Disabled Spy Satellite Threatens Earth

By EILEEN SULLIVAN, Associated Press Writer, Space & Earth science / Space Exploration

An unclassified U.S. spy satellite photo released Aug. 9, 1995 shows a Mosque and surrounding houses destroyed by fire and explosives in Bosnia and Herzegovinia. A large U.S. spy satellite has lost power and could hit the Earth in late February or early March, government officials said Saturday. (AP Photo)

(AP) -- A large U.S. spy satellite has lost power and could hit the Earth in late February or early March, government officials said Saturday.

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Posted by weewilly 01/27/08 16:35

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What goes up must come down if it remains in the gravitational pull of the earth that is. Why don't we have a better plan for dealing with these situations? Chemical and physical dangers added to revealing top secrets of our spying techniques would mandate to me a much better method to deal with rogue satellites that pose a danger to humans. If we are sophisticated enough to get them up there we should at least be as intelligent to guide them down safely even when they are not cooperating.

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Posted by bigwheel 01/27/08 16:44

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Threatens earth? little overboard isn't it. How about testing and
anti icbm on the thing. they spent all that money, heres a real
world chance to prove they aren't full of hot air

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Posted by Lokigrins 01/27/08 21:20

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Probably afraid to anti icbm the space station instead....oops. Not to mention we all know the ripple effect of an explosion in space will just free evil Kryptonians anyway....

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Posted by DGBEACH 01/28/08 07:57

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The Chinese had no problems taking care of theirs when faced with the same situation. What are they waiting for?

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Posted by zevkirsh 01/28/08 11:18

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having millions of shards of sattelite in orbit is worse than having this thing crash into the earth. it will destroy other sattelites. the chinese sattelite that was destoryed was in an upper orbit and still, the many pieces left over threaten satelites in other orbits.

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Posted by Ashibayai 02/01/08 23:42

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Yeah, it's not the ICBM's that I want to see tested though. It's the Missile Defense Shield. I mean, the range probably isn't good enough, but it'd be neat to see it work on a satellite falling into the atmosphere.

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Posted by zicronia 02/14/08 13:24

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dont they have anti gravity machines
give the sattelite a push in the right direction
off topic they could create non cost energy using teslas theory and what the space shuttle has done dropping a bell through earths atmosphere and creating over 555,000 volts electricity and sending it wireless to those below although before they had chance there bell burnt up creating to much electricity so an unending electric supply is available

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Posted by zevkirsh 02/14/08 14:12

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where's that peripeteia guy with his perpetual motion machine when you need him?