They do? Kind of makes sense, never know when some foreign government is gonna try and pull some espionage, or when a loonies gonna break in and try to prove the moon is fake or something.
I swear a bunch of these SWAT teams and other LEOs operating non behalf of a bunch of federal agencies are jobs programs for dudebro vets and cops. How can a man wake up in the morning and not have some crisis know he’s a fricking door kicker for some bureaucratic agency. Things like USPS and Dept. of Energy make sense but FDA and others don’t. What’s the point of the FBI and Federal marshals if every agency has their own LE branch.
Serious answer? Because the big federal LE agencies like the FBI have always seen enforcing "lesser" federal laws like product/food safety, environmental protection, or workers compensation as beneath them, and rarely if ever devoted any meaningful resources to doing so, because it's more flashy to chase bank robbers lmao. Likewise, local/state LE sees enforcing said federal laws as outside their jurisdiction, so they naturally won't help; if any of these agencies like the FDA or HHS want to fulfill their Congressional mandate to actually get laws within their jurisdiction enforced (and also handle IG shit in case of internal crimes like embezzling employees), they need their own law enforcement forces. Literally every agency in the federal government has at least a handful of armed 1811-series agents for this sort of thing, and hell, a lot of times the more esoteric ones need specialized SWAT units for handling violent crimes at more remote/dangerous facilities (for example HHS controls the CDC, which has literal bioweapons samples on ice) without the usual jurisdictional pissing contest or three.
tl;dr: Actual federal LE agencies have huge "not my problem" and "big pissing contest" attitudes towards everything that isn't COUNTER-TERRORISM or BANK ROBBERY, so every other agency has to have their own armed LE agents/police force/SWAT if they want to get anything done ever.
>billions and billions of dollars of equipment at certain NASA sites >dude why have police dedicated to guarding all that stuff? why not just like let anyone do anything they want with your billions of dollars of fancy equipment? who the frick is gonna sabotage the space program of the most prosperous country on earth?
Large orbital rockets are huge soft targets worth a fortune. A single bullet could totally frick one, and potentially totally frick the entire launch site costing billions of dollars.
>A single bullet could totally frick one,
This is an actual thing. SpaceX lost a Falcon 9, with payload (costing $65 million dollars to build, launch and operate it for a year) on the launch pad during a pressurization test. SpaceX seriously looked at sabotage as, from a glint on a neighboring United Launch Alliance tower, it was possible a sniper (a .50 cal or something similar) could have fired from there and punctured one of the tanks on the rocket leading to the explosion.
It wasn't, from memory it was a failure in a manufacturing process that made the helium tank rupture on its own, but this is serious shit and it is a concern. Rockets have such narrow fuselages and tanks with such high pressures that a single breach will make the entire thing explode. An older variant of rocket used in the 60s was notorious for relying on the pressure of its tanks to keep it upright with a loss of pressure resulting in the walls of the tanks literally buckling. Those are the margins these things run on.
>An older variant of rocket used in the 60s was notorious for relying on the pressure of its tanks to keep it upright with a loss of pressure resulting in the walls of the tanks literally buckling.
Rocket science is unironically rocket science.
Watch the movie Contact where Gary Busey's son kamakazis the op. I suppose that's why, although having thad around full time seems like massive overkill surely the military could handle.
Agreed. NASA has been in full moron mode since the shuttle disasters. Nothing but space probes trying to discover what should be left for future generations, while investing NOTHING in colonizing the Moon or Mars, nor in constructing orbital habitats. Frick, if it wasn't for SpaceX we'd still be reliant on Russian rockets.
Agreed. NASA has been in full moron mode since the shuttle disasters. Nothing but space probes trying to discover what should be left for future generations, while investing NOTHING in colonizing the Moon or Mars, nor in constructing orbital habitats. Frick, if it wasn't for SpaceX we'd still be reliant on Russian rockets.
They're sending humans back to the moon next year on the Artemis II mission and this time its going to be permanent.
The same reason the National Park Service operates a battery of Howitzers. Because frick you thats why. (Its actually to cause controlled avalanches on the sides of snowy mountains before they become dangerous for human settlements)
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I would, but they have security so I won't
They do? Kind of makes sense, never know when some foreign government is gonna try and pull some espionage, or when a loonies gonna break in and try to prove the moon is fake or something.
>He doesn't know about the demon trapped under NASA complex that does all of the calculations that the "supercomputers" do.
>he wasn’t accepted as a Space Shuttle Door Gunner
May as well an hero now anon
I used to tamper with O-ring seals on the Space Shuttle until they stepped up security.
Reminds me of back when I used to shave the wires in the 1st gen Apollo command modules..
long head longgg.
Better question is why does the FDA need a SWAT team?
I swear a bunch of these SWAT teams and other LEOs operating non behalf of a bunch of federal agencies are jobs programs for dudebro vets and cops. How can a man wake up in the morning and not have some crisis know he’s a fricking door kicker for some bureaucratic agency. Things like USPS and Dept. of Energy make sense but FDA and others don’t. What’s the point of the FBI and Federal marshals if every agency has their own LE branch.
