your avatar is the face I expect of a butt probee
https://sunspot.solar/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 ...
NO. Trump can't be president when outside intelligent life comes to earth and evaluates our species based on our leaders.
it sucks we won't be able to post on ERA when the solar flare knocks out all our electronics
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.
https://www.kvia.com/news/new-mexic...lso-in-the-dark-over-sudden-closure/794573075"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."
We are all going to die someday.
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.
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/briannasacks/sunspot-new-mexico-observatory#.auxABv2R81John 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."
Then it'd be pretty anti-climatic that the first alien to have made contact with us would not be intelligent life.
Has anyone ever asked dude why he's rockin' a Babylon 5 hairstyle
Clearly just a well timed misdirect, the aliens/asteroid/meteor shower/solar flare/magnetic field stripping is even closer than we thought.
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.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.
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.
I thought I was the only one lol, admittedly I haven't followed the thread closely.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.
So some dude and his kid walked around the place today and I guess all the aliens went into hiding unfortunately.
So some dude and his kid walked around the place today and I guess all the aliens went into hiding unfortunately.
There were just like 8 people or something still working there so it's not like the site didn't look deserted before.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.