Satellite Abandoned In 1967 Mysteriously Comes Back Online

http://dailycaller.com/2016/11/22/satellite-abandoned-in-1967-mysteriously-comes-back-online/ ^ | 11-22-16 | Andrew Follett

[ARGLOCKGUY]

An American satellite abandoned in 1967 suddenly came back online and began transmitting again for the first time in 50 years.

Amateur astronomers first suspected that they’d found the satellite in 2013, but needed years to confirm that it was still occasionally transmitting. The satellite, dubbed LES1, was built by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and launched into space in 1965.

A mistake in the satellite’s circuitry caused it to never leave its circular orbit, and it eventually stop transmitting in 1967. The satellite’s signal now fluctuates widely in strength, meaning that it’s likely only transmitting when its solar panels are in direct sunlight. Scientists expect that the satellite’s onboard batteries have disintegrated.

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[ARGLOCKGUY]

I guess ET’s done with it. :)

[sit-rep]

see if there is a Decepticon attached to it!!

[Bryanw92]

V’jer

[ARGLOCKGUY]

As long as it has the hot bald girl I’m OK with that.

[Bryanw92]

>>As long as it has the hot bald girl I’m OK with that.

She became governor of SC, didn’t she?

[Bryanw92]

>>As long as it has the hot bald girl I’m OK with that.

Remember that her oath of celibacy is on file with Starfleet.

[McGruff]

Interesting story.

[shibumi]

"She became governor of SC, didn’t she?"

Sorry.

She died of a heart attack in 1998. Age 49.

[OttawaFreeper]

Did it go to Talos IV and violate the only death penalty law of Starfleet?

[Lee'sGhost]

And then she met me...

[Bryanw92]

>>Sorry

Don’t be sorry. I’m pretty sure that she wasn’t really a bald alien with sexual powers that could enslave a man either.

[mad_as_he$$]

+1. My first thought also. ;-)

[wally_bert]

So sad for a pretty lady.

At least she got other credits beyond Megaforce.

[Paladin2]

I hate batteries.

[SamAdams76]

Halley's Comet was supposed to be a big deal when it last swung by in 1986. When I was growing up and going to school during the 1970s, teachers would talk about how Halley's comet could be seen in broad daylight and that at night, you would be able to read a book by it. I was looking forward to that comet. But it was a dud. I think you needed a telescope to even see it. What a disappointment.

Now it comes back around in 2061. I will be a very old man by then, if I am even alive. If I'm not alive, I'm likely not to see it at all.

[Gaffer]

Must have been something like one (or more) of the battery cells shorted out can stayed shorted until it deteriorated enough and opened up allowing the solar panels to get power to the rest of the system.

[Gaffer]

I remember going out and looking at it several nights. you could see without any optics.

[Gaffer]

Though that probably was Hale-Bopp come to think of it. I’m old now.

[Trump-a-licious]

Did you ever see the movie called Event Horizon? It was the scariest movie I ever saw, and it was the only movie I ever had to turn off because it was so scary. Check it out sometime