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Intelsat-7 Lost In Space

Posted by timothy on from the treadstone-now-officially-down dept.

freitasm writes "The Intelsat-7 was reported lost today. The satellite covered the continental U.S., Alaska, Hawaii, Canada, Central America, and parts of South America. It was used to provide digital programming in the Cable Zone, direct-to-user programming, and Internet and data applications to North/Central/South America. The company is already working on the launch of Intelsat-8, scheduled for 17 December."

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  1. Off by one error, again? by Project2501a · · Score: 5, Funny

    Fortran 3 :)
    Losing satelites in space, ever since 1964 :)

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  2. Re:Newspeak by CarbonJackson · · Score: 5, Funny

    Naw, newspeak for "hit by a Russian sattelite based laser." More importantly, who cares? As long as it doesn't affect my porn downloads.

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  3. Conspiracy Theory by ragnarok · · Score: 4, Funny

    Remember how the US Government was complaining about not being able to get enough satelite bandwidth over war zones? Sounds like they just fixed that problem!

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  4. Lost Satellite? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Have they tried looking down the back of the sofa?

  5. In Other News ... by TheUncleBob · · Score: 5, Funny

    Earlier today, the Pentagon announced the first succesful test of their new EMP 'starwars' defence shield.

  6. Re:Direct-to-user-programming? by oexeo · · Score: 5, Funny
    Does that mean the satellite is programming user brains with commercials? :-)

    Or do I have a wrong translation of "programming"? Sorry, I'm not a native speaker, but the use of "programming" instead of "broadcasting" looks a bit strange to me.

    Whenever something translates into complete moronic gibberish, yes, the chances are you translated it wrong, on no, wait, this is /., you probably translated it perfectly.

  7. Obviously..... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's been taken out by a bathtub sized slab of copper........

    probably

  8. E.T. Sitcoms and Dramas by sl4shd0rk · · Score: 4, Funny

    That would explain the weird programming I've been recieving. I thought these were just Star Trek re-runs I never saw.

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  9. It was Santa :D by Killjoy_NL · · Score: 4, Funny

    It was Santa, he is doing some training runs for coming december 25th/etc and accidentally ran over the satellite.

    Poor Rudolph hit his nose on it, it will be red for about a month.

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    1. Re:It was Santa :D by oexeo · · Score: 5, Funny

      > does Santa qualify as a terrorist?

      He has a long white beard, so yes

  10. First Strike by CmdrGravy · · Score: 5, Funny

    Damn, satellites being taken out, earthquakes in Japan and dolphins committing mass suicide in Australia.

    The facts all point to this being either the second coming or an alien invasion. I cannot believe no one is doing anything about this, the psychic viewing community have been warning about exactly this kind of disaster for weeks now and the Church has known about it for even longer. Why are they covering this up ?

    Wait, I am picking up their carrier waves on the plate in my head, they say they will ban TV, Gays and Fornication but offer us all the opportunity of at least 4 fully accredited abductions per family and provide live reconstructions of the of the Raputure. They have big eyes, funny shaped heads but big hands and huge crosses and we should welcome them.

  11. Intelsat 7 broke.... by foxtrot · · Score: 4, Funny

    So they're gonna send up Intelsat 8?

    No respect. Did they even consider sending up AMDsat 1?

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