  Qweek Member Username: Qweek Post Number: 489 Registered: 07-2006 |
So here is this spy satellite due to hit the earth March 6th if it isn't blown to bits just out of earths atmosphere sometime between now and then. There are many people wondering about the pentagons plan to fire a missile from a Navy ship in order to blow the errant satellite up. Is it because of the secrets it holds? Is it because of the dangerous hydrazine an board? Is it a show of strength? Is it to test a missile defense system? A good discussion is underway on http://www.spaceweather.com under the comments section of the lead story. http://spaceweather.com/commen ts/indiv_thread.php?&thread_id =29&starting_point=0 I'm curious to see the results of this plan play out. | ||
Ed_golick Member Username: Ed_golick Post Number: 925 Registered: 10-2003 |
Is it due to hit Detroit? | ||
Qweek Member Username: Qweek Post Number: 490 Registered: 07-2006 |
I don't know where it is due to hit, you can track it here: http://www.n2yo.com/?s=29651 It did fly by here last night I think between 6:00 and 8:00p.m. I was busy or I would have been paying attention. Give the tracking site a few minutes to load, lots of traffic i presume. | ||
Qweek Member Username: Qweek Post Number: 491 Registered: 07-2006 |
Sorry, didn't mean post on the Detroit section. Darn refresh button takes you back to the Detroit only side and without my reading glasses that tiny print looks like a blurr, In the event this satellite hits Detroit I will feel better about my mistake and my failing vision. | ||
Kid_dynamite Member Username: Kid_dynamite Post Number: 472 Registered: 06-2007 |
Hey Quack, maybe it's because it is projected to come crashing to Earth and potentially kill people upon impact. | ||
Iheartthed Member Username: Iheartthed Post Number: 2695 Registered: 04-2006 |
^Nah, they're trying to keep it out of the hands of the Russians and the Chinese. | ||
Qweek Member Username: Qweek Post Number: 492 Registered: 07-2006 |
Ouch Kid, as I apply ointment to my blisters from your scathing come back I can't help but laugh. Many orbiting crafts have returned to earth without missiles being fired at them. Russia doesn't see the decision to fire a missile at the satellite an attempt to save lives either, read this.. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/200 80216/ap_on_re_eu/russia_dead_ satellite | ||
Sstashmoo Member Username: Sstashmoo Post Number: 1127 Registered: 02-2007 |
Reminds me of Skylab. | ||
Detroitnerd Member Username: Detroitnerd Post Number: 1917 Registered: 07-2004 |
It'll probably hit Australia. They got Skylab. Speaking of which, did anybody see Dogs In Space?  | ||
Downriviera Member Username: Downriviera Post Number: 10 Registered: 02-2008 |
A small town in Australia fined the US four hundred dollars for littering when bits of skylab landed there. So yeah, shoot it down and avoid more fines. | ||
Gannon Member Username: Gannon Post Number: 11638 Registered: 12-2003 |
It is certainly a show of strength. How quickly you all forgot the biggest news item of 2007, when China knocked one of its own satellites out of the sky with a solid piece of metal rod. They hit a moving bullseye with a supersonic dart...and the REAL seismic shock hit a few seat bottoms in the Pentagon. I'd bet a few of 'em are STILL wearing Depends-brand adult underthings. So yeah, we're going to show them we can do it, too. I don't think we've surfaced a submarine in the midst of their naval exercises or bumped a spyplane out of the sky, so the oddsmakers and scorekeepers are both pretty busy. | ||
Detroitnerd Member Username: Detroitnerd Post Number: 1918 Registered: 07-2004 |
BUSH: My fellow Americans. The military exercise to force down our own satellite failed a few hours ago. With our deepest apologies to the people of Canada, we respectfully request a moment of silence for all the people of Quebec, who awoke to a hydrazine cloud early this morning. Needless to say, we thank them for their sacrifices, which have allowed us to make some small progress with our SDI initiative, contributing to a freer and safer world for all ... | ||
Karl_jr Member Username: Karl_jr Post Number: 205 Registered: 06-2007 |
If they could hold it off until new years eve ..... | ||
Sstashmoo Member Username: Sstashmoo Post Number: 1128 Registered: 02-2007 |
Quote: "China knocked one of its own satellites out of the sky with a solid piece of metal rod." Yeah? prove it.. | ||
Jimaz Member Username: Jimaz Post Number: 4565 Registered: 12-2005 |
I too remember the China satellite story. You'd think they'd design these things with a built-in self-destruct system and some way to burn off the surplus hydrazine. That would be so much simpler. | ||
Detroitnerd Member Username: Detroitnerd Post Number: 1919 Registered: 07-2004 |
Might add to the expense, Jimaz. We can't have that! | ||
Eastside_cat Member Username: Eastside_cat Post Number: 1 Registered: 02-2008 |
Actually folks the big worry for us living in the islands is the toxic fuel frozen inside the object. It has the potential to liquify and land across the Hawaiian Island chain causing lethal fumes to spread down upon us, therefore the decision to try the shoot down, these ships (USS Lake Erie) out here will also get an opportunity to prove they can shoot down a REAL incoming target. | ||
Karl_jr Member Username: Karl_jr Post Number: 208 Registered: 06-2007 |
http://www.npr.org/templates/s tory/story.php?storyId=6923805 | ||
Qweek Member Username: Qweek Post Number: 493 Registered: 07-2006 |
I remember the Chinese blowing up their satellite, and the thought did cross my mind that the US is itching to flex a red, white and blue bicep because we think we can. The question is will we wind up with a red ass if this plan goes terribly wrong? Heads up! | ||
Lefty2 Member Username: Lefty2 Post Number: 1186 Registered: 07-2007 |
This might just be a test to see how good our defense contractors are producing US weapons, under the guise of danger danger. |
