The CIA's most famous ship headed for the scrapyard
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#2Project Azorian was also featured in Charles Stross's "The Jennifer Morgue", which takes this particular CIA mission and its cover, and wraps it in something supernatural.
A+ read.
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#3I found this video of the burial of the soviet sailors incredibly respectful: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFWMo7aHDRo&noredirect=1
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#4I found this video of the burial of the soviet sailors incredibly respectful: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFWMo7aHDRo&noredirect=1
I wonder how much of it was done as a hedge against the time when this would eventually come out.
"Sure, we tried to steal your sunken sub. But look, we played nice."
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#5I found this video of the burial of the soviet sailors incredibly respectful: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFWMo7aHDRo&noredirect=1
I wonder how much of it was done as a hedge against the time when this would eventually come out. "Sure, we tried to steal your sunken sub. But look, we played nice."
No, this is part of the marine culture. It comes from the fact that the see is the strongest, keeping everybody humble in face of nature.
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#6> From about 1970-74, the CIA managed to convince the world that billionaire inventor Howard Hughes had decided to invest millions to mine “manganese nodules,” balls of heavy metals that lie on the ocean floor. Via fake press releases, events, technical specs and front companies, the CIA convinced the world that Hughes was leading a new ocean-mining rush.
This sounds exactly like James Cameron's astroid mining. I wonder if we'll find out in 50 years that the CIA was recovering a Russian spaceship.
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#7> From about 1970-74, the CIA managed to convince the world that billionaire inventor Howard Hughes had decided to invest millions to mine “manganese nodules,” balls of heavy metals that lie on the ocean floor. Via fake press releases, events, technical specs and front companies, the CIA convinced the world that Hughes was leading a new ocean-mining rush. This sounds exactly like James Cameron's astroid mining. I won…
>that the CIA was recovering a Russian spaceship
not Russian, i mean like not of Earth origin...
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#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
I wonder how much of it was done as a hedge against the time when this would eventually come out. "Sure, we tried to steal your sunken sub. But look, we played nice."
No, this is part of the marine culture. It comes from the fact that the see is the strongest, keeping everybody humble in face of nature.
Sea
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#9Make sure to watch the documentary. It's amazing.
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#10I just love the root of the "neither confirm nor deny" terminology.