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Team Of Roboticists Unveil Bat Bot, The World’s First Flying Robot Bat

A team of scientists has just built the first robot that looks and flies like a bat. They named it, of course, Bat Bot.

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February 2, 2017

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A team of scientists has just built the first robot that looks and flies like a bat. They named it, of course, Bat Bot.

“But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.” Daniel 12:4 (KJV)

Bat Bot is nothing short of an engineering marvel. It weighs in at only 3.3 ounces—about as heavy of two golf balls. With a silicone membrane stretched over its carbon-fiber skeleton, a head crammed with an on-board computer and sensors, and five micro-sized motors strung along its backbone, Bat Bot is capable of autonomous, flapping flight. Designed by trio of roboticists led by Soon-Jo Chung at Caltech, it was unveiled today in the journal Science Robotics.

What makes Bat Bot so remarkable is just how hard it was to mimic a bat’s natural flight. If flying was an art form, bats would make fixed wing-pilots looks like they’re finger painting. That’s because with each flap of their wings, “bats use more than 40 active and passive joints, [alongside] the flexible membranes of their wings,” says Chung. In addition, bats take advantage of a whole suite of other hard-to-imitate biological tricks, such as bones that adaptively deform each wing-beat.

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“Arguably, bats have the most sophisticated powered flight mechanism among animals,” the roboticists write in their paper.

To build Bat Bot, Chung’s team first had to dispense with the fantasy that they could just mechanize flapping bat wings, joint by joint. “It’s impractical, or impossible, to incorporate [all 40] of these joints in the robot’s design,” says Chung. Even with today’s most advanced robotic technology, you’d just end up with a heavy, clunky robot that would never make it off the ground.

Instead, the trio pored over biological studies of bat flight, including a extremely helpful 2008 study on bat joints authored by the biologist and Discovery Channel host Dan Riskin. Scouring the studies, they sought to understand which of these 40 joints they could dispense with and which were absolutely vital.

In the end, Chung’s flying robot has a total of nine joints. And while Bat Bot is a seriously advanced piece of machinery, it is still a pretty simple bat. For example, Bat Bot’s carbon-fiber “fingers” don’t have knuckles or knuckle joints. And bat bot doesn’t actively twist its wrists like a normal bat does.

There are other simplifications too. While bats’ wing membranes can have different levels of stiffness in different places, Bat Bot’s hyper-thin silicone membrane (which Chung’s team built themselves) is uniformly flexible.

Nevertheless, Bat Bot’s elegant flight looks almost indistinguishable from its biological cousin. It fluidly and independently tucks and extends its wrists, shoulders, elbows, and legs as it glides through the air. If you aren’t a biologist, then you’ll be hard pressed to spy the mechanical differences between Bat Bot’s flapping and the real thing.

Even cooler, Bat Bot is not remote controlled. Leveraging a lightweight suite of sensors and computers, it can autonomously perform a flapping glide, bank turns, and sharp dives. But Bat Bot is not perfect—yet. It can’t yet ascend in the air; it can only flap its way through a controlled glide. Escalating flight, as well as a bat’s quintessential upside-down perch, are two capabilities Chung’s team is working on right now.

Bat Bot’s sheer complexity makes you wonder: Why wrangle with the complex and fickle flight of bats in the first place when we already have nimble flying robots on the market, such as those drone quadcopters?

Chung’s team argues that Bat Bot’s softness and lack of rapid-spinning propellers make it safer around humans than other flying robots. Chung imagines that future incarnations of Bat Bot could fly about new building sites mid-construction, perching on beams to snap photos, or to spy mistakes or other structural flaws. If one bumps into a construction worker, no problem.

Having once taken a rogue quadcopter to the face, I can attest to their assertion that propeller-to-forehead impact with humans is really painful and should be avoided at all cost.

Perhaps it would be easier just to build a safer quadcopter. But hey, we’re not here to question this plucky robot. Bat Bot’s raison d’être is even more straightforward. First, Bat Bot is awesome. Second, we figure Bat Bot is highly effective nightmare fuel for those already afraid of bats, and what’s not to love about that? source

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The Global Realignment We Are Watching Under Trump Has Its Roots In The Club Of Rome Mandate For A 10 Region Global Structure And The UN Agenda 2030

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January 6, 2026

Geoffrey Grider

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US president Donald Trump is working furiously to create Region 1 from the Club of Rome 10 Kingdoms map, will he be able to do it before the end times clock runs out?

