China Rises

Hawkshore

According to a spokesman for the National Security Council, the ground-based, medium-range ballistic missile knocked an old Chinese weather satellite from its orbit about 537 miles above Earth. The missile carried a "kill vehicle" and destroyed the satellite by ramming it.

Apparently the satellite orbits at the same altitude of the US spy satellites

http://edition.cnn.com/2007/TECH/space/01/18/china.missile/index.html

present address

whatever happened to fly the friendly skies.......... anywho i think it would be cool to shoot at space junk...

Hawkshore

present address wrote:

whatever happened to fly the friendly skies.......... anywho i think it would be cool to shoot at space junk...

Yeah I was a little surprised they were able to shoot something down from over 500 miles away that is only 1.3 meters long…..especially when you factor the earth is moving the satellite is moving, and the impact of going through the various layers of the atmosphere.

Alex_Coe

Bring it on, china. You guys are like 5 feet tall.... :P

ThumbingMyWay32

Hawkshore wrote:

Yeah I was a little surprised they were able to shoot something down from over 500 miles away that is only 1.3 meters long…..especially when you factor the earth is moving the satellite is moving, and the impact of going through the various layers of the atmosphere.

Well... The Chinese were big Clinton donors. Clinton thanked the Chinese by selling them top U.S. military secrets (Including detailed instructions on how to develope advanced weapons systems such as the one you've described). The Chinese are now capable of destroying us.

Why is anyone surprised?

Hawkshore

ThumbingMyWay32 wrote:

Well... The Chinese were big Clinton donors. Clinton thanked the Chinese by selling them top U.S. military secrets (Including detailed instructions on how to develope advanced weapons systems such as the one you've described). The Chinese are now capable of destroying us.

Why is anyone surprised?

Time to learn Mandrin???

ThumbingMyWay32

Hawkshore wrote:

Time to learn Mandrin???

I hope not. That shit looks pretty difficult. I don't even have the patience for Spanish.

puremagic

Probably just Hu Jintao's way of reminding those who need to know, that China is not Iraq and Taiwan is still an issue and Japan's apology sucked.

puremagic

ThumbingMyWay32 wrote:

Well... The Chinese were big Clinton donors. Clinton thanked the Chinese by selling them top U.S. military secrets (Including detailed instructions on how to develope advanced weapons systems such as the one you've described). The Chinese are now capable of destroying us.

Why is anyone surprised?

Is anyone surprised that China had favorite nation status under Nixon, Reagan, Bush Sr. that's a stretch to try and pinpoint star war stealing on Clinton.

Hell chalk it up to the fact they make better games than us.

enharmonic

China just made space travel THAT much harder...thousands of tiny fragments in that orbit now. to get some idea...imagine running as fast as you can into a barbed wire fence. That's what that debris can do to a space shuttle.

Seriously fucking retarded. I expected more from China than this.

Ahnimus

puremagic wrote:

Hell chalk it up to the fact they make better games than us.

It's the azn nigga fuck the rest
Dallas to New York jigga, we the best
Vietnam to Japan to Mongolia
Philippines to Taiwan to Cambodia
Korea, ah ah, hometown China
who you got, huh?
you got shit nigga, feel the size
it's the A-Z-N better recognize

got rice, bitch? got rice?
got food, got soup, got spice?
got brains like us? got skills like us?
got cars? got clothes? got girls like us?
wassup we the shit and we kill ya'll fools
we got money in the bank from our family jewels
can we help it if we raid and corrupt the schools?
it don't matter fuck the law shit we break the rules
we jack cars, pop games, yo we got the tools
hoop it up, break it down then we shoot some pool,
you fuck with me, you fuck with all bitch, don't think it's cool
one on one fuck that it's three on one no duels

got rice bitch? got rice?
anything you can show that is nice?
got cash,got moves, got thoughts like us?
Fuck no, Hell you white you'll never be like us
Take off your shoes when you enter please
or Crawl around on the floor with your fucking knees
don't mind the smell you'll get used to it
moth balls, fried squid, and that buddha shit
what the hell is that you think i don't see
no forks in the house chops sticks only
have a taste don't be scared try the lemon tea
you don't want thats alright try the fuck on me

