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Offline Flit

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« on: February 21, 2008, 12:12:00 PM »
As stated-
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=71c_1203596547&p=1
 A good shot, I'd say :aok
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« Reply #1 on: February 21, 2008, 12:25:00 PM »
I'm surprised they got it.
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« Reply #2 on: February 21, 2008, 12:39:35 PM »
Well, they did know where it was going to be and they waited for calm seas to launch.

Doesn't prove much IMO about reading any proof about some sort of Star Wars project though.

Congrats to them.  Could have been extremely embarrassing if they had missed though.
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« Reply #3 on: February 21, 2008, 05:02:25 PM »
Boeing builds and integrates major subcomponents of the SM-3, including the kinetic warhead guidance unit and ejection subsystem.

WTG Boeing! :aok :cool:
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« Reply #4 on: February 21, 2008, 05:14:37 PM »
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WTG Boeing! :aok :cool:


Didn't Chinese do the same thing a year ago so you guys were screaming with faithful indignation?
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« Reply #5 on: February 21, 2008, 05:15:53 PM »
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Didn't Chinese do the same thing a year ago so you guys were screaming with faithful indignation?
If they did, Bill Clinton gave them that ability! :mad:
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« Reply #6 on: February 21, 2008, 05:19:09 PM »
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Didn't Chinese do the same thing a year ago so you guys were screaming with faithful indignation?


IIRC the Chinesse decided not to tell anyone what they were doing first, so out of no where system start detecting a missle launch in china. It could have caused some major problems.

The U.S. planned this months ago, so I am sure the rest of the world has known it was going to happen for a while.
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« Reply #7 on: February 21, 2008, 05:21:25 PM »
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If they did, Bill Clinton gave them that ability! :mad:


I thought it was Boris Yeltsin :(

You are lucky, you can meet Clingon and throw a tomato at his face, while Yeltsin already rots in hell :mad:
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« Reply #8 on: February 21, 2008, 05:21:33 PM »
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Didn't Chinese do the same thing a year ago so you guys were screaming with faithful indignation?
This is different,  they were doing it to test their weapons system for shooting down satellites, we did it to protect people from the fuel contained in the satellite, and to make sure none of the satellite could be recovered by a foreign power.  I'm sure we already knew we had the tech to hit a satellite, they needed to test their missile to see if it could.
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« Reply #9 on: February 21, 2008, 05:30:17 PM »
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This is different,  they were doing it to test their weapons system for shooting down satellites, we did it to protect people from the fuel contained in the satellite, and to make sure none of the satellite could be recovered by a foreign power.  I'm sure we already knew we had the tech to hit a satellite, they needed to test their missile to see if it could.


LOL.

"I am different, I must be allowed to do it!".

Look, if China, that didn;t start any wars since 1900, tests it's weapons - it's baad, if US, that started two full scale wars in last 9 years and killed over a million foreign civilians does the same thing - it's OK.

Back in early-2000s Russian military training (full-scale first time since USSR) included several space launches (in a matter of hours, from scratch) to substitute satellites shot down by "potential enemy". So you guys still compete with Iran.
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« Reply #10 on: February 21, 2008, 06:47:24 PM »
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Didn't Chinese do the same thing a year ago so you guys were screaming with faithful indignation?


No.  They did something completely different.  We nailed a satellite drifting in low earth orbit that was about to re-enter on it's own.  The Chinese nailed a functioning satellite in high orbit that could have been safely de-orbited.  Ours resulted in a debris field of smallish parts that will relatively safely re-enter within a week or so.  Theirs resulted in thousands of pieces of debris that will be a hazard to anything in orbit for many years, including the ISS and any other manned space vehicle launched for the next decade or so.

Huge difference, and of course I will point out that since you even asked that question, you're either being deliberately obtuse, argumentative, and trollish, or you're ignorant of pretty much everything on this topic.

You can tell us if you're ignorant or just trolling, I promise I won't assume one or the other :)
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« Reply #11 on: February 21, 2008, 08:44:32 PM »
See Boroda, big difference in what we did and what the Chinese did.  If you can't see that then your just ignorant, or like eagl said, your being a troll.

Heres a video of the debris left from the Chinese satellite that Wolfala posted on here, as you can see it left a large and hazards debris cloud now orbiting the planet.

  Chinese Satellite Debris Cloud
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« Reply #12 on: February 21, 2008, 09:10:42 PM »
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No.  They did something completely different.  We nailed a satellite drifting in low earth orbit that was about to re-enter on it's own.  The Chinese nailed a functioning satellite in high orbit that could have been safely de-orbited.  Ours resulted in a debris field of smallish parts that will relatively safely re-enter within a week or so.  Theirs resulted in thousands of pieces of debris that will be a hazard to anything in orbit for many years, including the ISS and any other manned space vehicle launched for the next decade or so.

Huge difference, and of course I will point out that since you even asked that question, you're either being deliberately obtuse, argumentative, and trollish, or you're ignorant of pretty much everything on this topic.

You can tell us if you're ignorant or just trolling, I promise I won't assume one or the other :)


Oh God, Big time OWNED Boroda!  I'd get drunk for a week after a verbal beating by a US Airforce pilot like this!  Hide in a hole, it's best for your Soviet inferiority complex! :rofl :rofl
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« Reply #13 on: February 21, 2008, 09:14:30 PM »
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Oh God, Big time OWNED Boroda!  I'd get drunk for a week after a verbal beating by a US Airforce pilot like this!  Hide in a hole, it's best for your Soviet inferiority complex! :rofl :rofl


Like Boroda needs an excuse to get drunk for a week. :p
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« Reply #14 on: February 21, 2008, 09:15:50 PM »
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Like Boroda needs an excuse to get drunk for a week. :p
My sarcasm was that obvious, eh? :p
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