This is 5 and 10 on Skywatch TV for Wednesday, July 26th.
I'm Derek Gilbert.
Topic number five today, a dead whale in Paris?
Well, not really.
Just a life-size mock-up complete with rotting organs, a pool of blood, a ring-fence perimeter,
and men in biohazard suits conducting what looks like an autopsy on a dead sperm whale.
But it is, in fact, just an art installation from a Belgian group called the Captain Boomer
Collective.
Captain Boomer is a reference to the novel Moby Dick.
It's intended to stir feelings and raise awareness about human destruction of the environment.
Putting the whale on location overnight, the actors involved, state and character, using
the shock of tourists passing by to raise public awareness for their cause.
They say the beached whale is a gigantic metaphor for the disruption of our ecological system.
If I were a tourist in Paris and stumbled across this on a morning walk along the Seine, I would
say it's a giant stinking obstacle to an otherwise scenic view.
Topic number four, Hollywood prepping us for ET disclosure.
The chief astronomer for SETI says we are ready for alien contact thanks to Hollywood.
Seth Shostak, who is the lead astronomer for the search for extraterrestrial intelligence,
works on the side as a consultant for movie producers.
In an interview, Shostak said, quote, I think we are ready for ET contact in some sense
because the public has been conditioned to the idea of life in space by movies and TV.
I think that Hollywood is by far the largest term in the equation of the public's reaction
to confirmation of alien life, end quote.
Exactly, Hollywood is conditioning us to accept the reality of alien life.
Keep watch because we're going to talk more about this topic as the year goes on here
on Skywatch TV.
Topic number three, your vacuum may be spying on you.
Yes, not just your cell phones anymore.
Now your Roomba may be taking down floor plans and passing them on to the company.
The maker of the Roomba automatic vacuum iRobot stirred up a hornet's nest when he said that
they might consider selling floor plans to their customers' homes to other tech companies.
The idea that they might do this led to an engineering change in the Roomba's.
The basic entry level model is still kind of a dumb robot.
It moves around on the floor, bumps into things, and just keeps going until it's pretty sure
it has the whole area covered.
Whereas the higher level models have Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, a camera.
In fact, the newest models of the Roomba can communicate with Alexa, which is the Amazon
device that the artificial intelligence inside the Amazon Echo.
Amazon Angle, the CEO for iRobot, said in an interview that they might reach a deal
to sell maps of the floor plans of customers' houses to Amazon, Google, and Apple.
Needless to say, privacy experts are not happy, raising kind of a firestorm of criticism against
the company.
But investors apparently think this is a great idea.
They bumped the share price of iRobot's stock up to 102 bucks in mid-June.
This is up from $35 a share a year ago.
So iRobot now has a market cap of about $2.5 billion.
The Internet of Things means everything is hackable.
Amazon, Google, and Apple already know far more about me and Sharon than I wish they knew.
They thought I was just joking last week when I talked about Jeff, the evil Roomba.
Topic number two, violence in the Middle East.
First an alert Egyptian tank crew may have saved dozens of lives at an army checkpoint
in the northern Sinai Peninsula.
You can see on the video rolling behind me here that they spotted a car headed for the
checkpoint at high speed.
So they rolled out to confront it, determined that it was a threat, and then they crushed
it.
Reportedly, there were four gunmen inside and about 200 pounds of explosives.
Look carefully.
You can see citizens running for cover as the tank rolls over the top of that car.
Citizens alerted to what was going on and tried to get out of there as quickly as possible.
As the tank retreated, and you'll see this in a moment or two, the car explodes.
And according to an Egyptian army spokesman, seven people were killed, including two children
in that blast.
If the car had gotten closer to the checkpoint, the army spokesman said as many as 50 people
might have died.
Egyptian military has been fighting a war against rebels in the Sinai, including groups
aligned with the Islamic State.
Elsewhere, Russia has quietly moved military police to southern Syria to within about five
miles of the Israeli border on the Golan Heights over Israeli objections.
Moscow has been using the turmoil over the conflict on the Temple Mount over the last
week or so to very quietly move the MPs in position.
Israeli leaders inspected this new deployment on Tuesday.
You see Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu there.
And on Sunday, conservative politicians in Israel called for the death penalty for 19-year-old
Omar El Abed.
He's the Palestinian terrorist who slaughtered 70-year-old Yosef Solomon and two of his adult
children, 46-year-old Kaya and 36-year-old Elad Friday night at a Jewish community on
the West Bank.
El Abed's mother has been spotted celebrating his attack.
She's been charged with incitement for handing out candy, bragging on social media about
what her son did and calling for more violence.
And topic number one, North Korea apparently closer to an intercontinental ballistic missile
than we thought.
North Korea may have a reliable ICBM as early as next year.
This is about two years ahead of schedule, according to a new assessment by the Pentagon.
This from the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency.
They are moving up the timeline of Pyongyang's missile capabilities.
They say that the ICBM, capable of delivering nuclear warheads, could be ready by 2018.
The report's predictions are similar to those coming out of South Korea from their intelligence
services.
This increases pressure on the U.S. and our Asian allies to find a way to stop North Korea's
progress on missile development.
Earlier this month, President Trump said that North Korea would be confronted very strongly
to stop its missile developments.
Our friend, Lieutenant Colonel Bob McGinnis, author of the book Future War, says that our
options are pretty grim.
In August, a sign in the heavenlies, that's the name of the conference.
It's also what, I think, how we would classify what they're calling the Great American Eclipse,
a total eclipse of the sun that will be visible across the United States from Oregon to South
Carolina.
Much of Missouri here will see it, but will be in Boise, Idaho, for the sign in the heavenlies
conference, which features a number of great speakers from Pastor Carl Gallops, L.A. Marzulli,
and others, to some new names that you might not be familiar with.
Scott Clark, for one, talking about what it means, if anything, and, of course, trying
to be an encouragement and a help.
Now there are still spaces available at the conference itself.
You can save $20 off ticket registration, or a conference registration, that is, by using
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And by the way, you can also save 20% off the live video stream if you can't travel
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Again, the conference, the weekend of August 18th through the 20th.
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