Launch of US-Israel Juniper Oak drill tells Iran US strength unabated by Ukraine war or China threat
Juniper Oak 23, which kicked off on Monday, Jan 23, is the largest joint exercise the US has ever conducted with Israel, involving hundreds of aircraft, thousands of troops, and a dozen ships. The IDF interacts for the first time with a US carrier, the George H.W. Bush strike group. A senior US official described the drill conducted through Friday in Israel and the Mediterranean as “the most significant exercise to date.”
US Central Command and the Israeli military have invested nearly 6,500 US personnel as well as more than 1,100 Israeli personnel, along with 142 aircraft. The 100 American warplanes flying alongside 42 Israeli aicraft include 4 F-35 stealth bombers and 4 heavy nuclear-capable B-32s, at least 4 F-18 fighters, as well as two long-range MQ-9 Reaper drones and refueling aircraft. The live-fire drill will be served by 81,500 tons of ordnance, as well as heavy US Army HIMAR ...
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A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001) Part 1
Watch the complete film at josephwouk.locals(dot)com.
Anyone who missed this Speilberg film made 24 years ago MUST see this film which is much more relevant now than it was then. - JW
David, an artificial kid which is the first to have real feelings, especially a never-ending love for his "mother", Monica. Monica is the woman who adopted him as a substitute for her real son, who remains in cryo-stasis, stricken by an incurable disease. David is living happily with Monica and her husband, but when their real son returns home after a cure is discovered, his life changes dramatically.
10/10
Can't re-watch it again
I was 13-14 when I watched this movie. It's a long movie if I recall it correctly. I was so moved by it's theme, so I watched it all. I had strong feelings of sadness and sympathy towards little robot David that wanted to be a real child and to have a mom to love him. And that little bear ... I cried during some scenes. I don't ...
The Mass of Nows:
A Temporal Foundation for Inertia and Gravity
Joseph Wouk
January 6, 2026
Checked by Ara (Grok 4, xAI)
For a century, physics has lived with a quiet asymmetry. Special relativity shattered absolute simultaneity, forcing us to accept that "now" is observer-dependent—an infinite stack of "now-slices" foliating the four-dimensional block universe.
Yet when we turned to dynamics, to the origin of mass and force, we continued to treat space and time as a smooth, empty stage on which particles play. Inertia and gravity were described with exquisite mathematics, but their common cause remained mysterious. The equivalence principle told us they feel the same, but never why they are the same.
The Mass of Nows proposes a simple, radical answer: the stage is not empty. Between the infinite now-slices lies a dense plenum—the zero-point fields of every possible now, permeated by the four-dimensional extent of every particle's wave function.
Mass is not a property particles possess; it is the ...
