Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: pompsander who wrote (750410)	9/28/2006 4:37:37 PM
From: PROLIFE	Respond to of 769670

Buddy????logic???? ................. ................. BWWWAAAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA you are too funny pompy!

To: pompsander who wrote (750410)	9/28/2006 4:52:31 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Respond to of 769670

Re: "But think of the great meteor showers when those ball bearings reenter the atmosphere!" The 'keg of nails' defense to an ABM system was first publicly pointed out (first time that I'm aware of) in the 1980s by the American Academy of Sciences. (Though I'm sure the Pentagon and N.R.O. experts have been aware of it for a much longer time.) Yeah... 'meteor showers' would be GREAT NEWS but, the problem is, that those sats are parked in geo-synchronous orbits (where they can STAY for a long time without use of fuel) and, unfortunately, ball bearings or trash launched in the same orbit would ALSO be parked there a LONG, LONG Time --- rendering those orbits UNUSABLE for sats for perhaps hundreds of years. And, by launching the keg of nails' in COUNTER-rotation to the sats... the ball bearings would have HUGE kinetic energies... a hit from even a single one would disable or destry a sat.... and the damage in those orbits would linger. Yep... 'Keg 'o Nails' is a more serious (even though 'lower tech') threat then even the laser threat that was posted.