USA-193 was in a decaying orbit at 130 miles and most of the debris de orbited within a couple weeks. It was hit by a small SM-3 surface to air missile, 21 feet long, 3,000 pounds
FY-1C was in a stable polar orbit at 537 miles and it's destruction increased the amount of space debris by 12%. The missile that hit it was a DF-21, 35 feet long, 30,000 pounds
The US doesn't appear to have a system capable of destroying something at that orbit.
Now the first paragraph in the article is just full of ignorance.
"Will the military need to be called in to blow up the rogue Intelsat satellite meandering through Earth's orbit? Or maybe a NASA Space Shuttle could swing by and grab it?"
Again, the military hasn't demonstrated the ability to hit things in that orbit. The Shuttle can't go that high.
Why is there a high suicide rate on the Reservation? Well it's ten times higher then the US average there. The reasons are poverty, perceived lack of a future, broken homes, alcoholism, no where to go, violence among the peergroup and gang violence.
I'm not "pro-suicide" because I've seen how it destroys families. You can talk about how it's selfish to "keep someone around who is suffering", but I doubt you've know a friend who killed themselves which then spawns three or five attempts within hours.
Actually, it doesn't take alot of torment to contemplate suicide or to act on it, the American Indian population has been wracked by this for about thirty years, folks just kill themselves for seemingly no reason.
Personal experience, good friend, one evening we are out, he says "I need to stop home have dinner with my mom, come back in a half hour." We drop him off, five minutes late, he is dead. No torment, no illness, seemingly happy, none of the suicide warning signs.
Suicidal tendencies aren't about choice, its a mental illness that needs to be properly treated.
If there were advanced ancient civilizations like you are talking about...wouldn't it be logical that they would have failed and become lost from the chaos of the late ice ages? The Younger Dryas would have really farked with any that were far enough south/north to avoid the glaciers.
I realized when I was 7 years old that I was mortal. I was diagnosed with advanced Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia and was told "you won't live to be 8".
That was in October 1980. I've made it through that, another cancer, a stroke, a tumor, being wounded in a terrorist attack and a car accident.
I know I'm going to die, I'm finally with a good woman who is also a cancer survivor and we are going to live for every day because we both know tomorrow could be the end. I don't worry about drinking or smoking killing me (even though I don't smoke) and I've never worried about my diet, although now I'm trying to eat better.
I've been to walk in MRI clinics. Siker Medical MRI in Portland Oregon, my doctor at a hospital with multiple MRI machines recommended I go there because Siker had newer ones and better ones.
I had my MRIs and was given the images on CD-ROM along with software to view them for Mac/Windows.
It costs a crapload more than $100 though since the Siemens 3 Tesla machine costs about 3 million dollars and a couple hundred thousand dollars a year to keep running, plus salaries for the staff. I hear the computers and software for them cost a bunch too
For food, well I come from a long line of farmers (90 years in the US, 300 years in Poland/Lithuania/Prussia), and there are vast tracks of the US that aren't farmed anymore because crop yields got too high the price collapsed so the Federal Government started paying farmers not to farm.
Starvation doesn't come from there being too little food grown on the planet, it happens because the transportation infrastructure doesn't exist to make the movement of foods economical or efficient. The starvation in North Korea during the 1990s is because of deforestation coupled with the government not wanting help from Japan, the United States, China, Russia or South Korea.
Actually wheat yields increased from.5 tons a hectare to 10 tons a hectare in Western Australia from 1900 to 2000.
But aircraft and batteries will cause the market to rebound to what it was before the global downturn, so demand isn't going to increase, its just going back to what it was, so it's safe to stick with 150-550 years of Lithium reserves.
Except petroleum, most of the "limited" resources are limited because of economic reasons. Like the cost of the material is to low to justify a new mine, or a new mine will drop the price and put other mines that company owns out of business. Or here in Alaska, the environmental benefits of the area outweigh the long term economic gains from the resources. There was just a story here on/. about how there is very little rare earth and strategic metal production in the US right now even though the US has known proven sources and there is alot of the US unexplored.
