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Why close the post office, if there is a security concern with using the telescope to spy on improper areas? And no alien bullshit responses, please. I Drink & I Know Things | |||
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Did the world end yet? I turned my amber alerts off and might of missed the notification.This message has been edited. Last edited by: braillediver, ____________________________________________________ The butcher with the sharpest knife has the warmest heart. | |||
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Please explain to me how a ground-based Solar telescope could be aimed at another point of the ground--it can only look upward. I suppose there is a remote possibility that it could be set to spy on a satellite, but it's not designed to track anything that moves that fast. flashguy Texan by choice, not accident of birth | |||
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They don’t want people looking at Space Force bases. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The price of liberty and even of common humanity is eternal vigilance | |||
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Oh hell I quite concur. You did notice my big assed toothy grin emoticon right?  The spin factories have been on overtime generating wild and wacky theories about what has been going on.Certifiable member of the gun toting, septuagenarian, bucket list workin', crazed retiree, bald is beautiful club! USN (RET), COTEP #192 | |||
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All joking aside, I think this has nothing to do with security or espionage. My guess it is just a contract issue. While the observatory is federally funded it is actually run by a consortium of university scientific groups called AURA. From what I have read the contract with AURA is not being renewed and a new scientific group will run the observatory. The government decided they didn't want the employees from AURA sticking around during the transition because of possible intellectual property theft or maybe mischief by disgruntled people losing their job. So the govt is just shutting the place down during the switch over. The people were forced out of the homes because they are govt property and are only for the use of people working at the facility. The post office closed because its only purpose is mail coming into and out of the observatory. I think the govt was surprised by all the attention this has gotten so they just spouted the standby "ongoing security issue" in an attempt to shut down any pesky questions. With all the people showing up and taking youtube videos of the abandoned site the security line was looking like a bogus excuse so they have now sent some security guards out there to at least make it look like there is a security concern. Of course this could be all wrong. | |||
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Thank you, Fundman, for that. I was interested in this incident and had to keep coming back here in hopes of more information. Yours are the first meaningful comments in the thread, and even if you’re totally wrong that was a refreshing change. ► 6.4/93.6 | |||
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OK, cancel the apocalypse | |||
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Cancel....CANCEL!!! What am I going to do with all these leather chaps, spiked dog collars and trench knives now????? Not to mention the crap I am gonna get at work for the Mohawk and face paint. We can’t cancel now. "Guns are tools. The only weapon ever created was man." | |||
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Dammit I had a thousand MRE's coming this week. Can you ask the UPS guy to return them to the vender? ______________________________________________________ Often times a very small man can cast a very large shadow | |||
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AURA is out, MARVIN is in.  "Every time you think you weaken the nation" Moe Howard | |||
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Marvin the Martian Tyler Rogaway from the war zone had a good write up. Funding issues makes as much sense as anything. “Forigive your enemy, but remember the bastard’s name.” -Scottish proverb | |||
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Yes, I noticed the grin, but I didn't interpret it the way you intended, I guess. We really need to get the facepalm Smiley back.  flashguy Texan by choice, not accident of birth | |||
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KTSM El Paso is reporting there was child porn on at least one computer. Posting from my phone so no link but Drudge has it. You’re a lying dog-faced pony soldier | |||
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https://www.ktsm.com/news/loca...documents/1460386237 ___________________________ All it takes...is all you got. ____________________________ For those who have fought for it, Freedom has a flavor the protected will never know ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ | |||
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