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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.
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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.
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The Soviet space-to-space cannon were named Shchit -1 and Shchit-2, by the way. Commence the scatological humour.
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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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Space Tycoon wrote:The Air Force has the X-37 spaceplane, maybe the Navy wants to get into the game.
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.
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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.
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It's a space laser alien breeding time machine?
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Fuck Yeah that'd be kewl
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I thought it might carry a KEW.
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Proton torpedoes and phasers aside, a good old fashioned gun still gets the job done.
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And a KEW is a BIG gun!
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KEW goes PEW PEW!
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And isn't that what the space program is all about, really?
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Plan(et) 9!
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And a real planet this time, not some punk-ass ice dwarf like Pluto.
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Is it really out there? Really? Kinda humbling if it is.
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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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Wasn't there some legend about a rogue planet that would one day hit us?
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Nibiru! Three years ago it was supposed to destroy us or bring invaders or disease or what-have-you.
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Dalty wrote:Wasn't there some legend about a rogue . . . one . . . ?
There was and there is! It's coming in December!
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I am pretty sure I knew a stripper called Nibiru.
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So - space time ripples??
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Yes please!
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