# Earth satellite 3000 years old? What say you? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 11, 2017, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earth-satellite-3000-years-old-what-say-you/793363 "2017-08-11T22:00:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Hectorik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/82dd89/32.png) [@Hectorik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hectorik)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2017, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earth-satellite-3000-years-old-what-say-you/793363/1 "2017-08-11T22:00:08Z")
Your opinion is as valid as any I’ve seen here. So what is it and where’d it come from? **[The BLACK KNIGHT](http://www.ntd.tv/inspiring/life/black-knight-satellite-alien-civilization-trying-make-contact-earth.html)** **[Point of Origin?](http://www.ntd.tv/inspired/assets/uploads/2017/08/NTD-decades-possibly-centuries-mysterious-black-satellite-which-11ss-1024x603.jpg)** ---
**Author:** ![zoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zoid/32/336_2.png) [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2017, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earth-satellite-3000-years-old-what-say-you/793363/2 "2017-08-11T22:22:48Z")
My opinion is that the OP should provide at least a modicum of background when starting a topic. ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2017, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earth-satellite-3000-years-old-what-say-you/793363/3 "2017-08-11T22:28:19Z")
Every single word on The Black Knight page is bullshit. Every one. Do not go back to that site for any reason ever. ---
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2017, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earth-satellite-3000-years-old-what-say-you/793363/4 "2017-08-11T22:30:58Z")
> [@Exapno\_Mapcase](#): > > Every single word on The Black Knight page is bullshit. Every one. Do not go back to that site for any reason ever. Well now I HAVE to go… Eta: made it as far as “tesla” in 2nd paragraph. Yup. Total bullshit. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2017, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earth-satellite-3000-years-old-what-say-you/793363/5 "2017-08-11T22:33:51Z")
If it was real, and alien, the entire purpose of the space race would have been to recover it. Ergo, the conspiracy theory is bullshit. ---
**Author:** ![Trancephalic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trancephalic/32/380_2.png) [@Trancephalic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trancephalic)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2017, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earth-satellite-3000-years-old-what-say-you/793363/6 "2017-08-11T22:40:23Z")
The Moon is much older than 3000 years. Apropos of nothing I have a pile of advanced extraterrestrial tech scattered across my yard after a raccoon knocked over the trash bin. It’s yours if you’ll pick it up. ---
**Author:** ![Hectorik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/82dd89/32.png) [@Hectorik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hectorik)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2017, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earth-satellite-3000-years-old-what-say-you/793363/7 "2017-08-11T22:42:21Z")
> [@zoid](#): > > My opinion is that the OP should provide at least a modicum of background when starting a topic. I don’t have a modicum. The only information I have is what’s written in the article. Oh, and I did build a Newtonian telescope one time with a 6" mirror and belonged to an astronomy club for a time, but that’s all the modicum I have on the subject at present. Nobody ever mentioned a ‘Black Knight’ satellite that I can recall. The Russians put Sputnik up in '57 and we all drew pictures of it in class as a project, but that was the first artificial satellite orbiting the earth that I’ve ever heard about. What’s your modicum? ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2017, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earth-satellite-3000-years-old-what-say-you/793363/8 "2017-08-11T22:44:39Z")
Maybe NASA has been keeping it a secret all these years, so that The Truth only appears on the Falun Gong Chinese channel. Or maybe this: Black Knight is a jumble of completely unrelated stories; reports of unusual science observations, authors promoting fringe ideas, classified spy satellites and people over-interpreting photos. These ingredients have been chopped up, stirred together and stewed on the internet to one rambling and inconsistent dollop of myth. [http://www.armaghplanet.com/blog/the-truth-about-the-black-knight-satellite-mystery.html](http://www.armaghplanet.com/blog/the-truth-about-the-black-knight-satellite-mystery.html) ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2017, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earth-satellite-3000-years-old-what-say-you/793363/9 "2017-08-11T22:45:32Z")
> [@Hectorik](#): > > Nobody ever mentioned a ‘Black Knight’ satellite that I can recall. Why do you think that is? Also, look up the definition of _modicum_. ---
