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Originally posted by Wrabbit2000
C'mon guys.... OP, please forgive me here, but I want to throw a comment out.
There have been a number of people observing in threads they make to rant that the level of attack and viciousness has risen here lately. I hope I'm not stepping on toes, but I'll accept that as the price to say this.
This thread is one of the more aggressive if not rude I've recently seen in making an OP feel like an idiot. Now I took a moment, and thats ALL it took, to see that while the OP is wrong in my view, he isn't without basis for the question. Gadaffi is running like a Cheetah with it's tail on fire....but COULD the OP question be POSSIBLE?
U.S. Hosts Libyan Students for 2 annual Space Camp invitation. 2010.
One of Libya's Space Programs
and I don't reprint Wikileaks cables. Even a quote section. However, there is nothing particularly sensitive about it's ID tag, so Cable 10TRIPOLI133 also deals with Libya's very active interest in all things Space and very recent efforts.
These three items required 2 searches with a few search line parameters to filter out spam articles in 2011. Does the technology exist to dump a satellite? Why not? I'd be shocked if a method to simply push or..pull..a satellite into an uncontrolled and barely targeted descent hasn't existed a long time.
NASA couldn't use it, in my opinion, because life shows that breaking something is FAR easier than fixing it and while nudging something into failure may be easy enough for an agency with huge budgets and scientists to develop, I'll just bet doing the same in a precisely controlled way to fix an orbit is a whole different world of problems to solve.
One other thing, since I'm digging a hole for myself here anyway, I might as well hire the backhoe. It seems for many people, starting a new thread is simple on here. No biggy at all. At many other sites I'm on, I can relate. However, for some reason, the traffic and sheer exposure causes me to view ATS a bit differently. While I won't use the word intimidating, it's not easy either. If I'm the only particpating member who feels that way, I'll eat my hat. I personally star threads on work put into it, creative thinking, OR sheer guts to post something likely to be ridiculed or attacked. If it's guts, and not intoxication or just plain stupidity, it gets a star for the effort.
......For those who asked, I am one of the people who starred this thread.edit on 23-9-2011 by Wrabbit2000 because: Minor addition
Originally posted by patternfinder
i just saw ghadaffi sitting in a mcdonalds using their free wifi with some kind of program on his laptop screen that said "UARS CONTROL CENTER" that can't be a good thing
Originally posted by Dr Expired
Originally posted by patternfinder
i just saw ghadaffi sitting in a mcdonalds using their free wifi with some kind of program on his laptop screen that said "UARS CONTROL CENTER" that can't be a good thing
You know that is not as silly as it first sounds...Gaddafi could probably hang out at Mcdonalds and never get outed...like Bin Laden ...he can blend in , with his cool shades and Hendrix haircut.
Great post.
But the Wi Fi at Mcdonalds isn't enough.
We are talking serious air patterners.
Gaddafi is nowhere to be seen , he could in fact be in a secret underground bunker with Chinese tracking and remote satellite manipulation devices
Imagine if it hits an Atomic reactor...and creates a plutonium cloud. Gaddafi may indeed have the laust laugh?