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Drifting satellite threatens US cable programming
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| May 11
Posted on 05/11/2010 11:49:43 AM PDT by JoeProBono
LONDON (AP) -- A TV communications satellite is drifting out of control thousands of miles above the Earth, threatening to wander into another satellite's orbit and interfere with cable programming across the United States, the satellites' owners said Tuesday.
Communications company Intelsat said it lost control of the Galaxy 15 satellite on April 8....
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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cable; jpb; satellite; satellitetv
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To: JoeProBono
To: JoeProBono
Turn off your TV, there’s no useful life down there.
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posted on
05/11/2010 11:52:47 AM PDT
by
Paladin2
To: JoeProBono
“Sattelite 15, where are you????”
4
posted on
05/11/2010 11:53:06 AM PDT
by
mdmathis6
(Mike Mathis is my name,opinions are my own,subject to flaming when deserved!)
To: JoeProBono
That’s okay. We’ll just send up a shuttle.
Oh. Wait...
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posted on
05/11/2010 11:53:16 AM PDT
by
DoughtyOne
(Excusaholic: MeCain lost to Jr., RINO endorsements are flying, & you live at 2012 Denial Blvd.)
To: JoeProBono
Ooops... does that mean I’m going to lost a lot of cable channels? [ ... it’s a good thing I’ve got the Internet ... :-) ...]
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posted on
05/11/2010 11:54:08 AM PDT
by
Star Traveler
(Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
To: JoeProBono
uh oh....if Lifetime, Oxygen, MTV and the Game Show Network all go down, we could have a situation in the streets that makes Greece look like a Sunday picnic...
To: JoeProBono
Oh man! You want to see some rioting in American cities? Take away Oprah, Jerry Springer, Steve Wilkos, and Judge Joe Brown!! Woo boy.
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posted on
05/11/2010 11:55:54 AM PDT
by
Obadiah
(I can see November from my house!)
To: JoeProBono
I hope it doesn’t come down and land on my strawberries. I like strawberries.
To: JoeProBono
Now that’s it! Tornados, oil spills, bailouts, wars and taxes I can deal with. But cable TV disruption. Prep those ASATs.
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posted on
05/11/2010 11:56:56 AM PDT
by
swain_forkbeard
(Rationality may not be sufficient, but it is necessary.)
To: DoughtyOne
Time to test some of that ASAT hardware from the late '80s in a real-world test.
I'm not ignoring the possibility of FODing the entire orbit. I'm just giving it a hand-wave. I don't watch TV.
/johnny
To: JoeProBono
It could be a long, hot summer with rioting in the streets. I hope they can get this fixed for the idiots.
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posted on
05/11/2010 11:58:27 AM PDT
by
FlingWingFlyer
(Had enough "history" yet?)
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To: DoughtyOne
It’s a good thing that Dad taught me how to substitute a coat hanger for rabbit ears.
14
posted on
05/11/2010 11:59:00 AM PDT
by
Willie Green
(And I remember how to pop corn without a microwave oven as well!!!)
To: Obadiah
Oh man! You want to see some rioting in American cities? Take away Oprah, Jerry Springer, Steve Wilkos, and Judge Joe Brown!! Woo boy. GrrrrrrrrGeorge Bush.
To: Star Traveler
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posted on
05/11/2010 11:59:33 AM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: JoeProBono
Oh, yeah, sure, that’s just my cable company’s next excuse why my cable is out yet again.
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posted on
05/11/2010 11:59:38 AM PDT
by
bgill
(how could a young man born here in Kenya, who is not even a native American, become the POTUS)
To: DoughtyOne
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posted on
05/11/2010 12:00:31 PM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: JRandomFreeper
Well Johnny, it seems they’ll have to do something.
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posted on
05/11/2010 12:00:35 PM PDT
by
DoughtyOne
(Excusaholic: MeCain lost to Jr., RINO endorsements are flying, & you live at 2012 Denial Blvd.)
To: Buckeye McFrog
uh oh....if Lifetime, Oxygen, MTV and the Game Show Network all go down, we could have a situation in the streets that makes Greece look like a Sunday picnic...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
The worst scenario will be a massive build up of Estrogen that will kill us all. You have been warned.
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posted on
05/11/2010 12:01:25 PM PDT
by
afnamvet
(Patriots Rising)
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