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The Search for Secret Shuttle Parts

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the submitted-over-and-over-again dept.

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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  1. Serious, guys, don't be mislead ! by udippel · · Score: 0, Troll

    Of course they cheat you, they shit you.
    You think they're running this thinggy up there for *you*? They only want *you* for the army. Or, for paying your taxes.

    Serious, what I don't like in the article is this ugly 'conspiration theory' stuff. Of course, Columbia came down for very normal reasons: negligence, faulty engineering, you name it.

    You're not sufficient stupid to believe they don't run extra&secret stuff parallel to the scientific stuff, are you !?

    'Apparently': MIT-dictionary server:
    Apparently Ap*par"ent*ly, adv.
    ""
    3. Seemingly; in appearance; as, a man may be apparently
    friendly, yet malicious in heart.

    Apparently they only want their encryption back. Commander Taco, sure you know what you're saying here? No dupe, but did you read the links of earlier and the outdated equipment? You don't really think that a 8"x8"x8" box (or whatsoever) contains an encryption algorithm worth this fuss?? "if you had kept your mouth shut, we might have considered you a knowledgeable man", as the Greek proverb goes. Or doesn't it ?