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Pentagon: A Space Junk Collision Could Set Off Catastrophic Chain Reaction
Popular Science ^
| 5/27/2010
| Clay Dillow
Posted on 06/04/2010 11:44:04 PM PDT by ErnstStavroBlofeld
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To: sonofstrangelove
People would go nuts without all their electronic toys.
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posted on
06/04/2010 11:49:48 PM PDT
by
unkus
To: unkus
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posted on
06/04/2010 11:50:30 PM PDT
by
ErnstStavroBlofeld
( "Fortes fortuna adiuvat"-Fortune Favors the Strong)
In 1959, NASA built ECHO One, which was a balloon was designed to reflect radio signals from one place on earth to another, the first time that feat would be accomplished using an artificial satellite. Oddly enough, however, when this pioneering communications-satellite project was first conceived, it involved neither communications nor satellites.This can be built if satellites are ever cut off.
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posted on
06/04/2010 11:57:55 PM PDT
by
ErnstStavroBlofeld
( "Fortes fortuna adiuvat"-Fortune Favors the Strong)
To: Captain Beyond; hennie pennie; mowowie
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posted on
06/05/2010 12:07:09 AM PDT
by
ErnstStavroBlofeld
( "Fortes fortuna adiuvat"-Fortune Favors the Strong)
To: sonofstrangelove
Wow cool good to see we got a back up plan.
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posted on
06/05/2010 12:11:03 AM PDT
by
Captain Beyond
(The Hammer of the gods! (Just a cool line from a Led Zep song))
To: Captain Beyond
It has been tested and it works.
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posted on
06/05/2010 12:11:58 AM PDT
by
ErnstStavroBlofeld
( "Fortes fortuna adiuvat"-Fortune Favors the Strong)
To: sonofstrangelove
This could be worse than the cone of shame ...
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posted on
06/05/2010 12:14:52 AM PDT
by
Liberty Valance
(Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
To: Liberty Valance
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posted on
06/05/2010 12:15:23 AM PDT
by
ErnstStavroBlofeld
( "Fortes fortuna adiuvat"-Fortune Favors the Strong)
To: sonofstrangelove
Nuke the junk! Nuke the junk!.......Oh, I thought I was on a BP oilwell thread ;^)
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posted on
06/05/2010 12:26:52 AM PDT
by
The Cajun
(Mind numbed robot , ditto-head, Hannitized, Levinite)
To: sonofstrangelove
This can be built if satellites are ever cut off.
Echo was a ultra thin skin balloon. If lower earth orbit is full of space junk, how long before a large target like that is hit, deflates, is shreaded, and becomes useless? Alot like what happened to the Pageos balloon that was orbited in a higher, presumably safer orbit, back around 1970.
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posted on
06/05/2010 1:28:06 AM PDT
by
plsvn
To: plsvn
That is a problem that I did not consider. I think that they can use materials they did not have in the 1960s. Its better than having no satellite communications.
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posted on
06/05/2010 1:31:40 AM PDT
by
ErnstStavroBlofeld
( "Fortes fortuna adiuvat"-Fortune Favors the Strong)
To: sonofstrangelove
Too bad someone can't develop a space sweeper. Once upon a time in America people saw problems as both challenges and in some cases business opportunities.
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posted on
06/05/2010 3:53:51 AM PDT
by
Mobilemitter
(We must learn to fin >-)> for ourselves.........)
To: sonofstrangelove
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posted on
06/05/2010 4:13:27 AM PDT
by
Sgt_Schultze
(A half-truth is a complete lie)
To: sonofstrangelove
Isn't it a rule that you have to post this picture on threads about space junk?
To: sonofstrangelove
We have simply lost our ability to identify and solve a pending problem, even one that will be a genuine disaster. The Left has become so adept at using a crisis as a means to tighten their grip on power that they make it all but impossible to actually solve the problem. Certainly not all, but many of them embrace a crisis and have no interest in solving the problem. In fact, I suspect they introduce the seeds of a new problem or crisis seeds into the system on a regular basis. Then they carefully nurture it until it can get by on its own, then off to the next fertile field.
So many of the crisis situations we've seen in the last 10 years are directly attributable to the Left’s power mania that I find it very hard to believe it's anything other than intentional.
To: jwparkerjr
I understand what you’re saying and I pretty much agree. We no longer concentrate on problem-solving but on problem-utilization and exploitation.
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posted on
06/05/2010 5:42:16 AM PDT
by
RoadTest
(Religion is a substitute for the relationship God wants with you.)
To: RoadTest
There are those who still pride themselves in problem solving, but they are constantly under attack by those who view the problem as an asset, not a liability. It's hard to drain the swamp when someone is trucking 15-foot alligators to distract you!
To: sonofstrangelove
Our “brillant” government stirkes again. Don’t worry about tomorrow...today is all that matters.
To: jwparkerjr
When we begin entering new frontiers, we have to think about and solve these problems then. After the fact, it is a crisis and crashes.
Wait ‘til you see their program of genetically mixing human beings and the animal kingdom. It is called “transhumanism” and if you have not heard about it, it’s time for all of us to check it out. Talk about problems down the road!
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