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Main US Weather Satellite Fails As Hurricane Season Looms
First time accepted submitter Rebecka writes with bad news, quoting an IB Times report: "Just as the 2013 hurricane season is about to begin, one of the U.S.' main weather satellites failed this week. The Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite, also known as GOES-13, reportedly ceased to operate as of Tuesday, making it impossible to predict weather patterns on the East Coast."
A note at NOAA's page for the GOES family of satellites says "GOES-13 imaging and sounding operations suspended. Recovery efforts for GOES-13 continue and the spacecraft health and safety are nominal. GOES-14 is being activated." You can follow the progress on the agency's page of General Satellite Messages.
we don't need it, god will look after us
What are you doing here? get back to work
If the weather satellite fails, we can just get our weather from the Internet like everybody else.
Magic 8 Ball to the rescue: Outlook not so good.
Well, Lotus Notes is worse.
The road to tyranny has always been paved with claims of necessity.
You're working on Gozer? Does that make you the Keymaster or the Gatekeeper?
I think you're gonna have to come in on Saturday.
Yeah, it was "impossible to predict weather patterns on the US East Coast" for like 15 minutes until they took the backup satellite off standby.
Whew, that was close! Those hurricanes come out of nowhere!
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we don't need it, god will look after us
Don't you mean The Free Market? Anthropocentric religions are SOOOO last-millenium.