World-wide population growth rates, especially in places like India, are slowing, Sub-Saharan Africa is being ravaged by HIV/AIDS, Western Europe and Japan's populations are declining.
For Lithium - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithium#Occurrence - its not that rare - 27,400 tons of production a year with 4,100,000 tons of reserve make for 149 years of Lithium with another 400+ years of reserve base.
Uranium, we have about 150 years, coal 60-150 years
Suicide is a selfish act, not because of the religious bits, but because a suicide devastates your friends, coworkers and family.
A medical suicide is one thing, folks know how bad off you are and there'll be shrugs and "At least they aren't in pain anymore" remarks. No, a suicide is terrible to everyone you know and your entire family.
I'm from a very high suicide region of the United States and have known families where suicide was rampant. In my four years of high school I remember 11 suicides in a school with 200 students. 12 year olds killing themselves, mothers and fathers doing it too.
I belong to two ethnic groups where culture has a genetic component, Ashkenazic Jew and Prairie Band of Potawatomi Nation, and if I could have kids I would have a child, after all there are only about 33,000 Potawatomi in North America.
I don't really like a job based on lying and struggling for something I know isn't right.
I do feel that the only job for lawyers secure enough that they will vote their conscience is the Supreme Court, too bad the path to those nine seats is a path built on a career of lying and taking positions that aren't yours.
Well, there is background radiation everywhere you know, the radiation from Man's atomic weapons, those used in war and in testing make up a fraction of what exists.
All the atomic weapons detonated and alot of those were either very dirty designs or created alot of fallout, amount to 7% of the background radiation.
So, 2434-7 devices account for 7% of the background radiation.
Every American receives about 0.36 rem per year from natural background radiation sources (radon, cosmic rays and rocks) and man-made radiation sources (medical diagnostic x-rays and consumer products, Wigwam, which was a shallow detonation exposed a handful of the 6000+ personnel to.10-.20 rem.
Radiation, by its nature, does disperse and go away.
Except states, cities and even governmental agencies legislate gun ownership all over the United States.
And it's probably a good thing that the no fly list isn't tied to gun ownership because the no fly list is rife with people who have committed no crimes or like the case of a good friend, is on the list because he has the same name as someone in the RIRA. Well he got off the no fly list after two years of fighting, now he is on the watch list and can't get e tickets and will always get all his carry one belongings searched by hand.
DC v Heller's majority opinion does establish that the Second Amendment has always applied to individual ownership of firearms.
Now, I'm a member of Gun Owners of America and the NRA, no one is calling for the legalization of private explosives, care to throw out a reference on that gem?
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Well, the two shots were Apples and Oranges.
USA-193 was in a decaying orbit at 130 miles and most of the debris de orbited within a couple weeks. It was hit by a small SM-3 surface to air missile, 21 feet long, 3,000 pounds
FY-1C was in a stable polar orbit at 537 miles and it's destruction increased the amount of space debris by 12%. The missile that hit it was a DF-21, 35 feet long, 30,000 pounds
The US doesn't appear to have a system capable of destroying something at that orbit.
Now the first paragraph in the article is just full of ignorance.
"Will the military need to be called in to blow up the rogue Intelsat satellite meandering through Earth's orbit? Or maybe a NASA Space Shuttle could swing by and grab it?"
Again, the military hasn't demonstrated the ability to hit things in that orbit. The Shuttle can't go that high.
The F-15 launched ASM-135 ASAT - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASM-135_ASAT - could go up to 350 miles.
USA-193 was destroyed at 130 miles
Galaxy 15 is at 22,230 miles
One isn't a Jew without being born to a Jewish woman. Also, tribal membership is dependent on what percentage of their ancestors were tribal members.
If you adopt and the child can't prove tribal ancestry, no tribal acceptance.
Yep, NASA just put out the contracts for Apollo, Boeing, Grumman, Martin, Rocketdyne and thousands of others invented the technologies.
