Re: O/T - Dead Spy Satellite Could hit Earth within a month
- From: Fred J. McCall <fmccall@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 19:57:58 -0700
"William Black" <william.black@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
:
:"jJim McLaughlin" <jimm.claughlin@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
:news:GOGdnfpEsOq04QLanZ2dnUVZ_rrinZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
:> William Black wrote:
:>
:> SNIP HAPPENS
:>
:>
:>> It's reasonably obvious that the thing was active over somewhere where
:>> the US is busy saying either 'We have no interest' or, even worse,
:>> 'You're our friend, of course we aren't spying on you' when it blew the
:>> main fuse.
:>>
:>
:> Why is that obvious?
:>
:> Or are you yet again just making it up as you go along?
:
:1. It's going to hit the earth at a point that isn't of its makers
:choosing.
:
Which has bugger all to do with your prior remarks.
:
:2. Someone may just get hurt when it impacts.
:
Which has bugger all to do with your prior remarks.
:
:3. The owners are refusing to release the details of the orbit it is in and
:so nobody knows where it's going to impact.
:
Horse manure. Lots of other countries can track it and get all that.
:
:Either the device's owners are paranoid beyond sanity or there's more to the
:information than meets the eye.
:
Or you're just absolutely ignorant about orbital mechanics and
aerodynamics and haven't figured out that NOBODY knows where it's
going to come down and having its precise orbital elements won't help
you figure that out.
--
"Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the
truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong."
-- Thomas Jefferson
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