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FBI looks into dead or missing scientists tied to NASA, Blue Origin, SpaceX

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Re: FBI looks into dead or missing scientists tied to NASA, Blue Origin, SpaceX

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Post by contingencies »

xer0x wrote: post #18

Odd, I saw this bubble up on social media this week as a tinfoil hat curiosity. I don't know what's real anymore.

There's good news and bad news. Unfortunately they're the same news. Given the rapid dissolution of any sort of publicly verifiable 'news' outlet, and the abject commercialization of media, plus the doublespeak of politicians and businesses, the PR industry, self-censorship in response to cancel-culture and other divisive popular behavioral trends, and the replication crisis in science - it's not just you. It's everyone.

Re: FBI looks into dead or missing scientists tied to NASA, Blue Origin, SpaceX

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Post by defrost »

OhioMan2943 wrote: post #17
neurocline wrote: post #11

Once I saw “James Comer” I knew I could ignore this.

James Coomey

From article:

  Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) and Rep. Eric Burlison (R-Mo.), the chair of the Subcommittee on Economic Growth, Energy Policy, and Regulatory Affairs, sent letters to FBI Director Kash Patel, Secretary of Energy Chris Wright, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, and NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman, requesting staff-level briefings no later than April 27.
James Richardson Comer Jr. (R-Ky.)

  Not to be confused with James Comey.
~ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Comer

~ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Comey

Re: FBI looks into dead or missing scientists tied to NASA, Blue Origin, SpaceX

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Post by zavec »

coppsilgold wrote: post #20

One more addition to the conspiracy theories: The frequency of fireballs in our planet’s skies seemed to grow in recent months. NASA and other meteor experts can’t agree on what explains it. ... In response to growing public interest, a NASA public affairs official said in a blog post at the end of March, “While it may seem like meteor reports and sightings have been more frequent recently, it is not out of the ordin…

Homestuck is finally happening?

Re: FBI looks into dead or missing scientists tied to NASA, Blue Origin, SpaceX

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Post by OhioMan2943 »

defrost wrote: post #22
OhioMan2943 wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

James Coomey

From article: Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) and Rep. Eric Burlison (R-Mo.), the chair of the Subcommittee on Economic Growth, Energy Policy, and Regulatory Affairs, sent letters to FBI Director Kash Patel, Secretary of Energy Chris Wright, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, and NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman, requesting staff-level briefings no later than April 27. James Richardson Comer Jr. (R-Ky.) Not t…

I read his autobiography. Surely that entitles me to one irrelevant crude sex joke.

Re: FBI looks into dead or missing scientists tied to NASA, Blue Origin, SpaceX

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Post by laughing_man »

nickandbro wrote: post #19

A lot of people are saying it’s disconnected, but even if it was, if a string of your country’s top rocket experts started disappearing, you wouldn’t just sit idly by

True. Whether or not it's coincidental they have to look into it.

Re: FBI looks into dead or missing scientists tied to NASA, Blue Origin, SpaceX

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Post by defrost »

OhioMan2943 wrote: post #24
defrost wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

From article: Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) and Rep. Eric Burlison (R-Mo.), the chair of the Subcommittee on Economic Growth, Energy Policy, and Regulatory Affairs, sent letters to FBI Director Kash Patel, Secretary of Energy Chris Wright, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, and NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman, requesting staff-level briefings no later than April 27. James Richardson Comer Jr. (R-Ky.) Not t…

I read his autobiography. Surely that entitles me to one irrelevant crude sex joke.

Uhhh, the autobiography of which one though?

As for irrelevant crude sex jokes, go for it if makes any contribution here, I won't be offended, whenever you're ready.

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Post by onion2k »

coppsilgold wrote: post #20

One more addition to the conspiracy theories: The frequency of fireballs in our planet’s skies seemed to grow in recent months. NASA and other meteor experts can’t agree on what explains it. ... In response to growing public interest, a NASA public affairs official said in a blog post at the end of March, “While it may seem like meteor reports and sightings have been more frequent recently, it is not out of the ordin…

The scientists are being killed by space fireballs!? This is conspiracy bigger than I thought!

Re: FBI looks into dead or missing scientists tied to NASA, Blue Origin, SpaceX

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Post by King-Aaron »

laughing_man wrote: post #25
nickandbro wrote: post #19

A lot of people are saying it’s disconnected, but even if it was, if a string of your country’s top rocket experts started disappearing, you wouldn’t just sit idly by

True. Whether or not it's coincidental they have to look into it.

Unfortunately the people 'looking into it' have currently demonstrated that they are incapable of looking into anything in good faith.

Re: FBI looks into dead or missing scientists tied to NASA, Blue Origin, SpaceX

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Post by DANmode »

deathlight wrote: post #14
ozten wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> the concentration of deaths and disappearances within such a small, specialized field as defying ordinary probability. The best conspiracy theory I've seen online is that top-secret energy/weapons plans were sold by a traitor, and these scientists were kidnapped to be the worker bees. Terribly dark and implausible, but also, we are living through a storyline that writers wouldn't even consider a draft because it's…

Now that's a fun one, where did you hear that from? Other ones I've seen include; tit for tat revenge for the assassination of Iranian nuke scientists; a global conspiracy of illuminati/masons/"jews" (defined so broadly as to be useless); chinese interdiction (kidnapping, a-la the reverse of the subplot in nolan's the dark knight film - that is essentially what you said); bankers who own everything and subvert everyt…

Struggling to tell if you’re trolling,

or just often on a good one at this hour,

based on your other comments.

Anyway, did you fix the hiccups?

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