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India Developing Vehicle To Knock Enemy Satellites

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the start-humming-the-music dept.

Frankie70 writes "Star Wars are back in fashion. With perennial (and nuclear armed) foe Pakistan always teetering on the brink of political collapse and neighboring regional superpower China taking greater strides into space technology, India has announced that it is developing an exo-atmospheric 'kill vehicle' that will knock enemy satellites out of orbit."

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  1. Go Missiles! by decipher_saint · · Score: 2, Funny

    Can't regular missiles do the job?

    Won't somebody think of the missiles?

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    crazy dynamite monkey
  2. Ready set fight by RedTeflon · · Score: 5, Funny

    I personally cant wait for Dish & Direct TV to start battling it out by shooting down each others satellites.

    1. Re:Ready set fight by vlm · · Score: 2, Funny

      I personally cant wait for Dish & Direct TV to start battling it out by shooting down each others satellites.

      And the only way the public wins, is if they BOTH are successful.

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      "Science flies us to the moon. Religion flies us into buildings." - Victor Stenger
  3. Re:Knock by MRe_nl · · Score: 4, Funny

    Luckily, very few satellites these days have "Wizard Lock" and or "Hold Portal" cast on them.

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    "Kill 'em all and let Root sort 'em out"
  4. Re:Oh great, more orbital shooting gallery! by Quiet_Desperation · · Score: 2, Funny

    I am open to suggestions, since I am out of silly ideas that sound appealing to me.

    Um... um... giant space wet napkin?

    Using quantum mechanics to probabilistically erase the debris out of objective reality?

    Sex bot?

    Yeah, I know sex bot don't clean up teh orbits, but I'd worry less about space debris if I had one.

  5. Re:Buckshot orbital shooting gallery! by Arthur+Grumbine · · Score: 5, Funny

    Fortunately, space is big. Really big.

    [citation needed]

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    Now that I think about it, I'm pretty sure everything I just said is completely wrong.
  6. Re:India announces a lot. by MRe_nl · · Score: 4, Funny

    Five aircraft carriers on the moon would do India a fat lot of good,
    there's no atmosphere for the planes you dumbass.

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    "Kill 'em all and let Root sort 'em out"
  7. India & China going to war? by assertation · · Score: 2, Funny

    If India and China went to war that would wipe out the take-out industry on a global scale. We would all be stuck eating Mexican.