In 1974, the Club of Rome, an influential think tank composed of scientists, economists, and global leaders, proposed a controversial geopolitical framework that divided the world into ten regional blocs, often referred to as the “10 Kingdoms.” This division was presented as part of a broader effort to address mounting global challenges such as overpopulation, resource depletion, economic instability, and environmental degradation. Today that work is seen as a blueprint for a looming New World Order, a centralized authoritarian global government foretold in Bible prophecy. What does all this have to do with UN Agenda 2030 and Trump’s land grabs? Plenty, as you’ll soon see.

“And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast. For God hath put in their hearts to fulfil his will, and to agree, and give their kingdom unto the beast, until the words of God shall be fulfilled.” Revelation 17:12,17 (KJB)

The Club Of Rome. After WWII, you had a number a groups coming into existence that today we know were all connected to the coming New World Order. You had the United Nations General Assembly in 1945, you had the Bilderberg Group in 1954, and in 1974 you had the Club of Rome. Their main agenda, no surprise, was mostly one of planetary sustainability, much like the current UN Agenda 2030 and the “you will own nothing and like it” campaigns. If the Bilderberg Group was all about world domination, and it is, then the Club of Rome was all about the mechanics you’d need to have in place to bring that about. When we watched Pope Francis starting back in 2015 going on a crazy climate crisis speaking tour, he was advancing the already-in-place mandates of the Club of Rome. Not surprisingly, Revelation tells us all about a Revived Roman Empire that divides the world into a 10 Nation Confederacy. So what does this have to do with Trump in 2026? Let’s see.

Donald Trump right now, as we showed on Monday’s Podcast, is using the Monroe Doctrine to put a fence around the Western hemisphere, repeatedly saying that America needs to make states out of Canada and Greenland. Crazy, right? No, that’s the plan. If Trump gets his way, then Region 1 from the Club of Rome map will be in place. The fact that a sitting US president is actively trying to do that is mind-blowing when you consider in ramifications of it. Then there’s Putin. The military clashes between Russia and Ukraine have been going on since February of 2014, with officially declared war that began in February of 2022. What does Putin want? He wants to recreate the old Soviet Union, Region 5 on the map at the top of this article. Then there’s China.

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Xi Jinping is a member of the Chinese Communist Party, and since 2013 the president of Red China. What does he want? Xi wants to add Taiwan to China creating Region 10. What about the other regions? Well, Region 2 is the European Union, Region 3 is Japan, so you see that much of the proposed 10 Kingdoms are already in existence. If left unchecked, it is highly likely that Trump’s land grabs will spark a similar interest with other world leaders. When you put them all together – the UN, Bilderberg Group, the Club of Rome – and throw the dumpster fire that is Donald Trump and QAnon into the middle of it, you should expect the predictable result of global anarchy, wars, and rumours of war.

I have been writing a lot about Donald Trump and the end times moves of his administration, and rightly so. They are almost singlehandedly pinning the end times meter to 10+ all by themselves, and when you add what the other nations are doing, it is last days chaos. Trump has put in motion a series of events that, left to themselves, will throw the world into World War 3 hysteria. The question is, will the Lord allow it to get that far? I don’t know but I know this, the Bible is true and all our world leaders are, at the end of the day, working to create the Mark of the Beast kingdom of the soon-coming Antichrist.

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Homeland Security Advisor Stephen Miller Says That Trump Is Going To Make Greenland Part Of The United States And Use Military Force If They Resist

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January 5, 2026

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Homeland Security Advisor Stephen Miller Says President Trump will make Greenland part of the United States to further its security interests

We warned you for the past two months that Donald Trump, on the pretext of fighting drugs, was going to take control of Venezuela to seize their oil reserves, that happened this past Saturday. Today we learned that Trump is going to make the American taxpayer foot the bill when he turns the whole thing over to Big Oil. But it gets worse. Breaking news tonight shows us Homeland Security Advisor Stephen Miller telling Jake Tapper on CNN that yes, Donald Trump is going to take Greenland.

“For God hath put in their hearts to fulfil his will, and to agree, and give their kingdom unto the beast, until the words of God shall be fulfilled.” Revelation 17:17 (KJB)

Why does Trump want Greenland so badly? First, for its strategic importance given is close proximity to Russia. Second, Greenland and its territorial waters are believed to hold the equivalent of over 31 billion barrels of oil, more than the proven reserves of Qatar, Brazil and other major oil and gas powers. Trump has courted the oil industry with promises to “drill, baby, drill” — something that’s now effectively banned in Greenland, an autonomous region within the kingdom of Denmark that prizes its largely untouched environment. Third, Greenland is a storehouse of rare earth minerals, graphite, copper, nickel, gold, tungsten, uranium, Titanium-vanadium and others needed to satisfy the demand to fuel his 6G Memorandum and Stargate AI mandates. Greenland has these things, and Trump is going to take them and with military force if Greenland resists.

