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.

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Omens

[Zeinfeld]

There is an article in Salon by Camile Paglia on the shuttle disaster. She interprets it as an omen, the same way that in ancient times a Roman General who tripped on the threshold as he went off to a battle would call the battle off.

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.

Re:Here is a conspiracy

[flikx]

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.