Re: Does anyone else think we lost a golden opportunity with the great digital switchover?

I think you're guilty of hyperbole here, why would you need the nuke?
A missile striking the center satellite of a cluster would likely
disable all of the others, and others in nearby clusters, with the
shrapnel and space junk so created.

On Mon, 03 Oct 2011 09:13:14 +0100, Peter Duncanson
<mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Sun, 2 Oct 2011 16:38:05 -0700 (PDT), David Paste
<pastedavid@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Sats are vulnerable to enemy attack in a way that terrestrial
transmitters are not. A single rocket with nuke could probably take out
the satellites we would be using.
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