This should be pretty cool if we can see it.

5000lbs
Launched 2006
About half of the 5k would make it back to earth
Powered by Hydrozine
Its an intel Sat
Lots of Hydrozine left
Communications lost so they can't send signal to it to commit suicide.

The Pentagon guy in the briefing said they want to wait for Hansie to get back to earth first...and the rest of the shuttle crew one would presume. Hansie shits missiles, so i don't think it would have much of an effect on him.

The are planning on this shoot down sometime in early March.

Hansie shits missiles
I had that once, penicillin cleared it right up.

Back in the day, after a taco plate and a few pitchers of margaritas from El Azteco is East Lansing, it was referred to as the "burning spear".

I'm surprised these things don't have some sort of out-of-band remote control self destruct mechanism.

They should have drunk as fuck Hasselhoff burp at it. The shockwave wil blow it to Mars.

I'm surprised these things don't have some sort of out-of-band remote control self destruct mechanism.


This should be pretty cool if we can see it.

5000lbs
Launched 2006
About half of the 5k would make it back to earth
Powered by Hydrozine
Its an intel Sat
Lots of Hydrozine left
Communications lost so they can't send signal to it to commit suicide.

Key phrase: out of band

I'd expect the self-destruct to be independent of normal communications.

I'll have to ask about that.

what are the chances of us actually hitting it? this should definitly be an alpaca line.

anyone feeling this as being a little cold war esque? uhh... im thinking if the ruskies and their commie buddies in china were better bffs with the US we wouldnt give to shits about how many people this thing potentially is going to kill.

I watched the presser. It looked pretty legit to me, but (I know, I know) I'm a Bush supporter.

Seriously, if it landed in a populated area, the hydrozine would almost definately kill some peeps, let alone the impact.

They are trying to wait till it starts to drop into some pretty serious gravity so all the pieces will pretty much come straight down or something.

I'm sure there are plenty of Pentagon Generals with boners about being able to shoot this thing down, but I think its the right thing to do/attempt too.

Looks like the Navy smoked it on the first try. I don't know why we didn't get to take it down, considering we put it up there.