Got rice bitch, got rice?
Got luck anytime you roll the dice?
your luck is bad unless you run and hide,
cuz we're thugs for life baby, Asian Pride...

citizen_drew

Ahnimus wrote:

It's the azn nigga fuck the rest
Dallas to New York jigga, we the best
Vietnam to Japan to Mongolia
Philippines to Taiwan to Cambodia
Korea, ah ah, hometown China
who you got, huh?
you got shit nigga, feel the size
it's the A-Z-N better recognize

got rice, bitch? got rice?
got food, got soup, got spice?
got brains like us? got skills like us?
got cars? got clothes? got girls like us?
wassup we the shit and we kill ya'll fools
we got money in the bank from our family jewels
can we help it if we raid and corrupt the schools?
it don't matter fuck the law shit we break the rules
we jack cars, pop games, yo we got the tools
hoop it up, break it down then we shoot some pool,
you fuck with me, you fuck with all bitch, don't think it's cool
one on one fuck that it's three on one no duels

got rice bitch? got rice?
anything you can show that is nice?
got cash,got moves, got thoughts like us?
Fuck no, Hell you white you'll never be like us
Take off your shoes when you enter please
or Crawl around on the floor with your fucking knees
don't mind the smell you'll get used to it
moth balls, fried squid, and that buddha shit
what the hell is that you think i don't see
no forks in the house chops sticks only
have a taste don't be scared try the lemon tea
you don't want thats alright try the fuck on me

Got rice bitch, got rice?
Got luck anytime you roll the dice?
your luck is bad unless you run and hide,
cuz we're thugs for life baby, Asian Pride...

How do you follow a post like that? Haha but I'll go with ...

BEN: That's no moon! It's a space station.
HAN: It's too big to be a space station.
LUKE: I have a very bad feeling about this.

I understand the Chinese have been pushing for an international conference regarding a space arms race in the U.N. but we’ve been blowing them off saying there’s no need because there is no arms race in space…

I think this is their way of calling.

LikeAnOcean

enharmonic wrote:

China just made space travel THAT much harder...thousands of tiny fragments in that orbit now. to get some idea...imagine running as fast as you can into a barbed wire fence. That's what that debris can do to a space shuttle.

Seriously fucking retarded. I expected more from China than this.

Are you kidding me? Do you have any idea how many space rocks are hitting the Earths atmosphere everyday? Chances are most of the debri will have changed course from the impact and either burn up in the atmosphere or be sent off into space. It would be the least of anybodies worries up there.

sponger

LikeAnOcean wrote:

Are you kidding me? Do you have any idea how many space rocks are hitting the Earths atmosphere everyday? Chances are most of the debri will have changed course from the impact and either burn up in the atmosphere or be sent off into space. It would be the least of anybodies worries up there.

On the contrary, orbital debris -natural and manmade- are a serious hazard to space craft. Any objects greater than 10 cm in diameter are tracked by NASA so that satellites can be maneuvered around them.

http://www.wstf.nasa.gov/Hazard/Hyper/debris.htm

NASA frequently replace windows on the space shuttle that have been damaged by objects as small as a flake of paint.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/space/solarsystem/earth/spacejunk.shtml

Nothingman54

Im sure Bush will try to start a war with China also.

Byrnzie

They probably just wanted to show the U.S that they have the capability to knock out their sateliites. Still, who's gonna fuck with China? There's like 600,000,0000,0000,000 of them, and they all know judo. :eek:

ACCBootlegGoddess

ThumbingMyWay32 wrote:

Well... The Chinese were big Clinton donors. Clinton thanked the Chinese by selling them top U.S. military secrets (Including detailed instructions on how to develope advanced weapons systems such as the one you've described). The Chinese are now capable of destroying us.

Why is anyone surprised?

Yes and the repulicans never sold any middle eastern country weapons, they now use against you. Nooo republicans are fuckin saints.