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Phil Plait- Blowing up the spy satellite Print E-mail
Written by Rich Montalvo   
Wednesday, 20 February 2008

Our good friend Phil Plait "The Bad Astronomer" is always on the look out for misinformation about all things up in the sky so to speak. Here he gives us some facts and some personal opinions about the governments plan to shoot down Spy Satellite USA 193

More information about this can be found on Phil's blog at http://www.badastronomy.com/bablogblowing-up-a-spy-satellite/





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written by admin, February 20, 2008
I love the props that Phil uses in his examples.
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written by nemonico, March 11, 2008
Thanks for posting the information on the site, it´s good to know about such issues. But, I have an observation regarding the linguistic abuse of simplistic terms like ¨good and bad¨, ¨evil stuff¨ ¨bad guys like...¨ to identify political anti-imperialism and non-capitalist countries; it is just like the kind of language used by George Bush to fuse the irrational sentiments of nationalism and warfare. What would Noam Chomsky say about our astronomer´s use of moral symbolism to educate? ¨Don´t love America that much...¨ Please, America is a continent, not a country. This is an excelent example of an astronomer´s knowledge inbeded with geopolitical charlatanism!!!
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written by Jubal, April 01, 2008
Hi Phil, I liked the presentation. I too am a little skeptical of the claims about hydrazine, and agree that the probable reason is to prevent tech. going to people we don't like.

I think the rational objection, the only one I've heard, is that it's yet more development of ASAT weapons. The catastrophic results of a systematic destruction of any country's satellites is a prospect that should make anyone wish to step back from the brink of at least the real-world testing of such devices, if not their development altogether.

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