Showing posts with label movies. Show all posts
Showing posts with label movies. Show all posts

Saturday, January 25, 2014

A Giant Military Surveillance Blimp Is Going to Constantly Monitor the East Coast | Motherboard

photo: Raytheon


Our government, working with Raytheon, spending $2.7 billion dollars on giant surveillance blimps:
A Giant Military Surveillance Blimp Is Going to Constantly Monitor the East Coast | Motherboard: By the end of the year, there will likely be two giant Army blimps hovering 10,000 feet above Baltimore with the ability to see 340 miles in any direction.
Most forms of surveillance have weaknesses: If they’re ground-based, they have range limitations. Predator drones have to refuel and don’t have the ability to hover in one spot. Helicopters are really loud and generally have to fly pretty low. That’s where JLENS comes in. It’s a giant, 243-foot long blimp that’s tethered to the ground. It has ridiculously powerful radar and cameras. It pretty much doesn’t have to move, and it only has to land once a month or so for quick maintenance.

Yes, that means the entire mid-Atlantic region will, at least, have the potential to be under “persistent surveillance,” a dream term for those in the intelligence biz and a worst-case scenario for those who care a lick about privacy. ~ Jason Koebler

Still from John Carpenter's They Live, 1988

So it's not the Mother Ship we'll be seeing soon, but our own post 9/11 paranoia and totalitarianism.

Sunday, April 7, 2013

New Facebook Pic

I changed my Facebook profile picture the other night to this:

I thought it a perfect image to represent me. Love its retro look and the time era fits, and the U.F.O. book in her hand, what could be better? No idea though about the photo's history. Thanks to UFO cinema expert Robbie Graham of Silver Screen Saucers,  who commented on FB that the image is from "...the 'Steve Canyon' TV show (1959), Episode 'Project UFO', which was censored by the Air Force." I need to know more about that! Googling this I came across some very interesting links. YouTube doesn't have much on this specific episode, but I did find this:

 





Shepherd Johnson also left a comment about the woman in the photo. She is Julie Adams, "...who starred in 'Creature from the Black Lagoon'" one of my favorite monster movies, a classic of course, from 1954 -- the year I was born.