A New Military Space Age

My thoughts on the Chinese ASAT test, over at TCSDaily:

http://www.tcsdaily.com/article.aspx?id=012207E

Rand Simberg wrote:

My thoughts on the Chinese ASAT test, over at TCSDaily:

Your thoughts are ****, Rand. You've got military on the brain.

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kT wrote:
Rand Simberg wrote:

My thoughts on the Chinese ASAT test, over at TCSDaily:

Your thoughts are ****, Rand. You've got military on the brain.

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Lets thank the Chicoms for making us aware of this weakness and then
get into remedying it.

Frogwatch wrote:

kT wrote:
Rand Simberg wrote:

My thoughts on the Chinese ASAT test, over at TCSDaily:

Your thoughts are ****, Rand. You've got military on the brain.

Lets thank the Chicoms for making us aware of this weakness and then
get into remedying it.

I think humanity was quite capable of polluting space beyond belief, as
we have the Earth, long before the advent of anti-satellite weapons.

The weakness is space pollution, throwing away upper stages after
sending them all the way to orbit, filling up progresses with trash and
throwing them into the atmosphere and the ocean. It's called insanity.

This is something that could have been legislated away internationally
long ago. We've known about the problem since the early seventies.

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But it doesn't matter which vehicle hit which, any more than your
body-shop bill is any less when you hit a deer that jumps in front of
your car on the road rather than it chasing you down from behind.

I can assure you that your body shop bill would be considerably higher
in the first instance.

On Mon, 22 Jan 2007 23:16:25 -0600, in a place far, far away, Daniel
made the phosphor on my monitor glow in
such a way as to indicate that:

But it doesn't matter which vehicle hit which, any more than your
body-shop bill is any less when you hit a deer that jumps in front of
your car on the road rather than it chasing you down from behind.

I can assure you that your body shop bill would be considerably higher
in the first instance.

Depends on how fast the deer is running, and how slow you're driving.

h (Rand Simberg) wrote:

:On Mon, 22 Jan 2007 23:16:25 -0600, in a place far, far away, Daniel
made the phosphor on my monitor glow in
:such a way as to indicate that:
:
: But it doesn't matter which vehicle hit which, any more than your
:body-shop bill is any less when you hit a deer that jumps in front of
:your car on the road rather than it chasing you down from behind.
:
:I can assure you that your body shop bill would be considerably higher
:in the first instance.
:
epends on how fast the deer is running, and how slow you're driving.

Think outside the box -- my car has a 'reverse' gear...

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