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

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Post by vasac » Fri, Apr 24, 2026, 10:20 PM UTC

trhway wrote: post #170

vasac wrote: post #164

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> Iran's situation is obviously very different. Yes, very different as in 'Our blessed homeland vs their barbarous wastes' meme. We (and our allies) should have nukes because we want to prevent wars. But no one else should have them, since the situation is obviously very different (we wouldn’t want them to be able to prevent wars). And I used to think that Little Rocketman was a crazy bastard, but it looks like I was…

>Yes, very different as in 'Our blessed homeland vs their barbarous wastes' meme. exactly. Iran's policy declaration of destroying whole countries (US and Israel in this case) and conducting of actual proxy-wars in order to achieve those goals make them barbarians from whom the civilization must be defended. >we wouldn’t want them to be able to prevent wars they don't even try. They want nukes to be able to conduct w…

I’ve heard that lower and middle education aren’t exactly the US’s strong suits, but still? The US organized a coup in Iran over 70 years ago and has never really stopped meddling in Iran’s internal affairs. The US runs proxy wars around the world on a daily basis, and when we’re talking about barbarians, they’re certainly near the top - almost a GOAT.

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

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Post by b9apratus » Sat, Apr 25, 2026, 10:06 AM UTC

poulpy123 wrote: post #97

11 disappearances over 4 years and 4 states : - 1 rocket scientist lost while hiking - 1 astrophysicist killed at home by someone arrested a few months before at his home with a gun - 1 physicist in another field killed without cause of death made public - 1 engineer in instrumentation killed also without the cause made public - 1 schizophrenic crank woman died by suicide - 1 plasma and nuclear scientist killed at ho…

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

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Post by b9apratus » Sat, Apr 25, 2026, 10:13 AM UTC

MagicMoonlight wrote: post #113

buran77 wrote: post #111

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The three companies mentioned have together maybe up to 50k employees (quick internet search, don't quote me on that). 11 of them (various roles, some out of the game for years) dying or going missing over many years in a country with a pretty high criminality and suicide rates rates doesn't sound very surprising.

They’re also some of the most strategically valuable companies if you are say an evil country that wants to build long range nuclear missiles or advance your space programme.

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

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Post by b9apratus » Sat, Apr 25, 2026, 10:17 AM UTC

poulpy123 wrote: post #94

King-Aaron wrote: post #49

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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.

She was also very visibly delusional for years

Or troubled by her thought controls and no one can do anything to help her.