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US could shoot down satellitte tomorrow night.
patrickl:
--- Quote from: pinballjim on February 20, 2008, 11:36:23 am ---The fuel will be long gone - evaporated or burned up - before any debris hits the earth.
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Don't they protect the hydrazine tank pretty well though? I would assume they design it to survive an explosion during launch.
ChadTower:
That's still nothing compared to the stress of entering the atmosphere at eleventy brazillion mph.
Lutus:
The chances of it landing within a mile of a single human being are nearly microscopic in the scope of the entire surface area of the earth.
It seems like a case of "anything you can do I can do better" and ensuring the technology contained on the satellite is destroyed.
ChadTower:
When did that satellite go up there? Seems to me pretty much anything that's been up there a while wouldn't exactly be cutting edge technology anymore. Now, if they have encryption keys and the like on board, that would be a major issue. I can't believe they would have static encryption methods on any actual intelligence gathering hardware, though.
Seriously, what hardware could possibly be up there that hasn't been surpassed in the meantime?
shardian:
--- Quote from: ChadTower on February 20, 2008, 02:12:01 pm ---
When did that satellite go up there? Seems to me pretty much anything that's been up there a while wouldn't exactly be cutting edge technology anymore. Now, if they have encryption keys and the like on board, that would be a major issue. I can't believe they would have static encryption methods on any actual intelligence gathering hardware, though.
Seriously, what hardware could possibly be up there that hasn't been surpassed in the meantime?
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It was put up like 2 years ago. It has been non-working from day one due to some malfunction.
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