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Long-Lost U.S. Military Satellite Found By Amateur Radio Operator:
There are more than 2,000 active satellites orbiting Earth. At the end of their useful lives, many will simply burn up as they reenter the atmosphere. But some will continue circling as "zombie" satellites — neither alive nor quite dead.
"Most zombie satellites are satellites that are no longer under human control, or have failed to some degree," says Scott Tilley.
Tilley, an amateur radio operator living in Canada, has a passion for hunting them down.
In 2018, he found a signal from a NASA probe called IMAGE that the space agency had lost track of in 2005. With Tilley's help, NASA was able to reestablish contact. But he has tracked down zombies even older than IMAGE.
"The oldest one I've seen is Transit 5B-5. And it launched in 1965," he says, referring to a nuclear-powered U.S. Navy navigation satellite that still circles the Earth in a polar orbit, long forgotten by all but a few amateurs interested in hearing it "sing" as it passes overhead.
(Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 26 2020, @09:55AM (5 children)
MAKE AMERICA LOBOTOMIZED AGAIN
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The Untold Story of JFK's Sister, Rosemary Kennedy, and Her Disastrous Lobotomy
https://people.com/politics/untold-story-of-rosemary-kennedy-and-her-disastrous-lobotomy/ [people.com]
The Forgotten Story Of Rosemary Kennedy, Who Was Lobotomized So That JFK Could Succeed
https://allthatsinteresting.com/rosemary-kennedy-lobotomy [allthatsinteresting.com]
The Truth About Rosemary Kennedy's Lobotomy
A never-before-seen photo surfaces of the forgotten Kennedy, who, after a disastrous lobotomy, was rarely heard from again
https://people.com/books/rosemary-kennedy-the-truth-about-her-lobotomy/ [people.com]
When Rosemary was 23 years of age, doctors told her father that a form of psychosurgery known as a lobotomy would help calm her mood swings and stop her occasional violent outbursts.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosemary_Kennedy#Lobotomy [wikipedia.org]
(Score: 1, Offtopic) by Bot on Sunday April 26 2020, @11:12AM (4 children)
Wew, you can't get more offtopic than this... if you want to post about lobotomy, why not hijack a leftist discussion instead?
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(Score: 0, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 26 2020, @11:51AM (3 children)
Do I need to inject some Clorox beforehand? I could eat a black light too, if that would help, swallow it whole even!
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 26 2020, @12:23PM
You do love to swallow, and you don't seem to care much whether it's black, white, or brown.
(Score: 1, Offtopic) by Bot on Sunday April 26 2020, @01:34PM
>Do I need to inject some Clorox beforehand?
You shouldn't perform any self medication unless it's costly just patented stuff coming from big pharma.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 26 2020, @03:12PM
I think you are looking for the D.I.Y. Lobotomy web page.