The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced in a statement that it has arrested two U.S. citizens and two Chinese nationals and charged them with conspiracy to illegally export to China advanced NVIDIA microchips called Graphics Processing Units (GPUs). GPUs are used in a wide range of critical artificial intelligence (AI) applications.

The two American citizens who were arrested are Hon Ning Ho, also known as “Mathew Ho,” a Tampa resident who was born in Hong Kong, and Brian Curtis Raymond from Huntsville, Alabama. The two Chinese nationals arrested by the DOJ are Cham Li, also known as “Tony Li,” a resident of San Leandro, California, and Jing Chen, also known as “Harry Chen,” a 45-year-old who was living in Tampa under an F-1 nonimmigrant student visa.

All four were arrested and appeared in courtrooms in their respective jurisdictions on Nov. 19.

“The indictment unsealed yesterday alleges a deliberate and deceptive effort to transship controlled NVIDIA GPUs to China by falsifying paperwork, creating fake contracts, and misleading U.S. authorities,” said Assistant Attorney General for National Security John A. Eisenberg. “The National Security Division is committed to disrupting these kinds of black markets of sensitive U.S. technologies and holding accountable those who participate in this illicit trade.”

The charges the defendants face include multiple counts of conspiracy to violate the Export Control Reform Act (ECRA); ECRA violations; smuggling; conspiracy to commit money laundering, and money laundering. Each defendant faces a possible 20-year prison sentence for each ECRA violation, 10 years per smuggling count, and 20 years per money laundering count. Given the number of counts they face, it’s possible they could spend the rest of their lives in prison.

The defendants will be tried in federal court in Florida.

Earlier this year, a report from the Financial Times revealed that at least $1 billion worth of Nvidia’s chips were shipped to China after the Trump administration began to intensify the restrictions on microchips to China.

Comment Re:Lesson the pay + bring in proper care = loyalty (Score -1, Troll) 24

For years I've had Slashdotians calling me all sorts of names: troll, shill, quack, you name it.

They hate me because I tell the truth and they're brainwashed by Big Pharmaceutical and Big Science. You know what's real? Results. The results speak for themselves. Imagine a couple in their 50s who has been trying to have a child for decades. They've given up. Even though I'm semi-retired, I keep my office open every Tuesday. The first Tuesday of every month is a BOGO adjustment day.

Anyhow...

This couple in their 50s visits me. I adjust them both and have to revisit them both half an hour later for further treatments as their spines were absolutely riddled with vertebral subluxations. Both of them had horrible subluxations around their L1-L:5 vertebrae. These are just above the pelvis and carry the signals to the reproductive system.

After my heavy work, they left. A bit sore but excited.

Several weeks later they were back and absolutely glowing. "Doc," the woman said bursting out in tears, "We're pregnant! After 30 years of trying, we're pregnant!" It was truly a heartwarming moment and made me proud of what I do to help people overcome their dis-ease and poor lifestyle choices.

They were thinking of going to a Big Pharma-backed obstetrician but after some talk, I convinced them it was a waste of their time and money. They'll be visiting me every Tuesday until that beautiful baby is born. I've given them the name of a wonderful midwife I know who has been delivering babies for over 60 years.

Down Syndrome? Not real. It's caused by drinking pasteurized milk, not age. Risk of sudden fetal loss? No change since you were 18 unless you use a microwave oven and irradiate yourself with its cancer-beams.

Take care,
Bob

Comment Lesson the pay + bring in proper care = loyalty! (Score 1, Funny) 24


They are boosting the pay of the staff but those staff are sitting down for countless hours chatting with an AI while their spines become riddled with health-robbing vertebral subluxations.

Sure, their pay has risen by 60% but I guarantee you their lives will be shortened by at least 1 year for every 3 years of employment.

If Klarna truly cares about their employees, they would reduce that pay increase to around 50% and use that to have several highly trained Doctors of Chiropractic on hard to treat the workers. Imagine the relief knowing you could leave your cubicle and head down the hall to have your vertebral subluxations dealt with.

This would add years to the employees' lives and absolutely would help solidify their loyalty to the company. After all, if the company cares this much, why would you leave?

Take care,
Bob

Comment AI is biased against anything not Big Pharma (Score -1, Offtopic) 27

Ask any AI about how chiropractic adjustments can add years to your life and you get a bunch of biased garbage telling you it's not true and you should trust only those "doctors" in the pockets of Big Pharma and Big Vaccine.

Your body's nervous system is a highly sensitive system of 'organic wiring'. A vertebral subluxation in the spine is like a kink in a garden hose. Sure, the nerve impulse flow, but they are restricted which leads directly to dis-ease.

Only a trained professional from a recognized chiropractic college has the knowledge to release these subluxations and have your nervous system in tip-top performance. It takes only minutes, but can add years to your life.

The next time your Pharma Doc pushes pills on your, or a vaccine for "insurance", take a trip to a Doctor of Chiropractic and get a second, educated opinion.

Take care,
Bob
Privacy

Manufacturer Remotely Bricks Smart Vacuum After Its Owner Blocked It From Collecting Data (tomshardware.com) 123

"An engineer got curious about how his iLife A11 smart vacuum worked and monitored the network traffic coming from the device," writes Tom's Hardware.

"That's when he noticed it was constantly sending logs and telemetry data to the manufacturer — something he hadn't consented to." The user, Harishankar, decided to block the telemetry servers' IP addresses on his network, while keeping the firmware and OTA servers open. While his smart gadget worked for a while, it just refused to turn on soon after... He sent it to the service center multiple times, wherein the technicians would turn it on and see nothing wrong with the vacuum. When they returned it to him, it would work for a few days and then fail to boot again... [H]e decided to disassemble the thing to determine what killed it and to see if he could get it working again...

[He discovered] a GD32F103 microcontroller to manage its plethora of sensors, including Lidar, gyroscopes, and encoders. He created PCB connectors and wrote Python scripts to control them with a computer, presumably to test each piece individually and identify what went wrong. From there, he built a Raspberry Pi joystick to manually drive the vacuum, proving that there was nothing wrong with the hardware. From this, he looked at its software and operating system, and that's where he discovered the dark truth: his smart vacuum was a security nightmare and a black hole for his personal data.

First of all, it's Android Debug Bridge, which gives him full root access to the vacuum, wasn't protected by any kind of password or encryption. The manufacturer added a makeshift security protocol by omitting a crucial file, which caused it to disconnect soon after booting, but Harishankar easily bypassed it. He then discovered that it used Google Cartographer to build a live 3D map of his home. This isn't unusual, by far. After all, it's a smart vacuum, and it needs that data to navigate around his home. However, the concerning thing is that it was sending off all this data to the manufacturer's server. It makes sense for the device to send this data to the manufacturer, as its onboard SoC is nowhere near powerful enough to process all that data. However, it seems that iLife did not clear this with its customers.

Furthermore, the engineer made one disturbing discovery — deep in the logs of his non-functioning smart vacuum, he found a command with a timestamp that matched exactly the time the gadget stopped working. This was clearly a kill command, and after he reversed it and rebooted the appliance, it roared back to life.

Thanks to long-time Slashdot reader registrations_suck for sharing the article.

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