U.S. to shoot down spy satellite
ShepherdsDog @ Fri Feb 15, 2008 10:29 pm
hmmm.....he's come close to violating those terms with his inane prattle about the US and Americans.
Tricks @ Fri Feb 15, 2008 10:31 pm
ShepherdsDog ShepherdsDog:
hmmm.....he's come close to violating those terms with his inane prattle about the US and Americans.
Yeppers
ziggy @ Fri Feb 15, 2008 10:53 pm
Tricks Tricks:
ShepherdsDog ShepherdsDog:
hmmm.....he's come close to violating those terms with his inane prattle about the US and Americans.
Yeppersand he's not allowed to post anything in the "fuck" thread.
ShepherdsDog @ Fri Feb 15, 2008 11:11 pm
Does anyone remember In Living Colour and the the skits about the 'Dysfunctional Family'? Which character was Mr. C?
dino_bobba_renno @ Fri Feb 15, 2008 11:34 pm
ziggy ziggy:
Tricks Tricks:
ShepherdsDog ShepherdsDog:
hmmm.....he's come close to violating those terms with his inane prattle about the US and Americans.
Yeppersand he's not allowed to post anything in the "fuck" thread.
Ok, I hate to interject on all this serious talk here but I have to say that I will laugh my ass off if the Americans miss.
xerxes @ Fri Feb 15, 2008 11:48 pm
Considering how badly they've done on their ABM tests, it's a safe bet.
Ruxpercnd @ Sat Feb 16, 2008 9:32 am
I have seen a Soviet satellite re-enter over Washington... About 1982... Driving down a road one night... I thought it was a low flying airliner with the landing lights on. However it didn't look right. It was like the landing lights were shining backwards, flashing through the some clouds. But it was moving as fast as a low flying jetliner. So, it was confusing... Found out later it was the Soviet satellite, probably at a much higher altitude and much faster than I perceived. It was quite a show.
We'll probably hit something.... look at all these satellites!
http://science.nasa.gov/Realtime/jtrack ... ack3D.html
Did you know? "With the launch of Alouette 1 in 1962 Canada became the third country to put a man-made satellite into space."
If you sit out in your lawn chair on a clear summer night, looking up... you will see some satellites fly by, like fast moving stars.....
Canada is a great place to splat satellites!
"On Jan. 24, 1978, a fireball streaks across the skies over the Northwest Territories. Cosmos 954, a Soviet satellite, crashes near Great Slave Lake, scattering radioactive waste across a 124,000 square kilometre swath of the Northwest Territories, Alberta and Saskatchewan. In Ottawa, there are urgent questions for Prime Minister Trudeau: Why wasn't there more warning? Were the Americans holding back information? And who will clean up the mess? " Hmmm.. blame the Americans for everything!
dog77_1999 @ Sat Feb 16, 2008 8:42 pm
Winnipegger Winnipegger:
Several years ago the US military tested a Pegasus missile on a dead US military satellite. It worked but instead of 1 dead satellite to track, they had over 200 pieces in orbit. If any of them hit a European or other satellite, it would destroy that satellite. That left the world seriously pissed off! Following that the US developed a megawatt infrared laser that could blind the optics of satellites without blowing them up.
Now we have the International Space Station. What risk is this destruction going to pose to astronauts on the ISS? Why do they want to shoot it? If it were to re-enter the atmosphere, the hydrazine tank will just boil-off, it won't pose a danger to anyone. This is just a knee-jerk reaction: "If we don't control it, blow it up!" Said with all the intelligence of a slime mould.
Now we have the International Space Station. What risk is this destruction going to pose to astronauts on the ISS? Why do they want to shoot it? If it were to re-enter the atmosphere, the hydrazine tank will just boil-off, it won't pose a danger to anyone. This is just a knee-jerk reaction: "If we don't control it, blow it up!" Said with all the intelligence of a slime mould.
This will pose no danger to the ISS as the orbit is too low for debree to enter the ISS orbit, or any other satilite orbit.
I would imagine they want to blow it up because they want it to break it into little pieces ensuring everything is burnt up. There have been several occasions where satilites were still together as they hit the ground. And if the hydrazine tank is basically intact, oops to anyone who wants to take home a sovenier.
And yes, NASA and the military have very smart people making sure that the debree won't effect anything.