Ok, I am a little scared…how about you? I feel a bit like Chicken Little….the (objects from ) the sky is falling, the sky is falling! The very, top secret, spy satellite that was put up in space less than two years ago quit working and it is now falling to the Earth’s atmosphere.
The US Military has plans to blow it up with a missile. Sounds a bit like the Hollywood movie entitled, Armageddon. Now the problem is that our space shuttle is still up there flying around and they need to wait for that to land here on Earth before they try to blow this bus sized satellite to smithereens.
The space shuttle Atlantis is scheduled to land on the 20th of February. The military could actually try to blow it up starting on this sunday the 17th; however, from what we hear on the news reports, this satellite has toxic/poisonous gas on it that could kill alot of people should it hit the Earth in a populated area.
I am sure they are waiting for the shuttle to land so as to not expose the astronaughts to the danger of the gas and debris.
The military has a total of three missiles ready to be launched at the satellite. There is a very narrow window to shoot and hit this bus sized object. What happens if for some reason, all three missiles miss?
So, what does the American public do? Should we prepare our homes and our families as if we were being targeted by terrorists? Plastic wrap the windows of our homes, stock up on batteries and water, and basic necessities?
All i know is, when that thing hits even if it is blown up …there will be remenants of the satellite that will still not burn up in the atmosphere…so i hope that missile busts it up good so that any remaining parts burn up good and proper. I dont want poisonous gas anywhere inside of the ozone layer where we are all exposed to who knows what.
There are those who say…hooey…it is only being blown up because it is a spy satellite and the government doesn’t want it’s secrets available to any other government. That is probably somewhat of a valid argument also. I sure dont want other governments to have access to our military secrets either.
However, on the chance that both ideas have merit…i sure hope that the people in charge of aiming and firing those missiles are of the highest caliber of skills and knowledge.
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