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Dead Guy

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No need to panic everyone, just some red ooze found on the floor.

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NO. Trump can't be president when outside intelligent life comes to earth and evaluates our species based on our leaders.
 
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chadskin

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On Thursday September 6th, AURA made the decision to temporarily close Sunspot. The Sunspot Solar Observatory continues to work closely with AURA in order to allow for us to reopen as soon as possible. With the excitement this closure has generated, we hope you will come and visit us when we do reopen, and see for yourself the services we provide for science and public outreach in heliophysics.
https://sunspot.solar/

What if it was just a marketing stunt to attract tourists ... but what if that's just what they want us to believe ...
 

Izayoi

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Can't believe that there are people in here seriously discounting the possibility of intelligent life other than us somewhere in Universe. It's an awfully big claim to complete ignore the chance that it might exist.
 
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No one knows anything!
New Mexico State University's director of the Sunspot Solar Observatory said the evacuation of the facility last week was "extremely calm."

"I picked up the phone, called our people, and asked them to lock up everything and leave quietly and sensibly," said Dr. James McAteer, who also teaches astronomy at NMSU. "It was extremely calm. They locked everything up and they left."
New Mexico State has four employees at the observatory and the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA) has around five employees, McAteer said.

"They are telecommuting," McAteer said. "There is plenty of work for them."

There are also two to three employees at the post office. The director told ABC-7 he was not told why they were to evacuate, but he doesn't believe it has anything to do with the telescope, used by NMSU astronomy students to research the sun.
"There is no issue with the telescope," McAteer said. "The telescope has never been better."

"I was surprised," said Dr. Jacson Jackiewicz, another professor at NMSU. "I was curious as to what might be happening. I still don't know and I hope it can reopen soon because we have projects going on up there, difference experiments that we're doing."
https://www.kvia.com/news/new-mexic...lso-in-the-dark-over-sudden-closure/794573075
 

NaturalHigh

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Somewhere out there the Planet X people are hiding in their bunkers.

I wish I had a bunker to hide in right now :(
 
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On Facebook, several former NSO employees and other scientists also discussed the situation, calling it "fishy" and "pretty weird."

"Why all the secrecy?" asked Claude Plymate, who once worked for the organization as an engineering physicist in Arizona.

"If forced to guess, I'd say some sort of personnel and/or funding issue(s). What I can't fathom is why they won't release any official statement!" he said in another post.
John Varsik, a data scientist and telescope operator at Big Bear Solar Observatory, worked at Sunspot about 20 years ago and said the whole thing "is very fishy."

"Nothing like this has ever happened before [at an observatory]," the former NSO research associate told BuzzFeed News. "It's unusual and none of us know anything. We've been sitting around trying to guess what kind of security issue they would be worried about."
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/briannasacks/sunspot-new-mexico-observatory#.auxABv2R81
 

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Probably compromised by a foreign government. Too bad the universe is too big for us to ever meet extraterrestrial life.
 

AnansiThePersona

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I will be so gassed up if I get to be the generation of humans that gets to see the aliens. Like...we made it y'all.
 
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So some dude and his kid walked around the place today and I guess all the aliens went into hiding unfortunately.
 

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Guessing that it was a bomb threat.

These type of things normally relate to someone finding an unknown device on the network.

So they are probably trying to work out what it is, how long it has been there and what data it has been gathering. Most likely someone has been stealing research to avoid paying for their own facility.
 
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WTF at that video two posts up. The entire area is completely deserted. Laundromat says no permanently closed. This is one hell of a mystery.
 

Madao

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if the Aliens are advanced enough to be able to cross the universe to come to this planet, i'm sure they have tech advanced enough to hide easily from us and be undetected by the best human technology unless they make a pretty stupid mistake.
 

Ether_Snake

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So they evacuated it, but people are free to go back and walk around and all? Is the observatory private or public? I'm guessing this is money related.
 

Shyotl

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These type of things normally relate to someone finding an unknown device on the network.

So they are probably trying to work out what it is, how long it has been there and what data it has been gathering. Most likely someone has been stealing research to avoid paying for their own facility.
It's also in close proximity to an air force base and the White Sands missile range... and has a large antenna array that could be misused.

Not saying that's it but... seems more reasonable than impending doom.

Edit: Or aliens.
 
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if the Aliens are advanced enough to be able to cross the universe to come to this planet, i'm sure they have tech advanced enough to hide easily from us and be undetected by the best human technology unless they make a pretty stupid mistake.

We are advanced enough to go to other planets, but still have people on this one that think it is flat.

Never underestimate the universal potential for growing stupidity.
 

TaterTots

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So some dude and his kid walked around the place today and I guess all the aliens went into hiding unfortunately.


Pretty creepy stuff. I know a lot of people are saying a bomb threat, but places rarely shut down permanently over that, if at all. Also, unfortunately, I did see Tucker Carlson talk about it. He said something along the lines of an employee only being told that they are being shut down due to security reasons.

My hot take; Either someone was doing something really illegal there or they figured out something about the sun. From what I gather, like the dude in your vid said, they have tech that can predict the suns b.s. lol. I don't know. Interesting either way.

EDIT; A popular opinion thus far is that the Chinese were spying on us through that location somehow. Even if that was the case, we'd never hear about it because its a national security concern. I'm in the rabbit hole now boys.
 
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