The U.S. Army heads back to Iraq.
The Navy's new warship may already be ready for the scrapheap, and NATO is gearing up
for a fight with Russia.
At Skywatch TV for Wednesday, November 9th, 2016, I'm Derek Gilbert.
First up, half the country woke up this morning feeling like it had just been gut punched.
To be honest with you, as we record these early, we don't yet know what the results
are as we sit down to record this, so we'll have more to say on this program on Thursday.
Our goal here is not to be breaking news, but to provide analysis that you hopefully
don't get anywhere else.
Again, more on the outcome of the election, however it shakes out on Thursday's report.
No question that this was the most exciting, if not, well, and probably strangest election
of my adult lifetime.
CBS's Bob Schieffer, who has seen a few more of them than I have, concurs.
I have seen a few, but I've run out of ways to say I've never seen one like this.
It is as if the nation is enduring some kind of curse.
What should we expect next, that it will rain frogs?
Yes, dogs and cats living together, let's pull back in the hyperbole just a little bit,
regardless of whether your favorite candidate was declared the winner, or if it's still tied
up in the Supreme Court and waiting for a judicial ruling.
Just remember, God is still in control, and we as Christians are still members of His
kingdom.
So let's get about the king's business.
In other news, the body of a missing four-year-old girl was found in a village in rural India
last week, decapitated and missing her arms, because a teen girl in the village lost her
mobile phone.
The girl's parents, the teen's parents, contracted with a local gulam or black witch priest to
perform a ritual to find the missing mobile phone.
The ritual involved kidnapping, torturing, and sacrificing the four-year-old.
The parents have been arrested, the parents of the teen girl have been arrested, the
witch has escaped is being sought by police.
The U.S. Army is heading back to Iraq, 1700 paratroopers from the 82nd Airborne being
deployed as part of Operation Inherent Resolve.
The Pentagon announced a few weeks ago that 500 soldiers from the Big Red 1, the 1st Infantry
Division based at Fort Riley, Kansas, also on their way back to Iraq.
That part of the world hasn't been unified since the Tower of Babel.
Now Iraqis in the Mosul region worried that bloodshed will continue even after the Islamic
State is defeated.
As we've been telling you, there are sectarian problems there between Shias and Sunnis, Christians
and Yazidis that destroying ISIS won't fix.
Not to mention ethnic divisions between Arabs, Kurds, Turkmen and others.
There appears to be no plan in place for the day after ISIS.
Experts say that defeating the Islamic State could just expose these sectarian divisions
leading to another Sunni uprising down the road if things in Iraq don't change.
And I'll just add the presence of American soldiers won't fix it because it didn't fix
it the first time.
Syria Defense Ashton Carter applauded a new offensive by U.S.-backed rebels in Syria.
This offensive aimed at taking the Islamic State's capital city of Raqqa.
But no clear strategy there for how that's going to happen.
The U.S. and Turkey are still trying to hammer out details of who gets to do what.
The Turks say this operation is a non-starter if Kurdish fighters are involved.
And guess what?
Most of the Syrian Defense Force attacking Raqqa is made up of Kurds.
The U.S. Navy's brand new high-tech warship may already be obsolete.
Maybe obsolete's not the right word, but there are issues that may not be overcome easily.
The USS Zumwalt, named for former Admiral Elmo Zumwalt, is a stealth destroyer.
Looks like a floating trapezoid.
Very high-tech.
It costs $3 billion, which is half again as much as the previous generation of United
States Navy destroyers.
Its big guns are designed to hit targets up to 72 miles away.
Biggest guns put on a U.S. Navy ship since World War II.
But the hull design, which is intended to minimize the wake of the destroyer, also makes it more
prone to roll over, which is a bad thing.
But worse, barely two weeks after the Zumwalt was commissioned, the Navy is moving to cancel
production of the projectiles for these new high-tech guns.
This is called the Long Range Land Attack Projectile, or L-Roll Relap.
It's a guided precision munition, but they cost $800,000 a piece.
And one expert says that's actually a loan number.
That's the number that the Navy is trying to get the cost down to.
You see, when the Navy cut the original plans to build 28 Zumwalt-class destroyers down
to seven, and then down to three, the economy of scale for making lots and lots of projectiles
is lost.
So the high-tech destroyer of the future may soon have no ammunition for its big guns.
Navy is trying to come up with a cheaper alternative.
Coming up, seating outer space with dead astronauts.
And what's making noise at the bottom of the Arctic Sea?
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A security official at the Russian consulate in New York collapsed and died Tuesday.
A 63-year-old man was at his office Tuesday morning when he fell to the floor.
