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Cheyenne Mountain Shutting Down
WilliamSChips writes "The United States military has announced that they are shutting down the facility at Cheyenne Mountain, home to the high-tech NORAD which tracks every object in the sky. NORAD's operations will be moved to the nearby Peterson Air Force base. The mountain facility is being placed on standby in case they need it again." From the article: "The Cheyenne Mountain center, at the eastern foot of the Rockies near the base of Pikes Peak, was constructed underground in the mid-1960s. Fearing nuclear attacks at the time, the United States built sites such as the Cheyenne Mountain complex. The Navy prepared a floating White House aboard the communications cruiser USS Northampton, in case the president needed to be evacuated from U.S. soil. Another protective bunker was created near White Sulphur Springs, W.Va., for members of Congress."
The stargate program is being expanded...
Simon
Physicists get Hadrons!
Let's put it up for auction! This would be a really cool geek house. It would be even better than living in an old missile silo!
I hope they're taking the Santa tracking equipment with them!
"Let's go burn down the observatory so this never happens again!"
Where are they going to move the Stargate to then?
Will WOPR have the same phone number if it's moved too?
Will they auction off the contents? I've always wanted a stargate or *gasp* even better... a Puddle jumper!
But Wait... where does this leave Atlantis?
-jX
Don't you just love politics? It's like a comedy of errors.
Maybe now we can take time out to port Linux to the WOPR. How about a nice game of GnuChess?
Weaselmancer
rediculous.
Wouldn't be a bad job to be one of the handful of people maintaining the facility. You've got your own underground world that you only have to shave with a dozen othre people. Install some fun tubes, slides, and ball pits, and you've got yourself a cool clubhouse.
It's not stupid. It's advanced.
It looks like Ill have to find a new place to play bridge, poker, checkers, tic-tac-toe, chess, and global thermonuclear war.
They're clearing it out so when Skynet goes online, John Connor will have somewhere to go and lead the rest of us to victory.
You mean "deep space telemetry" program.
Nooo! Wherever will we shoot our 1980's cult films now?!
You're going to have to fight Dick Cheney for it. Word is that he's already moved his undisclosed location there, and he'll shoot any trespassers in the face.
It's not offtopic, dumbass. It's orthogonal.
Samantha Carter: Was I naked?(in McKay's hallucination)
Rodney McKay: Partially.
Please, for the good of Humanity, vote Obama.
GWB has been won over as a Prior of the Ori.
It seems the Goa'uld are big on apostrophes.
And darn near every other alien race in sci-fi (and fantasy). Nothing says alien like an apostrophe... Perhaps because most Americans' are so unfamiliar with them.
You can't win, Darth. If you mod me down, I shall become more powerful than you could possibly imagine.
Yep. No doubt about it; it's closing down alright *wink*
It's now out of action - nothing going on in there anymore *smirk*
Things sure will be different now that Cheyenne Mountain is ceasing all operations *nudge*
I've had the same thing happen to me. I wonder if it's the same moderator...
Please, for the good of Humanity, vote Obama.
Please, for the good of Humanity, vote Obama.
Um, I actually thought the question about "what is the Stargate?" was sarcasm.
Looking at the responses, I'm actually supprised that wasn't the case.
I'll throw in my sarcastic explanation of Stargate anyways:
Stargate is where the writers thought, "Hey lets grab the aging McGuyver, give him machine guns and have him fight Aliens throughout the Galaxy. We can team him up with a buxom science babe (doing a military version of the sexy librarian thing), a Stoic warrior guy like Worf (but with fewer head ridges) and a Indiana Jones type academic guy (but more know-it-all). The whole thing can be done with an ancient Egyptian theme with cool pyramids and crystals and stuff. We can make it all work by using a lesser known gaming system like Tri-Tac's Fringeworthy Roleplaying game. We can do a film, maybe even a series or two, with lots of explosions and special effects stuff, it'll be really cool".
Its not users who are broken, it's systems not taking account their likely behaviour and fixing it technically.
It seems the Goa'uld are big on apostrophes
Those people who stick an apostrophe on every word that ends with "s" are probably Goa'uld sympathizers. Better kill them just be sure.
I think you mean Goa'uld sympathizers'
:)
(No, not really)
The Cheyenne Mountain complex was never secret. They didn't use security through obscurity, they used security by freaking mountain shield.
I think you mean Global ThermoGNU/clear War.