Anyone else notice the irony in shooting down the toxic space bus?

[Javaman]

So we are told to believe that the satellite that had this supposed "toxic" fuel on board, was originally a launch gone bad and wasn't able to be "controlled" from the ground.

Fine.

Now china and russia come out with a treaty that would lead to the banning of space weapons.

Okay.

now suppose, that the DOD and NASA launch a big bad rocket a few years from now, that is carrying some sort of very nasty space weapons. Not a lazar, but some sort of low level nuke that can be launched from space and this launch goes bad. And is quite suddenly goes out of control and will plunge through the atmosphere with what ever nuclear material it's carrying.

Will the DOD launch a missile to try and blow this thing apart? I'll take a thousand gallons of hydrazine that would either burn up upon reentry or spread over such a large area that it won't harm a single person, over the idea of the US creating it's own Dirty Bomb.


So here we are, moron* and his room full of dopes can shoot something out of the sky and won't sign on to this treaty. Sounds like a recipe for stupidity yet to come.

[KG]

1. what i found amusing was that they were so sure of this missile that the shuttle was landed first.

just in case they missed i guess.

[panader0]

2. My guess, like that of the Chinese government,

is that this was a show-off thing. Maybe the satellite was out of whack, maybe not. The local Tucson paper was proud that the missile was built there.

[Redstone]

3. Well, the only thing I can tell you about your "theory" is this:

I wouldn't bet even one cent on you being wrong. It doesn't take someone with a tinfoil hat to suspect what you suspect.

Would you like to hear MY theory? After China blew up that satellite, the folks in our DOD contracted a BAD case of "hey, now my dick looks smaller than China's," and just HAD to prove that WE could do anything the Chinese could do.

Redstone

[Javaman]

5. Absolutely.

I particularly care for the idea of being the little guy in the middle of two bruisers pissing match.

[stellanoir]

4. here

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qr3Bk5TnAw0

The whole story is so-o-o contrived IMHO

[Wizard777]

6. I think we should jump on this treaty.

We are looking to one day travel across the galaxy to inhabitable planets. War and it's weapons is something we should keep confined to this planet. We need to leave all that behind. Just designate the rest of the universe a weapons free zone.

[provis99]

7. except they made the US look like twits when they had to wait for the right weather

It would have been better if they had just bragged "oh, we can shoot it down anytime we want, but we just won't", rather than the way it turned out, which was "please don't launch nuclear missles at us, unless the weather conditions are ideal for us to shoot them down".

Bush is such a moron.