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Budget Issues Force Spy Satellites Into The Open

Korsair25 points out this article about a U.S. spy satellite program. "Quote: 'Over the decades, spying from space has always earned super-secret status. They are the black projects, fulfilling dark tasks and often bankrolled by blank check.' It also talks about some of the technology used to disguise or camouflage some of the operational satellites."

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  1. Freaky by aengblom · · Score: 4, Funny

    I click "read more" and up pops.

    Nothing for you to see here. Please move along.

    I for one welcome my old NSA overlords.

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    So close and yet so far from the world's perfect ID number
    1. Re:Freaky by Guppy06 · · Score: 3, Funny

      So NSA stands for "No Such Article?"

  2. Good thing by The+Analog+Kid · · Score: 5, Funny

    I've been wearing my tinfoil hat all these years, it's finally paid off!

  3. Novus Ordo Seclorum by Michael+Hunt · · Score: 4, Funny

    The all-seeing eye controls a lot of these satellites. They're used for missions such as the illuminati's plot to blow up Houston, TX on December 27 (which was aborted due to the tsunami/earthquake overshadowing any media circus this would have attracted) in order to justify invading Iran.

    At least, that's what my friendly local conspiracy nut tells me, so it must be true.

    (reference: http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/article.asp?ID=259 2)

  4. Rule #1 about Spy Satellites by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Do NOT talk about Spy Satellites!

  5. Camouflage is easy by _Hellfire_ · · Score: 4, Funny

    As we see in the movie "Spies Like Us" (Chevy Chase, Dan Aykroyd), all spy satellites have a little sign on them that says

    "This is not a spy satellite"

    Easy.

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  6. Don't tell anyone I told you... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    But the moon is actually a giant spy sattelite. There was no actual moon before 1954.

  7. Re:Appropriations disclosure by LnxAddct · · Score: 3, Funny

    Everything is accounted for. But when it comes to National Security you have to look in different places or under vague terms like "General Defense Expenses" or "Golden toilets x 20".
    Regards,
    Steve

  8. The Truth is Out There by popo · · Score: 4, Funny

    Now that the top secret data from these spy sattelites is being released, other crucial details of the US Government black-ops orbital-projects are being revealed.

    Apparently most of the governments secret high-optical resolution sattelites were curiously locked in geo-synchronous orbits above St. Tropez, Copacabana and other great beaches of the world.

    It was also revealed that image data from these locations while still 'classified and unreleased' was stored in a black-ops folder mysteriously titled "My Cleave Shotz". No further information is currently available.

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  9. Re:Did us a lot of good... by ackthpt · · Score: 5, Funny
    it wasn't satellite recon that gave us those shots, it was U2 surveillance.

    That Bono, he gets everywhere!

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  10. Stealth Satellites by sciop101 · · Score: 3, Funny
    "I knew about the Stealth Satellites. That was before I did not know about them."

    An excerpt from "My Life From All My Veiwpoints: An Anthology" by John Kerry.

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  11. Re:Appropriations disclosure by Anonymous+Custard · · Score: 5, Funny

    Everything is accounted for. But when it comes to National Security you have to look in different places or under vague terms like "General Defense Expenses" or "Golden toilets x 20".

    I used to be a spy and to launder the money I got paid in golden toilets. I'm running low on cash, so check e-bay in a few days if you want one at a good price.

    They offered to pay me in golden showers but I refused. No way I was gonna fall for that again.

  12. New Game Show by The+Journalist · · Score: 3, Funny

    "Who Wants to Flip Off the Government" I'm your host, Porter J. Goss. This week, contestants try to flip off the government's spy satellites while a team of CIA agents hunts them down and arrests them for seditious behavior.