Posted on 06/11/2009 12:30:47 PM PDT by Scythian
For 15 years, scientists have benefited from data gleaned by U.S. classified satellites of natural fireball events in Earth's atmosphere — but no longer.
A recent U.S. military policy decision now explicitly states that observations by hush-hush government spacecraft of incoming bolides and fireballs are classified secret and are not to be released, SPACE.com has learned.
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An Air Force space program, nicknamed Rods From God, aims to hurl cylinders of tungsten, titanium or uranium from the edge of space to destroy targets on the ground, striking at speeds of about 7,200 miles an hour with the force of a small nuclear weapon.
Now info on incoming bolides and fireballs is classified secret because they appear and disappear too fast to read them their Miranda rights.
The satellites' main objectives include detecting nuclear bomb tests, and their characterizations of asteroids and lesser meteoroids as they crash through the atmosphere has been a byproduct data bonanza for scientists.
It was secret, because the projects purpose was to detect (man made) nulcear explosions. The data it collected on asteroids and meteorites hitting the atmosphere (the fireballs from space) was just a by product of the study.
No UFO junk science here.
I doubt that anything that I can see burning up in the atmosphere by my own observation of the night sky is much of a 'secret' anyways.
And when that giant global killer does come, will it really matter if we know it's on it's way? What can we do about it? buld our own spacecraft in our back yards in a hurry so we can escape to- where?
The mass panic, people running around on killing sprees or what ever they want to do on their last day would ruin any chance of being able to throw a good "last day" party, so it would be best we didn't know we are all going to die in 24 hrs.
Yep! (actually on the boder between the Carson and Santa Fe forests) Abiquiu Lake near the Ghost Ranch.
Ya, but imagine spending you last day at work, what a bummer ... I’d rather know and go fishing with the kids ...
See post #26
LOL but WTF? Is Obama doing this or is this being done for an intelligent reasonable reason?
Well..if you believe the Black Helicopter crowd.......
My opinion is if it can’t be explained easily then the Gov’t doesn’t want to try......Out of sight out of mind!!
2nd Explanation....BUSH’S FAULT!!
Star Blazers ROCKED!!!!! “We’re off to outer space. We’re leaaaaving mother earth. To saaaave the Human Race.....”
That's because people living in cities are blinded by light pollution.
I live way out in the country, far away from any source of light pollution.
The night sky is amazing. there's always meteors streaking across the sky. Sometimes you get lucky and see a larger one put on a good show.
Great movie, NOT:
>>>Ping<<<
We *use* to live in the country. Civilization has nearly consumed us.
I would love to move to New Mexico or southwest Texas.
I, for one, welcome our new overlords.
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