Re: "Satellites May Be Shattered By Invisible Meteors"

Bill Wallace ( (no email) )
Tue, 6 Oct 1998 05:29:19 -0400

The point is we really don't know how bad this shower can affect us, we
ASSUME it will be minimal, and we have put a lot of MONEY up there, IE
hubble, when if anyone had enough foresight we could have waited until we
were SURE before spending that kind of CASH! November 18 will be very
telling.

>Just wondering if the the satellites werent destroyed but just slowed might
>their path be to steep and the wouldnt fall around the earth but into
>it?AHHS FALLING satelites run for ya lives! =) Also arent there programs
>now to place satelites in lower orbitals which is apparently safer?
>
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>> From: Bill Wallace <btech@surfsouth.com>
>> To: Don J. S. Adams <donadams@telusplanet.net>
>> Cc: Steve <darklord@darknet.net> keelynet@DallasTexas.net
>> Subject: Re: "Satellites May Be Shattered By Invisible Meteors"
>> Date: Monday, October 05, 1998 2:34 PM
>>
>> >Steve, yeah I heard about this... Leonides Meteor Shower. I think
>> >it was wise that you said something as many don't know yet. As for what
>> >to do about it.... well... start digging Bill! ;>
>>
>> I was FOR star wars, not against it, but as is the case with so many
>other
>> problems here, we collectively did not have the vision to see that costs
>> saved then would in reality cost much more in the future, same theme over
>> and over, we never seem to learn. An astronomer friend of mine told me
>of
>> this two years ago, nasa looked at it way before then, the conclusion was
>to
>> just wait and see what happens - as they knew tracking systems were in no
>> way capable of catching everything, the army did some laser testing (in
>part
>> directly related to this threat) years back. It always seemed strange to
>me
>> knowing this at least for four years as a possible major threat they
>> continued putting satellites up, more tax dollars pissed away. If it
>takes
>> down only 15% of the satellites bye bye baby. Recall the outage of ONE
>> Hughes satellite just a few months ago. November this year and next will

>> tell us a lot about our scientists, thier expert predictions, space
>systems,
>> and our reliance on satellite technology. There is a LOT of space out
>there
>> however, and the chances of only a few going down are pretty good, I hear
>2%
>> outage from several astronomers, costly but not depression causing.
>>
>> >
>> >Bill Wallace wrote:
>> >>
>> >> We just can't seem to get off these end time catastrophes can we? OK
>so
>> you
>> >> have alerted the public that the entire satellite network may crash,
>> taking
>> >> severe economic and technological and communications catastrophes with
>> it,
>> >> the army already looked at high intesity chemical lasers to try and
>stop
>> >> this and it was determined impossible from the sheer numbers of debris
>> that
>> >> will be out there, what do you propose we do to stop this?
>> >>
>> >> -----Original Message-----
>> >> From: Steve <darklord@darknet.net>
>> >> To: keelynet@DallasTexas.net <keelynet@DallasTexas.net>
>> >> Date: Sunday, October 04, 1998 9:24 PM
>> >> Subject: "Satellites May Be Shattered By Invisible Meteors"
>> >>
>> >> >http://www.pufori.org/news/nws1003984.htm
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>> >It is my opinion that we are being
>> >manipulated into a belief system
>> >which is reaching a critical point.
>> >Someone wants us to think a certain
>> >way, and things are being set up so
>> >we will follow that perception. It
>> >does not follow that the perception
>> >reflects the truth. It does not follow
>> >that the perception reflects the truth.
>> >
>> >-- Richard Hoagland
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