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Amateur Astronomer Discovers Long-Dead NASA Satellite Has Come Back To Life (behindtheblack.com)
schwit1 shares a report from Behind The Black: In his hunt to locate Zuma, an amateur astronomer has discovered that a long-dead NASA satellite, designed to study the magnetosphere, has come back to life. IMAGE went dead in 2005, and though NASA thought it might come back to life after experiencing a total eclipse in 2007 that would force a reboot, no evidence of life was seen then. It now appears that the satellite came to life sometime between then and 2018, and was chattering away at Earth waiting for a response. NASA is now looking at what it must do to take control of the spacecraft and resume science operations. Zuma is the secret U.S. government payload that was launched by SpaceX earlier this month and reportedly lost. As for why Scott Tilley -- the amateur radio astronomer -- decided to have a look for the present of secret military satellites, Ars Technica reports that he apparently does this semi-regularly as a hobby and, in this case, was inspired by the Zuma satellite.
... that you will not like what you’d hear.
That is either because you want to oppress the bearer of the secret,
or because he wants to harm you.
Which might both be true at the same time, depending on the perspective.
I'd say it's pretty clear cut in everything related to spying though.
Because an enemy is just an ally you failed to win over.
Which might be, that he's not only a dick to you, but that you're just as much a dick to him, making you exactly the same. (Yep, including the "But my side is more righteous! And he did it first!” arguments. They all believe that.)
(Or it might be that they're mentally ill... like religious or following any -ism. But so might you. Because the problem with that state is, that one can't tell from the inside.)
In the end ... I'm just saying: It's a dick move.
The defining characteristic of conspiracy theorists is that they never try to falsify their own ideas.
I think we just discovered the oldest human fossil outside Africa.