CPT531 : MINOTAUR ROCKET : Crypticon Recon Photo

IMAGE TAKEN ON THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2005

DURING STANDARD COVERT OPS, AGENT DARKNIGHT OF THE CRYPTICON CAPTURED THIS RECON PHOTO OF A MILITARY MINOTAUR ROCKET CARRYING A SECRETIVE PAYLOAD.

VENUS IS SEEN IN THE LOWER LEFT HORIZON.

THE CONTRAIL SEPARATION IS FROM THE TRANSITION OF THE 2 SUB-ORBITAL STAGES. THE SECOND STAGE PLUME APPEARED TO BE LIKE A MOVING TRANSLUCENT DOUBLE WALLED SQUID HEAD PUSHING THE MASSIVE INVISIBLE PAYLOAD DIAGONALLY, AS THE VANTAGE POINT FROM SAN DIEGO HAS THE ROCKET CLOCKED IN THE UPPER ATMOSPHERE, BUT SEEMINGLY 'LOW' FROM THE EARTH PERSPECTIVE WE ARE POSITIONED AT.

THE FOLLOWING EXERPTS COME FROM SPACE.COM:


---When the sun goes down at California's Vandenberg Air Force Base tonight, an obscure little satellite will blast off to begin its year-long mission for the U.S. military's research and development agency.

The Space Test Program-R1 project's Streak satellite carries a classified price tag and limited details about its underlying purpose. But the launch should be widely visible throughout central and southern California, perhaps as far inland as Arizona and Nevada, if weather conditions permit, when the Minotaur rocket roars into space to deploy its cargo.

Liftoff from the Space Launch Complex 8 pad located on Vandenberg's southern edge will occur during a window extending from 7:24 to 7:40 p.m. PDT.

Ascending skyward along a southerly trajectory over the Pacific, the slender white rocket has the potential to produce a spectacular "twilight phenomenon" display of green, blue, white and rose colors in expanding, twisting clouds. The cause: unburned fuel particles and water drops in the rocket's contrail freeze in the less dense upper atmosphere and get reflected by sunlight at high altitudes during launches timed just before sunrise or shortly after sunset.

The Orbital Sciences-managed Minotaur rocket is formed by using decommissioned first and second stages from a Minuteman 2 ICBM missile and solid-propellant motors from the commercial Pegasus rocket program for its third and fourth stages. The vehicle is designed to provide the U.S. government with reliable access to space for small satellites.

Air Force launch officials say it will take about nine minutes for the Minotaur to haul the STP-R1 mission to the desired orbit tonight. The satellite, dubbed Streak by its operator, will test technologies for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.

"Streak is a technology demonstrator whose objective is to demonstrate rapid response, short mission life, low Earth orbit space technologies and gather information about the low Earth orbit environment," a DARPA spokesperson said.

Information released by DARPA indicates Streak is fitted with two instruments -- an ion gauge and an atomic oxygen sensor.

General Dynamics C4 Systems/Spectrum Astro Space Systems built the craft in Gilbert, Arizona.

DARPA is the Defense Department organization whose mission is "to maintain the technological superiority of the U.S. military and prevent technological surprise from harming our national security by sponsoring revolutionary, high-payoff research that bridges the gap between fundamental discoveries and their military use."---

www.SPACE.com --- www.LiveScience.com

CPT530 : AMERICAN CRYPTOGRAPHY : NSA file

---The need to safeguard one's own communications while attempting to produce intelligence from foreign communications has long been a recognized part of governmental activity.

In the American experience, cryptologic efforts can be traced to the very beginnings of the American nation. George Washington employed Elbridge Gerry (later Vice President of the United States) to solve the suspected cryptograms of a spy. Thomas Jefferson included the making of codes and ciphers among his many interests, putting his efforts to use in both private correspondence and public business. One of his inventions, the cipher wheel, has been described as being in "the front rank" of cryptologic inventions.

The American Civil War created a new urgency for techniques in both cryptography (the manufacture of codes and ciphers) and cryptanalysis (the breaking of codes and ciphers). It also introduced new elements into both processes -- telegraphy and significant advances in the use of signal flags and torches. These methods of transmitting information permitted rapid communication from one outpost to another or from a commander to his subordinates, but also brought with them new dangers of the loss of that information to an enemy.

The creation of the Department of Defense (DOD) and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) reflected the desire for unified national coordination and direction of important defense and security matters. In 1949, President Truman endorsed the creation of the Armed Forces Security Agency, an effort to integrate where possible the operations of the service cryptologic establishments, augmented now by the creation of a separate Air Force. Even this proved inadequate, both in providing for central control of military cryptology and in meeting the needs of civilian agencies for communications intelligence and security. Building on the AFSA experience, a committee established by President Truman proposed the creation of a national-level cryptologic organization, a recommendation leading to the establishment of the NSA.

The National Security Agency has current headquarters at Fort Meade, MD. Additional sites and activities under NSA control or direction are maintained at a number of locations in the United States and overseas. From these facilities, signals intelligence and communications security support is provided to military commands and to civilian policy makers. Though only forty-five years old, the National Security Agency is the heir to two centuries of dedicated contribution to the defense of the United States.---

Produced by
The Center for Cryptologic History

CPT529 : ADAM SMITH ECONOMICS : Book Paraphrase

--- ADAM SMITH (1723-1790) was a great Scottish expounder of economic liberalism and the policy of laissez-faire [n: 1- An economic doctrine that opposes governmental regulation of or interference in commerce beyond the minimum necessary for a free-enterprise system to operate according to its own economic laws.
2- Noninterference in the affairs of others].

Adam Smith's book "The Theory of Moral Sentiments" has the general idea that ethical systems develop by a natural process out of individual personal relationships - a view that reflects the 18th century interest in natural law.

THE INDIVIDUAL DECIDES THAT CERTAIN ACTIONS ARE PROPER OR IMPROPER BY OBSERVING THE REACTIONS OF OTHERS TO HIS OR HER BEHAVIOR. A SOCIAL CONSENSUS THEN DEVELOPS, APPROVING THOSE PATTERNS OF BEHAVIOR THAT BENEFIT BOTH THE SOCIETY AND THE INDIVIDUAL

Technological changes were building the foundations of Industrialism.
Progress was being made because of the efforts of thousands of people acting for themselves alone.

SELF-INTEREST IN A FREE SOCIETY WOULD LEAD TO THE MOST RAPID PROGRESS AND GROWTH A NATION WAS CAPABLE OF ACHIEVING.

"The uniform, constant and uninterrupted effort of every man to better his condition, the principle from which public and national, as well as private opulence is originally derived, is frequently powerful enough to maintain the natural progress of things toward improvement, in spite of both the extravagance of government, and of the greatest errors of administration."

INDIVIDUALISM AS A WHOLE RESULTS IN ORDER, NOT CHAOS. ---


- excerpts taken from: "THE AGE OF THE ECONOMIST" by Daniel R. Fusfeld

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THE NEW CONCEPT ALBUM FROM THE CRYPTICON IS AN INTERSTELLAR RECORDING OF PURE SPACE LOUNGE MUSIC.

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