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This New Military Satellite Will Watch The Ground Like Nothing Else Ever Before
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| 12-18-2011
| Robert Johnson
Posted on 12/18/2011 8:07:43 AM PST by blam
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I worry that space junk will damage the membrane.(?)
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posted on
12/18/2011 8:07:45 AM PST
by
blam
To: blam
It stamps out crop circles, too.
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posted on
12/18/2011 8:13:28 AM PST
by
unkus
(Silence Is Consent)
To: blam
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posted on
12/18/2011 8:15:29 AM PST
by
Dallas59
(President Robert Gibbs 2009-2011)
To: blam
“...a “micron-thin diffractive-optics membrane” to form a 65-foot super-thin lens...”
At a glance, it seems kind of fragile both in terms of resisting space junk (as well as anything purposely put in its path) and in holding its shape.
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posted on
12/18/2011 8:16:47 AM PST
by
KrisKrinkle
(Blessed be those who know the depth and breadth of their ignorance. Cursed be those who don't.)
To: blam
If you watch the ground, you don’t trip as much.
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posted on
12/18/2011 8:26:15 AM PST
by
blueunicorn6
("A crack shot and a good dancer")
To: blam
Will a laser aimed at the lens fry the components?
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posted on
12/18/2011 8:28:32 AM PST
by
oldbrowser
(They are Marxists, don't call them democrats)
To: blam
62 mile diameter, so the rest of the planet goes unwatched?
This is DARPA looking to spend money.
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posted on
12/18/2011 8:30:24 AM PST
by
CodeToad
(Islam needs to be banned in the US and treated as a criminal enterprise.)
To: blam
There`s a whole bunch of stained-glass windows full of HALOS in our church-
NASA coulda had it for free
To: blam
“micron-thin diffractive-optics membrane”
Is this a kind of Fresnel lens?
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posted on
12/18/2011 8:33:46 AM PST
by
CrazyIvan
(Obama's birth certificate was found stapled to Soros's receipt.)
To: CodeToad
That’s over 3000 square miles. And it moves...
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posted on
12/18/2011 8:38:26 AM PST
by
Flightdeck
(If you hear me yell "Eject, Eject, Eject!" the last two will be echos...)
To: Dallas59
Is it Iranian proof?
Can we modify it so we can zap Iran,Syria,or “palistine” undetected with it?
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posted on
12/18/2011 8:40:58 AM PST
by
Leep
To: blam
Does it flush water like that stargate thing?
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posted on
12/18/2011 8:41:31 AM PST
by
blueunicorn6
("A crack shot and a good dancer")
To: Flightdeck
So? It is designed to detect missile launches so it would need to be overhead when the missile launched. Do the math. What are the odds the missile launches when it is overhead?
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posted on
12/18/2011 8:48:35 AM PST
by
CodeToad
(Islam needs to be banned in the US and treated as a criminal enterprise.)
To: blam
Landing in Iran intact soon ...
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posted on
12/18/2011 8:51:04 AM PST
by
EternalVigilance
(With God Obama can't hurt us. Without God, George Washington couldn't save us.)
To: blam
The Helion - Judas Priest
Up here in space
I’m looking down on you.
My lasers trace
Everything you do.
You think you’ve private lives
Think nothing of the kind.
There is no true escape
I’m watching all the time.
I’m made of metal
My circuits gleam.
I am perpetual
I keep the country clean.
I’m elected electric spy
I protected electric eye.
Always in focus
You can’t feel my stare.
I zoom into you
You don’t know I’m there.
I take a pride in probing all your secret moves
My tearless retina takes pictures that can prove.
Electric eye, in the sky
Feel my stare, always there
‘s nothing you can do about it.
Develop and expose
I feed upon your every thought
And so my power grows.
Protected. Detective. Electric eye.
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posted on
12/18/2011 8:51:22 AM PST
by
dfwgator
To: blam
And who is it watching? Iran? Israel? NYC? DC? Dolphins?
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posted on
12/18/2011 8:52:36 AM PST
by
theDentist
(fybo; qwerty ergo typo : i type, therefore i misspelll)
To: blam
"Each space telescope" . . . . .
I wonder how many of these things they plan to watch us with.
To: theDentist
"And who is it watching?"
SCUD missile owners. And right-wing model rocketeers....
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posted on
12/18/2011 8:57:31 AM PST
by
Paladin2
To: dfwgator
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posted on
12/18/2011 9:03:12 AM PST
by
daku
To: Paladin2
It would be better to ask if it's China proof since they have already shown they can target and destroy a satellite in orbit.
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posted on
12/18/2011 9:04:19 AM PST
by
Mmogamer
(I refudiate the lamestream media, leftists and their prevaricutions.)
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