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posted by takyon on Thursday September 13 2018, @08:45PM   Printer-friendly
from the Nibiru-detection dept.

The Alamogordo Daily News reports:

The Sunspot Observatory is temporarily closed due to a security issue at the facility that's located 17 miles south of Cloudcroft in the Sacramento Mountains Friday, an Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA) spokeswoman Shari Lifson said.

"The Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy who manages the facility is addressing a security issue at this time," Lifson said. "We have decided to vacate the facility at this time as precautionary measure. It was our decision to evacuate the facility." She said she cannot comment on the specifics of the security issue.

[...] Otero County Sheriff Benny House said the Otero County Sheriff's Office was asked to standby. "The FBI [Federal Bureau of Investigation] is refusing to tell us what's going on," House said. "We've got people up there (at Sunspot) that requested us to standby while they evacuate it. Nobody would really elaborate on any of the circumstances as to why. The FBI were up there. What their purpose was nobody will say."

He said he has a lot of unanswered questions about what occurred at Sunspot. "But for the FBI to get involved that quick and be so secretive about it, there was a lot of stuff going on up there," House said. "There was a Blackhawk helicopter, a bunch of people around antennas and work crews on towers but nobody would tell us anything."

Why would the FBI order a sunspot research facility closed, but be unable (or unwilling) to give a reason?

Also at Popular Mechanics, Vice, and Gizmodo.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 13 2018, @10:52PM (7 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 13 2018, @10:52PM (#734523)

    I dont get how "number of google hits" maps to the accuracy of the original source.

    Lets say there is one local news site who was ok until this planted story. How would your method detect it?

  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by c0lo on Thursday September 13 2018, @11:54PM (6 children)

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Thursday September 13 2018, @11:54PM (#734558) Journal

    I dont get how "number of google hits" maps to the accuracy of the original source.

    If it fits him, then it's true. It's just as simple as that, don't try to find meaning where is none.

    E.g. in this case, suddenly, Google is no longer a bastion of liberalism, full of SJW, it's a reliable source and the number of hits is a good metric.

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 14 2018, @12:02AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 14 2018, @12:02AM (#734563)

      Yea I saw the same from 'deathmonkey" a few days ago. It wouldnt surprise me if those accounts were run by the same person.

    • (Score: 3, Insightful) by jmorris on Friday September 14 2018, @12:14AM (4 children)

      by jmorris (4844) on Friday September 14 2018, @12:14AM (#734573)

      Don't read more into what I say than what I say. I am pretty good at spotting fake / parody sites, this one doesn't look like one of them. But I admit I could be wrong, not interested enough to do a deep forensic dive on a weird news story. What I am saying is that a site with 30K pages indexed in Google over a fair range of dates probably ain't some 4chan larper having a joke at the Internet's expense. And had the kiddies hacked a real newspaper's site and inserted the story I'd expect that in the days this story has been working its way around the Internet that USA Today would have pulled it by now. USA Today is a media company after all, one expects they have minimal competence. Evil, but competent.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 14 2018, @01:14AM (2 children)

        by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 14 2018, @01:14AM (#734618)

        Fair enough to the first half, I don't get the credulity regarding the usatoday for the second half.

        • (Score: 2) by jmorris on Friday September 14 2018, @01:59AM (1 child)

          by jmorris (4844) on Friday September 14 2018, @01:59AM (#734647)

          The story has been passed around for several days and is currently linked by both DrudgeReport and Zerohedge, USA Today would know by now they had a problem and fixed a hack. At least one would hope, but this is Clown World. One thing is probable, the uncertain ending. Got about as much chance of ever getting the real story here as the Vegas shooter's motive.

          • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 14 2018, @04:49AM

            by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 14 2018, @04:49AM (#734710)

            Not real news until I see it featured on The Onion!

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 15 2018, @12:40AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 15 2018, @12:40AM (#735168)

        Don't read more into what I say than what I say.

        "Just forget what I said in the past, here and now is this the shiny mirror I want you to look at".

        I'm afraid it doesn't work this way.