From Rawstory website
Military gives NASA two space telescopes more powerful than Hubble
Although America’s space agency has perpetually seen its funding threatened and reduced in recent years, few would argue that the nation’s defense agency, the Pentagon, suffers from the same problem.
That disparity is so great that Pentagon official dialed up NASA last year and revealed that the National Reconnaissance Office had secretly developed not one, but two space telescopes more powerful than Hubble, adding that the military just didn’t bother to deploy them.
For an agency credited with some of the most incredible technological innovations in human history, the revelation that two more powerful Hubbles even existed must have been a complete shock, especially considering that the Bush administration less than a decade ago almost cut NASA’s funds for a crucial Hubble repair mission.
Then they really dropped the bomb: Since the Pentagon never got around to using the telescopes, they figured NASA might be just the place to offload the old hardware.
Pentagon officials didn’t say what they’d planned to use the telescopes for, and NASA officials told The New York Times that they were in “bits and pieces,” lacking key parts. They’re also designed to be shorter and wider than Hubble, giving them a much wider field of view.
NASA said it is preparing to re-purpose the telescopes to boost their studies of dark matter, which currently sits atop the National Academy of Sciences’ priorities list.
The National Reconnaissance Office refused to offer any comment on the story.
By Stephen C. Webster
Monday, June 4, 2012 16:24 EDT
Rawstory website
From Kerry Cassidy blog
For an agency credited with some of the most incredible technological innovations in human history, the revelation that two more powerful Hubbles even existed must have been a complete shock, especially considering that the Bush administration less than a decade ago almost cut NASA’s funds for a crucial Hubble repair missiion.Then they really dropped the bomb: Since the Pentagon never got around to using the telescopes, they figured NASA might be just the place to offload the old hardware.
Wow, I had no idea NASA with her fleet of world class scientists and engineers not only couldn't afford a decent telescope (nor could they build one). But instead they have to rely on THE PENTAGON hand-me-downs, several years old in order to 'scan the sky'.
Incredible.
Not to mention, that this ludicrous article PLANTED as it is appears to be a build up toward a disclousre whereupon no doubt NASA will "suddenly" now be able to SEE PLANTE X / THE DARK STAR / SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES in the sky whereas in the past they certainly couldn't do so because they didn't have the several years old telescrope from the PENTAGON (their wealthy cousins)...
Thank God or I mean "the Pentagon". Now we can all sleep at night. What with Hubble supposedly no longer operational. Right.
WTF?!?
Gimme a break.
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they say the Hubble is not working, a nice excuse when they want to watch something but not tell us about it...
The possibility are endless. But being honest and STO is better than to live in fear.
The latter, very possible. maybe they want to observe the progress and position of the Andromedan biospheres. and seek an escape route when we transform into 4-d....
Maybe they went to a garage sale and some reptilian technology could be added for cheap. If they need a stronger telescope, maybe it is to see when to go into shelter before it gets bad. Or maybe it is to check the arrival of the good ETs armada.
this may well be the pretext they need , talk about hypocrisy i thats the case. The stuff they have, the technology including anti gravity space craft, is mind blowing. if the pentagon have off loaded these two second hand telescopes, two questions, why don't they need them now, and what may they have that surpasses them?????
I like that the writer deduced that, thanks to the new telescope, they will now see planet X
We would probably still not hear about it lol.....
considering the trillions gone missing, the CIA drug running, and all the extras in the Pentagons budget, a few billion, spent on space telescopes would be loose change. plus there is plenty of talk and sightings of anti gravity craft, the secret Space academy in I believe Colorado springs, or nearby, there is plenty being hidden from us. And what if these two telescopes happen to find this body traveling through the solar system as kerry Cassidy suggests?
They have something that would more than likely be hundreds of times better considering when hubble was constructed and how long they have been sitting on these two.....well these two may be the extras they may have another two dozen currently in space.....remember those 50k toilet seats and 20k hammers.....guess we know what direction some of the money went in.
and after all the fuss over Hubble, and the new Web space telescope, what else are the powers in charge hiding from us? If they are giving these two away, what have they got to replace them??
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