
Purpose
"The X-37B is a mysterious, black-funded robot shuttle that no-one knows the purpose of" - surely the people who run the project know what it's for?
The US Air Force is preparing for the imminent landing of its second secret spaceplane, which is expected sometime at the beginning of June. The reusable X-37B, an unmanned shuttle with an unknown mission, will probably come down at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, although Edwards Air Force Base in the same state is a …
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Not necessarily. Someone at some point might have known the mission. When they died in an accident involving a small rubber ball and a litre of whipped cream the project went on, but nobody really knows why any more. All they know is that they get lots of money to play with neat toys, which is sufficient unto itself.
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A vendor once described some installation as the biggest data store in the non-black world.
My manager later mentioned how surprised he was that the biggest systems would be in Africa.
ps. is there anyway to edit typos without withdrawing the post and resubmitting?
Actually, it kinda does.
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Psychiatry . a mental disorder characterized by systematized delusions and the projection of personal conflicts, which are ascribed to the supposed hostility of others, sometimes progressing to disturbances of consciousness and aggressive acts believed to be performed in self-defense or as a mission.
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baseless or excessive suspicion of the motives of others.
Don't worry. Toilet paper is undoubtedly embargoed, and there's bugger all forests in Iran, so they'll be using emery cloth instead of bog roll, and washing it off between uses. Luckily emery cloth won't hold a print very well, so they can crimp off a length knowing that national security won't be compromised.
Huh: OADS: Ontario Association of Dental Specialists
Seems like a great way to get rid of a whole bunch of Dentists to me... send em up there, drill them for info (groan) and then enject them into space. But why start with the Canadian ones?
Anon cuz that was really bad :)
... that this thing has enough lift to deploy "Rods from God".
The good news is that living in basements will go mainline soon! ^_^
Is it just me or would having this thing in orbit in the event of aliens showing up be very handy?
We had a flying disk show up over Essex a few days ago, perhaps that was the scout ship and the main bulk of the fleet is waiting behind the Sun for a big solar flare to mess up our satellite surveillance so they can invade?
AC/DC 6EQUJ5
Where all the Russian and Chinese satellites hang their hats.
Could this treacherous mission have anything to do with disabling them when Russia decides it's time for a preemptive strike against the missile shield defense in Poland?
Or maybe the U.S. beat Russia to the punchbowl and now has implemented an operational Doomsday Machine as first seen in "Dr. Strangelove"?