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Fwd: Wi Air Force's Scare-Mongering Space Ad Shoves Facts Out of the Airlock
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Sun, 11 May 2008 14:34:03 -0400
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From: David Byrden <farber1 () byrden com> Date: May 11, 2008 2:15:11 PM EDT To: David Farber <dave () farber net>Subject: Re: [IP] Wired: Air Force's Scare-Mongering Space Ad Shoves Facts Out of the Airlock
From: dewayne () warpspeed com (Dewayne Hendricks)No, they can't. Not unless there's some new missile out there that canstrike dozens and dozens of targets, spread out over thousands and thousands of miles.There is actually a way for a single missile to destroy every satellite in a given orbit, all the way round Earth; for example, all the geostationarysatellites are vulnerable.All it has to do is get into the same orbit, going the other way, and explode. If it leaves a cloud of millions if tiny fragments, still orbiting against the traffic at huge speed, then in the frictionless environment of space theywill eventually strike and destroy every machine along the ring. David
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