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Sept 24, 2023: TOUCHDOWN of OSIRIS-REx at 10:52 AM ET, sample from asteroid Bennu back to Earth. In a flyby of Earth, the Osiris-Rex spacecraft released the sample capsule from 63,000 miles out. The small capsule landed four hours later on a remote expanse of military land, as the mothership set off after another asteroid. First US sample return from space since Apollo 17 in 1972.

The capsule was intact and not breached, keeping its 4.5 billion-year-old (no idea how they came up with age) samples free of contamination. Within two hours of touchdown, the capsule was inside a temporary clean room at the Defense Department's Utah Test and Training Range, hoisted there by helicopter.


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Sept 24, 1940: HMS Wellesley, a 74-gun third rate, named after the Duke of Wellington, and launched in 1815, was sunk by a German air-raid. She captured Karachi for the British, and participated in the First Opium War, which resulted in Britain gaining control of Hong Kong. Thereafter she served primarily as a training ship at the outbreak of WWII before gaining the almost surely unwanted distinction of being the last British ship of the line to be sunk by Germans and the only one to have been sunk by an air-raid.

Some of her timbers found a home in the rebuilding of the Royal Courts of Justice in London, while her figurehead now resides just inside the main gates of Chatham Dockyard.


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Had to grow up fast back in those days. Meanwhile, today...




Meanwhile, our defense budget is going to balloon to the moon...


U.S. revives Cold War submarine spy program to counter China

Solar-powered high tech Orbs on the way!! Actually, an interesting article.


Sept 24 1975:



Sept 24, 1920: British cryptographer Leo Marks was born. Chief of codes office supporting Special Operations Executive (SOE).


Was This the UK’s Worst Spy Failure of World War II? - "Failure to detect a long-running Abwehr counterintelligence operation cost the SOE numerous secrets—and lives."

It took him nearly 20 years to get approval to publish his wartime memoirs. After WWII, he turned to writing: In addition to writing the controversial Peeping Tom (1960) he also wrote/co-wrote The Girl Who Couldn't Be Quite! (1950), Cloudburst (1951), Espionage (1963), Sebastian (1968), among others. Leo Marks was portrayed in Churchill's Secret Army, "A Call to Spy" (2019). He died in London on Jan 15, 2001.

Follow the White Rabbit...




"The only indecipherable code in the world is a woman." - Leo Marks


If only all ufologists were this cool. Ufology went downhill when guys stopped wearing cool hats.




Lue? Does not wear cool hats. Grusch? No hats at all.