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Re: Big-ass Spy Satellite About To Clobber Earth! Yikes! [Re: Seuss]
#8047329 - 02/20/08 01:31 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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htTtp://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSN1930844420080220
This whole thing smells fishy. I'd go into theory, but i'd be afraid of men in ski masks in the middle of the night
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Re: Big-ass Spy Satellite About To Clobber Earth! Yikes! [Re: GoodbyeOrb]
#8047371 - 02/20/08 01:41 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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Russia and China have both expressed concern about the operation. The Russian Defense Ministry said it could be used as cover to test a new space weapon.
It is no more of a weapons test than Iran's uranium enrichment is for a weapons program. China isn't one to talk, having sprayed weather satellite parts all over upper earth orbit creating havoc for the next 40 years as part of a space weapon test just last month.
As to the real reason why... China did and the US needs the data to keep up. This is a perfect opportunity, a good excuse, and doesn't rain debris down over lower earth orbit for the next forty years. (I don't care that China tested a space missile, but the mess they made annoys me to no end!)
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Re: Big-ass Spy Satellite About To Clobber Earth! Yikes! [Re: Seuss]
#8047450 - 02/20/08 02:02 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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China did and the US needs the data to keep up. This is a perfect opportunity, a good excuse, and doesn't rain debris down over lower earth orbit for the next forty years.
Yes, that is the real reason. It's a good excuse for their experiment.
The mess it can make when things explode in space is huge and almost impossible to clean. It's precious space up there in space.
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Re: Big-ass Spy Satellite About To Clobber Earth! Yikes! [Re: Annom]
#8048974 - 02/20/08 08:07 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
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Re: Big-ass Spy Satellite About To Clobber Earth! Yikes! [Re: Annom]
#8050526 - 02/21/08 05:21 AM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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"The US has successfully struck a disabled spy satellite with a missile fired from a warship in waters west of Hawaii, military officials say." - http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7254540.stm
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Re: Big-ass Spy Satellite About To Clobber Earth! Yikes! [Re: Annom]
#8050845 - 02/21/08 08:33 AM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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Re: Big-ass Spy Satellite About To Clobber Earth! Yikes! [Re: skydog]
#8051922 - 02/21/08 01:38 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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I just came along this figure in a book, how a debris cloud forms:
 -http://books.google.com/books?id=HfnGxKhcQWUC&printsec=frontcover&dq=mission+geometry+orbit+design&ei=J9y9R4-FKJXOywTuj8jbCA&sig=uDajtGkdR9nNeUnR9feJyWu385E#PPA712,M1
I guess debris can fill a lot of space if there are too many collisions. Imagine two debris clouds colliding, and triggering more collisions. I imagine this as a nuclear chain reaction kind of process.
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Re: Big-ass Spy Satellite About To Clobber Earth! Yikes! [Re: Annom]
#8052666 - 02/21/08 04:42 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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"The US defence secretary has said that the shooting down of a disabled spy satellite with a missile shows the country's missile defence system works." - http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7257865.stm
A predictable satellite is not the same as a missile.
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Re: Big-ass Spy Satellite About To Clobber Earth! Yikes! [Re: Annom]
#8052789 - 02/21/08 05:11 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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> A predictable satellite is not the same as a missile.
Depending upon the data you use in the test, it can be pretty close.
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Re: Big-ass Spy Satellite About To Clobber Earth! Yikes! [Re: Diploid]
#8055030 - 02/22/08 01:36 AM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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I guess this is the video of the shoot down released by the Pentagon
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Re: Big-ass Spy Satellite About To Clobber Earth! Yikes! [Re: Stein]
#8055382 - 02/22/08 07:40 AM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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Stein said: I guess this is the video of the shoot down released by the Pentagon
That thing is hauling ass
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Re: Big-ass Spy Satellite About To Clobber Earth! Yikes! [Re: GoodbyeOrb]
#8059344 - 02/23/08 05:05 AM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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Is this related to the fireball spotted over Oregon on the same day?
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Re: Big-ass Spy Satellite About To Clobber Earth! Yikes! [Re: Middleman]
#8059701 - 02/23/08 09:54 AM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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No, fireball is thought to be a meteor.
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Re: Big-ass Spy Satellite About To Clobber Earth! Yikes! [Re: Seuss]
#8068299 - 02/25/08 11:44 AM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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i think its an excuse for a test also. space war style
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