Russian spokesperson said it appeared to have been a medical problem, but police are investigating.
Meanwhile, in Russia, an explosion in the northern port city of Murmansk left the city
partly without power Tuesday.
Eyewitnesses called it a huge blast at one of the city's electrical substations.
Murmansk is in Russia's extreme northwest, 300,000 people.
It's the world's largest city north of the Arctic Circle, home to Russia's entire fleet
of nuclear-powered icebreakers.
One of the themes of this presidential election has been the threat of Russian aggression,
and whether this candidate or that candidate was Vladimir Putin's favorite.
Certainly Hillary Clinton and the neocons in the U.S. government, as well as their allies
in the NATO countries, have been beating that drum.
NATO currently scrambling to put together a force of 300,000 soldiers that it can put
on high alert in response to what it perceives as Russian aggression, most of the NATO countries
cut military spending sharply after the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991.
Over the weekend, Russian soldiers dressed in World War II-era uniforms commemorated
a famous parade from 1941, when the Red Army marched out of Russia to confront Hitler's
Nazi army.
Russian officials do admit that they are working on a force of robots to fight his enemies.
We told you about that last week.
Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogodzin made that comment a couple weeks ago.
But even he admits there is a danger here that the Terminator scenario, where an artificial
intelligence decides that the real threat to peace on Earth is humans.
He says it's a real concern.
Rogodzin is in charge of Russia's plans to modernize its army.
In comments at a Russian university last week, he confirmed something that Lieutenant Colonel
Bob McGinnis told us during his recent interview on Skywatch TV, that Russia's experience
in Syria demonstrates that the future of war is robotic systems and drones.
The question is whether there is a human in the decision-making loop or not.
One of the projects Russia currently working on, a voice-controlled humanoid robot that
could work inside or outside a piloted ship, sort of like R2-D2 and Star Wars, I guess.
And speaking of outside the ship, some researchers say that we could actually create new forms
of life in outer space by dumping the bodies of dead astronauts into outer space.
This is not something they actually encourage or want to do, but they say that there is
a danger that as we take on more missions in space, the threat grows, just statistically
speaking, that an astronaut will die and that a rogue body that gets away from a spaceship
could provide the spark of life on another planet.
This of course can only happen if conditions are absolutely perfect.
There's a lot of radiation in outer space, not much water in outer space, so you'd have
to have absolutely perfect conditions.
And oh yeah, if evolution actually worked that way, which it doesn't.
Besides, who knows if the universe would actually tolerate us throwing our biological
waste out into, you know, around willy-nilly.
Now I know that God is actually in control here, so I'm being a little facetious.
But reporters about a week or so ago reported that scientists believe the universe may have
a self-destruct switch, self-destruct button, that could just wipe out all life as we know
it and that we would never ever see it coming.
The theory goes, and this is really into Josh Peck Multiverse Territory, a change in the
energy level of the Higgs field, which gives particles mass, could start a chain reaction
that would wipe out all matter and destroy life as well, destroy everything by fundamentally
changing the laws of physics.
Now I think it's amazing that there are people who actually make a living sitting and thinking
about stuff like this.
But I repeat, as I said earlier, God is in control.
And if something drastic were to happen to fundamentally change life as we know it, it's
only because He's allowing it and it's because it's part of His prophetic plan.
We just see a lot of stories like this in the news because of the meme that we're supposed
to believe that there is life elsewhere in outer space and that the Bible's just an
old book of fables and legends not to be taken seriously.
Finally, the Canadian military is investigating a mysterious noise from the bottom of the
Arctic Sea.
The sound has been described as a ping, a hum, and a beep.
Nobody knows what's causing it, but apparently it has spooked the wildlife.
Normally, in this area, whales, seals, and other marine mammals are pretty plentiful,
but they appeared to have been scared off by whatever's causing this noise.
Possible sources of the mystery sound include military submarines, although the government
of Canada says there have been no submarines from other nations present in this particular
channel.
Greenpeace trying to scare away the wildlife to keep them from being hunted, but Greenpeace
says it's not active in the area either, or possibly a mining company conducting a survey
that part of the Arctic known to be pretty rich in minerals and petroleum.
But the mining companies say, no, none of us are working there either.
My personal theory is that the noise is actually coming from a long-shot third-party candidate
trying to drum up last-minute support before the election, namely Cthulhu, the crawling
chaos.
I mean, for election after election, we American voters beat ourselves up trying to figure
out which of the candidates is the lesser of two evils.
So the greater evil decided to present himself as an alternate.
Of course, I'm joking, but with this election, we could use a laugh or two.
Again, more on the results tomorrow.
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