So who unblocks the W.C. in Area 51

Hello

This is probably a bit facetious, but I'm being semi-serious. All these top-secret undergound bases and so on - who polishes the floor and empties the trash? When they get a blocked toilet on sub-level 50, do they call AAA plumbers from the Yellow Pages? Even if they did it all 'in-house', it wouldn't be an ultra-high ranking member of the military using the mop and brush, would it?

And who excavates these sites? And tiles the floors? And wires them and puts in the plumbing? Are we talking outside contractors or Army Corps of Engineers?

Just a thought!

Cheers

TD

You know, this is a really good question...Do they hire a bunch of illiterate people who could never read anything they might come across, or mutes who could not just run out into the street shouting about what they saw in there, or do they hire immigrants (legal, of course) that just happen to not speak English?

But seriously, I would imagine that any civilian that enters any of those places first has to sign like a 1000 page contract against saying even a single word about what they may see inside.

But these places don't really exist, do they?

My old boss used to be a plumber in the military. The way it happened for him was when it came time to either leave the army as a private or stay on for his second term he asked about an apprenticeship so he got one as a plumber. Some of his jobs were just general base mainentance ( unblock sewars, change faucets ) stuff like that to working in labs running pipes that were chemical drains. Nothing too wild any bigg jobs were subbed out to contractors. This all was on your run of the mill bases no area 51 stuff. Hope that helps a little!

They are at present using Alien/human hybrids for toilet cleaning.

Specifically a small grey with the genes for a big afro hair.

By holding the grey by his feet and plunging him headfirst into the bowl and rotating the grey, they are able to clean right around the bend and the afro picks up every stuck on gunk.

Usually the military takes care of the military. They have air conditioner repairmen as an M.O.S. They have their own mechanics and doctors you freaken name it. Then usually people like seceretaries and janitors and cooks and what not are civillian former military personnel with security clearance. Hope that helps.

Their toilet is a 1.2 million dollar, counter-centrifugal instant dehydrator that incorporates alien technologies in both its disintegrator and antigrav applications.

Seriously, wouldn't that be modular? A unit that some low-level workers disconnect by going into the crawlspace below, without ever seeing the "guests."

Sort of like a hotel with a 9 a.m. checkout policy. You'd never see the maids.

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Originally posted by dr_strangecraft

Their toilet is a 1.2 million dollar, counter-centrifugal instant dehydrator that incorporates alien technologies in both its disintegrator and antigrav applications.

Seriously, wouldn't that be modular? A unit that some low-level workers disconnect by going into the crawlspace below, without ever seeing the "guests."

Sort of like a hotel with a 9 a.m. checkout policy. You'd never see the maids.

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Knew there would be a simple explanation for it!

seriously, with a practically unlimited budget, those kinds of problems are more like management riddles than they are issues of trust concerning the worker bees.

There's probably some flow-chart on the web, or a human resources chart or something showing you how to compartmentalize tasks so that no single worker can know enough to matter.

Functionally, it takes 5 employees to man a single position 24-7, by the time you add in vacation, sick leave, etc.

I've worked assignments where you were part of a crew like that, and there was usually at least 1, maybe two employees you never interacted with; or at most, for 20 minutes at the end of the weekend shift. Hardly time to develop a level of trust that exceeds your loyalty to the employer.

So, if bizarre things are only brought in or out during one shift, you greatly lower the number of people who can testify.

And with an unlimited budget, you can hide a lot from prying eyes.

Suppose, for example, that there are captive aliens in Area 51, that live in human-furnished apartments. And suppose that during their mating season they go berserk like rockstars trashing a hotel. Basically, everything must be replaced periodically.

Fine. I can set up a shell company in LA. Tell the people that we build interior sets for the movie industry; that it will be our job to build rooms inside of those modular shipping containers. We build "sets" and ship them to various "movie studios." (area 51).

Next. A trucker takes it to Vegas. Then a military worker drives it into Area 51, and parks it on your lot. From there, one of your mid-level crews takes it down to level -50, and unpacks it. Just as he finishes, he hooks up the electronic lock for the vacu-seal airlock that comes standard on all the doors the aliens have access to.

(I assume you have a sort of modular Habi-trail setup, like they do for pet hamsters, where you can open and close various passages without having to handle your pets.)

Then you let the "elves" in so they can celebrate their galactic mating ritual.

Other than the guys inside your base, no one even realized that it was headed for military use. And your guys never saw any aliens. As far as they know, some General will be staying the weekend there, looking at the new stealth fighter.

My point is, big bucks can insulate you from the world. It worked for Howard Hughes. And the paparzzi were offered obscene money for pictures of him. More than UFO researchers could ever make.

So, it's no wonder there are no witnesses coming forward. What will they testify to? Moving a lot of home furnishings around in the desert?

I can do even better with the laboratory, since most big labs build their own systems from basic components anyway.

Hi, as someone who works in an (Australian) government body where it is important to keep protected material from escaping into the public domain, I can tell you that the menial workers are professional cleaners, who work from 7 in the morning til 7 at night, not just at our place, but at other places, both government and non-government. They are trusted because they are vetted beforehand.

There is a simple explanation: Its the military. Nothing more. Very interesting question, though.

...the aliens below ground maintain the W.C.

What's Area 51?

Anyway, I used to work as a postal worker in the ARMY. I had a TOP SECRET clearance. If the military has their own postal workers, then I think the plumbers aren't too far away.

I work at a satellite facility in Diego Garcia, and everything there is secret. Our cleaning people just stay in the hallways. I mean, our bathroom isn't in the Space Operations Center. It's in the hallway.

Just as I assume the vats that hold dead aliens aren't next to the break room.

[edit on 12-2-2006 by curme]