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Why the US military is building a tunneling earthworm

Kyle Mizokami
Popular Mechanics
Thu, 28 May 2020 12:00 UTC

We should talk about the Pentagon's strange new secret weapon.
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the Pentagon's cutting-edge research and development branch, is funding one of the oddest robotic concepts yet: a robot that mimics an earthworm to dig underground tunnels. It's all part of an effort to demonstrate robotic tunneling technologies that will provide a secure way of resupplying U.S. Army troops in battle zones.

In recent years, several armed transnational groups have turned to tunneling to support drug-running, terrorist, and paramilitary operations. Drug cartels, the terrorist groups Hezbollah and Hamas, and the Islamic State have all broken out their shovels to dig underground tunnels capable of moving drugs, fighters, and equipment. While low-tech in nature, tunnels are an effective way to create secure supply lines hidden from the prying eyes of enemies.

Meanwhile, U.S. forces are preparing for the eventuality of fighting in "megacities" — sprawling cities with a population of a million or more. In the urban environment, a distance of 100 meters could seem insurmountable, as friendly and enemy forces operate closely to one another in a patchwork of buildings, sewers, and back alleys.

Reader Comments

Rowan Cocoan · 2020-05-31T22:08:43Z

Yeah, right! As if they don't already have 'earthwormesque' borers much larger - say this big?

[Link]

Patrick2017 · 2020-06-01T00:55:12Z

Rowan Cocoan I worked for MK ( Morrison Knudsen ) world wide construction co. in 75 and were building the boring machines 40' dia. called them the mole machine they were also building high speed trains. Government contracts at best.

There blowing up the tunnels now and the under ground bases with small nukes. The good military is saving 1000.s of children that have been abducted an used for experiments and other uses which would make you sick. Some of these big earth quakes are actually small nukes blowing up the DUBS, one day this will all come out. There is a war going on right below are feet.

That was a good link, maybe more people will see it and get woken up.

Martin Harris · 2020-06-01T05:52:31Z

Patrick2017 Yes I remember the mysterious booms and quakes that dominated the news Stateside several years back and how the pattern corresponded to the Rand Corporation map of the proposed Rapid Transit System rumoured to have been actually constructed and linking Denver, Washington, and all the DUMBS around the place.

Who remembers the quake in Washington back in 2011? Totally anomalous and quite possibly a tunnel incident.

At the moment this stuff is mostly speculation (and Benjamin Fulford's involvement doesn't help credibility) but where's smoke...

Patrick2017 · 2020-06-01T13:22:47Z

Martin Harris As I remember the one in DC was to close the tunnels off from the CIA, here lately some in CA and area 51 was hit too. You can tell because of the difference in a real earth quake and a nuke with the seismograph is totally different.

Benny is a so so and I believe he’s CIA but there are better places to go to get better info. [Link] you can go back through the archives and or tags.

The link, I like what she writes and the news she puts out, have been with her for many years here in AZ.

Martin Harris · 2020-06-03T20:54:46Z

Patrick2017 Thanks for the link Patrick: Bookmarked.

Good Optics · 2020-06-04T00:37:46Z

Rowan Cocoan I just looked at your link above to underground bases and tunnels. I'd heard about all that but the patent numbers clinched it. This is one strange damn place . . .

Here's from a recent Cs session:

Are they going to haul out those soldiers from all eras in storage underground, since they wouldn’t have to arrive from the sky, but from under our feet?

(L) That was from an old session when they were talking about underground bases and so forth.

A: That is for fourth density, assuming they survive!

Q: (L) So in other words, there's a chance that all of those soldiers they've been creating and storing up could be wiped out, too?

A: Yes

Tiu · 2020-05-31T23:15:52Z

A distance of 100 meters in a city conflict can easily be reached from the air, either by plane, drone, mortar, rpg etc., etc.

Rowan Cocoan · 2020-06-01T03:36:43Z

Re, the 'drug cartel' excuse, people have completely forgotten that drugs were always available - no big deal, and the world was trying to get better - up until around WWI, when all of a sudden, such illicit revenues were created by the 'illlegalization' diktats.

Most people never step back from the presentations to ever even realize that labeling drug A 'illegal' and not 'drug B' (eg, tobacco, water) is an act of malum prohibitum , not malum in se.

Man's law ain't God's law, and God's law only deals with malum in se crimes.

RC

Agron · 2020-06-01T20:49:28Z

Rowan Cocoan The prohibition of anything just ensures it will be used even more... and that some scoundrels can get massive funding thats not in any books that will be available to public scrutiny.

