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2004-12-14 Home Front: Tech

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Posted by Steve 2004-12-14 3:07:15 PM|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Hell what's all the fuss, just call it Cosmos eleventeen or an advanced Earth Resources Surveyor and let it go.

Posted by Shipman 2004-12-14 3:40:29 PM|| 2004-12-14 3:40:29 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 Oh they've already started launching.... never mind. :) Problem is having a good cover story for the launch. This was something the shuttle was good for. Polar Orbit? Sure just exploring the envelope of the spacecraft!

Posted by Shipman 2004-12-14 3:43:01 PM|| 2004-12-14 3:43:01 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 Just deploy it in tandem with "Project Shiny Things" to deflect attention...

Posted by Seafarious 2004-12-14 3:43:24 PM|| 2004-12-14 3:43:24 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 I really can't see how to hide the launch if it's using conventional optics... we're talking the HST pointed at earth basically. Okay, maybe you can't hide the vehicle during launch... maybe it's good enough to orbit and hide. Yikes!

Posted by Shipman 2004-12-14 4:03:07 PM|| 2004-12-14 4:03:07 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 ZIRCONIC is a bit of a give away.

Posted by phil_b 2004-12-14 4:25:22 PM|| 2004-12-14 4:25:22 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 The Senators' objections centered around the fact that none of the satellite's components were built in their states and that the prime contractor's PAC overlooked their various funding receptacles.

Posted by RWV 2004-12-14 4:44:20 PM|| 2004-12-14 4:44:20 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 phil_b I think you're confusing this with RUBY_GENTRY.

Posted by Shipman 2004-12-14 5:08:37 PM|| 2004-12-14 5:08:37 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 They ought to send up a giant balloon shaped like a scary ray gun, with letters on it saying "Zionist-American Death Ray Mk I".

Just let people spend their time freaking out over that and do the real work in the meantime.

Posted by Laurence of the Rats 2004-12-14 5:18:00 PM|| [http://www.punictreachery.com/] 2004-12-14 5:18:00 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 WTF! The senators apparently haven't figured out that if a program is classified YOU'RE NOT SUPPOSED TO TELL THE PRESS ABOUT IT! Cause if you do, it's no longer classified. There, now that really wasn't such a hard concept, was it?

Posted by AJackson 2004-12-14 5:20:47 PM|| 2004-12-14 5:20:47 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 Shipman, Q: What is the best place to hide a tree?
A: In a forest.

Posted by phil_b 2004-12-14 5:30:00 PM|| 2004-12-14 5:30:00 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 Now I understand all these latest reports about new low albedo objects discovered in the Kuiper Belt and the Oort cloud...... Zirconix you said ???

Posted by EoZ 2004-12-14 5:36:45 PM|| 2004-12-14 5:36:45 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 The antennas to send the data back to earth would also be a radar headache.

Lasers. No antennas needed, just little lenses.

As for the Senators -- *sigh* is it really that hard to see when treason applies?

Posted by Robert Crawford 2004-12-14 6:06:20 PM|| [http://www.kloognome.com] 2004-12-14 6:06:20 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 I heard Jed Babbin say on the John Batchelor Show last night that these disclosure by Rockefeller et al. had resulted in a criminal referral to the DOJ. I hope he's right. Rockefeller is the oiliest Senator our there.

Posted by Tibor 2004-12-14 6:16:15 PM|| 2004-12-14 6:16:15 PM|| Front Page Top

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