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Article: <5enplp$oel@dfw-ixnews4.ix.netcom.com>
From: saquo@ix.netcom.com(Nancy )
Subject: Re: IN SYMPATHY to the Hale-Bopp Cooperative
Date: 22 Feb 1997 21:49:45 GMT
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In article <5elgn5$af6@news.ccit.arizona.edu> Jim Scotti
writes:
>> 2. these same intelligence agencies, operating off
outdated
>> procedures, MAKE A REQUEST of these astronomers in
>> what they called the best interests of the nation.
>
> Request all you like, but you won't get very many
Astronomers
> to follow along on this one.
> jscotti@LPL.Arizona.EDU (Jim Scotti)
(Begin ZetaTalk[TM])
In mid-1995, when Hale-Bopp first hit the press, those in a
position to know either worked for NASA, JPL, or the large
observatories, which are few in number. Astronomers working for
major observatories agree, AS A CONDITION OF THEIR JOBS, to
follow certain policies, and the dictates of national interest as
determined by the government is certainly one of those. This fine
print might be assumed to relate to the use of observatories
during times when the Earth might be considered to be under
attack, from a meteor storm or whatever, but applies to the
suppression or control of information. In the situation where
these astronomers were told not to challenge the story given out
by Hale-Bopp, any information GAINED AS A RESULT OF THEIR
EMPLOYMENT at the observatory would be covered by this agreement.
Why did the ESO got to pains to examine what was being called
Hale-Bopp in 1995 for comet emissions, and report NONE in such an
exacting manner? Why did the ESO call Hale-Bopp and
"unusual" comet? They were trying, within the limits
imposed upon them, to tell the public that this was NOT a comet!
(End ZetaTalk[TM])
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