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forest444

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23. And the skeptic in me wants to say:

Mon Mar 2, 2015, 06:38 PM

Mar 2015

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Spy satellite, probably directed against one of our major adversaries.

Or perhaps even Israel - which under Netanyahoo's tutelage is quickly becoming a major adversary. The problem, of course, is that Israel was almost the same counterintelligence capabilities we do, courtesy of the U.S. taxpayer. Given the timing and considering Bibi's attitude, I certainly wouldn't put it past Israel to have zapped this satellite.

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Satellite Explodes After 'Catastrophic Event' [View all] bananas Mar 2015 OP

Meteor strike? OnlinePoker Mar 2015 #1

There's lots of space junk out there. More likely it hit the junk. sakabatou Mar 2015 #2

A picture speaks a thousand words mrdmk Mar 2015 #5

Someone should design a large flying magnet Flying Squirrel Mar 2015 #11

I'll call the Vogons... IthinkThereforeIAM Mar 2015 #45

That is not to scale. The satellites should be utterly invisible in that pic. nt Lucky Luciano Mar 2015 #18

If something hits something else.......... nolabels Mar 2015 #35

Wow! Delphinus Mar 2015 #56

Well, now there's 43 more pieces of junk out there. n/t OnlinePoker Mar 2015 #7

I wonder how they could count all the pieces? Art_from_Ark Mar 2015 #28

NORAD has a division specifically tasked with tracking debris over a certain size. DRoseDARs Mar 2015 #38

I was thinking christx30 Mar 2015 #6

And the skeptic in me wants to say: forest444 Mar 2015 #23

Our funding of Israel has lent a new meaning to davidpdx Mar 2015 #50

Temperature spike rules out didact Mar 2015 #58

Um... a Kessler syndrome in the making? El Supremo Mar 2015 #3

"Gravity"? Hestia Mar 2015 #10

Is that how Saturn got it's ring? Binkie The Clown Mar 2015 #24

Where's Wall-E when we need him? Nihil Mar 2015 #57

Borg? Sancho Mar 2015 #4

Putin. DocMac Mar 2015 #8

I'm also going with Putin 7962 Mar 2015 #9

hmmmm angrychair Mar 2015 #12

Like, duh. Obviously. closeupready Mar 2015 #16

So the crappy rechargeable batteries we paid for blew up. Big shocker. n/t jtuck004 Mar 2015 #13

Huh. Another example of "We don't need to tell anyone" elias49 Mar 2015 #14

"Real-time weather reports" for the Navy..yes...that is what it did..just that; or The Weather Channel? Fred Sanders Mar 2015 #15

It's raining missles Renew Deal Mar 2015 #17

Mmm. You're not suggesting that this satellite was something else? erronis Mar 2015 #19

Going out on a limb here, VWolf Mar 2015 #20

Yes - original report, written by someone who knows satellites, here: muriel_volestrangler Mar 2015 #25

You know your stuff (nt) PosterChild Mar 2015 #40

Well, you really can't control altitude VWolf Mar 2015 #41

Yep.. PosterChild Mar 2015 #44

If one has sail area in a wind and you want to stay pointed at something Thor_MN Mar 2015 #49

Sounds like a Photon Torpedo to me. bvar22 Mar 2015 #21

*See below. DeSwiss Mar 2015 #31

Khan? itsrobert Mar 2015 #22

> ------------ @ Alkene Mar 2015 #26

^^^^^^^^^WINNER Blue_Tires Mar 2015 #34

The temperature spike is curious Android3.14 Mar 2015 #27

Or bearings seizing on a gyro, or malfunction of a thruster. Thor_MN Mar 2015 #47

Yours sounds better than my hypothesis Android3.14 Mar 2015 #52

Very good question. Thor_MN Mar 2015 #53

Gyroscope siezes up --> possible flywheel explosion ? eppur_se_muova Mar 2015 #61

HIllary shot it down....... Cryptoad Mar 2015 #29

The cause has been found! DeSwiss Mar 2015 #30

If it had been Klingons there would have been toilet paper left behind davidpdx Mar 2015 #51

43 pieces? Earth_First Mar 2015 #32

More specific than counting returns on a RADAR system? Thor_MN Mar 2015 #48

Paraphrasing Lenny Bruce, If the Jews didn't do it, it must have been the Puerto Ricans. Hoppy Mar 2015 #33

Obviously destroyed by space-aliens nikto Mar 2015 #36

Okay DU Submariner Mar 2015 #37

It was likely attacked. zappaman Mar 2015 #39

Could be a tin whiskers short Zorro Mar 2015 #42

I'm not saying that it was aliens..... Nye Bevan Mar 2015 #43

Space Junk... GReedDiamond Mar 2015 #46

The Teamsters did it seveneyes Mar 2015 #54

Message auto-removed Name removed Mar 2015 #55

Must have used cheap Chinese parts. roamer65 Mar 2015 #59

Death Star father founding Mar 2015 #60