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If you consider what the military has spent money on using weird submarines (aka tapping underseas cables, including ones within Soviet waters), I think it's pr
by scottlocklin 12y ago
If you consider what the military has spent money on using weird submarines (aka tapping underseas cables, including ones within Soviet waters), I think it's pretty obvious what the XB-37 is doing, just as the article hinted.
http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/07/the-creepy-long-standing-practice-of-undersea-cable-tapping/277855/ http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/07/the...
Other possibility, which I suppose could be ruled out, or partially verified, if one studied the orbital mechanics of the thing, "rods from god."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinetic_bombardment http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinetic_bombardment
- aaronbrethorst 12y agoKinetic bombardment is, by far, the weirdest proposed scenario I've heard for the X-37B program. Surveillance, on the other hand, certainly aligns much better with Occam's Razor[1] than the alternatives. [1] Or Gardan's Steelyard, assuming that all of the talk of kinetic bombardment made you think of Anathem, like it did for me.
- serf 12y agoI always felt the X37B was likely a platform to test/perform 'strike-back' comms capabilities after the initial orbital bombardment of comms satelites during WW3. It's all a guess, like any of this.