Ok, they are nerds but this is sort of a weird look into what happens when you don't put away the telescope when you are thirteen and swap it for a healthy dose of teenage angst:
They have grudgingly become accustomed to being seen as "propeller-headed geeks" who "poke their finger in the eye" of the government’s satellite spymasters, Mr. Molczan said, taking no offense. "I have a sense of humor," he said. Mr. Molczan, a private energy conservation consultant, is the best known of the satellite spotters who, needing little more than a pair of binoculars, a stop watch and star charts, uncover some of the deepest of the government’s expensive secrets and share them on the Internet.I share things on the Internet, too, so if a nerd helps me not get hit by space junk, I say thank you nerd.
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Sean Liddle - February 5, 2008 10:01 am
Space geek me. I was one of those folk that occasionally spend the 90-120 minutes post-sunset in better weather nights noting times and directions of satellite passovers and trying to identify them.. then I realized it was just 21st century trainspotting. I have at home this funky freeware software that a company in the US sent me that is also used by the military to model and map enemy aircraft. w00t. (I also am probably being monitored, right now... eep).
ry - February 5, 2008 2:03 pm
Yeah, he may be a man with a sense of humor but not of history. THe last time we (meaning the Anglo-sphere) played all of our mil-pol cards face up on the table it left Soeul a burned out hulk. I sooooo just love these fanatics of 'no secrets'(not).