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January 20th, 2007, 11:51 PM
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Re: OT: China develops anti-satellite weapon
Uh...I thought Sputnik just transmitted a 'beep'?
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January 21st, 2007, 12:04 AM
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Re: OT: China develops anti-satellite weapon
It could be said to be military. I am not familiar with sputnik but at the time they were in the depths of the Cold War and the SU could use their launch of the first satellite as a sort of victory over the US. So in a way it was used for military advancement.
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January 21st, 2007, 09:42 AM
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Re: OT: China develops anti-satellite weapon
More like a 'cultural victory', ala Civilization.
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January 21st, 2007, 10:07 AM
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Re: OT: China develops anti-satellite weapon
ahh, many was the time where I had to build the Apollo project just so I could see the entire world and the one last enemy city hiding away somewhere  |
January 21st, 2007, 10:36 PM
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Re: OT: China develops anti-satellite weapon
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Yes, but it proved it was possible to put something in orbit, where it could gather intelligence data about anything visible.
The world's miitaries had already seen this same kind of technological scramble when they realized how valuable aircraft could be during WWI.
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January 22nd, 2007, 02:03 AM
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Re: OT: China develops anti-satellite weapon
I once sneezed so hard that I think I put the object that I expelled from my nose into orbit. I wonder if they will want to shoot that down?
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January 22nd, 2007, 02:07 AM
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Re: OT: China develops anti-satellite weapon
Oh noes! Lasers pew pew!
What? I haven't said anything for a while.
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January 24th, 2007, 01:23 AM
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Re: OT: China develops anti-satellite weapon
Yes, bad USA, cause if we would have just stayed out of space NOBODY ELSE would want to have weapons in orbit of the planet. On the same note, maybe if we had just let N. Korea overrun S. Korea Kim Jong would just be happy to play with winky dinks with his generals.
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January 24th, 2007, 12:23 PM
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Re: OT: China develops anti-satellite weapon
Clearly China wants to stop India's space ambitions and halt the outsourcing of Chinese jobs to Bombay.
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