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To: ggersh who wrote (128158)	1/12/2017 1:59:19 AM
From: TobagoJack	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 218125

i see w/r to china space program, china aiib - asia infrastructure investment bank, and china obor - one-belt-one-road is that all are open programs for come-one-come-all / non-exclusionary very different way from 'international' space station, international monetary fund, asia development bank, and transpacific trade partnership schemas, convolutions, and mechanics watch & brief and truth should shine through over time on the new even as they are already obvious re the old but, yes, oops, forgot to read office memo, that history doesn't matter, and geography meaningless ;0)

To: ggersh who wrote (128158)	1/15/2017 9:47:15 AM
From: Pogeu Mahone	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 218125

Watch video at link: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/60-minutes-capturing-the-perdix-drone-swarm/ Capturing the swarm 60 Minutes almost abandoned this week's story on autonomous military drones for a simple reason: the devices were almost impossible to film 2017Jan 08BYMORE+STUMBLE TWITTER FACEBOOK COMMENTS 10 A new generation of drones is coming. The U.S. military has used the remotely piloted vehicles for more than 15 years, but now the devices are capable of flying missions autonomously — and in a swarm. This week on 60 Minutes, correspondent David Martin and producer Mary Walsh reported on the development of an autonomous drone called the Perdix, bringing viewers a rare glimpse of the future of combat. Martin and Walsh convinced the Department of Defense to let 60 Minutes cameras film a stunning first test of a 100-strong swarm of Perdix drones. From left: 60 Minutes producer Mary Walsh, freelance cameraman Leigh Hubner and Dr. Will Roper CBS NEWS “This is not just a drone stunt,” says Martin. “This was a real test for a real program.” But the 60 Minutes story almost didn’t happen. The Perdix drone flies too fast-- upwards of 40-50 miles per hour-- and too unpredictably for a conventional news camera to follow. “They took flight and immediately almost went out of sight,” cameraman Ron Dean tells 60 Minutes Overtime’s Ann Silvio in the video above. The Perdix drone CBS NEWS Producer Mary Walsh sent Dean to Fort Devens Army base in Massachusetts on an exploratory shoot to see if he could film just one or two Perdix drones in flight. But the Perdix, named for a bird in Greek mythology, proved elusive. Dean sent his footage back to 60 Minutes and there were no useable shots of the drones in flight. Just clouds in a cerulean sky — and a bird flying past. “It’s a cruel irony,” Dean says. The 60 Minutes team was at the point of abandoning the story when an idea struck: Could a golf cameraman, someone capable of tracking a small white ball flying across sky, capture the Perdix in flight? Cameramen Ron Dean, far left, and Rudy Niedermeyer, far right, film test flights. CBS NEWS That’s when 60 Minutes hired cameraman Rudy Niedermeyer, a regular shooter on the golf circuit. But Niedermeyer was aghast at the difficulty of filming the Perdix when 60 Minutes began its second attempt a month later at China Lake Naval Air Weapons Station in California. Niedermeyer just shook his head in frustration. “No way,” Niedermeyer says. “I’m like, I can’t believe I can’t do this.” Cameraman Rudy Niedermeyer films a test flight. CBS NEWS The Perdix drone is self-directed, so the flight trajectory is different from that of a golf ball, says producer Mary Walsh. “It flies in an unpredictable way, and even the technicians can’t control where they’re going.” Niedermeyer also used a special camera for the shoot. CBS News operations guru Frank Governale worked with the 60 Minutes team to acquire the Sony 4300, a new 4K camera that allowed Niedermeyer to shoot 480 frames per second. It’s currently in use at the Super Bowl, the NBA finals, the MLB World Series, and the Masters golf tournament, according to Sony. The camera is attached by cable to a server, and it allows footage to be slowed down so that TV viewers can see, for example, a golf ball as it soars to the fairway. Niedermeyer made repeated attempts to shoot 1-8 Perdix drones in flight, applying the techniques he uses for capturing a golf ball: Start wide, get comfortable with the shot, then zoom in tighter, tighter, tighter. Mary Walsh reviewed his shots on site and saw steady progress. “Because I had such pros, my blood pressure never went up. I felt we were going to get it because I had faith in my team.” Also joining the 60 crew was cameraman Justin Hall, who specializes in live replay for major televised sports events. He rigged up an even faster camera called the Phantom Flex. All told, it took the entire 60 Minutes team almost two days to figure out how to film the Perdix in flight. Some of the Perdix drones in flight. CBS NEWS The result? Footage of a one-time event: the largest autonomous drone swarm ever — more than 100 Perdix drones, launched from three F-18 jet fighters, performing a complicated swarm maneuver for the first time. Niedermeyer compared the job to filming a week at the Masters golf tournament: “This was a lot harder.” The video above was produced by Ann Silvio, Sarah Shafer Prediger, and Rebecca Chertok Gonsalves. It was edited by Sarah Shafer Prediger, Lisa Orlando, and Will Croxton. Brit McCandless contributed to this article. © 2017 CBS Interactive Inc. All Rights Reserved.