IT’S OFFICIAL: The US is going to move on Greenland. Homeland Security Advisor Stephen Miller says that annexing Greenland is the “official position of the Trump administration” and it will take Greenland. This madman Trump is going to plunge the entire world into WWIII. pic.twitter.com/MO5MX4047D

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Denmark’s Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen is not treating it like a joke. She said Trump should be taken seriously, adding that if the U.S. attacks a NATO country, “everything stops.” Frederiksen warning that a U.S. takeover would mean the end of NATO as we’ve known it. “If the United States decides to militarily attack another NATO country, then everything would stop — that includes NATO and therefore post-World War II security,” Mette Frederiksen told Danish television network TV2.

Miller said that it is the, and I quote, “the official policy of the Trump administration to take Greenland and make it a part of the United States”. Donald Trump is not only doing regime change and nation building, but he is combining Manifest Destiny and the Monroe Doctrine to begin the conquest of other nations. If you were wondering when the actual ramp up to WWIII was going to start, I think it just did.

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Trump Tells Mexico He’s Coming For Them Next As US Navy P-8 Poseidon Spy Plane Conducts Surveillance And Reconnaissance Missions Over Tijuana

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January 5, 2026

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After launching a military strike on Venezuela, conqueror Trump now has US Navy P-8 Poseidon spy planes circling over Mexico

On our Podcast today, we dropped this stunning bomb: After conduction a military strike on Venezuela and capturing Maduro, Donald Trump has now set his sites on Columbia, Cuba, Canada, Greenland, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Brazil, Belize, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, the Bahamas and Mexico. Mexico may be next as US Navy P-8 Poseidon spy planes have been conducting Surveillance and reconnaissance missions over Tijuana. Go watch the Podcast for the whole story.

“The words of his mouth were smoother than butter, but war was in his heart: his words were softer than oil, yet were they drawn swords.” Psalm 55:21 (KJB)

One of the questions that comes to my mind is, after exerting the will of the American government over some or all of the nations on his conquest list, what happens when some other nation or nations decides they now see America as the threat, and come after us? The Danish prime minister has had enough of Trump’s threats and said “If the United States decides to militarily attack another NATO country, then everything would stop — that includes NATO and therefore post-World War II security,” No one with half a functioning brain thinks Trump is angling for peace threatening Greenland, his Imperialist appetite is readily seen by all. It’s funny, there used to be a difference between Trump’s QAnon supporters and his MAGA followers, but it’s nearly impossible to be able to make that distinction any longer. They wholeheartedly approve of his path to war, and are clamouring loudly for it. Trump water carrier Matt Walsh said “I totally support turning other countries in our hemisphere into subordinate vassals of the United States. That’s the very definition of an America First foreign policy.” What a jackassical thing to say, but guess what? All these people lusting for war going to get it, and they’re not going like it. History is a stubborn thing, go look at how well Imperialism worked out in the 20th century.

US spy jet mysteriously circles drug smuggling hotspot off Mexico’s coast as Trump threatens military action

FROM THE DAILY MAIL UK: The P-8 took off from Naval Air Station Whidbey Island in Washington, flew through Oregon and California, made several loops off the Mexican coast and southern California, and then returned to base. Equipped with advanced sensors capable of detecting both surface and underwater targets, the P-8 is often used to monitor suspicious vessels and maritime movements.

The flight comes just days after Donald Trump issued a warning to Mexico over drug trafficking, suggesting a military action similar to one carried out in Venezuela over the weekend.

The President said drug cartels continue to dominate large parts of Mexico and criticized the government for failing to confront them decisively. ‘The cartels are running Mexico, whether you like it or not,’ he said. ‘It’s not nice to say, but the cartels are running Mexico.’

The aircraft’s flight path extended off the Southern California coast toward Baja California and Ensenada, Mexico, covering territorial waters and exclusive economic zones that begin near San Diego and Tijuana and stretch roughly 352 miles west into the Pacific Ocean.

The P-8A Poseidon can reach altitudes of up to 41,000 feet, fly at speeds of nearly 565 miles per hour, and stay airborne for long stretches thanks to an in-flight refueling system.

The fleet, which includes 174 aircraft and has logged over 700,000 flight hours worldwide, is built to endure harsh maritime conditions for up to 25 years. Boeing says the P-8 integrates advanced weapons and mission systems and can be quickly upgraded to meet evolving threats. READ MORE