Disabled spy satellite threatens Earth

AP on Yahoo ^ | 1/26/08 | Eileen Sullivan - ap

[Viking2002]

Oh, and to retort to your tagline - if Democrats are the answer, it must have been a stupid f*ckin' question to begin with. ;-)

[Carl LaFong]

This looks like a job for Gamera or Godzilla.

[ThomasThomas]

One more chance for a free taco!

[kjam22]

I think it’s nuclear powered and probably be crashing in Iran......

[brytlea]

However, it would be protected by the ADA.
susie

[ThomasThomas]

Will they do it again?

[Chode]

[Towed_Jumper]

““Disabled spy satellite threatens Earth””

But look at the bright side...if this spy satellite does destroy the Earth, Al Gore won’t have to worry anymore about ‘global warming’.”

[killermosquito]

When Skylab was falling to earth around ‘82 or ‘83 I remember hearing that it passed overhead 16 times each day.

[b4its2late]

[b4its2late]

And we can only hope it lands in some rouge middle eastern country and there is allot of them to choose from.....

[rabidralph]

So, is this spy satellite physically or mentally disabled?

[Calvin Locke]

Yeah, orbiting the Earth every 90 minutes will do that to you.

And Skylab fell in 1979. I had a Summer job, and a coworker also worked at a community center. He had his troop of kids wearing aluminum foil hats and spraying each other with "Lab-Off". Even made the paper with a photo of them dressing up his car as "Skylab".

[Walkingfeather]

my question is “WHY?” did this sat lose all telemetry, and control?

[metmom]

As for possible hazardous material in the spacecraft, Pike said it might contain beryllium, a light metal with a high melting point that is used in the defense and aerospace industries. Breathing beryllium can lead to chronic, incurable respiratory problems.

And as it makes its thousands of miles long trajectory re-entering the earth's atmosphere, gradually burning up along the way, with the winds dispersing the smoke, just how much of a concentration of the beryllium that this spacecraft might contain, do they think any one person is likely to inhale?

Let me guess, this guy believes in the danger global warming poses too.

[metmom]

ping

[Trajan88]

Key Hole?

[stboz]

...spy satellite threatens Earth

Sue the bastard!!

[NormsRevenge]

more than likely,, I looked around a bit,, they are just saying spy satellite for now..

[dersepp]

She was walking all alone
Down the street in the alley
Her name was sally
She never saw it
When she was hit by space junk
In new york miami beach
Heavy metal fell in cuba
Angola saudi arabia
On xmas eve said norad
A soviet sputnik hit africa
India venezuela. In texas. Kansas.
It’s falling fast
Peru too
It keeps coming
And now i’m mad about space junk
I’m all burned out about space junk
Oooh walk & talk about space junk
It smashed my baby’s head
And now my sally’s dead