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- Dalty
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Re: Space News
Here's one for you Spacey - proper X-Files stuff!
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/brit-hacked-n ... 49883.html
Imagine if it were true.
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/brit-hacked-n ... 49883.html
Imagine if it were true.
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Re: Space News
Yowza!
Well in a way it is truthy. The Soviets operated a military space station called Almaz back in the 70's. Complete with a machine gun!
The US proposed something similar and were secretly training military astronauts around the same time as Apollo. Then the microelectronics revolution made cheaper spy sats possible, and the rest is history.
The Air Force has the X-37 spaceplane, maybe the Navy wants to get into the game.
Well in a way it is truthy. The Soviets operated a military space station called Almaz back in the 70's. Complete with a machine gun!
The US proposed something similar and were secretly training military astronauts around the same time as Apollo. Then the microelectronics revolution made cheaper spy sats possible, and the rest is history.
The Air Force has the X-37 spaceplane, maybe the Navy wants to get into the game.
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Re: Space News
The Soviet space-to-space cannon were named Shchit -1 and Shchit-2, by the way. Commence the scatological humour.
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Re: Space News
Between this and the "alien megastructure" business, I can only imagine what strange places the new X-Files are going to go...
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Re: Space News
That X-37 has gone up and stayed up for months at a time hasn't it? And we don't know what it is or what it does.Space Tycoon wrote:The Air Force has the X-37 spaceplane, maybe the Navy wants to get into the game.
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Re: Space News
The safe money seems to be that it's a spy vehicle, not just for terrestrial targets--particularly the Middle East and South-Central Asia--but orbital as well. China's space station, possible future Russian platforms. Also a delivery vehicle for classified spy sats, no doubt.
Oh wait, I'm Canadian. No doote.
There was a time when I might have eagerly embraced some wild-ass notions about this stuff, but I kinda don't really work there anymore.
Sometimes the mundane answer is the correct one. Not to mention more interesting.
Oh wait, I'm Canadian. No doote.
There was a time when I might have eagerly embraced some wild-ass notions about this stuff, but I kinda don't really work there anymore.
Sometimes the mundane answer is the correct one. Not to mention more interesting.
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Re: Space News
It's a space laser alien breeding time machine?
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Re: Space News
Fuck Yeah that'd be kewl
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Re: Space News
I thought it might carry a KEW.
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Re: Space News
Proton torpedoes and phasers aside, a good old fashioned gun still gets the job done.
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Re: Space News
And a KEW is a BIG gun!
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Re: Space News
KEW goes PEW PEW!
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Re: Space News
And isn't that what the space program is all about, really?
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Re: Space News
And a real planet this time, not some punk-ass ice dwarf like Pluto.
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Re: Space News
Is it really out there? Really? Kinda humbling if it is.
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Re: Space News
I don't know if I can trust this news. I didn't get a two-day countdown to "big news" from NASA.
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Re: Space News
Wasn't there some legend about a rogue planet that would one day hit us?
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Re: Space News
Nibiru! Three years ago it was supposed to destroy us or bring invaders or disease or what-have-you.
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Re: Space News
There was and there is! It's coming in December!Dalty wrote:Wasn't there some legend about a rogue . . . one . . . ?
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Re: Space News
I am pretty sure I knew a stripper called Nibiru.
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Re: Space News
So - space time ripples??
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Re: Space News
Yes please!