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US could shoot down satellitte tomorrow night.

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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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