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Public switched telephone network

is the network of the world's public circuit-switched telephone networks. It is a worldwide network of telephone lines, fiberoptic cables, microwave transmission links, cellular networks, communications satellites, and undersea telephone cables connected by switching centers, which allows any telephone in the world to communicate with any other. Originally a network of fixed-line analog telephone systems, the PSTN is now almost entirely digital in its core and includes mobile as well as fixed telephones.

(PSTN)

by Philip J. Corso

Contents Forward Introduction Chapter 01 - The Roswell Desert Chapter 02 - Convoy to Fort Riley Chapter 03 - The Roswell Artifacts Chapter 04 - Inside the Pentagon at the Foreign Technology Desk Chapter 05 - The Cover-up Chapter 06 - The Strategy Chapter 07 - The EBE Chapter 08 - The Project Gets Under Way Chapter 09 - The Project Had Officially Begun Chapter 10 - The U2 Program and Project Corona - Spies in Space Chapter 11 - Project Moon Base Chapter 12 - The Integrated Circuit Chip - From the Roswell Crash Site to Silicon Valley Chapter 13 - The Laser Chapter 14 - The Antimissile Missile Project Chapter 15 - My Last Year in R&D - The Hoover Files, Fiber Optics, Supertenacity, and Other Artifacts Chapter 16 - 'Tesla’s Death Ray' and the Accelerated Particle Beam Weapon Chapter 17 - Star Wars Afterword

In the space of one hour, my entire digital life was destroyed. First my Google account was taken over, then deleted. Next my Twitter account was compromised, and used as a platform to broadcast racist and homophobic messages. And worst of all, my AppleID account was broken into, and my hackers used it to remotely erase all of the data on my iPhone, iPad, and MacBook.

Two military spy telescopes, just as big and powerful as Hubble, donated to NASA

The telescopes were built by private contractors for the National Reconnaissance Office, one of 16 U.S. intelligence agencies. Each have 2.4-meter (7.9-foot) mirrors, just like the Hubble, but they have 100 times the field of view.

the telescopes, built in the late 1990s and early 2000s, are now technologically outdated, at least for intelligence operations, despite being just as powerful as Hubble. Now that something that’s worth taking into consideration. Moreover, these telescopes worth hundreds of millions of dollars have never seen operation! Instead they’ve been shelved in a warehouse somewhere, of course, classified. And they might find themselves, yet again, blocked in a warehouse, since NASA, on a string budget, doesn’t have the necessary cash to fit them.