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2008-02-22 Home Front: WoT

Experts fear debris isn't the only fallout from satellite shoot-down

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Posted by Seafarious 2008-02-22 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 Washington D.C.-based Center for Defense Information, a centrist national security policy institute.

Google it... yeah, it's 'centrist'...

Posted by Pappy 2008-02-22 00:54|| 2008-02-22 00:54|| Front Page Top

#2 I thought the Soviet Union would have learned their lesson in the 1980's not to try to outspend the US on military items. Oh, that's right. There is no Soviet Union any more. Well, apparently Russia didn't learn either.

Posted by Rambler in California">Rambler in California 2008-02-22 01:21|| 2008-02-22 01:21|| Front Page Top

#3 "I don't see how other nations don't see this as an anti-satellite test,"

Well, China already did one.

Posted by newc">newc 2008-02-22 01:32|| 2008-02-22 01:32|| Front Page Top

#4 Perhaps McClatchy and the MSM had their hearts set on hydrazine headlines.

Posted by Bobby 2008-02-22 05:47|| 2008-02-22 05:47|| Front Page Top

#5 The article could have a point, after all, China did spur the US to advance its own anti-satellite program, and has inserted multiple kinetic weapons in orbit.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2008-02-22 06:05|| 2008-02-22 06:05|| Front Page Top

#6 ...there were worries that the U.S. achievement might spur other nations to advance their own anti-satellite programs...

Um... unless you have been under a rock for the past decade or are just willfully ignorant, China already has one and Russia is trying to build one.

"They'll see it as the weaponization of space."

If they are smart. "Hold the high ground" is a true a military statement now as it was during them time of ancient Greece. I fully expect our enemies to take advantage of it and I hope that our nation isn't stupid enough to let it happen.

Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader 2008-02-22 07:16|| 2008-02-22 07:16|| Front Page Top

#7 I don't think they were just going to sit around with their thumbs up their asses. They are most certainly working on the tech to do this themselves.
To let them pull ahead of us would be very, very bad.

Posted by bigjim-ky 2008-02-22 07:37|| 2008-02-22 07:37|| Front Page Top

#8
Um... unless you have been under a rock for the past decade or are just willfully ignorant, China already has one and Russia is trying to build one.

Much as the laws of war only apply to Americans and Israelis, only America can start an arms race.

Posted by Rob Crawford">Rob Crawford 2008-02-22 08:01|| 2008-02-22 08:01|| Front Page Top

#9 big jim don't you mean China is working on a way to STEAL the technology too do this more effectively

Posted by sinse 2008-02-22 08:28|| 2008-02-22 08:28|| Front Page Top

#10 Ummmmmm...so what? I hope we do it again tomorrow.

Posted by tu3031 2008-02-22 08:30|| 2008-02-22 08:30|| Front Page Top

#11 Some wit was reporting yesterday that a large, cylindrical piece of debris believed to be from the satellite had actually crashed in an unincorporated area within West Windsor Township, New Jersey.

Soon after, local residents had seen large numbers of short, googly-eyed, furry blue creatures wandering around aimlessly in Grover's Mill...

Posted by Anonymoose 2008-02-22 09:12|| 2008-02-22 09:12|| Front Page Top

#12 the director of the Washington D.C.-based Center for Defense Information, a centrist national security policy institute.

(Snort)

I remember this organization produced a show on PBS(naturally) in the 80's whose main thrust was that spending money on anything more advanced than a slingshot was a waste and unnecessary provocation to the Soviets.

Posted by charger 2008-02-22 10:20|| 2008-02-22 10:20|| Front Page Top

#13 Does it matter what rational the Chicoms and Russians use? We know they'd like to build the stuff anyway and they'll invent rationals if they need to.

Posted by rjschwarz 2008-02-22 11:22|| 2008-02-22 11:22|| Front Page Top

#14 The only fallout they are concerned about is how wrong they look after so many years of no-can-do and whether people will apply that thought process into their goerbal swarming montra.

Posted by swksvolFF 2008-02-22 11:43|| 2008-02-22 11:43|| Front Page Top

#15 How does a ground-launched weapon become "weaponization of space"?

Hell, even my spell-checker objects to that construction.

Posted by mojo">mojo 2008-02-22 14:12|| 2008-02-22 14:12|| Front Page Top

#16 for three weeks had worked feverishly to turn an anti-missile system into one that could track and kill an object orbiting the Earth.

Bullshit alarm clanging away madly.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2008-02-22 15:06|| 2008-02-22 15:06|| Front Page Top

#17 Folks, ignore all this crap, they've GOT to show SOMETHING wrong to sell hystria driven "News".

Posted by Redneck Jim 2008-02-22 15:10|| 2008-02-22 15:10|| Front Page Top

#18 We need to keep working on this technology - it's going to be needed one of these days to zap an incomng asteroid that could wipe out life as we know it.

Posted by Glenmore">Glenmore 2008-02-22 15:19|| 2008-02-22 15:19|| Front Page Top

#19 Again, TU24/WD5. HOLMES, etc > TU24 was supposed to pass Earth [WD5 > MARS] as ORGANZ SINGLE INTACT LONER OBJECTS. There were NOT suppos to be accompanying fireballs, star streaks, or assorted space detonations = boom-booms BEFORE ANDOR DURING PASSAGE. NASA-JPL, etc > haven't even begun to publicly address or even acknowledge the accompanying phenomenas observed by many Netters including MOI. SPACE.com/VARI ASTRONOM BLOGS > ALL THEY WANT TO SAY OR PROCLAIM THAT THEY BELIEVE THE SINGULAR/SOLE OBJECTS KNOWN AS TU24 + WD5 PASSED EARTH AND MARS, AND NOT ANYTHING MORE THAN THAT. THATS POLITIX, NOT NATIONAL-GLOBAL SECURITY.

E.g. LAST NITE > despite inclement local weather, SOMETHING BIG AND WID A LONG, MASSIVELY WIDE TAIL BLITZED OVER GUAM IN NORTHERLY DIRECTION AND SEEMINGLY VERY CLOSE TO EARTH. It was fiery enuff, big enuff, and close enuff to be seen thru the bad weather + heavy low overcast o'er AGANA, GUAM. *OBJECT'S SIZE + SPEED > I doubt all the AEGIS + strategic ICBM MISSLES in the US-World could've stopped it EVEN IFF THESE COLLECTIVELY + SUCCESSFULLY IMPACTED WID PINPOINT ACCURACY. MY POINT > THIS GUAM AM + MIDMORN = SILENCE ON THE MSM + from our GOVT.

The shootdown of USA 193 was a good start but USA 193 is NOT a space rock - IFF THE WORLD =HUMANITY TRULY DESIRES OWG-NWO, SAID DESIRED OWG-NWO MUST BE ABLE TO PROTECT FROM EXTRA-GLOBAL THREATS AND CHALLENGES, NOT KEEP S *** TO ITSELF BECUZ THEY THINK NO ONE IS GONNA FIND OUT.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2008-02-22 19:46|| 2008-02-22 19:46|| Front Page Top

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