Thoughts 15 Feb 2008 07:58 am
U.S. to Attempt to Shoot Down Faulty Satellite
A headline from the New York Times:
U.S. to Attempt to Shoot Down Faulty Satellite
Didn’t the Bush administration get up in arms over China testing a weapons system on an old weather satellite?
King George and company swear that shooting this thing down is a health issue, not an attempt to hide secrets. And just exactly who do the think is going to believe this cock and bull story?
By definition, anybody who gets the phrase “global warming” changed to “climate change” in order to protect his buddies in the oil industry is not going to be overly concerned with our well being.
Now they expect the military to shoot this thing out of the sky, just before it tumbles into the atmosphere. Given the past performance of new and highly modified weapons systems. Given the complete lack of oversight of government contractors, including bonuses paid for complete failures. And given the apparent belief that “wishing will make it so” by the politicians, excuse me, military geniuses that run the Pentagon, at least as long as their future employers and old friends are involved.
I’ll bet on the satellite.
I love this observation:
“In many ways, the task resembles shooting down an intercontinental nuclear missile, although this target is larger, its path is better known and, if a first shot misses, it will continue to circle the Earth for long enough to allow a second or even a third try.”
Excuse me. But wasn’t this system designed to shoot down ICBMs?
Warheads are about 10 to 20% the size of this thing, which is the size of a school bus. And now they tell us they have a much larger, much slower target, on a known trajectory and it may take two or three tries over the course of several days to hit it?
The military industrial complex. —-Technology at it’s dumbest.