Get Ready to DUCK....

[Mooseman684]

We Lost control of a satellite...It may be Hazardous to our Health !
Satellite is weeks away from hitting Earth - CNN.com

[Seabeescotty]

Are they telling us which way to run yet?

[two-70]

they can most likely take it out with a missle if it looks like it might hit a large populated area, who knows

[A-10]

Sounds like extreme skeet shooting!

[Cyrano]

Originally Posted by two-70

they can most likely take it out with a missle if it looks like it might hit a large populated area, who knows

two-70, I wouldn't count on anyone being able to take out that satellite with a missile. At least, not unless it's a nuclear-tipped missile. That satellite that is uncontrollable and due to reenter the atmosphere next month sometime is the size of a bus and at least partly made of beryllium, which is tough stuff. Something like an AIM-9X Sidewinder or an AIM-120 Slammer meant for air-to-air work would barely scratch it. You'd need something like a SM-1 surface-to-air missile set for a skin-skin kill to vaporize it to be sure it would be blasted into small enough pieces they would not be particularly dangerous.

Remember, not only is it big, it's traveling at orbital speeds, something like 20 times faster than a rifle bullet. And the problem is, since we don't have any idea yet where it will reenter, we can't even position a ship with missles aboard in a place where it might be able to intecept the satellite on the way down! They won't have a real idea where it will come down until about 24 hours before it reenters, and even then might not be able to put a launcher close enough to the estimated point of impact that an intercept can even be attempted. Systems like Patriot are okay for theater missiles like the Scuds, but they aren't up to handling ballistic threats. Their radars are not long-range enough for that, and neither are the missiles.

We just better hope the satellite comes down in the open ocean somewhere, because I have serious doubts about Curious George authorizing the use of a nuclear-tipped interceptor missile for this purpose.

[Zephri]

Originally Posted by A-10

Sounds like extreme skeet shooting!

That's one big clay I think You'll need one of these

YouTube - Redneck Shotgun

[neophyte]

A10: you go sir :LMAO: I'm loaded and ready to

A10: you go sir :LMAO: I'm loaded and ready to

[billy]

Originally Posted by Seabeescotty

Are they telling us which way to run yet?

yes scotty,
willy nilly screaming in circles at the drop of a hat like some of our members.
(artists conception)
that means not real.


4 out of 5 paranoiacs agree
with this strategy.

[ArkansasHunter]

I wonder if anouther country disabled it. Remember China is testing a satilite zapper ! LOL

[billy]

Originally Posted by ArkansasHunter

I wonder if anouther country disabled it. Remember China is testing a satilite zapper ! LOL

the chinese have a zapper?!?

[Seabeescotty]

Yeah, they developed one for zapping roaches, and their trying to make it big enough to use against people!LOL Billy, I ain't gonna run in circles! My legs are shot, so that's out of the question! They stared that run from danger crap awhile back, and I figured I'd been doing the right thing all along. I can't run, so I carry!

[Coeloptera]

Planet's surface is about 3/4 ocean. Good odds so I'm not too worried.

- Coeloptera

[SwedeSteve]

running in circles, hmmmmm? Anything like talking in circles?

[Reddbecca]

This reminds of of "Night of the Living Dead" from 1968.

[The_Patriot]

Originally Posted by Coeloptera

Planet's surface is about 3/4 ocean. Good odds so I'm not too worried.

- Coeloptera

This is what I came in here to write.

Your odds of being bludgeoned to death by a retarded spider monkey this afternoon are far greater than this hitting your home.

Better knock on wood, just to be sure...

[billy]

retarded spider monkey's are one of the main reasons i carry a 1911A1!

[Rave]

Originally Posted by ArkansasHunter

I wonder if anouther country disabled it. Remember China is testing a satilite zapper ! LOL

Hummmmm,that IS an interesting point!
Worth checking in to.

[The_Patriot]

Originally Posted by Rave

Hummmmm,that IS an interesting point!
Worth checking in to.

Not a chance.

Orbits degrade over time. Birds like this can be pushed into new orbits to maximize their service time, but it takes fuel to do it--and there's a very finite amount of fuel aboard such sats. To my knowledge, birds like this one have stayed up a lot longer than originally designed. Still, they all have limited service time.

All of them will eventually come down...the old saying is true, what goes up, must come down (that is unless they're somehow pushed/pulled into hyperbolic/parabolic orbits to escape Earth's gravity altogether).

I'm not sure the government should even release information like this. It causes more fear/panic/worry than is necessary.

That spider monkey is still a much bigger threat.

[SwedeSteve]

I wonder if a spider monkey is driving the thing!

[Seabeescotty]

Could be a retarded armadilla!! And Billy, That's why I carry a 1911!! A 9mm just won't put 'em down! Scotty