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January 11, 2006

Groom Lake (Area 51) and Skylab

In the waning days of Carter's embarassing tenure as president, it somehow seemed appropriate when Skylab plunged from the sky into the Indian Ocean and parts of Western Australia. As though the sky itself was falling and even gravity ceased to function when the Democrats were in office.

But before it's fiery descent into the ocean, the NASA astronauts on Skylab managed to snap an image of Groom Lake, Nevada(also known as Area 51). NASA wanted to release the image. The military wasn't so sure it was a good idea. The image was classified, and it's existence wasn't even acknowledged for 30 years.

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Posted by Peenie Wallie on January 11, 2006 at 03:14 AM

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