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UPDATE: The Navy successfully shot down the spysat: http://www.badastronomy.com/bablog/2008/02/20/breaking-spysat-successfully-hi...



I give some of the facts and some opinions on the US blowing up the spy satellite USA 193. More info can be found on my blog at http://www.badastronomy.com/bablog/2008/02/19/blowing-up-a-spy-satellite/.

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  • Dr Phil Plait worked for Sonoma State University for years and knows a hell of a lot more about astronomy than you. He's an incredibly respected scientist, not to mention an all round good guy. Oh, and he has an asteroid name after him.

  • Funny the way you say "bad guys" and then use China as an example--that made me laugh.

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  • is there any way we could create a space-junk collecting satellite....i dunno. something small with very large expanding arms with something like nets spanning a football field's worth of area.....a low orbit roomba? :)

  • Why is the tank full when they know when its gonna come down ,more or less?

  • I don't like the US government!

  • seres

    

  • @LeeAlbrandt Sure, China is the bad guy, and the worst thing it does is to become the biggest creditor of the States, so it must be blown up and eliminated from the surface of the earth, isn't it? :P

    King David surely considered Uriah the bad guy when Uriah was bad enough to be the husband whose wife he committed adultery with. So, the elimination of Uriah was duly arranged accordingly.

  • @Arghira

    HA! We're all too human! No ones the good guy. But some cultures have a better stances on human rights than others.

  • Where did you get the information that it wasn't visible unless seen through an automated telescope?

  • Actually, thats not true. I saw the spy satellite's debris fall out of the sky. At the time, I lived outside Sacramento, CA. It was a huge blueish-greenish-whitish fire mass falling super fast.

  • It was hit in the middle of the Pacific, and would not have been visible unless seen through an automated telescope

  • Here is a fact.

    There is no amateur footage of the spy satellite being shot down. Why is this?

    It was more than just shooting down a spy satellite...

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