and you wonder why the chineese and russians are going banannas over this... The chineese really thought they had the upper hand in blowing up orbiting satellites... hehehe...
-----Original Message----- From: Tony <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subj: Re: Bullseye! Date: Thu Feb 21, 2008 11:05 am Size: 1K To: CF-Community <[email protected]> i think its impressive to gel. whats more impressive is that it was a COLD object travelling at 17000mph, in space WOW. i mean, i get hitting a travelling object, that is warm has a contrail, etc, but a COLD object, no heat, moving that fast, WOW. if i were another country imagining sending missiles to hurt the USA, i would say, we kinda ratcheted up another reason not to. tw On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 12:30 PM, Vivec <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "an Aegis-class cruiser, fired a single missile just before 10:30 p.m. > Eastern time, and the missile hit the satellite as it traveled at more > than 17,000 miles per hour, the Pentagon said in its official > announcement. " > > Damn...that's pretty impressive hitting an object travelling that fast. > > And you would think there would be some mission to clean up the space > debris around the earth too. But I guess...how do you stop chunks of > metal flying around at 17,000 miles an hour...:-\ > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;160198600;22374440;w Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:254723 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