Why is there a high suicide rate on the Reservation? Well it's ten times higher then the US average there. The reasons are poverty, perceived lack of a future, broken homes, alcoholism, no where to go, violence among the peergroup and gang violence.
I'm not "pro-suicide" because I've seen how it destroys families. You can talk about how it's selfish to "keep someone around who is suffering", but I doubt you've know a friend who killed themselves which then spawns three or five attempts within hours.
Actually, it doesn't take alot of torment to contemplate suicide or to act on it, the American Indian population has been wracked by this for about thirty years, folks just kill themselves for seemingly no reason.
Personal experience, good friend, one evening we are out, he says "I need to stop home have dinner with my mom, come back in a half hour." We drop him off, five minutes late, he is dead. No torment, no illness, seemingly happy, none of the suicide warning signs.
Suicidal tendencies aren't about choice, its a mental illness that needs to be properly treated.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/09/us/09suicide.html
If there were advanced ancient civilizations like you are talking about...wouldn't it be logical that they would have failed and become lost from the chaos of the late ice ages? The Younger Dryas would have really farked with any that were far enough south/north to avoid the glaciers.
You MUD from terminal? I used Atlantis and Savitar.
On a Mac the console is where you go to view your system logs. Terminal is where you go to run commands.
For me, the last things I ran from there were drutil tray close and drutil tray open.
The drive on my Mac Pro tower sometimes gets uppity and I can only get it to open/close from command line.
I realized when I was 7 years old that I was mortal. I was diagnosed with advanced Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia and was told "you won't live to be 8".
That was in October 1980. I've made it through that, another cancer, a stroke, a tumor, being wounded in a terrorist attack and a car accident.
I know I'm going to die, I'm finally with a good woman who is also a cancer survivor and we are going to live for every day because we both know tomorrow could be the end. I don't worry about drinking or smoking killing me (even though I don't smoke) and I've never worried about my diet, although now I'm trying to eat better.
I've been to walk in MRI clinics. Siker Medical MRI in Portland Oregon, my doctor at a hospital with multiple MRI machines recommended I go there because Siker had newer ones and better ones.
I had my MRIs and was given the images on CD-ROM along with software to view them for Mac/Windows.
It costs a crapload more than $100 though since the Siemens 3 Tesla machine costs about 3 million dollars and a couple hundred thousand dollars a year to keep running, plus salaries for the staff. I hear the computers and software for them cost a bunch too
Nope. I sent in a low SN Remington Model 81 in 300 Savage for a trigger job when I inherited it.
Less than $20 dollars for the repair at Remington.
For food, well I come from a long line of farmers (90 years in the US, 300 years in Poland/Lithuania/Prussia), and there are vast tracks of the US that aren't farmed anymore because crop yields got too high the price collapsed so the Federal Government started paying farmers not to farm.
Starvation doesn't come from there being too little food grown on the planet, it happens because the transportation infrastructure doesn't exist to make the movement of foods economical or efficient. The starvation in North Korea during the 1990s is because of deforestation coupled with the government not wanting help from Japan, the United States, China, Russia or South Korea.
Actually wheat yields increased from .5 tons a hectare to 10 tons a hectare in Western Australia from 1900 to 2000.
http://www.regional.org.au/au/asa/2004/poster/1/4/1158_wongmt.htm?print=1
The world population was 1.6 billion, and now it's 6.8 billion, so agriculture can scale that fast.
As for Lithium, the Lithium trade groups forecast a downturn in Lithium demand in the next ten years
http://trugroup.com/Lithium-Market-Conference.html
But aircraft and batteries will cause the market to rebound to what it was before the global downturn, so demand isn't going to increase, its just going back to what it was, so it's safe to stick with 150-550 years of Lithium reserves.
