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I don't believe this story one bit. I was an intern at NASA for 3 years. I worked at Kennedy Space Center and Lewis Research Center. KSC had extensive multi-leveled security. Just to get to my office i had to use 5 different badges (all with different levels of clearance). This was all pre 9/11 and the guards certainly didn't wave interns through. Most doors didn't even have guards. Different doors with varying security levels required various special badges. I worked with the Partial Payload Checkout Unit (PPCU), a system used to verify the data and electrical interfaces of space shuttle payloads before forwarding them to integrated testing and, finally, to the space shuttle orbiter cargo bay. This wasn't even close to the highest level of security and the antics described in this story wouldn't have gotten you halfway into my office. I call bullshit.
@Mr. Moto: kenneth dalton is questioning the heist details. I do too, that's why we made a disclaimer. The guy is a criminal. not the most reliable ource. But he DID steal these rocks. The how of how he did it is totally questionable, though.
@Howlin' Mad Murdock...Lite: Yeah, but that was really dis-information put out by NASA. Mythbusters "proved" the moon landing was real, and placed it in the media that wetsuits don't fool motion sensors, and Adam got a REAL spacesuit, and Jamie got mustache wax that defies gravity reverse engineered from Area 52.
@HeldForRansom_GitEmSteveDave: Area 52? Isn't that where they invented the Big Mac's special sauce before adding two all beef patties, lettuces, pickles, and onions on a sesame see bun?
@Howlin' Mad Murdock...Lite: The Big Mac's special sauce is just a blend of liquefied horse tallow, thousand island dressing and the same compound used in the makeup worn by Ronald McDonald.
Area 52 is where they kept Dick Clark until it was determined that he's safe to release into the general population.
@AriellaDrury: It read like a horrible amateur fiction posted on some crappy fanfic forum. Am I the only one who thought it started off like some sort of space age smut?
"Already done, Sir. I am programmed to anticipate your needs. And I see a large matter of yours that needs attention right now", she said as she rotated the Fleshlight attachment forward on her manipulator arm.
@Kaiser-Machead: Stargate attachment? To where? I dunno, man, that sounds like some kinda weird intergalactic glory-hole. Who knows what could be at the other end? I'll take my sci-fi fleshlight sex the old fashioned way, from the robotic slavemaiden, thank-you-very-much....
I suppose he stole them with simple appreciation of where the rocks came from, as he'd obviously have an easier time selling a grilled cheese sandwich with the face of Nick Nolte, Jesus Christ or Joyce DeWitt burned into the nooks and crannies of the bread than selling what he'd claim to be "LQQK****AUTHENTIC MOON ROCKS FROM NASA!!!****LQQK!!!"
@robot-shmobot: While he was going to St. Ives, He met 40 agents with 40 guns. Each gun had 13 bullets, and the helicopter had a 50 cal. So answer me this McClaine, how many people were going to St. Ives. You have thirty seconds.
@mfusion: Very good McClaine. You will get you next riddle at the corner of 1st and 1st. You have 20 minutes to get there, or I blow up another briefcase!
Utter BS, and badly written BS by the thief at that. He is no doubt seeing how hard it is to get hired with a felony conviction, so he's hawking a crap story.
The rocks are in a nitrogen environment, but that is inside glove-boxes that researchers use. The idea that the whole lab is nitrogen is not only laughable, it shows that the subject wasn't even Googled. Scroll down and look at the lab picture on this page:
@AriellaDrury: My question is how do you get "fingerprint oil" inside a Level100 clean room? You wear bunny suits except for gloves? I mean, finger oil wouldn't contaminate porus moon rocks, no sir-ee.
But EVERYONE knows that we never went to the moon, so this is a moot point. As Joe Rogan told me, all the "Moon Rocks" were gathered by some Verner guy in Antartica before the staged event took place. I mean, Joe Rogan can't be wrong, right? He does sen dep!
None of the guards at JSC would ever ask if you got a new car. No one I know ever spends any time talking to them on the way in either; if you did, you'd hold up the line of other people that wanted to get in behind you.
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What? Your all thinking it.
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Area 52 is where they kept Dick Clark until it was determined that he's safe to release into the general population.
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just a little confused.
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The rocks are in a nitrogen environment, but that is inside glove-boxes that researchers use. The idea that the whole lab is nitrogen is not only laughable, it shows that the subject wasn't even Googled. Scroll down and look at the lab picture on this page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_rock
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(BTW - long story short, the lunar landing tapes weren't stolen).
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