Intelsat Loses Another Satellite

Alarash writes "Intelsat reported a few days ago that its IS-804 Satellite is lost in space. According to the press release, the '[...] satellite experienced a sudden and unexpected electrical power system anomaly on January 14, 2005, at approximately 5:32 p.m. EST that caused the total loss of the spacecraft.' The satellite was in charge of the South Pacific's media delivery. As a reminder, Intelsat-7, another satellite from Intelsat, got lost a couple of months ago."

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Re:Conspiracy!

[The Datamangler]

The problem with people is we only live 72.4 years- if you're a Japanese female (please don't check that statistic- it could just be a damn lie). The earth, "SOME PEOPLE say" tm-FOX News Network, is 4.5 billion years old. Even if Global Warming is happening, the worst we will see over the next 1000 years will only be one of those squiggles on the geologic climatology chart. The glacial epochs of the Holocene and Recent are not the max peaks of climate fluctuations either. You think we have seen unusual phenomena? How about a volcanic basalt flow the size of eastern washington, southern Idaho and north eastern Oregon? (Oh, that's right, it happened already! Oh , and there is one 10 times that big in India) Yes, the problem is, it's not in your imagination- most people have a hard time imagining how big true 100,000 year and 1,000,000 year events can be.