Be prepared to duck sometime around February

[dragonrider]

According to Space.com, you can use the same Heavens Above website that I use to see the Space Station to see this spy satelite.

Here's the article: SPACE.com -- See the Falling Spy Satellite

And here's my thread about how to see the Space Station: http://boards.cannabis.com/cannabis-...-overhead.html

As long as it isn't shot down, you can use the website to predict when and where the doomed spy satelite will pass over your area. After you enter your location, click the link for info on USA 193, and follow the links until you get to the prediction page.

[McLeodGanja]

Thanks, but I was just going along the lines that if it does smack someone in the ass, it's most likely going to be one of the other 6 or 7 billion people on the earth, not to mention the animals. Nice post about that but I prefer to just gaze at the more distant and still white dots in the sky. I have seen those things and wondered why they were moving many times. I always used to think it was the space shuttle.

I was chewing this monkey at work and I was thinking several things.

Supposing you blow the shit out of a 20 ton satellite. How can they be sure that they won't bite off 10 and a half tons of the fuckle on an anti-zenith spiral?

I'm assuming that things from space that enter the atmosphere and burn out do so on the basis that they have the time to, since they are not flying downwards at a thousands mile an hour, but instead surfing the parallel fire of air friction.

I'm sure though that the cascade doomsday scenario is beyond Star Trek, it's a pretty big planet we are on and I think you'd need a lot more shit up there to create a problem.

[dragonrider]

Thanks, but I was just going along the lines that if it does smack someone in the ass, it's most likely going to be one of the other 6 or 7 billion people on the earth, not to mention the animals. Nice post about that but I prefer to just gaze at the more distant and still white dots in the sky. I have seen those things and wondered why they were moving many times. I always used to think it was the space shuttle.

I was chewing this monkey at work and I was thinking several things.

Supposing you blow the shit out of a 20 ton satellite. How can they be sure that they won't bite off 10 and a half tons of the fuckle on an anti-zenith spiral?

I'm assuming that things from space that enter the atmosphere and burn out do so on the basis that they have the time to, since they are not flying downwards at a thousands mile an hour, but instead surfing the parallel fire of air friction.

I'm sure though that the cascade doomsday scenario is beyond Star Trek, it's a pretty big planet we are on and I think you'd need a lot more shit up there to create a problem.

I'm not sure whether satelites burn up more on shallow trajectories or step ones. Shaloow provides more time, but steep more heat.

As for the Start Trek doomsday space junk chain reaction cascade, it is somethihg I've been hearing about for a long time. Here's an article from about a year ago when the Chinese blew up their satelite and possibly endagered other satelites with the debris: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/06/sc...ce/06orbi.html

[McLeodGanja]

Here's an article from about a year ago when the Chinese blew up their satelite and possibly endagered other satelites with the debris: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/06/sc...ce/06orbi.html

Blimey! Good article.

Doesn't it make you feel kind of like in terms of the technology we rely on that we are living on borrowed time?

Think I'll just hang on to my old copy of Philips street map. Actually that would definately be a good idea I don't think they have GPS for bicycles yet.

[StickyfingahZ]

I'd punch a satellite in the face.

LOL,As Soon as A Read this I started crackin up.

But on a serious note,Thats trippy.

[McLeodGanja]

I'd go further and say that there is no threat from a satellite and the US made it up because they want to test some new star wars weapons without drawing any unnecessary media attention.

LMAO what did I say? Here, the Russians are as paranoid as me! :stoned:

BBC NEWS | Americas | US spy satellite plan 'a cover'

[texas grass]

Russia: US sat smash plan a cover
Sun, 17 Feb 2008 10:38:59
Russia has called the US plans to shoot down a damaged spy satellite carrying toxic fuel a cover for testing an anti-satellite weapon.

Russia's Defense Ministry on Saturday accused the US military of failing to provide enough information to back its plan to smash the satellite next week with a missile so other countries could assess possible dangers.

It also said that the US aims to test its "anti-missile defense system's capability to destroy other countries' satellites" and such testing essentially means the creation of a new type of strategic weapons.

The US said last week that it would use a missile to destroy the satellite, to stop it from crash landing.

But Russia has argued that various countries' spacecraft had crashed to Earth in the past, and many countries used toxic fuel in spacecraft, but this had never before merited such "extraordinary measures".

United States is going to shoot down the satellite next week while it strongly criticized China last year for testing a missile specifically designed to take out satellites and accused the country of testing an anti-satellite weapon.

[McLeodGanja]

Heavens above! I wasn't even being serious about that either.:stoned:

[dragonrider]

The Chinese are also protesting the shoot-down.

It looks like the Navy is planning to blast it as soon as Wednesday night or possibly Thursday sometime.

[McLeodGanja]

Not anymore. It's been delayed because of bad weather.

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Weather may delay satellite shot