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Spy Satellites? What Spy Satellites?
mutantcamel writes: "This story at Yahoo says that the actual orbits of US spy satellites are not the same as the ones that the UN thinks that they are. The errors include a launch of a
satellite that was never registered, and only two of the last ten satellites have been correctly registered. The errors are bound to cast doubts on what will really happen with the Son of Star Wars programme." Heh, "errors".
Fuck the UN. We've don't owe any allegiance to this would be precursor to a singular world government. We're going to do what is in our best interest and if the UN doesn't like it, they can kiss our ass.
Lee
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Michael,
Spy satellites are known as such simply because NOBODY ELSE KNOWS WHERE THEY ARE! How does this come as any great shock to anybody who even has a clue about the way the world works?
Though Michael - in this case your stupidity along with your apparent need to troll is secondary. The European posters below who actually believe that their countries do not employ techniques of subversion and spying are living in a fantasy world of their own.
Hahahahahahaha - do you actually think your countries do not spy? Do you actually think they do not carry out and sponser assasinations when nessacary? We know Russia does. We know Britian does. We know Israel does (not european DUH). We know Yugoslavia (and its pieces) do. We know Germany does. If your country doesnt then perhaps you SHOULD be concerned because its obvious your euro-fucks didnt learn your lesson from World War II (yes that could've been avoided with a simply bullet between Hitlers eyes).
You've got to love the socialist children that wander about and comment on slashdot. Contrary to your allegations the world is NOT a civilized place. Do not believe for a second that the world is more than a more a few weeks from another World War. Perhaps I could reference the assasination that provoked World War I - but Im sure you people couldnt have overlooked that. Not at all.
Either way - the US bashing that goes on around this site is getting old. The sad thing is that most of you Euro-Morons that bash the US are probably part of the EU - which makes you nothing more than a wannabe US anyway. So please - think before you post. Try not to make yourselves look like COMPLETE morons while responding to this.
Gamorck
"Flame at Will"
I love idealists not because I am one, but because they make life bearable for pragmatists such as myself.
Of course they wouldn't do anything as unamerican as spying and lying about too! The for example that incident with the Chinese - that was ourely an accident. And it was their fault too; remember, they are commies. Don't you agree? If you do, you're my pal, and I'll do you a real favour: here in London there's this magnificent bridge, Tower Bridge, that's going to be for sale soon. It's not quite official yet, but just let me know if you're interested. I might get you in before the other buyers...
And clueless slashdot posters... Spy sats change their orbits from time to time. These changes are obviously made to support a particular observational project. It would be foolish to routinely publish this information, as it can give away the goal or target the change was made for. This is called operational data, and its classified, hence not released to the public.
Let's use an example... Say we're monitoring Iraq's ballistic missile development. They've bought orbital intel from the Chinese or Russians or whomever, on American and British spy-sats. They know when they're overhead, and can plan their activities accordingly. When the spy-sats are overhead, they park mobile launchers in hangars, keep everyone indoors, and generally try and make a place look uninteresting. So, in order to avoid this rouse a subtle change in the orbit of a spy-sat might be made, to invalidate their intel over a period of time and increase the odds of catching them off gaurd. A larger change might be made to bring a close pass in range of the cameras/radars within an orbit or two, in order to catch some interesting event.
The end result is, whatever orbit data is available on the spy-sats, it's virtually always out of date. It's intentional, and actually a requirement for the spy-sats to get their job done. Get over it.
To be honest, I'm really shocked at the amount of Euro "anti-american" crap flying around here. We share much of this data with your countries. The people in the UN complaining about this are the third-world represenatives who's countries can't track the spy-sats themselves, and are sick of having their own imperialist tendancies thwarted by the bigger more advanced nations. Much of the world didn't learn the lessons of WW1 and WW2. This is one of those cases where they can't be allowed to learn them the hard way, no matter how much they complain.
Temkin
By not being compliant.. the US seems to have all moral authority to enforce various test ban treaties. Pathetic.