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Video of Spy Satellite Getting Shot Down
Gizmodo ^
| 21 February, 2008
| Gizmodo
Posted on 02/21/2008 5:27:51 AM PST by CarrotAndStick
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To: missnry
Refer all future inquiries to my lawyer.Thanks...I'll get right on it! :^)
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posted on
02/21/2008 8:29:22 AM PST
by
Night Hides Not
(I'm voting for McCain...if (and only if) his VP is JC Watts!)
To: AFPhys
Thanks for the info. The fact that it was a cold target, as you say, makes sense to me that this was quite an accomplishment.
Good’ol USofA!
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posted on
02/21/2008 8:38:36 AM PST
by
avacado
To: CarrotAndStick
Somewhere, The Gipper is smiling.
83
posted on
02/21/2008 8:49:41 AM PST
by
Ditto
(Global Warming: The 21st Century's Snake Oil)
To: CarrotAndStick
I saw the debis streak through the sky last night while watching the eclipse. It slow moving and a beautiful aqua color.
I don’t know which was the most amazing sight: the eclipse, the shoot down or the clear skies!
To: CarrotAndStick
Is better video available yet?
To: Royal Wulff
To: missnry
To: longhorn too
Being and old navy veteran, I am so proud of the men and women of the USS Lake Erie. That was some accomplishment. Our military people are the best of the best!As do I; but I realize that the real heroes are the geeks who are faceless who made it all possible, and the hardware manufacturers who actually made it work.
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posted on
02/21/2008 11:41:07 AM PST
by
Publius6961
(MSM: Israelis are killed by rockets; Lebanese are killed by Israelis.)
To: MrB
89
posted on
02/21/2008 12:17:29 PM PST
by
coloradan
(The US is becoming a banana republic, except without the bananas - or the republic.)
To: Brilliant
I’m sure if that was a hostile I.C.B.M. coming towards the U.S. they would have fired that missile during rain,snow,sleet or hail and it would have produced the same result.
The only reason they needed to do it on a clear day was to prove photographically that the satellite was totally destroyed.
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posted on
02/21/2008 1:12:02 PM PST
by
puppypusher
(The world is going to the dogs.)
To: scripter
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posted on
02/21/2008 1:32:38 PM PST
by
scripter
("You don't have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body." - C.S. Lewis)
To: CarrotAndStick
NOW I see why I didn’t hear much about this the last few days- it was a SUCCESS!
I didn’t even know they had launched it until the (typical) media crybabies started complainng the the Chinese were upset.
I like that the military placated them by saying we would ‘share info’ with them about the incident- in other words we would show them their ballistic missiles were now obsolete.
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posted on
02/21/2008 2:55:12 PM PST
by
Mr. K
(Some days even my lucky rocketship underpants don't help)
To: Mr. K
5000 lb "Killer" sat reduced to football sized pieces by this little guy also not much bigger than a football. On must marvel at how hard it is to hit a target closing at 20000 mph, not just hit it but hit the much smaller "toxic fuel" tank they were aiming for too. spectrograph's indicate that the tank was hit directly. This shootdown cough "test" adds credibility to the SM-3 program to hit the warhead section of an inbound ICBM's reentry vehicle too. Since the PC crowd whines that not hitting the warhead section of a RV will only scatter the possible bio-agents in the upper atmosphere. conversly direct impact at 11+ km/s relative velocities will generate temperatures at impact in excess of 5000'K well above the disassociation point of every ionic or covalently bonded compound. In laymans terms it will atomize any bio or chemical agent. SM-3 proved it has the smarts to hit a point target on a 7 Km/s body , which is the speed of an incoming ICBM btw nice how that works out that way :)
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posted on
02/21/2008 4:13:34 PM PST
by
JDinAustin
(Austinite in the Big D.)
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