Former Military Personnel Claim Aliens Are Monitoring Our Nukes 498
An anonymous reader quotes Reuters "Witness testimony from more than 120 former or retired military personnel points to an ongoing and alarming intervention by unidentified aerial objects at nuclear weapons sites, as recently as 2003. In some cases, several nuclear missiles simultaneously and inexplicably malfunctioned while a disc-shaped object silently hovered nearby. Six former US Air Force officers and one former enlisted man will break their silence about these events at the National Press Club and urge the government to publicly confirm their reality." I won't worry until Gort shows up.
Of course they are (Score:5, Funny)
Intercepted TV transmissions (Score:3, Funny)
Obligatory (Score:3, Funny)
Hopefully they have a UFO expert speak (Score:1, Funny)
basically an expert at being unable to identify something
Re:Don't Eat That! (Score:5, Funny)
Be very careful. Aluminium foil will not work effectively. On needs genuine tin foil to be safe.
Re:Correlation (Score:4, Funny)
I'm not sure if radiation makes people delusional.
But let's assume that it does - do you have an explanation for why they have the same delusion?
[disclaimer: I am employed by the Illuminati as a unicorn trainer]
Excited? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:SPACE TRAVEL IS IMPOSSIBLE! Stop the Garbage (Score:5, Funny)
What a relief! I was afraid we were going to actually have to discover all of physics and cosmology. You may not realize it, but you've saved us a vast sum of money and the productive lives of scientists who can now skip all that and play facebook games instead.
Re:Don't Eat That! (Score:3, Funny)
I know what you're thinking - "But J, wouldn't a copper pot work better due to better conductivity and therefore shallower skin depth?" Yes, of course it would... but you just can't beat the snazzy style of a wok hat.
Re:Not a Reuters story (Score:4, Funny)
I figured fact-checking was mostly for original work. If the byline is AP or Reuters, you'd think the paper would be off the hook when they print their retraction on page C35 right before the obituaries. Maybe that's just how they are doing it now.
Re:Not a Reuters story (Score:3, Funny)
That sounds incredibly 1984 and I'm glad that the media of today has done away with such a draconian idea. Part of the beauty of a free market in information is that opposing viewpoints don't get smothered by the popular madness of the era, think of what would have happened to important new thinking about the gold standard, global cooling and the benefits of deregulation if jackbooted "fact checkers" had been there to strangle dissenting voices.
Re:Obligatory (Score:5, Funny)
I haven't yet, but think I've got one coming up in the next half hour.
Wait, I thought we were supposed to be doing this on Twitter not Slashdot....?
Re:Correlation (Score:5, Funny)
For example, you are actually exposed to less radiation while onboard a US nuclear sub than you would receive on the surface.
This is especially true after all the missiles have been launched.
Time Travelers (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Not a Reuters story (Score:3, Funny)
It's all a time-constraint (read:money) issue.
I've seen figures for newspapers which says something like: if you compare the amount of work which is demanded/required from a journalist 10 years ago to now, a journalist now has to write 20 times more articles/text.
That means that journalist used to do factchecking and so on, now, they will probably do a google search and a glance over on wikipedia and think, maybe this is ok and print it.
Re:Not a Reuters story (Score:2, Funny)
Yah; one can only hope that it's irony, as suggested.
PS. I'd love to see a meat-space version of this discussion :D
Re:Not a Reuters story (Score:2, Funny)
hahahahahahah Good one.
Re:Of course they are (Score:3, Funny)
Re:journalistic integrity? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:UFOs !=aliens (Score:3, Funny)
I admit I was wrong. kdawson no longer being here hasn't made the quality of /. submissions go up all that much.
Re:Not a Reuters story (Score:2, Funny)
Why would it be off-limits to call a submitter to request a list of original sources for verification?
Re:Journalism used to be a profession (Score:4, Funny)
There's more to it than that. As journalism became a profession in the middle of the last century, news organizations would actually compete to be seen as the most factual and least biased sources of news.
BS.
Prior to television, ALL news sources were biased, and wore their bias proudly. Search how many newspapers have "Union" in their name.
With the advance of television, and to a lesser extent radio, it became obvious that a limited availability of transmission capability - not to mention receiver channels - that all parties involved, stations and viewers both decided impartiality was a goal worth having.
Newspapers kinda got drug along for the ride.
Now, with the internet and 1000 television stations, the -mutual- incentive for impartiality is gone, and so the actual impartiality is gone.
I, for one, welcome bias. So long as the participants are clear they're not neutral. It's a shame Fox claims to be "fair and balanced", but it's a larger shame that CNN makes similar claims.
Re:RIP CJ Rehnquist (Score:4, Funny)
That is merely because Chief Justice Rehnquist was pretty much against individual freedom full stop.
Re:Not a Reuters story (Score:3, Funny)
The fact newspapers didn't call the number to fact-check the article bolsters the argument that there was fact-checking happening? The hell?
Professions doing their jobs (Score:3, Funny)
Tilting libel in favor of plaintiffs would surely create more fact-checking, but I wouldn't bet on that happening any time in the near future. The Roberts Court is very pro-First Amendment.
So perhaps if the courts stuck to their original job of applying the law rather than writing the law then the legislators could go back to their job of writing laws and journalists could be made to return writing true stories to keep the courts and legislators honest....hmmm I think I see a flaw here.
Re:Of course they are (Score:3, Funny)
Yes, so our nukes in Arizona are safe.
Re:Journalism used to be a profession (Score:3, Funny)
CNN Makes claims? I thought they just showed water skiing chipmunks all day.
Re:Of course they are (Score:3, Funny)
Death by snu-snu!
Please don't kill us all... yet (Score:1, Funny)
All I got to say about the aliens is that, if they loved us less, we'd be dead by now.
And yeah, I really know, earthlings.
LGM's (Score:2, Funny)