The military has decided to deny scientists data on incoming meteors in
order to protect military secrets. Anyone who can’t see any problems
with this arrangement, well done on never having seen a movie -ever.
Oh, and get Michael Bay on the phone - we’ve got his next plot ready.
The
Air Force’s Defense Support Program satellite network scans the globes
for infra-red signatures (indicative of missile blasts and nuclear
explosions) and incidentally picks up incredibly detailed information
on all meteors which hit the planet. Something the military didn’t
think was particularly interesting. They did at least send the
occasional update to the Earth-watching scientific community, scraps of
data they didn’t need, but a recent announcement makes it clear that
there will be no more.
The most likely reason is an upgrade to the satellite defense
network, with the top brass believing that any risk of revealing the
capabilities of the new system is unacceptable. The worst thing is
that it isn’t really secrecy that’s stopping the data transfer, but
miserliness. It’s the work of moments to boil out any unwanted
information revealed by records of meteor strikes, but with their
hundred-billion dollar budget the USAF just doesn’t see the point in
hiring someone to do it. That would be money with absolutely no
ability to kill people, after all, and paltry little things like “using
the most advanced satellite network in existence to further our
understanding of the universe” isn’t going to blow anybody up either.
They’re
literally throwing out incredible data because they can’t be bothered
to keep it. This is everything that’s wrong with human ambition right
here.
Luke McKinney
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