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US Claims Satellite Shoot-Down Success

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the hope-your-foil-hat-was-on-snug dept.

Readers of Slashdot last valentines day will remember discussing US Plans to Shoot down a damaged spy satellite. An anonymous reader noted that the US is reporting success last night, thus saving us from hydrazine exposure. Of course this makes me wonder- if it's this easy, wouldn't an international super power war pretty much immediately mean the downing of every satellite in orbit?

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  1. Re:in other news by phayes · · Score: 0, Troll

    Ah, so the UAS has now created a strewn thousands of hazards into orbit that will last for over a millenium, just like the Chinese did? Or perhaps the debris from the US intercept will be gone within weeks & you're just a ignorant little troll...

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  2. Calling FEMA by Ranger · · Score: 1, Troll

    If Bush is so concerned about exposing people to toxic chemicals like hydrazine, maybe he could get the Navy to blow all those formaldehyde laced FEMA trailers and the remaining bits will burn up on reentry into the atmosphere. Of course they'd have to launch those trailers into orbit first.

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