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Space shot diverts US eyes from rogue states
Telegraph ^
| 1/19/2007
| Con Coughlin
Posted on 01/18/2007 8:58:22 PM PST by Sandreckoner
If China has succeeded in developing the technology to shoot down satellites, it will have achieved technical superiority over the US, which is still struggling to develop its interceptor missile technology.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: antisatellite; china; starwars; unitedstates
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To: Sandreckoner
If China has succeeded in developing the technology to shoot down satellites, it will have achieved technical superiority over the US, which is still struggling to develop its interceptor missile technology. someone tell me that this is BS
To: Sandreckoner
Unbelievable. This is the kind of ridiculously ignorant reporting (as well as that of the main Telegraph article which so casually claimed China was building an "aircraft carrier") that has people buying into literally any China-hype you can think of.
To: Sandreckoner
Seems to me our satellite-based particle beams would blow a missle out of the sky at the speed of light before it got close....
To: stuck_in_new_orleans
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posted on
01/18/2007 9:00:35 PM PST
by
jveritas
(Support The Commander in Chief in Times of War)
To: Sandreckoner
Reporters + Science = LOL
These guys are dumber than a bag of retarded hammers.
To: Sandreckoner
When they can fake a Moon landing, get back to me.
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posted on
01/18/2007 9:01:09 PM PST
by
FLOutdoorsman
(The Man who says it can't be done should not interrupt the man doing it!)
To: Sandreckoner
This is the kind of ridiculously ignorant reporting The title of the article was invented by the threadmeister.
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posted on
01/18/2007 9:01:36 PM PST
by
Mr. Mojo
To: Mr. Mojo
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posted on
01/18/2007 9:02:27 PM PST
by
Mr. Mojo
To: Sandreckoner
No kidding. We're building stealth destroyers.
With rail guns and lasers.
Someone needs to call China and let them know that the 20th century wants its technology back.
To: Sandreckoner
China has achieved technical superiority over the United States in spacePlease don't write your own headlines.
To: Constantine XIII
Reporters + Science = LOL Not all reporters, but British reporters in particular have never been accused of letting the truth get in the way of a good story. And it doesn't matter what their political bent is -- in many ways the conservative Times and Telegraph are as kooky and unreliable as the left-wing Guardian and Independent. And don't even mention the tabloids, the "newspapers" that people actually read...
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posted on
01/18/2007 9:03:54 PM PST
by
Alter Kaker
("Whatever tears one sheds, in the end one always blows one's nose." - Heine)
To: Sandreckoner
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posted on
01/18/2007 9:03:59 PM PST
by
BunnySlippers
(SAY YES TO RUDY !!!)
To: Constantine XIII
Reporters + Science = LOL Quick edit: Reporters + facts = LOL
Fixed it.
What do you call a reporter in the 21st century?
Answer: a novelist.
To: Mr. Mojo
The title of the thread comes from the article itself. There was no invention involved.
To: stuck_in_new_orleans; RadioAstronomer
If China has succeeded in developing the technology to shoot down satellites, it will have achieved technical superiority over the US, which is still struggling to develop its interceptor missile technology. someone tell me that this is BS
Suffice to say that those who really know probably can't say what they know; thus, whatever you read is by definition likely the product of ignorance.
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posted on
01/18/2007 9:05:58 PM PST
by
longshadow
(FReeper #405, entering his tenth year of ignoring nitwits, nutcases, and recycled newbies)
To: Admin Moderator
I suppose I'm confused. I see articles posted all the time that use the headline to convey something from inside the article. Regardless, it seems like a silly quibble given that it's a line from the article itself.
To: Sandreckoner
The booster on their ASAT was the size of an ICBM. Heck anyone can take out a non-manuvering satellite with another orbital vehicle thrown up into space with a full size booster. The problem is that your ASAT now costs more than my satellite and due to the cost and time necessary to build the booster you couldn't take out more than a few satellites. Might provide an advantage if you want to blind me for a few days while they cause some mischief, but as a strategic weapon its useless. Besides the whole purpose of the DARPA plan for rapid response small boosters (Falcon I and Falcon V) is so that the US can put new satellites up faster they can knock them them down.
Now when they have an ASAT like the F15 launched one we developed 20 years ago let me know. Of course don't have an ASAT now because Clinton scrapped it so as not to be provocative. I guess the Chi-Coms aren't worried about being provocative.
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posted on
01/18/2007 9:09:47 PM PST
by
GonzoGOP
(There are millions of paranoid people in the world and they are all out to get me.)
To: stuck_in_new_orleans
someone tell me that this is BS It is.
But don't think they aren't moving quickly. With an economy turbocharged by massive U.S. consumption, they have plenty of money to pay their low wage engineers to work on this kind of thing.
To: Sandreckoner
Uh, note that China struck one of their own satellites with a known position and velocity. Most modern spy sats can change position.
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posted on
01/18/2007 9:10:54 PM PST
by
AZRepublican
("The degree in which a measure is necessary can never be a test of the legal right to adopt it.")
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