The FBI have closed the Sunspot Solar Observatory in New Mexico without disclosing why.
Anyone like to hazard a guess as to why?
The FBI have closed the Sunspot Solar Observatory in New Mexico without disclosing why.
Anyone like to hazard a guess as to why?
Jing Joh said:
The FBI have closed the Sunspot Solar Observatory in New Mexico without disclosing why.Anyone like to hazard a guess as to why?
They accidentally discovered the alien ship that hides in the sun, the feds are cleaning up hard drives.
An intruder of some kind ?
A murder ?
Tau.Neutrino said:
Jing Joh said:
The FBI have closed the Sunspot Solar Observatory in New Mexico without disclosing why.Anyone like to hazard a guess as to why?
They accidentally discovered the alien ship that hides in the sun, the feds are cleaning up hard drives.
An intruder of some kind ?
A murder ?
Aren’t they sending a probe to the sun? Which will of course burn up after sending somedata back to earth but that is if everything goes to plan.
Jing Joh said:
The FBI have closed the Sunspot Solar Observatory in New Mexico without disclosing why.Anyone like to hazard a guess as to why?
Peyote growing in the garden?
Maybe a hostage situation ?
Maybe a disgruntled astronomer or employee ?
Maybe an alien is holding astronomers to ransom ?
Maybe they discovered something so important that they had to bring in the FBI ?
Terrorist attack ?
Not many things can shut down facilities like that .
Hacker activity ?
Computers used for criminal purposes ?
maybe telescopes used for criminal purposes
using access to telescopes for spying for another country ?
No idea. It’s up the mountains overlooking WSMR.
I’ve been there.
You want wild speculation?
Someone making a porn video there?
High level conference venue?
Asbestos?
It’s not radioactive contamination, because that would also have affected nearby Apache Point Telescope.
The article says “the FBI had told him there had been a credible threat” and “a security issue”, so probably a bomb threat.
https://sunspot.solar
A biological contamination threat is my guess.
https://www.alamogordonews.com/story/news/local/2018/09/07/sunspot-observatory-south-cloudcroft-closed-due-security-issue/1227788002/
I tell you this, up around that part of NM you’ll find heaps of conspiracy nutters etc. Hell, they’re everywhere. I bet they are frothing at the mouth and going off the rails about this closure.
Then there’s the Dunne Solar telescope. Maybe that’s the reason?
Jing Joh said:
The FBI have closed the Sunspot Solar Observatory in New Mexico without disclosing why.Anyone like to hazard a guess as to why?
They’ve been involved in illicit investigation of climate change?
Michael V said:
A biological contamination threat is my guess.
Yep. Highest likelihood.
Though with Trump in power it may be as simple as a non-American working there. Shock horror.
www.aura-astronomy.org/news/news.asp?newsID=389
Status of Sunspot.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/solar-observatory-was-mysteriously-evacuated-will-reopen-tomorrow-180970296/?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=socialmedia
mr kii is having a social outing with the folk from the local NASA site this morning – retirees and current staff. I’ve asked him to get the latest gossip. All these people are connected via the secret woo-woo that envelops places like Sunspot, WSMR and NASA.
It still might be aliens.
kii said:
mr kii is having a social outing with the folk from the local NASA site this morning – retirees and current staff. I’ve asked him to get the latest gossip. All these people are connected via the secret woo-woo that envelops places like Sunspot, WSMR and NASA.It still might be aliens.
Discussed earlier today. It was child porn. Somebody was using the internet there for child porn :(
Sorry if that is a bit less than glamorous that what we all hoped.
party_pants said:
kii said:
mr kii is having a social outing with the folk from the local NASA site this morning – retirees and current staff. I’ve asked him to get the latest gossip. All these people are connected via the secret woo-woo that envelops places like Sunspot, WSMR and NASA.It still might be aliens.
Discussed earlier today. It was child porn. Somebody was using the internet there for child porn :(
Sorry if that is a bit less than glamorous that what we all hoped.
feck :(
I haven’t seen any news links yet….still wiping sleep from my eyes.
https://www.abqjournal.com/1222935/sunspot-observatory-closure-sparked-by-child-porn-investigation.html
Apparently also threats of a serial killer…according to the janitor who was the culprit.