Except petroleum, most of the "limited" resources are limited because of economic reasons. Like the cost of the material is to low to justify a new mine, or a new mine will drop the price and put other mines that company owns out of business. Or here in Alaska, the environmental benefits of the area outweigh the long term economic gains from the resources. There was just a story here on /. about how there is very little rare earth and strategic metal production in the US right now even though the US has known proven sources and there is alot of the US unexplored.
http://news.slashdot.org/story/10/03/16/1739241/US-Sits-On-Supply-of-Rare-Tech-Crucial-Minerals
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pebble_Mine [wikipedia.org]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Dog_mine [wikipedia.org]
http://minerals.usgs.gov/minerals/pubs/commodity/rare_earths/mcs-2010-raree.pdf [usgs.gov]
"In 2009, rare earths were not mined in the United States."
World-wide population growth rates, especially in places like India, are slowing, Sub-Saharan Africa is being ravaged by HIV/AIDS, Western Europe and Japan's populations are declining.
For Lithium - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithium#Occurrence - its not that rare - 27,400 tons of production a year with 4,100,000 tons of reserve make for 149 years of Lithium with another 400+ years of reserve base.
Uranium, we have about 150 years, coal 60-150 years
It can be calculated, just like potential energy can be calculated.
Suicide is a selfish act, not because of the religious bits, but because a suicide devastates your friends, coworkers and family.
A medical suicide is one thing, folks know how bad off you are and there'll be shrugs and "At least they aren't in pain anymore" remarks. No, a suicide is terrible to everyone you know and your entire family.
I'm from a very high suicide region of the United States and have known families where suicide was rampant. In my four years of high school I remember 11 suicides in a school with 200 students. 12 year olds killing themselves, mothers and fathers doing it too.
I belong to two ethnic groups where culture has a genetic component, Ashkenazic Jew and Prairie Band of Potawatomi Nation, and if I could have kids I would have a child, after all there are only about 33,000 Potawatomi in North America.
Family, history and culture are not racist.
Me, can't have kids, nature, mutation, radiation, you know all that jazz.
Again, how is having children a selfish act? Or the most selfish act?
The supremely selfish act is suicide.
How are children a selfish act?
Continue the species, taxpayers for social programs, potential to do something great, etc
The internet in the US should be under government regulation like the other bandwidth is.
Which is why I didn't go to Law School.
I don't really like a job based on lying and struggling for something I know isn't right.
I do feel that the only job for lawyers secure enough that they will vote their conscience is the Supreme Court, too bad the path to those nine seats is a path built on a career of lying and taking positions that aren't yours.
I guess having the TelCos decide what can and can't be on the Internet is right up the Teabagger's alley when it comes to "smaller government".
You mean one that can go to that orbit?
Humanity has never had a vehicle that can do that sort of work.
Well, there is background radiation everywhere you know, the radiation from Man's atomic weapons, those used in war and in testing make up a fraction of what exists.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Background_radiation#Natural_background_radiation
All the atomic weapons detonated and alot of those were either very dirty designs or created alot of fallout, amount to 7% of the background radiation.
So, 2434-7 devices account for 7% of the background radiation.
Every American receives about 0.36 rem per year from natural background radiation sources (radon, cosmic rays and rocks) and man-made radiation sources (medical diagnostic x-rays and consumer products, Wigwam, which was a shallow detonation exposed a handful of the 6000+ personnel to .10-.20 rem.
Radiation, by its nature, does disperse and go away.
Thats not going to save you
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pubic_lice
Unless you shave your entire body.
Except states, cities and even governmental agencies legislate gun ownership all over the United States.
And it's probably a good thing that the no fly list isn't tied to gun ownership because the no fly list is rife with people who have committed no crimes or like the case of a good friend, is on the list because he has the same name as someone in the RIRA. Well he got off the no fly list after two years of fighting, now he is on the watch list and can't get e tickets and will always get all his carry one belongings searched by hand.
DC v Heller's majority opinion does establish that the Second Amendment has always applied to individual ownership of firearms.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/District_of_Columbia_v._Heller#Issues_addressed_by_the_majority
Now, I'm a member of Gun Owners of America and the NRA, no one is calling for the legalization of private explosives, care to throw out a reference on that gem?