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News Briefs 15-02-2008

Following on from Rick’s effort earlier this week, I managed to delete 4 hours worth of TDG updates this morning. Kind of deflates you for the rest of the day…

Quote of the Day:

Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes.

Oscar Wilde

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  1. Not drinking Victorian beer
    Not drinking Victorian beer are you Greg? 😉

    As for the science of fairy tales — if the scientist is that bored, I’m sure we can point them to a few topics worthy of study. ESP, Near Death Experiences, UFOs…

  2. dreams of vampires
    [quote]I’m asking, what would they have done if they dreamed of vampires?[/quote]

    I dont know

    what would they have done?

    how do u defend against vampires?

  3. Playing Target practice with a satellite…
    This is kind of scary news, not just because of all the possible amount of debris that the satellite would turn into (leaving so much debris circling the Earth is not a healthy habit, spcially now that commercial space tourism is about to become a reality), but also because this satellite does contain harmful chemicals, although I imagine it would be worse to let the thing return to the atmosphere.

    Or is it something else the americans fear? Perhaps that this satellite carries sensitive information that could fall in the wrong hands? After all it’s Finders Keepers when dealing with this kind of things.

    At least we can rule out that dying bird is NUCLEAR.

    My advise to the yanks: get the help of the chinese. They seem to be ahead of the satellite shooting game 🙂

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    It’s not the depth of the rabbit hole that bugs me…
    It’s all the rabbit SH*T you stumble over on your way down!!!

    Red Pill Junkie

    1. The fear is having a 40″
      The fear is having a 40″ diameter tank of hydrazine, along with another 2500lbs of assorted large parts survive rentry and land in a populated area. Especially the hydrazine.

      The sattelite itself weighs a little over 5K lbs, but the Air Force expects several large parts, about half the total weight, to survive.

      This idea isn’t at all in the same park as the Chinese idiotic destruction of a sattelite in higher orbit. Those nimrods blew one up just to show they could, and didn’t think twice about the debris field they created, which also, I might add, imperils their OWN sattelites and other devices.

      The US Navy intends to intercept the sattelite at an altitude that will ensure that most, if not all, of the debris will reenter the atmosphere and be consumed.

      Can’t say as I blame them.

      Respects,
      Gwedd

      1. Let me see if I get you straight
        So that means they will try to shoot down the satellite just a little before it gets in such a low orbit that it risks re-entering the atmosphere on its own, with the possible hazardous iimplications that carries (not to mention the “sensitive info” idea i mentioned in my first comment).

        Which means they will have one shot at the most, and very little time. Performing an operation they have never attempted before…

        Oh yeah, I’m much more relaxed now 🙂

        PS: I agree the chinese’s display was a lot of douchebaggery.
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        PPs: Hey,I just figured it out! There is NO secret satellite! It’s just a covert black-op to destroy one of those misterious space machines that John Leonard Walson videotapes with his telescope 🙂

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        It’s not the depth of the rabbit hole that bugs me…
        It’s all the rabbit SH*T you stumble over on your way down!!!

        Red Pill Junkie

          1. Something we’re not being told…
            >>Why do we even need to know about this so far in advance?

            Well, 3 to 12 days isn’t that far in advance, but as many people have said, the real question is, why did they bother to tell us at all?

            I just knew this news wasn’t going to keep ’til Monday — so in honor of bladerunner’s intuitive radar, I might as well go ahead and post it here and now:

            Skeptical About the Rogue Spy Satellite ‘Shot’.

            Experts Scoff at Satellite Shoot-Down Rationale.

            Cernig’s political take on Shooting Stars.

            Inside America’s Satellite-Killing Missile.

            Just in case they don’t manage to blow this thing to smitherines, if anyone’s seen an article about it, I’d really like to know if it’s supposedly coming down west-to-east, east-to-west, north-to-south – or whatever – so I’ll know which basement wall to camp out next to. I figure, whatever happens, Murphy’s Law is likely to be operating in high form. 😉

            Kat

  4. Victorian ‘porn’
    [quote]Other titles include Flirting Made Easy and Courtship And Marriage, which sensibly warns: “The young man who marries not, except in a few exceptional cases arising out of ill health, deformity, malformation, or great perversity of temper, or eccentricity of character, fails in one of the most palpable duties of life.”[/quote]

    Thank the Lord I wasn’t born in the XIX century!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    —–
    It’s not the depth of the rabbit hole that bugs me…
    It’s all the rabbit SH*T you stumble over on your way down!!!

    Red Pill Junkie

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