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We have troops WHERE now???

Sabrina

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I couldn't make this up if I TRIED.

As many are aware, I work, more or less, for the government, in one of the intel agencies, but the area I'm in is the equivalent of human resources, so I end up doing a lot of customer service stuff. We have a main line that people can call, and we sometimes get some wacky calls (we've been mistaken for a clothing store and a Blockbuster in the past) but the one I got today takes the cake. And the pastries. And the donuts. And any other dessert you can think of.

This lady calls me on the customer service line, and our conversation went something like this:

Crazy lady: I want to report a security breach at NASA!

Me: *blinking in shock* I'm sorry, could you repeat that?

Crazy lady: I wanted to report a security breach at NASA! I've been calling all over the place to NASA and they keep giving me the runaround; I've even tried to call NSA but I couldn't find a number for them, so I'm trying you in the hopes that you can direct me to someone who can do something about this!

Me: Okay ma'am... can you give me an idea of what the security breach is?

Crazy lady: It's the encryption on the Mars lander photos!

Me: *confused silence*

Crazy lady: See, they Photoshopped the pictures we've been getting back from the Mars lander, but it's so easy to break the encryption on them! I've been able to get into them with no problem!

Now, at this point, I actually was somewhat worried that she was legit; I've gotten calls similar to this before that, while I don't exactly know what they were about, I've had to direct them to one or the other place in hopes of getting some good intel; but then she went and spouted this off:

Crazy lady: When I broke the encryption on those photos from the Mars lander, I was able to see the military installations and the troop emplacements we have there! I could figure out the troop strengths so easily!

Me: *slapping a hand over my mouth to keep from busting out laughing when I realize she's talking about TROOP INSTALLATIONS ON MARS*

Crazy lady: *oblivious to my efforts* I was able to see it all so easily, and I just think it's a darn shame that we aren't teaching our kids from kindergarten on up that we've populated Mars! Can you help me get this straightened out?

Me: *calming myself with an effort* Okay, if you could just hold on for one second ma'am, I'll see if I can get you a number of someone who can help you. *putting her on hold*

I then proceeded to absolutely bust a gut laughing; I finally calmed down and got the number of the department that handles the loonies, gave it to her, hung up the phone, and proceeded to bust out laughing yet again.

You can't MAKE this :rule10 up, I swear to GOD. I figured something this kooky belonged in the CT forum. I wish I could provide a source for it; I'd nom it for the Stundies and win hands down. I can't even say it without laughing; troop installations on MARS for Pete's sake....
 
You are quite welcome. *G*

Made me laugh too; and trust me, today, I needed the laugh.
 
You may laugh, but I, for one, welcome our Martian, er, American, er....overlords.
 
Holy carp. Are calls like that a regular occurrence?

If so, now I feel bad for sending a notice to one of the .gov websites over a flaw in their server-side scripting that revealed file paths on the server's file system (which was a Windows Server running IIS, I found). One of the admin staff even replied and thanked me for pointing it out. I felt that was very thoughtful if them since I didn't expect a reply over such a minor thing.

Jeez, if people like that frequent security lines, you guys deserve a fruit basket every now and then.
 
GreNME said:
Jeez, if people like that frequent security lines, you guys deserve a fruit basket every now and then.
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I think the problem is that they already have too many fruit baskets - on the other end of the phone.
 
I'd like to have seen some of these "revealing" photographs.
 
Sabrina said:
I then proceeded to absolutely bust a gut laughing; I finally calmed down and got the number of the department that handles the loonies, gave it to her, hung up the phone, and proceeded to bust out laughing yet again.
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That is either the most fantastic place to work...or the absolute worst.
I guess it may depend on whether they're allowed to use deadly force. :D

Travis said:
I'd like to have seen some of these "revealing" photographs.
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Me too!
 
Don't think this is just some lone kook. There are groups of people out there (yes, I know who you are, where you are, and what you talk about) who firmly believe in military bases on the Moon, Mars and other planets, also in other star systems.

Some aren't trailer moms who believes that National Enquirer is a credible source. One of these believers is a former Danish member of parliament, Ole Gerstrøm. Among many wacky things, he believes that he has been in alien spaceships around the Moon...8000 years ago.
 
GreNME said:
Holy carp. Are calls like that a regular occurrence?

If so, now I feel bad for sending a notice to one of the .gov websites over a flaw in their server-side scripting that revealed file paths on the server's file system (which was a Windows Server running IIS, I found). One of the admin staff even replied and thanked me for pointing it out. I felt that was very thoughtful if them since I didn't expect a reply over such a minor thing.

Jeez, if people like that frequent security lines, you guys deserve a fruit basket every now and then.
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They aren't a REGULAR occurrence, but they happen often enough that we need a department to deal with them. And trust me, I'm sure the guys you contacted were very grateful you pointed out such a flaw because it was true. This on the other hand... I still get the giggles every time I think about troop emplacements on Mars, simply because it's so ludicrous.

Thing is, we don't want to discourage calls or emails from people because we never know what may be useful; hence, we get calls from the crazies. That's why we have that department; they weed out the crazy calls and emails from the potentially legit ones, as far as I know.

I did a Google search last night and couldn't find anything potentially related, so I'm guessing Prison Planet hasn't snapped up the story yet.... but give it time.
 
There are people who believe this - long term bases on the Moon (Nazis even), and more ... unique ... stuff.

Look up Richard Hoagland. The best debunking of that is at Phil Plait's BadAstronomy site; the Hoagland stuff is here. There's also a number of threads in the BAUT forums and the Apollo Hoax forums about these things; in particular, the nuts were on the Polar Express images literally with hours of release ("they're processed to hide details! the cameras are colour but they release monochrome images to fool the sheeple!").
 
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