There's another good summary at http://www.badastronomy.com/bablog/2008/02/19/blowing-up-a-spy-satellite
He also has some footage of the event at http://www.badastronomy.com/bablog/2008/02/21/spysat-stuff/
1:13 AM, February 22, 2008
Kevin Drum links to this Danger Room blog post that discusses experts' skeptical reaction to the US justification for shooting down the satellite: Having the US government spend millions of dollars to destroy a billion-dollar failure to save zero lives is comedic gold." "There has to be another reason behind this," said Michael Krepon, co-founder of the Henry L. Stimson Center, tells the Washington Post. "In the history of the space age, there has not been a single human being who has been harmed by man-made objects falling from space."The Danger Room blog post has a lot of good information. See Maniak's original Internal Monologue post here.
posted by Zachary Drake at 8:08 PM on Feb 17, 2008
"Maniak isn't the only one skeptical of satellite shoot down"
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There's another good summary at http://www.badastronomy.com/bablog/2008/02/19/blowing-up-a-spy-satellite
He also has some footage of the event at http://www.badastronomy.com/bablog/2008/02/21/spysat-stuff/
1:13 AM, February 22, 2008