About Skynet It has strong presence in more than 180 countries, with over 1100 offices worldwide. Regional hubs strategically located in London,Johannesburg,Dubai,Los Angeles, Miami, New York,Singapore and Sydney provide the facilities and system for an efficient movement and security-enhanced monitoring and control of shipments from origin to. Judgment Day, also known as J-Day1, refers to the day that the artificial intelligence —Skynet— becomes self-aware and starts a nuclear strike on the United States of America, Russia, and other places, killing three billion people. Sarah Connor first learned about Judgment Day in 1984 from Kyle Reese, a soldier sent from the future to protect her from an assassination mission by a. CEO David Vorick said there are more than 100 applications and 10 web portals already using Skynet as a decentralized storage alternative. Skynet launched in February 2020.
PROMPT telescopes at CTIO are back online after a 7-month shutdown.
PROMPT5 Discovery of DLT17u/AT 2017cbv Type Ia Supernova
Congratulations to L. Tartaglia (TTU, UC Davis), D. Sand, S. Wyatt (TTU), S. Valenti, K. A. Bostroem (UC Davis) for their discovery of the brightest type Ia supernova thus far this year. It was initially detected on March 10, 2017 in NGC 5643 during PROMPT5's nightly surveying campaign and is now brighter than magnitude 12 making it an excellent target for both professional and amateur astronomers around the world.
Discovery report: http://www.astronomerstelegram.org/?read=10158
2016 STEM Career Showcase for Students with Disabilities
Tia Bertz and Chris Mathews are two incredible Skynet Junior Scholars who attended the 2016 STEM Career Showcase for Students with Disabilities yesterday at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences. We could not be more proud of them and their accomplishments. You can watch their presentations below.
Successful Telescope Installation - PROMPT-AUGOII-1
Skynet 2020 100 Mile
Though a partnership with the Athabasca University and a generous donation from Dr. Ryan Boland of Savannah, Georgia, Skynet deployed a 16-inch RCOS telescope in Alberta Canada. Expect to see the new system come online within the next month.
Skynet 2020 100 Days
The Robert Martin Ayers Science Fund is sponsoring at least 100 hours of observations with the PROMPT telescopes for researchers and students not at PROMPT Collaboration institutions. Preference will be given to those at institutions without comparable facilities and resources. For more information, you can download the proposal form here: http://user.physics.unc.edu/~reichart/ayers.doc.
