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The Search for Secret Shuttle Parts
Slashdot readers have been submitting this story about the search
for secret shuttle parts with all sorts of insane conspiracy theories attached to their cut & paste of the URL. It's apparently just the box that handled encryption for messages, so of course Uncle Sam wants it back. Quite the needle in a haystack tho.
My favourite post was the one where an EMP pulse took down the shuttle. I had no idea that an EMP pulse was purple and 'ropy looking'.
After all as an omen the shuttle does look bad. It is named after the discover of America (what do you think the yacht was named after). It carries the first Israeli in space and the parts fall first on Palestine Texas - the home state of Cheney and Bush.
OK so you probably don't belive in such things. But the President does, or at least he believes in the bible which is full of such interpretations of events. More importantly the loonie fundamentalist Islamic types believe in such stuff.
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Here is some many people don't talk about but any rocket that does up into space has a remote selfdistruct system.
If NASA thinks it is in trouble they will blow it up to prevent it from hitting a city.
When NASA saw the shuttle starting to fail the blew it up to prevent it from hitting a city and killing lot's of people.
Now they don't want people to know the shuttle has this same protection system, so they are going to blame it all on the wing failure.
Wise men speak because they have something to say, Fools because they have to say something!!!!
That one is quite easy to explain. Most parts of the shuttle are not dangerous at all, but if the government warns the stupid public that even the smallest part can kill you, people are just a little less likely to move, steal, or otherwise disturb parts.
Most people are sheepish, and if someone tells them that something is dangerous, they'll be too petrified in fear to actually think for themselves. This is evidenced in the public's reaction to various major events.
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It's probably a union make-work requirement.
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What's the matter, couldn't pass the radio exams? I love you conspiracy idiots. If they were deploying military stuff we'd more than likely not hear it anyway. Hams listen to a LOT of stuff, including space missions but it's not what you think. If you had a clue you'd know that.