Topic: Spy satellite.

[Sam Green Racing]

America to launch a missile to bring down an ageing spy satellite.

Last year, America blasted China for doing the same thing.

Who the fcuk do the American government think they are.

Sam.

[ekim98]

It must be more than just a spy satellite. But your right, they try to set the rules, but don't live by the same ones. It must be pretty big tho, if they figure they can shoot it out of the sky??

But don't blame the American people, we can't control our government either.   We just supposely elect them.

[DammitDan]

Elected officials don't listen to their constituents, they listen to their contributors. 

[Frankenkit]

I love that line from V for Vendetta- "People shouldn't be afraid of their governments.  Governments should be afraid of their people."

...but the US is just too big for us to have one massive riot.  Shame.

[Sam Green Racing]

Get yer guns out guys, I can see a revolution comming on.

Sam.

[neil young]

Apparently this one is a big chunk of metal.i believe they are trying to change it's trajectory so it will land it the ocean.

[Jerry Rxman Griffin aka MuthaF'er]

George W hasn't hit it yet!! Perhaps another embarassing moment?! I'd like to think hydrazine or any other rocket fuel would burn up during reentry?! The space shuttle sure sizzled didn't it!

[Sam Green Racing]

Gerry, they recon the shuttle broke up during re-entry but a lot of large pieces managed to make land fall.

This thing is going to be destroyed as it has toxic fuel on board.

Another reason they want it destroyed is so it doesn't fall into the wrong hands.

That's all according to what we are hearing from TV in the UK.

Sam.

[mark]

America to launch a missile to bring down an ageing spy satellite.

Last year, America blasted China for doing the same thing.

Who the fcuk do the American government think they are.

Sam.

hmmm.

I don't think it's quite the same thing....

For starters, China's weather satellite was merely old, and not about to deorbit and rain debris on Peking.

They scattered their satellite as an effing test of an effing weapon - to send a message(we can do yours too).
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/23/world/asia/23cnd-china.html?_r=1&hp&ex=1169614800&en=d9317a9a60f6aebb&ei=5094&partner=homepage&oref=slogin

Most of the thousands of little and not-so-little bits are still in nice stable orbits, and will remain so for some time. right along with the rest of everyone else's satellites. it's getting busy up there.
http://www.space.com/news/070202_china_spacedebris.html


On the other hand, our wonder of modern science is about to fall out of the sky. Wanna play catch with a nuclear reactor? might be better if we blow the dam thing to bits before it comes down, right?

Remember Skylab? That thing came down in one piece and rained crap on Perth. Nice big chunks.




whatever.

[Jerry Rxman Griffin aka MuthaF'er]

Sam,

What I'm saying is GW is basically a liar. Surprise?! You could never tell the truth about something like this. AND if that sum#$%* gets shot down they had better let Dick Chaney be the trigger man.   

[Bob Wessner]

they had better let Dick Chaney be the trigger man.   

But, based on past performance, he'd hit the wrong satellite.

[Buber]

What I'm saying is GW is basically a liar. Surprise?!

Now, being real, PLEASE show me somebody involved in politics who ISN'T a liar......

Having said that, GW is not the smartest, that's for sure, but..... after all half of the USA woted for him....... and THAT'S SCARY.....

[Sam Green Racing]

Sam,

What I'm saying is GW is basically a liar. Surprise?! You could never tell the truth about something like this. AND if that sum#$%* gets shot down they had better let Dick Chaney be the trigger man.   

 

[Sam Green Racing]

they had better let Dick Chaney be the trigger man.   

But, based on past performance, he'd hit the wrong satellite.

 

[edbikerii]

At least half of America voted for GWB TWICE.

Well, some of us voted AGAINST the other liars once or twice.

[my78k]

Why don't we enlist Bruce Willis and Ben Afleck to fly up there and drill through it placing a nuclear weapon inside? God damn that was a horrible movie...

Dennis

[edbikerii]

Ahh, but lovely Liv?  See her washing a car in McCool's?   Wooo hooo!

[Cvillechopper]

after all half of the USA woted for him.......

Only if you believe the lies...

[BobbyR]

I think they just want to prove they can do it. What good is having weapons if you can't prove to everyone else they work.
When I was kid the US and the Ruskies were setting off A bombs like bottle rockets. So, now the Earth poisoned and my generation is the first who were born with Strontium 90 in our bones.

[edbikerii]

It will be very cool.  Remember the "star wars" missile defense system from the '80s?  Made the whole "arms race" obsolete instantaneously.  Sure is nice not having to live with that "cold war" crap.  Remember the air-raid drills in school?   Fallout shelters?

I was happy to see those stupid, paranoid movies about the human race getting blown to bits in a nuclear holocaust disappear.  Remember "Late, Great Planet Earth"?  Remember the term "Nuclear Winter"?  Those movies gave me nightmares when I was a kid.  Too bad those stupid movies have been replaced by paranoid apocalyptic visions of global warming and conspiracy theories about 9/11.

That scary, alarmist apocalyptic stuff really fills the seats, huh?  What makes people so sure that governments and corporations want nothing more than to destroy the planet and the human race?

[Bob Wessner]

I think they just want to prove they can do it. What good is having weapons if you can't prove to everyone else they work.

Of course the flip side is egg on your face if you fail. Seventy million dollars to bring down a billion dollar satellite. Such a deal.

[333]

Ed, I don't know what is worse; a skeptic or a paranoid.  But you seem to have hit both ends of the spectrum in one sentence.

[edbikerii]

I think they just want to prove they can do it. What good is having weapons if you can't prove to everyone else they work.

Of course the flip side is egg on your face if you fail. Seventy million dollars to bring down a billion dollar satellite. Such a deal.

Aw, come on, Bob.  What could be better than pumping lots of money into the economy by hiring some of the smartest people in the world to shoot off rockets and stuff?  We could certainly waste the money less productively.  Maybe we'll even learn something in the process.

[edbikerii]

Um, no.  I'm very clearly a skeptic, not a paranoid.  And, just so you know, a paranoid is worse.

Ed, I don't know what is worse; a skeptic or a paranoid.  But you seem to have hit both ends of the spectrum in one sentence.

[mattcb350f]

Why don't we enlist Bruce Willis and Ben Afleck to fly up there and drill through it placing a nuclear weapon inside? God damn that was a horrible movie...

Dennis

 


...you just know there's an engineer some where thinking to himself "I told them we should put a parachute in that thing, but oh no, too much money they said....."

 Matt.