Intelsat-7 Lost In Space

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."

Comments

Re:Off by one error, again?

[Project2501a]

oh, yeah, fp

Re:Off by one error, again?

[Maavin]

damn you !

I was thinking of something witty !
;)
In other news: The SCO Site was slightly hacked...

Re:Off by one error, again?

[Project2501a]

We must be hanging out in the same EFnet irc channels...

EFnet#C is for cookies. Share your recepies.

Re:Direct-to-user-programming?

[Anonymous Writer]

Does that mean the satellite is programming user brains with commercials?

Keep your tinfoil hat on just in case. Informative mod, please.

That's what happened

[koi88]

Major West: It's still working.
John Robinson: What?
Major West: The hyperdrive. If we can't go around the Sun, then we go straight through it, using your hyperdrive.
John Robinson: But, without a hypergate, the exit vector's random. There's no telling where we'd come out.

Only this time they hit the sun. Poor Robinsons.
Source: http://imdb.com/title/tt0120738/quotes

Re:ASAT weapons test

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Re:Speaking of failures...

[nmg196]

Google doesn't cache images, so how can google possibly "have it" when the hack is merely a modified image?

Look at the properties of the image concerned. You'll see it's coming directly from sco.com and not from any google cache.

Lost and Found!

[u-235-sentinel]

I would check E-Bay.