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Secret USAF Unmanned Shuttle Returns from Orbit (Video)
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ConfusingJazz
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Kung Fu Jedi
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Wasn't there a thread on this over the weekend?
Anyway, cool piece of tech to say the least. It is believed to have been testing new imaging systems while up there, which is a polite way of saying "Spy Satellites."
Anyway, cool piece of tech to say the least. It is believed to have been testing new imaging systems while up there, which is a polite way of saying "Spy Satellites."
ChiTownBuffalo
Either I made up lies about the Boston Bomber or I fell for someone else's crap. Either way, I have absolutely no credibility and you should never pay any attention to anything I say, no matter what the context. Perm me if I claim to be an insider
China is obviously not a fan, but I'm sure hard at work trying to copy it.
ThoseDeafMutes
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Its existence is hardly a secret, given that its launch was widely reported upon. It's also not a "Space Shuttle". The concept is somewhat interesting, although this doesn't give the United States any novel capabilities (just more convenient ways to do things they already could).
Dubbedinenglish
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One of theories I read on it were that it was also a sort of rescue craft for astronauts. Getting that craft into space with supplies would be much easier to do in an emergency than relying on a Russian rocket.
ThoseDeafMutes
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The majority of NASAs spacecraft are entirely unmanned.
Could be, although this is no real substitute for something with decent lift capabilities.
Kung Fu Jedi
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Considering we really don't know what its capabilities are, it could have a few tricks up its sleeve that we're not aware of.
like transform into a mech?
andthebeatgoeson
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The secret is that it's not a secret. Shhh.
SteveWinwood
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This is what I'm banking my money on. I bet it has a laser sword.
Kung Fu Jedi
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Yeah, with a big frickin' laser that can shoot nukes down as they launch!
SteveWinwood
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Joel Was Right
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The real secret stuff is probably 50 years more advanced than this. Read up on what Gary McKinnon found whilst snooping around on NASA and Pentagon computers
Pollux
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at work...link?
Makes sense, since the National Reconnaissance Office just gave NASA two Hubble-class space telescopes, one would assume they have something to replace them.
Joel Was Right
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He sat in his girlfriend Tamsin’s aunt’s house in Crouch End, and he began to hack. He downloaded a program that searched for computers that used the Windows operating system, scanned addresses and pinpointed administrator user names that had no passwords. Basically, what Gary was looking for – and found time and again – were network administrators within high levels of the US government and military establishments who hadn’t bothered to give themselves passwords. That’s how he got in. His Bufora friends “were living in cloud cuckoo land”, he says. “All those conspiracy theorists seemed more concerned with believing it than proving it.” He wanted evidence. He did a few trial runs, successfully hacking into Oxford University’s network, for example, and he found the whole business “incredibly exciting. And then it got more exciting when I started going to places where I really shouldn’t be”.
“Like where?” I ask.
“The US Space Command,” he says.
And so, for the next seven years, on and off, Gary sat in his girlfriend’s aunt’s house, a joint in the ashtray and a can of Foster’s next to the mouse pad, and he snooped. From time to time, some Nasa scientist sitting at his desk somewhere would see his cursor move for no apparent reason. On those occasions, Gary’s connection would be abruptly cut. This would never fail to freak out the then-stoned Gary. He sounds to me like a virtuoso hacker, although I am someone who can barely download RealPlayer. I nod blankly as he says things like, “You get on to easy networks, like Support and Logistics, in order to exploit the trust relationship that military departments have between each other, and once you get on to an easy thing, you find out what networks they trust and then you hop and hop and hop, and eventually you think, ‘That looks a bit more secretive.’ ” When I ask if he is brilliant, he says no. He’s just an ordinary self-taught techie. And, he says, he was never alone.
“Once you’re on the network, you can do a command called NetStat – Network Status – and it lists all the connections to that machine. There were hackers from Denmark, Italy, Germany, Turkey, Thailand …” “All on at once?” I ask. “You could see hackers from all over the world, snooping around, without the spaceniks or the military realising?” “Every night,” he says, “for the entire five to seven years I was doing this.” “Do you think they’re still there? Are they still at it? Or have they been arrested, too?”
Gary says he doesn’t know.
“What was the most exciting thing you saw?” I ask.
