The Lockheed Sea Shadow and the Hughes Mining Barge
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The Lockheed Sea Shadow and the Hughes Mining Barge
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#2We were just talking about this!
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#3The CIA has invented an entire fake scientific field to cover this: manganese nodules deep sea mining (it is actually not commercially sustainable). More than that, they have posted hundreds of peer reviewed (and completely fake) papers to convince Russians that it is a feasible idea, so they launched their own deep sea mining programs (completely abandoned after the nature of the operation leaked).
Re: The Lockheed Sea Shadow and the Hughes Mining Barge
#4The Hughes Mining Barge (HMB-1) was originally developed by the CIA to salvage the Soviet submarine K-129 from the ocean floor.
It then had a second life 25 years later as the hanger for the Sea Shadow. Then they were both put in mothballs in the Suisan Bay fleet. Someone broke in and photographed it.
http://scotthaefner.com/beyond/mothball-fleet-ghost-ships/
The Sea Shadow was sold for scrap to Bay Marine for something $2.5M. But Bay Marine got to keep the HMB and that's what's on the Estuary.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2185831/Declassified...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hughes_Mining_Barge
Re: The Lockheed Sea Shadow and the Hughes Mining Barge
#5The CIA has invented an entire fake scientific field to cover this: manganese nodules deep sea mining (it is actually not commercially sustainable). More than that, they have posted hundreds of peer reviewed (and completely fake) papers to convince Russians that it is a feasible idea, so they launched their own deep sea mining programs (completely abandoned after the nature of the operation leaked).
I remember reading about undersea manganese mining in an illustrated science book when I was a kid! It even had pictures of the mining craft.
Re: The Lockheed Sea Shadow and the Hughes Mining Barge
#6The CIA has invented an entire fake scientific field to cover this: manganese nodules deep sea mining (it is actually not commercially sustainable). More than that, they have posted hundreds of peer reviewed (and completely fake) papers to convince Russians that it is a feasible idea, so they launched their own deep sea mining programs (completely abandoned after the nature of the operation leaked).
I remember reading about undersea manganese mining in an illustrated science book when I was a kid! It even had pictures of the mining craft.
Exactly. All part of the hoax!
Re: The Lockheed Sea Shadow and the Hughes Mining Barge
#7The CIA has invented an entire fake scientific field to cover this: manganese nodules deep sea mining (it is actually not commercially sustainable). More than that, they have posted hundreds of peer reviewed (and completely fake) papers to convince Russians that it is a feasible idea, so they launched their own deep sea mining programs (completely abandoned after the nature of the operation leaked).
I guess the key difference is totalitarianism. Totalitarian governments are so all-consuming, and the deceptions that sort of society uses are just profoundly different, because of the way such a deception must be approached.
With everything stemming from one big organization, the question is never if the government did it, but which government agents are the ranking officials responsible, and what are they up to?
When you have a non-totalitarian government, where officials are lesser celebrities if at all, and maybe such a government that acts as a referee for the rest of its citizens, the way it behaves gets weirder, and less predictable.
Re: The Lockheed Sea Shadow and the Hughes Mining Barge
#8>Time is almost up for the Sea Shadow and the Hughes Mining Barge. Sadly if a miracle does not come to pass immedietly these relics of American ingenuity will be turned into rebar and Pepsi cans very soon…
Setting aside the fact it's a complete tragedy that no one has picked these two vessels up as museum pieces, I wonder how radioactive those Pepsi cans would be—considering the entire point of the operation was to raise a nuclear submarine, carrying nuclear weapons—one that supposedly broke in half according to the official story.
I'm sure contaminated areas (if any) were decontaminated, but perhaps there's still trace amounts resident in the ship that might tell an interesting story.
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#9The CIA has invented an entire fake scientific field to cover this: manganese nodules deep sea mining (it is actually not commercially sustainable). More than that, they have posted hundreds of peer reviewed (and completely fake) papers to convince Russians that it is a feasible idea, so they launched their own deep sea mining programs (completely abandoned after the nature of the operation leaked).
I remember reading about undersea manganese mining in an illustrated science book when I was a kid! It even had pictures of the mining craft.
To be fair, it doesn't look like this was entirely fiction. Here's what Wiki has to say on the subject [1]:
> Interest in the potential exploitation of polymetallic nodules generated a great deal of activity among prospective mining consortia in the 1960s and 1970s. Almost half a billion dollars was invested in identifying potential deposits and in research and development of technology for mining and processing nodules.
And in a few cases they actually succeeded in extracting some metals:
> In the late-seventies, two of the international joint ventures succeeded in collecting several hundred ton quantities of manganese nodules from the abyssal plains (18,000 feet, 5.5 km + depth) of the eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean. Significant quantities of nickel (the primary target) as well as copper and cobalt were subsequently extracted from this "ore" using both pyrometallurgical and hydrometallurgical methods.
A lot of R&D money was sunk into this before it even had a hope of commercially viable (and it still isn't to this day), but it wasn't a hoax either.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manganese_nodule#Proposed_Mini...
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#10The CIA has invented an entire fake scientific field to cover this: manganese nodules deep sea mining (it is actually not commercially sustainable). More than that, they have posted hundreds of peer reviewed (and completely fake) papers to convince Russians that it is a feasible idea, so they launched their own deep sea mining programs (completely abandoned after the nature of the operation leaked).
> they have posted hundreds of peer reviewed (and completely fake) papers
Were the authors that were listed on these papers CIA employees with a fake cover job, or just completely made-up names?