Secret military spacraft to return from orbit

[K7SGJ]

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Who Gnu?

Obviously, not me...............

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2790722/top-secret-x-37b-military-space-plane-set-land-california-nearly-two-years-orbit-no-one-knows-shuttle-doing-mystery-mission.html

[W3WN]

Yeah.

It's so hush-hush and top secret, it even has it's own Wikipedia page. With a history of how the craft came about, some of it's technical specs, pictures... the whole shebang.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_X-37

Top secret my left foot.

[kb2vxa]

You can put your left foot to better use with a straight key. It's not the spacecraft that's secret, the MISSION is the secret.

[NQ6U]

It's a spy satellite. BFD.

[K7SGJ]

Well it was a fucking secret to me. You have to remember, news is slow getting out to the desert. The pony express guys get knocked off on a regular basis. Life is hard out here.

[N2NH]

The space shuttle we don't have. Reminds me of NSA in the 80s. No Such Agency.

[W3WN]

You can put your left foot to better use with a straight key. It's not the spacecraft that's secret, the MISSION is the secret.
I can't QLF. Glass ankle.

Since the headline on the linked article reads, and I quote,
"Top secret X-37B USAF military spacecraft set to land in California after nearly two years in orbit on mystery mission"
it seems reasonable that the writer of the headline wants you to believe that the X-37B itself is top secret, not (just) it's mission.

The X-37B is hardly a secret, therefore, the headline is pitching hyperbole and is full of baloney.

[W3WN]

The space shuttle we don't have. Reminds me of NSA in the 80s. No Such Agency.I know. They knew for over a decade that the shuttles didn't have relatively much longer to fly, and yet...

Bushtit NASA administrators, and Bushtit politicians and congress critters who shot down progress to instead pander for re-election.

[K7SGJ]

Sure wish I'd have stayed in bed today.

[kd6nig]

Isn't "Top Secret" one of the lower forms of secrecy?

I know in Animal House....Delta was not only on probation, but DOUBLE SECRET probation!

[W3WN]

Sure wish I'd have stayed in bed today.Nah, don't sweat it.

Besides, this hyperbole was from the Daily Mail, so we really shouldn't be surprised.

Just think of the semi-nude pinup model of your choice, and soldier on. So to speak.

[kb2vxa]

"You have to remember, news is slow getting out to the desert."
THAT'S for sure! The Pony Express announced its closure on October 26, 1861, two days after the transcontinental telegraph reached Salt Lake City and connected Omaha, Nebraska and Sacramento, California.

"The pony express guys get knocked off on a regular basis."
It would have to be one hell of a knock off course all the way from the closest point to you in Salt Lake City.

"Sure wish I'd have stayed in bed today."
But then you wouldn't have learned American History. Incidentally, no wonder Congress favored the Butterfield Overland Mail Stage Line, the Pony Express grossed $90,000 and lost $200,000.

[XE1/N5AL]

"...set to land in California after nearly two years in orbit on mystery mission"Kinda sounds like a guy I knew in college.

[n2ize]

Yeah.

It's so hush-hush and top secret, it even has it's own Wikipedia page. With a history of how the craft came about, some of it's technical specs, pictures... the whole shebang.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_X-37

Top secret my left foot.

That's like the "top secret" stuff that appears on YouTube. :)

[WØTKX]

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