Good Optics · 2020-06-01T06:10:15Z

Tunnelling companies of the Royal Engineers [Link]
The Somme: Secret Tunnel Wars (WWI Documentary - BBC) [Link]

tom2 · 2020-06-01T20:02:45Z

From the title and picture, I thought the Army was genetically engineering an earthworm. What the Army is apparently doing is wasting money on tunnel digging equipment while such equipment already exists.

Agron · 2020-06-04T07:09:16Z

Maybe they are burrowing into the ground so that they have protected bases and tunnels because SPACE X is already at 420 Starlink Sattelites. They are trying to have the WHOLE EARTH in a giant computer grid.

ON MAY 26, SPACEX FILED an application with the Federal Communications Commission for 30,000 “next-generation” (“Gen2”) satellites. They will orbit at between 328 km (203 miles) and 614 km (380 miles) in altitude. They will use frequencies from 10.7 GHz to 86 GHz. They will aim focused beams that will cover the Earth in a mosaic of overlapping cells, each cell being about 8 kilometers in diameter.

The databases filed with the FCC by SpaceX indicate that 40,700 1-MHz channels are available to each satellite, and that a minimum of 7.8125 MHz of spectrum is needed for each user, if I am interpreting them correctly. Which means the Gen2 Starlink satellites could be capable of serving up to 150 million Internet users at the same time.

This is not a good thing.

This is a HORRIBLE thing I might add!!!!!

Theres more:

The full extent to which the 420 satellites are being tested is unknown to me. They are communicating with ten earth stations located in the United States. They are being tested by the U.S. Air Force for use by military aircraft. SpaceX intends to keep launching 60 satellites at a time every couple of weeks. The next launch is scheduled for tonight, June 3, at 9:25 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time. SpaceX plans to begin what it calls beta testing with perhaps 10,000 private customers about three months from now when it has about 840 satellites in orbit. Beta testing alone could have devastating consequences. If and when Starlink signs up millions of paying customers, it is possible that nothing will survive -- no humans, no animals, and no insects. It is likely that it will be blamed on COVID-19, unless this world wakes up in time.

The Digitalization of the Ionosphere

The harm from satellites is not due primarily to the radiation levels at the earth’s surface. The satellites are in low orbits, but they are still hundreds of miles above us, and the levels of radiation they expose us to here on the ground are at most about 0.00001 μW/cm2. That is about one-millionth of the levels we are exposed to from cell phones, computers and cell towers.

The threat to life comes instead from the fact that all these satellites are located in the ionosphere. The ionosphere is a source of high voltage that controls the global electric circuit, which in turn provides the energy for life. A brief discussion of the science can be found in my 2018 article, “Planetary Emergency”. Those who wish more detail may wish to consult chapter 9 of my book, The Invisible Rainbow: A History of Electricity and Life, and the bibliography supplied with that chapter. That chapter is titled “Earth’s Electric Envelope.”

Very briefly, all animals and plants are polarized positive to negative from head to feet, or from leaves to roots. An electric current of picowatt per square meter amplitude flows from the positively charged sky to the negatively charged earth in fair weather, courses through the earth beneath our feet, and returns to the sky via lightning bolts during thunderstorms. Every living thing is part of this circuit. The current enters our heads from the sky, circulates through our meridians, and enters the earth through the soles of our feet. This current provides the energy for growth, healing, and life itself. We do not live by bread alone, but by the energy provided to us by the biosphere. Oriental medicine calls it qi or ki, Ayurvedic medicine calls it prana, and atmospheric physicists call it electricity. It provides us energy for life, and information that organizes our bodies. If you pollute this circuit with billions of digital pulsations, you will destroy all life.

It is one thing to sit in front of a computer all day, or hold one in your hand. It is quite another to live inside of one.

This must be prevented. There is no more important task on the Earth right now -- not climate change, not deforestation, not plastics in the ocean, and not stopping 5G on the ground. None of that will matter if SpaceX is allowed to go forward with Starlink.

Elon and all who want this PLEASE go jump off a cliff! Will the ALMIGHTY TRUMP cut the funding to SPACE-X? Hes sucha a good president yeah?

Good Optics · 2020-06-04T07:17:29Z

Agron Where'd you pull the quotes ?

Agron · 2020-06-04T07:22:35Z

Good Optics From Arthur Firstenberg's newsletter I just got. You kave more in Frequency Fence (5g, Starlink, etc) thread on the forum.

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