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2017, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earth-satellite-3000-years-old-what-say-you/793363/10 "2017-08-11T22:52:46Z")
> [@friedo](#): > > Why do you think that is? > > Also, look up the definition of _modicum_. I’ll modicum You! ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2017, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earth-satellite-3000-years-old-what-say-you/793363/11 "2017-08-11T22:54:09Z")
Your mom’s a modicum! ---
**Author:** ![Hectorik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/82dd89/32.png) [@Hectorik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hectorik)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2017, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earth-satellite-3000-years-old-what-say-you/793363/12 "2017-08-11T22:54:21Z")
\*\* > [@friedo](#): > > Why do you think that is? Uh… They’ve been keeping it a secret? ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2017, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earth-satellite-3000-years-old-what-say-you/793363/13 "2017-08-11T22:56:29Z")
> [@Hectorik](#): > > \*\* > > Uh… They’ve been keeping it a secret? From every human in history who has ever had a telescope? ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2017, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earth-satellite-3000-years-old-what-say-you/793363/14 "2017-08-11T22:58:13Z")
I modicuming your dog! ---
**Author:** ![XT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xt/32/456_2.png) [@XT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XT)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2017, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earth-satellite-3000-years-old-what-say-you/793363/15 "2017-08-11T23:02:56Z")
> [@Hectorik](#): > > \*\* > > Uh… They’ve been keeping it a secret? Who is ‘they’? I mean, every single country with a space program…hell, ever single country with the means to make a telescope…would know about it. Are they all in on it? And every one who works for them? All their elected and appointed officials? And all of these people and governments are in lock step to keep this a secret because…? Seriously, does any of this make any sense to you? Go to the root here…HOW would you keep such a secret? WHY would you keep such a secret? What’s in it for NASA to keep such a secret when divulging it would get them funding beyond their…hell, beyond MY…dreams? What’s in it for, oh, say Cuba to keep the secret? Or Russia? Or China? Or anyone else? And, assuming you can come up with some twisted logic to answer that by torturing some article, HOW would you keep it secret? I mean, we would be talking about 100’s of thousands of people, if not millions who would know. All of them would keep silent? :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2017, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earth-satellite-3000-years-old-what-say-you/793363/16 "2017-08-11T23:13:46Z")
The site says it’s 13,000 years old. Much older than the 3000 years in your title. ---
**Author:** ![Llama\_Llogophile](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@Llama\_Llogophile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Llama_Llogophile)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2017, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earth-satellite-3000-years-old-what-say-you/793363/17 "2017-08-11T23:19:33Z")
Here’s my modicumshot: This is one of the sillier space related conspiracy theories. Second only perhaps to the one about Nazi bases on the moon. ---
**Author:** ![CairoCarol](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cairocarol/32/3825_2.png) [@CairoCarol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CairoCarol)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2017, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earth-satellite-3000-years-old-what-say-you/793363/18 "2017-08-12T00:11:09Z")
> [@snfaulkner](#): > > I’ll modicum You! Best not. That would be junior modicum. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2017, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earth-satellite-3000-years-old-what-say-you/793363/19 "2017-08-12T00:31:19Z")
[Skeptoid on the Black Knight.](https://skeptoid.com/episodes/4365) TLDR version; most of the story is made up or exaggerated, and the object in the photo is a thermal blanket that broke off of _Endeavour_. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2017, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earth-satellite-3000-years-old-what-say-you/793363/20 "2017-08-12T00:43:32Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > [Skeptoid on the Black Knight.](https://skeptoid.com/episodes/4365) > > TLDR version; most of the story is made up or exaggerated, and the object in the photo is a thermal blanket that broke off of _Endeavour_. How could that have happened 13,000 years ago? Are you saying the real story is how time travel has been concealed? 😃 [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earth-satellite-3000-years-old-what-say-you/793363.md?page=2)