Thank you President Bill Clinton for selling the Chi-Coms our national secerts.

Thank you President Bill Clinton for selling the Chi-Coms our tech from NASA.

Thank you President Bill Clinton for selling the Chi-Coms our GPS tech.

Thank you President Bill Clinton for selling the Chi-Coms our freedom and secuirty to a bunch of rotten Chi-Com that wish to wipe out the USA.

Originally Posted by 5.56X45mm

Thank you President Bill Clinton for selling the Chi-Coms our national secerts.

Thank you President Bill Clinton for selling the Chi-Coms our tech from NASA.

Thank you President Bill Clinton for selling the Chi-Coms our GPS tech.

Thank you President Bill Clinton for selling the Chi-Coms our freedom and secuirty to a bunch of rotten Chi-Com that wish to wipe out the USA.

If you have information about President Clinton committing Treason against the United States of America, I suggest you spill the beans to the proper authorities right away, as it is against United States Federal Law for you not to do so.

From the U.S. Code Online via GPO Access
[wais.access.gpo.gov]
[Laws in effect as of January 20, 2004]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 20, 2004 and December 23, 2004]
[CITE: 18USC2382]


TITLE 18--CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE

PART I--CRIMES

CHAPTER 115--TREASON, SEDITION, AND SUBVERSIVE ACTIVITIES

Sec. 2382. Misprision of treason

Whoever, owing allegiance to the United States and having knowledge
of the commission of any treason against them, conceals and does not, as soon as may be, disclose and make known the same to the President or to some judge of the United States, or to the governor or to some judge or
justice of a particular State, is guilty of misprision of treason and
shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than seven years,
or both.

I'll hazard a guess and say President Bush would be interested in any such info you may have right about now.

According to the BBC, Chinese foreign office spokesman Ju Linchao commented, "China advocates the peaceful use of space and opposes the weaponisation of space, and also opposes any form of arms race."

Similarly, (according a Chinese spokesman talking to the Washington Times), the Chinese Song-class submarine that surfaced near the USS Kitty Hawk on Oct. 27 was there by accident, and that it did not shadow the warship before making its presence known.

You see? China only wants peace.

Plain and simple, China was only flexing it's muscles by blowing up an old Sat. But why? Having served in an Air Defence Battery, I know that using a £10,000 GBP missile to take out an Aircraft or helicopter worth a million or so makes good sense and gives value, to the taxpayer. So why take out an old Sat using Billion pound tech? Everyone knows Chinas capability, so nothing new learned from the Demo. Or is this a sign of things to come maybe from China?

Low Earth-orbit satellites have become indispensable for U.S. military communications, GPS navigation for smart bombs and troops, and for real-time surveillance. The Chinese test highlights the satellites' vulnerability.

The only satellites we have that are in reach of the Chi-Coms are our spy satellites. All the others, such as our military GPS satellites, are roughly 2.5 times higher than they could reach. But this is a fine example of why they should have never retired the SR-71.

They have already demonstrated the use of a laser which blinds the keyhole sats so this test seems a bit redundant, but then again that might be the point.

Originally Posted by The Cooler King

The only satellites we have that are in reach of the Chi-Coms are our spy satellites. All the others, such as our military GPS satellites, are roughly 2.5 times higher than they could reach. But this is a fine example of why they should have never retired the SR-71.

Did you ever think that maybe they have been replaced? The SR-71s operated for many years before the public new of them.

You are all missing the main point.

NASA has to track every piece of debri in space so that its vehicles up there can be steered clear of life-threatening chuncks of steel travelling at thousands of kph capable of puncturing/rupturing fuselages.

Now there are 300,000 more little pieces of steel up there thanks to those little Chinese street defecating commies.

China's aim was to ruin the day of NASA's flight programmers. There are dozens of them now walking the corridors of NASA with angry brows swearing under their breath.

I dunno, I'm no physicist (in fact I can hardly spell it), but I always understood that it was a very delicate manoeuver to get any item to orbit the earth for any length of time. This was achieved with a very precise combination of mass, velocity, angle of flight and altitude, and probably many other considerations that I'm not even aware of. If any one of these was incorrect, the "would be satellite" would either gradually lose altitude and burn up in the atmosphere or it would zoom off into interstellar space. Even the most precisely positioned satellites eventually either fall to earth or escape the gravitational pull and "run away from home".

Of the thousands of pieces of debris generated from this collision, how many would actually achieve the correct combination of the above factors to remain in orbit for any appreciable length of time? I do know that for example there is an over glove orbiting up there somewhere which was allegedly lost on one of the spacewalks years ago.

My thoughts were that with the violence of this collision, the pieces would have been ejected with a high velocity relative to that needed to remain in orbit, and therefore they would not remain as a hazard for any appreciable amount of time

Then again I may well have it all stuffed up, believe it or not, I was actually wrong once before. Does anyone know the answer?

seno, unless you wear a lab coat, have ten pens in the top breast pocket, and adjust your reading glasses every 3 seconds, then you are not qualified in the astro-physics of this topic and I invite you to go over to the jokes forum.