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Chinese Test Anti-Satellite Weapon

21 durable postsStarted 2007-01-18Latest 2007-01-24
#37188Post 1 of 21

[url]http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewnews.html?id=1188[/url]

I believe this is the next direction in warfare. Imagine the problems it will cause if the shoot down one that is beaming television. Now maybe that would be the cause of WWIII ;)

#791517Post 2 of 21

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heh...but how about when the next conflict begins with China and they knock out low level orbit US military satellites that play a critical in the coordination of US troops, control of advanced weapons targeting, rapid communication, surveillance, etc...

[URL]http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/space/01/18/china.missile/index.html[/URL] "If we, for instance, got into a conflict over Taiwan, one of the first things they'd probably do would be to shoot down all of our lower Earth-orbit spy satellites, putting out our eyes," said John Pike of globalsecurity.org, a Web site that compiles information on worldwide security issues.

"The thing that is surprising and disturbing is that [the Chinese] have chosen this moment to demonstrate a military capability that can only be aimed at the United States," he said.

#791550Post 3 of 21

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Yup. Scary thoughts.

#791967Post 4 of 21

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I think an American rocket shield is also scary. Can't you just both stay out of space and leave it for those that really think it is interesting for non-war and non-tactical reasons?

Thank you.

#791970Post 5 of 21

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[IMG]http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0486282724.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg[/IMG]

#792052Post 6 of 21

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:mrgreen:

#792066Post 7 of 21

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New cold war with a new super power? The next president will have his/her hands full dealing with Iraq, Iran, N. Korea, and China.

#792068Post 8 of 21

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Hey, it's Bush. He says God is with him, so he can do anything, right?

#792075Post 9 of 21

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nothing better then having a war between super power countries and a war against islam. yep these are great times we are living in.

#792087Post 10 of 21

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Great times indeed.

#795400Post 11 of 21

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well, we are kinda overdue for another world war.

#795524Post 12 of 21

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great times indeed. it would be nice to...you know....NOT have to deal with islamofascism, the growing china threat, the importing poverty from mexico, the resurgence of south american communist triangle, and canadian spy coins.

Rigtht now looks like a good time to move to australia or new zealand.....

#795576Post 13 of 21

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[quote=88Mariner;438375]

Rigtht now looks like a good time to move to australia or new zealand.....[/quote]

Or to the moon.

#796998Post 14 of 21

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[quote=88Mariner;438375]great times indeed. it would be nice to...you know....NOT have to deal with islamofascism, the growing china threat, the importing poverty from mexico, the resurgence of south american communist triangle, and [COLOR=Lime][SIZE=3][B]canadian spy coins????????[/B][/SIZE]. [/COLOR]
Rigtht now looks like a good time to move to australia or new zealand.....[/quote]

[URL]http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070111/ap_on_hi_te/spy_coins[/URL]

One question - why would they show an american coin?

Also this line is a good one,

"The U.S. report doesn't suggest who might be tracking American defense contractors or why. It also doesn't describe how the Pentagon discovered the ruse, how the transmitters might function or even which Canadian currency contained them"

Whatever happened to showing the goods when you caught somebody??

#797032Post 15 of 21

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Not in this day and age.

#797117Post 16 of 21

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Like the Chinese say: "May you live in interesting times"

well...aren't they spot on!

#797123Post 17 of 21

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ehh stuff goes on all the time...

[quote]The government's 29-page report was filled with other espionage warnings. It described unrelated hacker attacks, eavesdropping with miniature pen recorders and [i]the case of a female foreign spy who seduced her American boyfriend to steal his computer passwords.[/i][/quote]

:lol:

#797460Post 18 of 21

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^Now thats great.

#797493Post 19 of 21

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ya but isn't that pathetic that EVERYONE agrees that the world is fucked up and we think we can't do anything about it??

The Revolution starts now.

#797505Post 20 of 21

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In the end the fun is living you own life trying to avoid the pressure all those fucking dimwits at the top are trying to exert on you...I mean, I want to live my life without having to go into politics to get things done the way I like them. That's the whole spoil of it all...

#797509Post 21 of 21

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ya that would be nice but eventually they would catch up to you.. say you bought an island and said "i'm gonna live here forever, fuck the world,"" in time they would just come and kick you off your island or worse kill everybody on it.. I have thought about this a lot and you cant run from your destiny. I feel mine is to confront it.

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