{"id":197280,"date":"2008-02-18T21:55:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-19T02:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/02\/18\/reasons-for-intercepting-crippled-satellite-do-not-hold-up\/"},"modified":"2008-02-18T21:55:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-19T02:55:00","slug":"reasons-for-intercepting-crippled-satellite-do-not-hold-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/02\/18\/reasons-for-intercepting-crippled-satellite-do-not-hold-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Reasons for Intercepting Crippled Satellite Do Not Hold UP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are now getting skeptical reports from media sources, such as <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/americas\/7248995.stm\">BBC News<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wired.com\/defense\/2008\/02\/fishy-rationale.html\">Wired<\/a> that the administrations justifications for shooting down the dead surveillance satellite are a 6 pounds of fertilizer in a 5 pound bag.<\/p>\n<p>The justification is that it carries 400 l of UDMH (unsymmetrical dimethylhydrazine) fuel for maneuvering is a threat to life and limb.<\/p>\n<p>The fact is that UDMH is about as benign a propellant as is used in rocketry (it&#8217;s still nasty), and the effected area would be on the order of two football fields, but that is only for irritant, not life threatening effects.<\/p>\n<p>One explanation is that the, &#8220;MDA [Missile Defense Agency] is always looking for ways to pimp their systems&#8221;, and another is that this is actually an anti-satellite (ASAT) test in response to the Chinese test last year.<\/p>\n<p>My guess is a combination of both, and that Bush and His Evil Minions<sup>&#038;trade<\/sup> intend to <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">create<\/span> an arms race in this area, so as to further constrain a future administration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are now getting skeptical reports from media sources, such as BBC News and Wired that the administrations justifications for shooting down the dead surveillance satellite are a 6 pounds of fertilizer in a 5 pound bag. The justification is that it carries 400 l of UDMH (unsymmetrical dimethylhydrazine) fuel for maneuvering is a threat &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1096,1037,1025],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-missile-defense","category-space","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197280"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197280\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}