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Beijing secretly fires lasers to disable US satellites
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| 26/09/2006
| Francis Harris
Posted on 09/28/2006 9:46:54 AM PDT by mucho muchacho
Edited on 09/29/2006 12:19:05 PM PDT by Lead Moderator.
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To: mucho muchacho
D*mn. Y'know, to hit a satellite, they'd have to use really big sharks.
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posted on
09/28/2006 9:47:47 AM PDT
by
Frank_Discussion
(May the wings of Liberty never lose a feather!)
To: mucho muchacho
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posted on
09/28/2006 9:48:02 AM PDT
by
Lekker 1
(("...the world will be...eleven degrees colder by the year 2000" -- K. Watt, Earth Day, 1970)
To: mucho muchacho
Maybe our satellites could accidentally drop a crowbar?
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posted on
09/28/2006 9:48:36 AM PDT
by
MarineBrat
(Muslims - The "flesh eating bacteria" version of humans.)
To: mucho muchacho
Sources told the military affairs publication Defense News that there had been a fierce internal battle within Washington over whether to make the attacks public. In the end, the Pentagon's annual assessment of the growing Chinese military build-up barely mentioned the threat.
What sources? When was the Annual Assessment published?
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posted on
09/28/2006 9:49:46 AM PDT
by
Froufrou
To: mucho muchacho
Did Bubba give them the laser technology too?
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posted on
09/28/2006 9:52:27 AM PDT
by
sgtbono2002
(The fourth estate is a fifth column.)
To: mucho muchacho
Well, c'mon, this is serious $h*t--and we're not saying anything because of Korea. Nothing is going to happen with North Korea as long as Kim Jong Mentally Ill is still in power. I say let's become a bit like the Chinese and instead of the USA call ourselves United Machiavellian States.
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posted on
09/28/2006 9:52:47 AM PDT
by
brooklyn dave
(Ya can take da kid outta Brooklyn--butchya can't take Brooklyn outta da kid)
To: mucho muchacho
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1710035/posts
Discusses Bill Clinton's Big Birthday Bash, which is the real reason the Chinese are shooting these colorful lasers. It's the least the Chinese can do for Bill, seeing as he provided them with so much secret technology.
To: mucho muchacho
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posted on
09/28/2006 9:53:24 AM PDT
by
Froufrou
To: MarineBrat
Maybe our satellites could accidentally drop a crowbar?
How 'bout a 10 megaton crowbar?
"Ooops, soooo solly honorable survivors of former great city of Beijing, Amelican technicians were aiming for Pyongyang North Korea, but unexpected laser device blinded aiming mechanism, we get signal, but we miss target. So velly solly, and do have a nice life, whatever is left of it."
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posted on
09/28/2006 9:55:22 AM PDT
by
mkjessup
(The Shah doesn't look so bad now, eh? But nooo, Jimmah said the Ayatollah was a 'godly' man.)
To: mucho muchacho
um why is this not an act of war?
Isn't firing at a US satelite one of the things that started the military confrontation between America and the Soviets in the movie, "2010"?
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posted on
09/28/2006 9:56:15 AM PDT
by
RandallFlagg
(Roll your own cigarettes! You'll save $$$ and smoke less!(Magnetic bumper stickers-click my name)
To: Walkingfeather
um why is this not an act of war?Because.
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posted on
09/28/2006 9:56:38 AM PDT
by
zarf
To: Walkingfeather
Because all our cheap plastic crap comes from there, and we don't want to p!$$ them off.
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posted on
09/28/2006 9:56:49 AM PDT
by
50sDad
(ST3d: Real Star Trek 3d Chess: http://my.ohio.voyager.net/~abartmes/tactical.htm)
To: Walkingfeather
Come on now. They haven't actually shot down one of satellites yet. These are tests and wargames, things that we do all the time as well.
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posted on
09/28/2006 9:57:54 AM PDT
by
jpl
(Victorious warriors win first, then go to war; defeated warriors go to war first, then seek to win.)
To: zarf
um why is this not an act of war? Because.
And that's the way it is.
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posted on
09/28/2006 9:58:48 AM PDT
by
evad
(sarcasm may be introduced at any moment of any post)
To: mkjessup
That'll give new meaning to, "All Your Base Are Belong To Us". lol
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posted on
09/28/2006 9:59:01 AM PDT
by
Fiddlstix
(Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
To: mucho muchacho
I am told that NORAD actually pays the Russians for lidar (laser radar) data on third party satellites. The U.S. cannot illuminate a foreign satellite with lidar, for fear opening a can of worms, like this. Lidar data is extremely accurate, so we pay the Ruskies for data they are collecting anyway.
The U.S. has used lidar to track U.S. owned assets.
Strange world.
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posted on
09/28/2006 9:59:46 AM PDT
by
Lonesome in Massachussets
(The hallmark of a crackpot conspiracy theory is that it expands to include countervailing evidence.)
To: jpl
"Come on now. They haven't actually shot down one of satellites yet."
Well, it is all part of the context equation. If they disable a U.S. satellite, where it floats around for the next billion years useless in orbit, I think that is an attack on a sovereign state. Nothing in orbit is really going to be shot down. Maybe they can put a little mirror on the camera lens and direct the laser down to Kim's, Ronco sprayed bald patch.
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posted on
09/28/2006 10:01:37 AM PDT
by
Tulsa Ramjet
("If not now, when?")
To: Tulsa Ramjet
"Maybe they can put a little mirror on the camera lens and direct the laser down to Kim's, Ronco sprayed bald patch."
Kim (looking over reports with generals): An den we can keel da students in dis town, and YEEEOWWWWWWWW!!!!!!! Wa da hell waz DAT????
General: Honorable Kim sir, your head ees on fire.
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posted on
09/28/2006 10:03:21 AM PDT
by
Tulsa Ramjet
("If not now, when?")
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