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2009-02-24 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

Global Warming Alert: Global Warming Satellite burns up over Antarctica

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Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2009-02-24 12:01|| || Front Page|| [11131 views ] Top

#1 "It's disappointing because it was giving us novel information to help us move our understanding forward on global warming," Alan O'Neill, science director of the Reading, U.K.- based Centre for Earth Observation, said in an interview.

Umm...how can it have given any information since it crashed; novel co2 info of a falling satellite? Or is it like those chinese spacewalk missions which take place before the launch?

Posted by swksvolFF 2009-02-24 14:28|| 2009-02-24 14:28|| Front Page Top

#2 I Blame Global Warming!!!!

Posted by DoDo 2009-02-24 15:15|| 2009-02-24 15:15|| Front Page Top

#3 Good job, Wron.

Posted by mojo 2009-02-24 15:20|| 2009-02-24 15:20|| Front Page Top

#4 The satellite might have found out Global Warming wasn't caused by greenhouse gas so Gore and his fanatics had it shot down. To cover their tracks they hired SPECTRE.

Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2009-02-24 15:44|| 2009-02-24 15:44|| Front Page Top

#5 While launch and separation of the rocket's first stage went as planned, a clamshell-shaped "fairing" covering the satellite failed to open, meaning it was too heavy to reach orbit, Brunschwyler said on NASA's online television station.

Couldn't figure that out before you sent it up?Some "rocket scientist" you are...

Posted by tu3031 2009-02-24 16:58|| 2009-02-24 16:58|| Front Page Top

#6 You misunderstand. it's not that the satellite was too heavy, it was the satellite AND the aeroshell that was supposed to be jetisoned halfway up that was to heavy.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2009-02-24 17:24|| 2009-02-24 17:24|| Front Page Top

#7 too heavy.

sorry, my keyboard is broken.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2009-02-24 17:25|| 2009-02-24 17:25|| Front Page Top

#8 The launch rocket was apparently, no shit, a "Taurus XL".

This is what we get for using discontinued Ford sedans to make our orbital insertions.

I know someone who's a subcontractor in the satellite business who says he's glad that his outfit decided to *not* use these clowns to send up their latest package. He was muttering about using the French or Brazilians.

Posted by Mitch H.">Mitch H. 2009-02-24 17:33|| http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/]">[http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/] 2009-02-24 17:33|| Front Page Top

#9 COMET LULIN's view from GUam was rather poor - however, there were several FIREBALLS over GUAM-WESTPAC REGION which may or may not had been due to the recent US-RUSSIAN SATELLITE COLLISION = DEBRIS FIELD, as various Space XPerts had proclaimed that Earth will be entering a virtual "shooting gallery" corridor of space rocks in 2009.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2009-02-24 17:34|| 2009-02-24 17:34|| Front Page Top

#10 ION GUAM K57 RADIO NEWS > DID YA FEEL IT? 6.1 EARTHQUAKE OCCURS NORTHEAST OF GUAM.

Oh yeah.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2009-02-24 17:52|| 2009-02-24 17:52|| Front Page Top

#11 Launch Vehicle?

Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2009-02-24 17:59|| 2009-02-24 17:59|| Front Page Top

#12 Film of the incident. Beware of the dreaded Clamshells. It was SPECTRE.

Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2009-02-24 18:16|| 2009-02-24 18:16|| Front Page Top

#13 ALa STARS-N-STRIPES, I've seen the pic of COMET LULIN's PURPLISH HAZE [Hendrix], which reminded me of a similar-colored sky burst o'er Guam's night skies recently. NOW I WANNA SEE THE IMAGE OF A PLANET WHICH SUDDENLY APEARED THEN
"DISAPPEARED".

D *** NGED POWER DRINKS!

Posted by JosephMendiola 2009-02-24 19:33|| 2009-02-24 19:33|| Front Page Top

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