Fwd: Wi Air Force's Scare-Mongering Space Ad Shoves Facts Out of the Airlock

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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> From: David Byrden <farber1 () byrden com>
> Date: May 11, 2008 2:15:11 PM EDT
> To: David Farber <dave () farber net>
> Subject: Re: [IP] Wired: Air Force's Scare-Mongering Space Ad Shoves  
> Facts Out of the Airlock

> > From: dewayne () warpspeed com (Dewayne Hendricks)
>
> > > No, they can't.  Not unless there's some new missile out there  
> > > that can
> > > strike dozens and dozens of targets, spread out over thousands and
> > > thousands of miles.
>
> There is actually a way for a single missile to destroy every  
> satellite
> in a given orbit, all the way round Earth; for example, all the  
> geostationary
> satellites are vulnerable.
>
> All it has to do is get into the same orbit, going the other way,  
> and explode.
> If it leaves a cloud of millions if tiny fragments, still orbiting  
> against the
> traffic at huge speed, then in the frictionless environment of space  
> they
> will eventually strike and destroy every machine along the ring.
>
> David

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