itsrobert Donating Member (1000+ posts)Wed Feb-20-08 10:46 PM
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US Navy shoots down satellite over Pacific
Edited on Wed Feb-20-08 10:56 PM by itsrobert
Source: CNN
Breaking
A missile has hit an errant spy satellite about 140 miles above Earth, a U.S. official says
Read more: http://www.cnn.com /
Linky
the responses are pretty predictable.
Bicoastal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Wed Feb-20-08 10:47 PM
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2. Hooray. We shot...something.
we shoulda shot at least one more thing.
LakeSamish706 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Wed Feb-20-08 10:51 PM
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5. So they say, but how do we know that they really hit it? n/t
DIEBOLD! call bev harris!! a cover up!!1111!!
ShockediSay Donating Member (1000+ posts) Wed Feb-20-08 11:34 PM
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13. Sadly, this wasn't star wars
Nobody would trust star wars to hit a cow in the ass w/ a snow shovel,
much less shoot something out of the sky.
No, star wars is one great big multi-million {?billion} boondoggle
for the lobbyists and their clients, that give us nothing but more
national debt.
This was a specifically targeted guided missile, aimed and shot from
a manned station/vessel, very much unlike star wars.
no, cupcake, this was indeed "star wars".
Paulie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Wed Feb-20-08 11:50 PM
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19. Yippie
We can do the same thing the Chinese did LAST MONTH.
how utterly uninformed. the chinese test was a sattelite intercept. this was a true test using missile intercept technology.
daleo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Thu Feb-21-08 12:15 AM
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22. No details
I wonder if that means that they just made a big mess up there, with bits of satellite being blown into higher orbit to become hazardous debris?
yep. that's how gravity works. things go up after a collision that decreases the kinetic energy of an orbiting object.