{"id":2807,"date":"2008-02-14T18:51:48","date_gmt":"2008-02-14T23:51:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/?p=2806"},"modified":"2008-02-14T18:51:48","modified_gmt":"2008-02-14T23:51:48","slug":"probably-not-a-good-idea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/?p=2807","title":{"rendered":"Probably not a good idea."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/photo-1_drts.jpg\" title=\"photo-1_drts.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/photo-1_drts.jpg\" alt=\"photo-1_drts.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Navy will attempt to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/02\/14\/science\/14cnd-satellite.html?_r=1&amp;hp&amp;oref=slogin\" title=\"NY Times: U.S. Officials Say Broken Satellite Will Be Shot Down.\">shoot<\/a> down a disabled 5,000-pound spy satellite in the next couple of days before it crashes to Earth.\u00a0 I&#8217;m going to say this is probably not going to go well:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The operation will be carried out from a Navy ship that will fire a missile modified for the task, which resembles shooting down a ballistic missile warhead as it begins to re-enter the atmosphere.<\/p>\n<p>President Bush ordered the military to try to pick off the satellite because \u201cthere was a possibility of death or injury to human beings beyond that associated with the fall of satellites and other space object normally, if we can use that word,\u201d a deputy national security adviser, James Jeffrey, said.<\/p>\n<p>The vice chairman of the <a href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/reference\/timestopics\/organizations\/j\/joint_chiefs_of_staff\/index.html?inline=nyt-org\" title=\"More articles about Joint Chiefs of Staff\">Joint Chiefs of Staff<\/a>, Gen. James Cartwright, of the Marine Corps, said \u201ca window of opportunity\u201d to pick off the satellite before it enters <a href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/news\/science\/topics\/earth_planet\/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier\" title=\"More articles about Earth (Planet).\">Earth<\/a>\u2019s atmosphere will open in the next three or four days and last for seven or eight days. If the first shot misses, there should be time for a second attempt before the satellite enters the atmosphere, when it would be \u201cnext to impossible\u201d to score a hit because of atmospheric disturbances, the general said.<\/p>\n<p>If the satellite is not intercepted, it will tumble out of control into the atmosphere in early March, he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Considering our track record (see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A700-2004Dec15.html\" title=\"Washington Post: U.S. Missile Defense Test Fails.\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/stories\/2005\/01\/12\/national\/main666433.shtml\" title=\"CBS News: Missile Defense Fails Test Again.\">here<\/a>) on shooting objects out of the air I&#8217;m going to guess it&#8217;s even harder to shoot an object out of space.\u00a0 This isn&#8217;t the first time a man made object has fallen from the sky with the possibly of killing us, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Skylab#End_of_Skylab\" title=\"Wikipedia:  End of Skylab.\">Skylab<\/a> fell to Earth but there was still a little control of the vessel before reentry.\u00a0 The seriousness of this situation is due to the toxic fuel on board and lack of navigational control of this satellite.<\/p>\n<p>At least we know the Chinese were able to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2007\/TECH\/space\/01\/18\/china.missile\/index.html\" title=\"CNN: U.S. official: Chinese test missile obliterates satellite\">shoot<\/a> one out of Space early last year.<\/p>\n<blockquote><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Navy will attempt to shoot down a disabled 5,000-pound spy satellite in the next couple of days before it crashes to Earth.\u00a0 I&#8217;m going to say this is probably not going to go well: The operation will be carried out from a Navy ship that will fire a missile modified for the task, which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[15,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-thought","category-technology"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pazIS5-Jh","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2807\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}