2/19/2008 9:38:08 AM

^ahahahaahahaahahaa

2/19/2008 9:50:56 AM

http://www.space.com/php/video/player.php?video_id=080219-satellite

2/19/2008 1:33:11 PM

maybe wednesday now

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080219/D8UTMP9G0.html

2/19/2008 10:29:27 PM

Why has no one mentioned that they're doing this almost at exactly the same time the lunar eclipse is scheduled to take place? (And on almost exactly the opposite side of the earth)


conspiracy?

[Edited on February 20, 2008 at 12:11 AM. Reason : .]

2/20/2008 12:09:41 AM

^ sure... why not

2/20/2008 2:21:11 AM

As I understand it, taking out the satellite is all contingent on being able to disable the shield generator. However, we should be vigilant as the satellite could be fully operational.

2/20/2008 3:44:47 AM

2/20/2008 9:37:23 AM

Mission Accomplished.

2/20/2008 10:51:05 PM

Even though I only play a small part in Aegis MDA as a software developer - it's nice to see another success of our program

2/20/2008 10:55:52 PM

Dammit, I wanna see some fireworks. Why do they have to bring this thing down over the Pacific...

2/20/2008 10:59:26 PM

I'm guessing the whole hydrazine over populated land mass thing.

2/20/2008 11:08:24 PM

the hydrazine thing was complete bullshit by the way. you'd have to be exposed to it for hours for it to be harmful.

2/20/2008 11:09:44 PM

Yes, but the nuclear powered reactor in that bitch would suck

2/20/2008 11:10:59 PM

I was hoping they would opt for the Atlantic...

2/21/2008 12:48:11 AM

i would hope the government would release some sort of video

it can't be all classified...can it?

2/21/2008 12:50:34 AM

man, those SMIIIs are some wicked fucking missiles.

for that matter, the SMII-ER is mean as hell, too.

2/21/2008 1:06:56 AM

wtg ABMD

pretty neat accomplishment for the program

2/21/2008 4:55:21 PM

Pentagon confident satellite's toxic fuel destroyed

Quote :

"WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Pentagon officials said they think a Navy missile scored a direct hit on the fuel tank of an errant spy satellite late Wednesday, eliminating a toxic threat to people on Earth. 'We have a high degree of confidence we got the tank,' Marine Gen. James Cartwright said at a Pentagon briefing Thursday morning. A fireball and a vapor cloud seen after the strike appeared to indicate the toxic hydrazine fuel had been destroyed, he said. The missile that struck the satellite did not carry an explosive warhead."

http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/space/02/21/satellite.shootdown/index.html?eref=rss_topstories

Wow. I guess this throws a bit of a monkey wrench in the argument by some that we can't hit anything with our weapons.

2/22/2008 12:30:14 PM

What mystical creature ever made that claim?

2/22/2008 12:35:33 PM

^ Um. . .are you really that ill-informed? See critics of Patriot missiles, SDI, and the claims made by some here from time to time.

2/22/2008 12:49:44 PM

OMFG YOU CAN'T HAVE FIREBALLS IN SPACE!!

2/22/2008 12:57:02 PM

Quote :

"Um. . .are you really that ill-informed? See critics of Patriot missiles, SDI, and the claims made by some here from time to time."

IIRC 'star wars' is almost a completely different LASER based technology that the technology isn't ready for yet. Our missles have been relatively accurate for the past 20 years. There have been fuckups, but those are expected (and extremely unfortunate). I don't think anyone seriously questions that we're leaps and bounds beyond any other superpower technology-wise though.

2/22/2008 1:11:33 PM

^ The Extended Range Interceptor, Homing Overlay Experiment, Exoatmospheric Reentry-vehicle Interception System were all elements of SDI at one time or another and all were ground-based weapons.

2/22/2008 1:19:21 PM

you can use wikipedia!

2/22/2008 1:39:35 PM

^ You have a firm grasp of the obvious!

2/22/2008 1:50:31 PM

is there a video of the actual hit somewhere?

2/22/2008 1:55:15 PM

http://youtube.com/watch?v=yp_xdryxLKY&feature=related

http://youtube.com/watch?v=DO7nkreoPIk&feature=related

Yeah, it's on this thing called YouTube.

[Edited on February 22, 2008 at 2:04 PM. Reason : .]

2/22/2008 2:02:27 PM

so like how much better are our weapons than china? i'm feeling pretty emo today and this would cheer me up to hear how much better the US is than china in something

2/22/2008 6:44:38 PM

Our missiles don't fly 10 miles under the limit in the left lane with their blinker on.

2/22/2008 6:50:01 PM

^ thats not the Chinese. that's my wife.

2/22/2008 7:01:27 PM

[Edited on February 22, 2008 at 7:24 PM. Reason : ,]

2/22/2008 7:23:40 PM

The performance of this system has dick to do with the performance of other systems, such as patriot, which are not as good or capable.

2/22/2008 8:22:27 PM