Scams, science, whatever.
U.S. Spy satellite will hit earth and it does matter
The government said that a large US spy satellite is falling from orbit and could hit earth in late February or March. It has lost all power and propulsion, making in uncontrollable. The worst thing is that the spy satellite may contain hazardous materials and they have no idea where on earth it will fall. Obviously, it is not the first time a satellite fall from orbit and they’ve all been harmless.
Here’s what Gordon Johndroe, a spokesman for the National Security Council has to say about the situation:
“Appropriate government agencies are monitoring the situation”
“Numerous satellites over the years have come out of orbit and fallen harmlessly.”
“We are looking at potential options to mitigate any possible damage this satellite may cause”
What I don’t understand is why don’t they put a mechanism in the satellite to prevent that from happening? We send people in space and bring them back. Why can’t we put an auto-destruction or “bring it back” device on a simple god damn satellite? I imagine the engineers meeting when they built the spy satellite:
“But what to we do when there’s no more power?”
“I don’t know, we’ll deal with that in 25 years”
There’s good chances it falls harmlessly and that’s really not a good reason to say it doesn’t matter. It’s not because it doesn’t harm humans that it doesn’t matter: it’s not a better news if the satellite falls in the ocean, it contains hazardous materials.
I really don’t understand why there was nothing built-in to deal with the death of the satellite, they knew it would happen. Even if does no harm, I’m just concerned with the quality of the engineers we employ to build critical things.
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I think this does matter..the general public have a distinct lack of knowledge about our governments and their actions. Afetr all we are the tax payer… I appreciate that we must evolve, however i do fear it may be to the detrament of ourselves.
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