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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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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.

James Coomey

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

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

You think the FBI won't investigate in good faith?

Remember, sarcasm on the internet is difficult. Do you think Kash "forgot his safety blanket" Patel will direct FBI in good faith?

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

#44
post #31

It reminds me of The Three-Body Problem novel/series. At the beginning, the police is investigating on multiple suicides by scientists.

I think its a fairly common plot. Its also the plot of So many steps to death by Agatha Christie.

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

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Of those who are missing and not dead, I wonder if they are largely not US citizens, or citizens who have strong/stronger ties outside the US. It would not surprise me if people like that have decided to take their talents elsewhere, given the current state of anti-intellectualism in the US.

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

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11 people over 4 years doesn't seem like that much. Its not clear to me how big a population that is out of but if its government scientists i assume there are tens of thousands of those if not hundreds of thousands.

Still, FBI should be investigating every suspicious death of people with high level clearence.

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

#48
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> 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…

Israel just lobbies with money, it's far more effective.

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

#49
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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

Could be nothing, or could be a new Havana Syndrome: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Havana_syndrome What's sad is, 5-10 years ago, no adversary would think simply off-ing American scientists was effective strategy, America was a new scientist generation machine . Now thanks to Research funding falling off a cliff and massive immigration restrictions, this is no longer true.

Amy Eskridge - who publicly stated she was not suicidal before "committing suicide" reported to her friends that she received burns to her arms and hands through her window in an attack that sounded similar to this microwave/havana syndrome stuff. She was very vocal about the fact that she was being harassed over her work before she died.

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

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

You think the FBI won't investigate in good faith?

No, I do not.
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