the big blue marble
Written on February 20, 2008
Does anyone else out there think it’s weird that we have a shuttle landing, a lunar eclipse, and a satellite being shot out of the sky all in one day? It’s a big day for the Earth apparently. Overscheduled a bit I think…Rotate around the sun, rotate, rotate, rotate, allow shuttle into atmosphere, get in between the sun and moon for an hour, and finally purge dead satellite from gravity.
I don’t understand this whole satellite thing. Why, instead of letting it burn up in the Earth’s atmosphere, why are we shooting a missile into space and blowing it into a million little pieces only to become space junk? Add it to the bazillions of little pieces of space junk that’s already floating around out there and I will bet by the time there is another total eclipse, it wont be from the Earths shadow!
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They feel that there is the remote possibility that enough of the satellite could survive reentry and spew toxic gas wherever it lands. They’d rather destroy it with a missle rather than take the chance that people could be killed. (Of course, since it’s a spy satellite, they probably also don’t want any surviving parts to get into the wrong hands.)
I can only think of one good reason: men like blowing things up.