>How can a man wake up in the morning and not have some crisis know he’s a fricking door kicker for some bureaucratic agency.
Why would he?
an even better question would be what federal regulatory agency DOESN'T have it's own enforcement SWAT team?
Serious answer? Because the big federal LE agencies like the FBI have always seen enforcing "lesser" federal laws like product/food safety, environmental protection, or workers compensation as beneath them, and rarely if ever devoted any meaningful resources to doing so, because it's more flashy to chase bank robbers lmao. Likewise, local/state LE sees enforcing said federal laws as outside their jurisdiction, so they naturally won't help; if any of these agencies like the FDA or HHS want to fulfill their Congressional mandate to actually get laws within their jurisdiction enforced (and also handle IG shit in case of internal crimes like embezzling employees), they need their own law enforcement forces. Literally every agency in the federal government has at least a handful of armed 1811-series agents for this sort of thing, and hell, a lot of times the more esoteric ones need specialized SWAT units for handling violent crimes at more remote/dangerous facilities (for example HHS controls the CDC, which has literal bioweapons samples on ice) without the usual jurisdictional pissing contest or three.
tl;dr: Actual federal LE agencies have huge "not my problem" and "big pissing contest" attitudes towards everything that isn't COUNTER-TERRORISM or BANK ROBBERY, so every other agency has to have their own armed LE agents/police force/SWAT if they want to get anything done ever.
Why does the Washington DC zoo need a SWAT team?
It's DC, there are gorillas on both sides of the fence
I you’ve ever watched the movie contact you’ll know why
My eyesight is so bad I thought that was the guy from mortal Kombat who was also in highlander
Theyre a heck of a target for some pissed off moslem. Need something to stop a rogue truck of peace.
>billions and billions of dollars of equipment at certain NASA sites
>dude why have police dedicated to guarding all that stuff? why not just like let anyone do anything they want with your billions of dollars of fancy equipment? who the frick is gonna sabotage the space program of the most prosperous country on earth?
>why wouldn't a terrorist want to sabotage an immense explosive device worth hundreds of millions of dollars
>Who the frick is gonna rob a rocket?
gigachad, that's why they need a whole swat team to stop him
>Who the frick is gonna rob a rocket?
Mentally ill people might try to damage the equipment that costs 1+ billion USD.
Never ask "why would anyone..." because mental illness does not follow any logical pattern.
Large orbital rockets are huge soft targets worth a fortune. A single bullet could totally frick one, and potentially totally frick the entire launch site costing billions of dollars.
>A single bullet could totally frick one,
This is an actual thing. SpaceX lost a Falcon 9, with payload (costing $65 million dollars to build, launch and operate it for a year) on the launch pad during a pressurization test. SpaceX seriously looked at sabotage as, from a glint on a neighboring United Launch Alliance tower, it was possible a sniper (a .50 cal or something similar) could have fired from there and punctured one of the tanks on the rocket leading to the explosion.
It wasn't, from memory it was a failure in a manufacturing process that made the helium tank rupture on its own, but this is serious shit and it is a concern. Rockets have such narrow fuselages and tanks with such high pressures that a single breach will make the entire thing explode. An older variant of rocket used in the 60s was notorious for relying on the pressure of its tanks to keep it upright with a loss of pressure resulting in the walls of the tanks literally buckling. Those are the margins these things run on.
>An older variant of rocket used in the 60s was notorious for relying on the pressure of its tanks to keep it upright with a loss of pressure resulting in the walls of the tanks literally buckling.
Rocket science is unironically rocket science.
>Who the frick is gonna rob a rocket?
I will, and I will send it to Ukraine.
Also, I'm wondering why the frick is this guy have an EOTech holographic sight on his Mk 12 SPR instead of you know, a proper fricking scope.
idk about the rest of you but I fricking hate holographics, even for short-range shooting.
>I fricking hate holographics
Why? For short range (non-magnified) shooting they are indistinguishable from red dots.
military payloads, three letter agency payloads, classified private industry stuff. they no doubt have defense in depth
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I am pretty sure there is a greentext about one of their MP5s
Yeah. There is one that fired half a million rounds.
Watch the movie Contact where Gary Busey's son kamakazis the op. I suppose that's why, although having thad around full time seems like massive overkill surely the military could handle.
Sectoids, Mutons, Ethereals, Snakemen, the Fungi from Yuggoth, the Insects from Shaggai, the Great Race of Yith, among other things.
It'll be better to just stop funding NASA and send that funding to SpaceX instead.
Agreed. NASA has been in full moron mode since the shuttle disasters. Nothing but space probes trying to discover what should be left for future generations, while investing NOTHING in colonizing the Moon or Mars, nor in constructing orbital habitats. Frick, if it wasn't for SpaceX we'd still be reliant on Russian rockets.
They're sending humans back to the moon next year on the Artemis II mission and this time its going to be permanent.
Its to hide the cheese pizza
The same reason the National Park Service operates a battery of Howitzers. Because frick you thats why. (Its actually to cause controlled avalanches on the sides of snowy mountains before they become dangerous for human settlements)
The sectoids aren't gonna shoot themselves