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Somebody moved UK's oldest satellite, and no-one knows who or why
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| 11/08/2024
| Jonathan Amos
Posted on 11/10/2024 4:04:26 PM PST by BenLurkin
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posted on
11/10/2024 4:04:26 PM PST
by
BenLurkin
To: BenLurkin
I’m not saying it was aliens but it was aliens
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posted on
11/10/2024 4:08:52 PM PST
by
MNJohnnie
(Don't blame me, my congressman is MTG!)
Where was Dr Strangelove at the time?
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posted on
11/10/2024 4:08:53 PM PST
by
Gene Eric
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
11/10/2024 4:09:02 PM PST
by
Mark
(DONATE ONCE every 3 months-is that a big deal?)
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
11/10/2024 4:10:13 PM PST
by
Paladin2
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
11/10/2024 4:11:01 PM PST
by
Nervous Tick
("First the Saturday people, then the Sunday people...": ISLAM is the problem!)
To: BenLurkin
Maybe it still works and they were always spying with it after its useful life as a communications satellite…?
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posted on
11/10/2024 4:12:47 PM PST
by
BradyLS
(DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
To: All
The commands must have been spoofed from an unauthorized ground command centre.
This untraceable secrecy is the hallmark of a certain Dr. No, associated with the international terrorist organization known as SPECTRE...
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posted on
11/10/2024 4:13:52 PM PST
by
SteveH
To: BenLurkin
At the rate of current decay of the UK, their own satellite will outlive their country.
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posted on
11/10/2024 4:16:52 PM PST
by
quantim
(Victory is not relative, it is absolute.)
To: MNJohnnie
“I’m not saying it was aliens but it was aliens”
Could be, but easier to blame it on the old standby, PUTIN!!!
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posted on
11/10/2024 4:21:20 PM PST
by
BobL
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
11/10/2024 4:32:35 PM PST
by
The Duke
(Not without incident.)
To: SteveH
Something Torchwood would have done and kept ultra secret.
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posted on
11/10/2024 5:02:24 PM PST
by
wally_bert
(I cannot be sure for certain, but in my personal opinion I am certain that I am not sure..)
To: MNJohnnie
I’m not saying it was aliens but it was aliens
___________________________
Are you sure they up there legally?
To: BenLurkin
“...commanded to fire its thrusters in the mid-1970s...”
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It moved 50 years ago and they just now noticed?
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posted on
11/10/2024 5:07:22 PM PST
by
Repeal The 17th
(Get out of the matrix and get a real life.)
To: Repeal The 17th
British bureaucracy at its finest.
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posted on
11/10/2024 5:09:43 PM PST
by
wally_bert
(I cannot be sure for certain, but in my personal opinion I am certain that I am not sure..)
To: BenLurkin
Look I was just trying to get a better connection. That is all. Everyone just needs to calm down and let me work. I will try to put it back where I found it.
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posted on
11/10/2024 5:15:41 PM PST
by
Harmless Teddy Bear
( Not my circus. Not my monkeys. But I can pick out the clowns at 100 yards.)
To: BenLurkin
Come on now! The thing is named
Skynet! Isn't it obvious who moved it?
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posted on
11/10/2024 5:20:54 PM PST
by
Flatus I. Maximus
(TIM WALZ'S COVID LOCKDOWN MANDATES KILLED MY WIFE.)
To: BobL
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posted on
11/10/2024 5:54:04 PM PST
by
squirt
(POLITICIANS & DIAPERS NEED TO BE CHANGED, FOR THE SAME REASON)
To: BenLurkin
Though it no longer works for the UK, perhaps it works for someone else. Hacked?
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posted on
11/10/2024 6:09:37 PM PST
by
Mister Da
(The mark of a wise man is not what he knows, but what he knows he doesn't know!)
To: Harmless Teddy Bear
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posted on
11/10/2024 6:10:13 PM PST
by
MNJohnnie
(Don't blame me, my congressman is MTG!)
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