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The Skylab-Area 51 Incident
IZ Reloaded writes "The Space Review has an interesting story written by Dwayne Day about the 1974 incident when astronauts onboard Skylab took photos of a facility that did not exist in the US called Area 51. From The Space Review: What the memo indicates is that there was a difference between the way the civilian agencies of the US government and the military agencies looked at their roles. NASA had ties to the military, but it was clearly a civilian agency. And although the reasons why NASA officials felt that the photo should be released are unknown, the most likely explanation is that NASA officials did not feel that the civilian agency should conceal any of its activities. Many of NASA's relations with other organizations and foreign governments were based on the assumption that NASA did not engage in spying and did not conceal its activities."
Nothing to see here
-AlexC
It works! No one ever talks about Area 50!
This sig seemed like a good idea at the time....
It's because they don't want you looking at Area 52, which is just up the road aways and is run by Centauri.
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Because nothing really all that exciting is going on at Groom anymore. They probably still fly borrowed aircraft some are probably even made by our "friends" like Mirages. Keeping Groom secret keeps everybody looking at that base while the really interesting stuff is going on at Dougway.
See my blog http://ilovecookes.blogspot.com/ for light hearted technical information.
The fun stuff happens at Area 42.
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A word from the Anonymous Coward 'which' succesfully confirmed
not to be a script by guessing the word 'revival'.
Ok...who the heck let Art Bell on here again? Who's turn was it to watch him again?
Mulder got into some secret base in disguise (long story), and the military commander of the base didn't even know where the aircraft they were testing came from, and quietly asked Mulder if they had alien technology in them.
Don't forget the "chemtrails" The Man is using to poison the population.
Method of processing duck feet
Cool.
Please give me 33% of your income.
I can't tell you why.
What's Dougway? (about 250 pounds! *rimshot*)
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"Open source is evil." - Microsoft
If we weren't detaining people, tapping their phones, and beating information out of someone, I'd be pissed. I'm paying the government to protect me.
Da, tovarisch! Only bourgeois capitalist running-dog counter-revolutionaries will be detained, phone-tapped, and beaten! We glorious workers and peasants of the new socialist brotherhood of man have nothing to fair from our wise and just leaders! FOR THE MOTHERLAND!
The correlation between ignorance of statistics and using "correlation is not causation" as an argument is close to 1.
The truth is rated a troll. Fuck you, mods.
Wow, talk about quiet desperation!
And the map said "We're sorry, but your IP address, 127.0.0.1, has been logged. Please remain seated."
"We are all geniuses when we dream"
- E.M. Cioran
Than i fucking retard what? Try to complete a sentence for once.
I am sorry i made a common spelling error, but English isn't my first language and I'd like to see you write fluent Dutch.
Lame Anonymous Coward.
Firehed - Unfortunately, thanks to medical breakthroughs, common sense is not as common as it once was.
So by your logic since I can't zoom in to the smallest resolution on my house I'm harboring aliens as well then right?
Yes, but don't worry, the sarcism police will catch you soon enough.
I mod down so you can mod up. Your welcome.
...are what's going on at sites 1 through 50.
I mean, this is site number 51 - what's going on at the first fifty?!
Back in college, another guy and I went out on a road trip across the American southwest. We hit Carlsbad Caverns, White Sands, the Painted Desert, Grand Canyon, Las Vegas and... Area 51. It was a fun trip.
We left Las Vegas early in the morning (late at night?) at about 8 am. By about 10 am, we found ourselves in the middle of a very bland highway, not quite large enough to pass a car but there was no need anyways. Nothing but low lying brush, and hills seen far in the distance. It was otherwise completely flat. Then, we hit our turn signal, at the black mailbox. Thats how you know when to turn... there is a mysterious, good sized, and seemingly random black mailbox sitting out there, so we turned. After going through miles of roads (with many intersections, mind you) through the desert, we eventually hit the hills in the distance, and found ourselves approaching a small valley leading into them.
We pull up to a pair of sign groupings. One on the left, and one on the right. There were orange markers every 5 feet or so to mark a perimeter. We stopped right before the signs, staying safely on our side. As we pull up to the signs, we see about 250 feet away on top of a small hill, a large black truck pulls up and stops on the hill. True story.
Now, my friend is a bit crazier than I. Mind you, these signs read things like "Use of Deadly Force Authorized" "Military Installation Restricted Access" "Photography Prohibited" and all sorts of other things that make you wary of them. So, he opens up the car door and kneels behind it and starts taking pictures of the signs. After photographing the photography prohibited sign that was right next to the use of deadly force authorized sign, he gets a real good idea. He wants to talk to the man in the truck.
Mind you, the orange markers that mark the perimeter go about a quarter way up the hill that the truck is on. So, he hikes over there and is yelling up at this guy. Meanwhile, I'm watching the whole thing go down through the camera. I see my friend walking the line, yelling like a madman. I see the guy in the truck talking into his radio, reach into his backseat and pick up a shotgun. I'm thinking, "This is no good. I'm going to have to drive back to this guy's mother and tell her that I watched her son die." and that was the best case scenario I was thinking of, not the "Oh man, if I see them kill him, they'll kill me in the cover up, too" train of thought. Eventually, the man in the truck rolls down his window and yells something sufficiently threatening to make my friend decide its time to go. And we do. We drive away back to Las Vegas. All in all, the trip was long for such a short sight. Not that great of a trip really, but one hell of a story.
-Da3vid-
Then there's the massive underground highway that apparently exists all over the USA that they use at their convenience.
Dude, everyone has heard of the The Harriet Tubman Memorial Highway.
Do they have Dick Cheney's house? Because a friend told me he has really nice roof tiles...and I, uh, can't quite make 'em out in Google Earth.
(Waves at the NSA.)
Hehe, I spent all day Saturday running new phone cable for a co-worker whose DSL wouldn't work. I found cloth wiring that dated to at least the 20s.
So I'm telling this story to a friend (who is also a telco weenie) and marveling at how the POTS service kept working on those degraded lines. I said "Yeah, you just can't kill POTUS, it's bulletproof". Obviously I meant to say "POTS" and not "POTUS" ;)
I kinda wonder how much fuel that NSA satellite had to burn to get a better read on my conversation that day :)
I want peace on earth and goodwill toward man.
We are the United States Government! We don't do that sort of thing.
It would be neat if they did have extraterrestrial craft but if we had such technology, why would we still be dependent on oil?
A severe shortage of dilithium crystals.
Also, the naquada was all mined out several thousand years ago...
-- Alastair
Just be careful, if you don't realign your field harmonics and vent the gauss magnetic field sources once in a while, it could blow up!
"Quoting yourself is stupid." -Me
"One thing though, if they were unable to "hide" this base, probably newer secret bases have been made underground."
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The tip of the iceberg my friend. Area 51 IS underground! In fact I'm typing this out of the underground facility as we speak and my fascist boss, sitting in the cubicle next to me has no idea I'm postinnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn