What ever became of the solar observatory that was closed?

originally posted by: Zaphod58
a reply to: Baddogma

Every so often someone will tell me something that has me shaking my head, thinking they're totally nuts, and then out of the blue a few months later someone else tells me something really similar. That's half the fun.

a reply to: Nyiah

Something else that I can't give details on. The whole porn thing was them doubling down on their initial screw up. Apparently someone figured that was the best way to get people looking another direction, and wound up drawing all kinds of attention.

Ok, you can't give details, I know there's things you come across that can find you in a deep dark pit somewhere if you get chatty about them.

But how about if we were to play Hot or Cold? You're not admitting anything with guesswork general directions, riiight?

originally posted by: MarlbBlack
a reply to: Zaphod58

"Something else that I can't give details on." sigh...

LOL bummer. I knew the p0rn thing was a farce. I seem to remember reading it was some type of "security risk." Whatever that means....at a solar observatory. The whole thing was odd indeed. I'm curious about whatever it was being "routine". Like a drill? What?

One thing i know for certain, if you google around to find out how the arrest and subsequent trial are going, you'll find absolutely no mention of it. It just *poof* went away.

Its amazing how effective bullcrap obvious cover stories issued by our gov are.

I live in New Mexico and there were plenty of conspiracy theories.

One of the most interesting is that some Chinese guys that worked at the White Sands missile range had coopted the solar observatories data base.

The FBI did a more hands on investigation of these computers for Porn than they ever did with the DNC server and Russian hacking.


Things that make you go Hmmmmm?

a reply to: MarlbBlack

Yep. Because I'm not going to give information that could potentially be traced back to the source that gave it to me.

a reply to: Nyiah

You're welcome to try, but it will take a miracle TBH.

a reply to: Zaphod58

I bet that observatory found out the Sun goes Nova every 12,000 years or so causing mass extinctions on Earth and ushering in a new Ice Age so they shut it down to keep the public from panicking and that all the climate problems on Earth are due to the Sun.

a reply to: TheMadTitan

That doesn't sound very mundane.

This should atleast be looked into. Find out the employee. See what the local police had to say. Too strange to just go away.

Weren't they claiming all the solar observatories were being shut down at this time? Possibly linking it to planet x, maybe? I remember this story, but it was quite awhile ago.

originally posted by: caterpillage
One thing i know for certain, if you google around to find out how the arrest and subsequent trial are going, you'll find absolutely no mention of it. It just *poof* went away.

Its amazing how effective bullcrap obvious cover stories issued by our gov are.

You won’t find any deets about the suspect’s arrest or his trial, because the case was closed with no charges being filed. Believe that #? Any sane person thinks to themselves, “self, that’s implausible as hell. Closed for TEN days over some alleged creep, who turned out not to be a creep, but he was fired anyway and the observatory cut ties with the staffing company who placed him?” In addition, none of the articles explain just how, exactly, the FBI seized his laptop. Here’s why I ask: the reporting leaves the impression the feds snuck off with his laptop, evidenced by the supposed creep openly wondering where his laptop was, and searching for it, which is odd as hell because I would assume (I know, that word) if the feds moved in to seize a laptop, they’d kick the freaking door in and grab the laptop, warrant in hand. Why the cloak and dagger stuff?

I think the most plausible senecio here is his EMPLOYERS, seized his laptop then called the feds with their suspicions. Before the FBI arrives (think hours), the suspected creep begins to suspect exactly what’s happened and starts to lash out VIA weird, vague threats. The fuzz shows up, takes an inventory of what’s happened, alerts the governing body that overseas the facility which promptly overreacts and orders what’s actually a voluntary evacuation (meaning not ordered by the feds or any other actual authority) coupled with the very real evacuation order to the post office, by the very real feds, because they had not yet located the janitor and taking everything at face value (again, incorrectly) ordered the staff out because they had reason to believe the suspect might be in the area AND they actually have authority there.

Add in various rumors of Blackhawks hovering, various supposed G-Men sightings - absolutely none of it affirmed as true - and presto (!) a conspiracy is born.

I seriously think this was a bad firing on steroids, compounded by inept actions and gross over reactions.

It was a CrowdStrike server with the missing HRC emails. 😂

a reply to: dawnstar

That's what was being claimed. It wasn't true though. This was the only one shut down.

a reply to: Zaphod58

Makes perfect sense and is completely understandable. I'm sure your source is very grateful and sleeps well knowing his trust in you was well placed.
Or, he's #ting Toyotas as he sees you YET AGAIN hinting at his role as a source and frantically wondering when such ego-stroking will finally stop getting you off thus leading to his complete exposure in a game of 20 Questions.
Seriously, why speak in such absolutes on something about which you're unable to offer verification if not just for the thrill of public mental dick-wagging?

a reply to: ChayOphan

Sometimes it's to try to stop wild speculation, such as, "they saw giant alien spaceships coming this way so they had to shut them down". Other times it's just interesting to see where people go with small tidbits of information. In some forums a small tidbit starts some extremely interesting discussions that go unexpected places with a lot of interesting information found.

a reply to: Zaphod58

Awesome. That is exactly the type of response I would expect from someone of your caliber.
I've sifted thru much of your contribution here and I simply had to verify something for my own peace of mind.
Granted, my effort above was rather amateurish but at least my mind IS now at peace.

My best guess is that we have a secret, reciprocal agreement with Russia to install monitoring equipment near each other's testing facilities (kind of like the open skies treaty, but land based).

We have been pulling out of many of out treaty obligations with Russia. Perhaps we decided to remove or modify their equipment based at the facility?

a reply to: AaarghZombies Their excuse was some wild story of an employee looking at porn,that alone should lead to shut down of all facility's,very obvious someone saw rogue planet and 5 stars and it got squashed with another fake story,kind of like Kobe Bryant,they spend 20 min describing his helicopter emphasis on color scheme,then show wreckage of a white and blue one,not even same brand

This guy who was supposedly looking at kiddie pics ... What was his name?

I don't know of anybody on this forum who has used his actual name.