In Forbes magazine's December 2024 issue, they ask the question, "Will AI Test Human Control In 2025?" According to the article, the answer is yes: "AI is no longer just a tool--it has evolved into a force that increasingly challenges human oversight. Systems are beginning to exhibit behaviors that defy expectations, echoing warnings we once dismissed as science fiction or predictions of the Singularity." With this dystopian warning in mind, we've been noting the rise in military combat vehicles designed to operate without humans. It was scary enough when the military debuted its first armed drone in 1995. The MQ-1 Predator UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) carried two Hellfire missiles, lethal enough to earn the nickname "hunter-killer". But it was still a drone, which meant there was a human behind nearly every move it made. Without a human working the controls, the best the MQ-1 could do on its own was navigate between two pre-programmed points. O...
We are just one of many mammals on Earth, at least that's what we're told. But humans are so much more advanced than the other animals around us, it feels like we got a jump start. Yes, dolphins are smart and chimpanzees are smart but neither is manufacturing a pick up truck anytime soon. Why are we lightyears ahead of our fellow Earthlings? There are theories that some alien race intervened in our genetic history -- that somewhere in on the evolutionary tree, we were given a dose of alien skills. It would explain the gap. The ancient Sumerians wrote about divine beings called the Annukki with the power to create humanity and order the cosmos. These mythical giants also made appearances in ancient Akkadian, Assyrian, and Babylonian stories. Author Zecharia Sitchin was convinced the Annukki were alien astronauts who modified early hominids to create modern humans. Beginning in the late 1970's, his series of books *The Earth Chronicles* solidified the idea in mainstream cult...
When something makes impact with the ocean, it slows down. Water is a lot denser than air, it's just a fact. Even a bullet slows when it goes from sky into water. That's what made the UAP (Unidentified Aerial Phenomena) witnessed in Aquadilla, Puerto Rico on April 25, 2013 so strange. After flying around the Rafael Hernandez airport -- causing enough commotion to delay flights -- the spherical craft headed northwest over the ocean at 109.7 miles an hour, dove under the surface, and continued traveling underwater with no impact on its speed whatsoever. It defies physics. This wasn't just based on the many eye-witness accounts. Pilots from U.S. Customs and Border Protection captured the whole thing on infrared video. Watching in real-time, investigators saw no change in the ocean surface when the UAP made impact. The team from the SCU (Scientific Coalition of UFOlogy) had to examine the video one frame at a time to discern any disturbance in the water at all. The UAP was comp...