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Posted by Dave Bugg on February 21, 2008, 8:18 pm
Please log in for more thread options Doug Miller wrote:
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>>> Check out the satellite shoot-down:
>>>
>>> http://dodvclips.mil/index.jsp?auto_band=x&rf=sv&fr_story=FRdamp250959&rf/
>>>
>>> There is also a link to the post-operation press briefing, left top
>>> row of thumbnails, "Gen Cartwright/Satellite Debris". The video
>>> linked to above is also shown and commented upon there.
>>
>> I don't buy that the fuel was a hazard.
>
> Or, rather, that there was any danger that the fuel might actually
> reach the
> surface of the planet. Hydrazine is unquestionably hazardous.
>
>> This was a "Hold my beer and watch
>> THIS!" just to show off for Russia and China.
>
> I agree; it seems rather unlikely that the fuel tank would have
> survived
> reentry. The probable result of allowing reentry would have been a
> sizable
> explosion in the upper atmosphere the instant the tank was breached.
That probably doesn't even begin to compare to the explosion of lower bowel
contents from the Chinese and Russians when they realized their
multi-billion anti-satellite weapons programs were just shown to be
completely irrelevant.
--
Dave
www.davebbq.com
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> http://dodvclips.mil/index.jsp?auto_band=x&rf=sv&fr_story=FRdamp250959&rf/
>
> There is also a link to the post-operation press briefing, left top row of
> thumbnails, "Gen Cartwright/Satellite Debris". The video linked to above is
> also shown and commented upon there.