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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?
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(Score: 5, Touché) by bob_super on Thursday September 13 2018, @09:08PM (8 children)
Someone was mocked for observing the sun without his protective glasses.
Anyone trying to observe the sun with the appropriate protections, or quantifying the activity of the sun, is therefore an evil librul socialist who has to be stopped.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 13 2018, @10:08PM (6 children)
If there is ever a straw shortage, leftwing comedy will be doomed!
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 13 2018, @10:53PM (5 children)
And the rightwing cows will starve.
(Score: 3, Funny) by Runaway1956 on Friday September 14 2018, @12:43AM (1 child)
No worries there. Cows don't eat straw, they eat hay. Straw is what you throw on the floor for the cows to piss on.
Oh - wait. You've been eating the straw? That may explain a few things . . .
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 2) by coolgopher on Friday September 14 2018, @01:27AM
More like he's been inhaling the straw... ;)
(Score: 3, Informative) by Fluffeh on Friday September 14 2018, @04:08AM (2 children)
FFS, I swear, this site should come with a blurb on the front page -
Warning - this site can turn a story about an observatory into a partisan Republicans Vs Democrats issue without breaking a sweat!
(Score: 3, Funny) by deimtee on Friday September 14 2018, @08:16AM
Ya must be a librul if ya'll need a dang trigger warning.
No problem is insoluble, but at Ksp = 2.943×10−25 Mercury Sulphide comes close.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Friday September 14 2018, @09:40AM
That should be all the trigger warning a reasonable person needs.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by DECbot on Thursday September 13 2018, @11:13PM
And here I thought the State of California had the foresight to ban viewing the sun, directly or indirectly, because it is known to create cancer and blindness. And thus, they sent in the FBI to close the observatory to restrict, investigate, and prevent such an illegal act.
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