Re: "Satellites May Be Shattered By Invisible Meteors"

Norman Wootan ( normw@fastlane.net )
Tue, 06 Oct 1998 15:21:31 -0500

Please go back and read about the Clark Geo-sychronous orbit named after Arthur
C. Clark. You cannot get a stationary satellite below 22,500 mile high orbit.
Look up Arthur C. Clark.

NeXuS wrote:

> 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?
>
> ----------
> > 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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> > >which is reaching a critical point.
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