Posted on 02/20/2008 7:51:18 PM PST by tobyhill
A missile has hit an errant spy satellite about 140 miles above Earth, a U.S. official says
Breaking
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
> Somewhere, Ronald Reagan is smiling.
Not to mention Dr. Edward Teller.
Careful, you’re starting to sound like Ann Coulter!
Really? Don’t Mess with Texas was on it?
Are you joshin me?
If not, KICKASS!
My god with a SM-3 standard missile on an Aegis ship. Impressive as all high hell! Up to date SM-2 can’t be much less accurate.
I guess you don’t try and attack a carrier group nowadays.
Did the ship use it’s own radar for the intercept? I guess it must be pretty upgraded if so.
I never could believe the traitor hippies in the scientific community that said it couldn’t work. You don’t know that anything will work until you try.
I have a wall next to my desk - I post words of wisdom on it to remind me every day of the challanges we face as a nation.
With your permission - your post will go up tomorrow AM. It will be in some good company.
Is that near Grovers Mill?
UN: IMPACT OF UNPROVOKED MISSILE ATTACK ON MINORITIES, WOMEN UNCLEAR
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MICHELLE OBAMA 'UNDECIDED' ON STATUS OF HER NATIONAL PRIDE
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MUSLIMS ANGRY
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CAUSED BY GLOBAL WARMING
Damn proud of my Navy tonight. Good shooting boys.
News Flashback 1984
The Case Against Star Wars Weapons (TIME MAGAZINE)
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,954303,00.html
Democratic Front Runner Walter Mondale last week denounced the plan as “dangerously destabilizing” and called for a freeze on military uses of space. The Democrats believe that the President’s embrace of antimissile weapons will fan fears that he is a trigger-happy nucl ear cowboy.
If you like good quotes, are you on this list?
I’m sorry....I juat couldn’t do that.
That was good. Dang, girls on a Navy Ship? I’ve been on land way too long - that’s not the Navy I remember. But I like it.
Hey Iran.....those missiles you are making that could reach Europe........think again.
World, dictators think about the spending technology race that destroyed the Soviet Union.
Well, a little bullet hitting a big bullet. But could do that too, if you could build a little tiny guidance set into the little bullet.
The USS Lake Erie has 122 missile launch tubes, each of which can store and launch an SM-3.
(Great shot, Navy. The US West Coast should rest easier tonight—from fear of our enemies, not space debris.)
It belonged to the NRO
The National Reconnaissance Office which is part of the DoD. IOW, not a civilian satellite.
It was a parody, ok? But thanks anyway....lol
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