Around the World in 60 Minutes

An informative and humorous adventure covering: (1) China: the Yangtze River, Three Gorge Dam, Chinese Opera and Acrobatics, their dynamic growth, their amazing capitalistic-communist run country with its very modern cities; (2) India; Palace on Wheels through Rajasthan, Varanasi; (3) Nepal: its friendly people, cremations, Mt. Everest; (4) Singapore: offers some of the most interesting things to see in the world like the Indian Hindu Thaipusam Festival (with cheek, tongue, torso piercing) and Fire Walking, Chinese, Arab and Malaysian cultures; (5) Sumatra, Indonesia: get close to free roaming orangutans, very low cost touring; (6) Turkey: take a tour of Capredocia in a hot air balloon and see the famous cave dwelling there, visit Istanbul; (7) Saudi Arabia: see the very modern and beautiful King Saudi University in Riyadh, visit Jubail (Dharan) and Jeddah; (8) Papua New Guinea: visit these colorful people who where first discovered in 1930 living in a pre-Iron age; (9) Vietnam: their colorful ethnic minority tribe people, Hanoi Hilton; (9) Also visit South Korea, Taiwan, Chile, Russia, Peru, Japan, Hong Kong, Mexico, Africa, Shemya (an island far out on the Aleutian Island Chain of Alaska), Austria, Malaysia, Canada, Israel, Australia, the Netherlands, Belgium, Union of South Africa, Egypt, New Zealand, Brazil, Philippines, Borneo, Bali, Iran, Dubai, Abu Dhabi.

The twist is an explanation that all can understand on how radars and phased arrays work and some of the recent amazing breakthroughs in science, technology, radars and phased arrays. Covered will be the advance from 2 inch tubes in the 1940s, when I went to High School, to today’s 2 inch memory stick which does the job of 260 billion tubes – Moore’s Law. The potential for invisibility via metamaterial – man made material. We go from 10 story high phased array radars to a whole phased array on a single chip and Google’s putting a whole radar on a smart watch. In the future we may have a phased array in our cell phones for 5G. Also multiple radars in all our cars.