“I found a list of officers’ names,” he claims, “under the heading ‘Non-Terrestrial Officers’.”
“Non-Terrestrial Officers?” I say.
“Yeah, I looked it up,” says Gary, “and it’s nowhere. It doesn’t mean little green men. What I think it means is not earth-based. I found a list of ‘fleet-to-fleet transfers’, and a list of ship names. I looked them up. They weren’t US navy ships. What I saw made me believe they have some kind of spaceship, off-planet.”
“The Americans have a secret spaceship?” I ask.
“That’s what this trickle of evidence has led me to believe.”
“Some kind of other Mir that nobody knows about?”
“I guess so,” says Gary.
“What were the ship names?” “I can’t remember,” says Gary. “I was smoking a lot of dope at the time. Not good for the intellect.”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/2005/jul/09/weekend7.weekend2
“Like where?” I ask.
“The US Space Command,” he says.
And so, for the next seven years, on and off, Gary sat in his girlfriend’s aunt’s house, a joint in the ashtray and a can of Foster’s next to the mouse pad, and he snooped. From time to time, some Nasa scientist sitting at his desk somewhere would see his cursor move for no apparent reason. On those occasions, Gary’s connection would be abruptly cut. This would never fail to freak out the then-stoned Gary. He sounds to me like a virtuoso hacker, although I am someone who can barely download RealPlayer. I nod blankly as he says things like, “You get on to easy networks, like Support and Logistics, in order to exploit the trust relationship that military departments have between each other, and once you get on to an easy thing, you find out what networks they trust and then you hop and hop and hop, and eventually you think, ‘That looks a bit more secretive.’ ” When I ask if he is brilliant, he says no. He’s just an ordinary self-taught techie. And, he says, he was never alone.
“Once you’re on the network, you can do a command called NetStat – Network Status – and it lists all the connections to that machine. There were hackers from Denmark, Italy, Germany, Turkey, Thailand …” “All on at once?” I ask. “You could see hackers from all over the world, snooping around, without the spaceniks or the military realising?” “Every night,” he says, “for the entire five to seven years I was doing this.” “Do you think they’re still there? Are they still at it? Or have they been arrested, too?”
Gary says he doesn’t know.
“What was the most exciting thing you saw?” I ask.
“I found a list of officers’ names,” he claims, “under the heading ‘Non-Terrestrial Officers’.”
“Non-Terrestrial Officers?” I say.
“Yeah, I looked it up,” says Gary, “and it’s nowhere. It doesn’t mean little green men. What I think it means is not earth-based. I found a list of ‘fleet-to-fleet transfers’, and a list of ship names. I looked them up. They weren’t US navy ships. What I saw made me believe they have some kind of spaceship, off-planet.”
“The Americans have a secret spaceship?” I ask.
“That’s what this trickle of evidence has led me to believe.”
“Some kind of other Mir that nobody knows about?”
“I guess so,” says Gary.
“What were the ship names?” “I can’t remember,” says Gary. “I was smoking a lot of dope at the time. Not good for the intellect.”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/2005/jul/09/weekend7.weekend2
There is a video interview where he goes into a little more detail about the ships and their names.
This and the fact that this UAV landed in California reminded me; they were reports in the 70s, 80s and onwards of what looked like unofficial rocket launches somewhere in California.
Pollux
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Awesome, thanks man! Will watch the video when I get home.
Edit: Basically Stargate is real, then? lol
el retorno
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Isn't there a base which has launched some Satellites over there?
Edit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vandenberg_Air_Force_Base
ChiTownBuffalo
Either I made up lies about the Boston Bomber or I fell for someone else's crap. Either way, I have absolutely no credibility and you should never pay any attention to anything I say, no matter what the context. Perm me if I claim to be an insider
You mean when Obama launched a missile attack against Iran and a race of benevolent aliens atopped it?
Where did these aliens come from? Out of the vagina of a California home health adminstrator turned physicist!
I've yet to see a rocket that doesn't look like a giant penis
The real question is... what if anything alive came down with it?!?!
el retorno
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If anyone posts another Russian Today link I'll post this back.
Good Job Bob
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Really? The guy's a nut, and he admits to doing drugs.
Rafa=FedKilla
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That's what the government wants us to think brah.
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