US satellite with toxic payload to be shot down over Ireland!!!

Sleepy · 15-02-2008 05:03PM

Please, please, please let them miss and hit the pentagon on re-entry

It would just be so ridiculously funny...

briantwin · 15-02-2008 05:18PM

News just in,

there has been chatter on the international wire that a joint operation between the Irish and US governments to resolve this current satellite issue.

They have retro-fitted the SM-3 missiles with 2 seperate chambers with Philadelphia cream cheese and curry chips inside. The taoisheach has also ordered not to feed Minister Mary Harney for the for-seeable future. The idea being that the minister of health will catch said satellite and avert any damage or injury.

An anonymous source is quoted as saying "well i wouldn't worry about that satellite anymore. I've seen Mary go through a 16 inch reinforced steel door for a creamcake so a 5 ton satellite covered in Philadelphia and curry chips should be easy pickins for her".

Apparently there have been doing test runs using Ford Fiestas filled with chicken wings and Louisiana sauce getting fired from a trebuchet with a 4 out of 5 success rate.

Only time will tell if this ambitious plan works!!

lostexpectation · 15-02-2008 07:34PM

astronomy ireland should never let there name be associated which such a inacurrate article

Oh look Gary Fennelly broke out the crayons
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/article3434509.ece#

Archeron · 15-02-2008 08:04PM

FunkZ wrote: »

I'm gonna rebuild it and go into orbit. Anyone coming?

I expect in-flight entertainment.

Manic Moran · 15-02-2008 08:17PM

Mr.S wrote: »

i bet they miss..

Probably why they want to shoot it down. the SM-3 system is still in the testing phase, and it's as good an opportunity to conduct an additional test as any.

NTM

christo82 · 15-02-2008 09:39PM

Ikky Poo2 wrote: »

And the missile arcs gracefully back to earth destroying the one and only exit route out of Ireland...

the Holyhead Ferry

Tha Gopher · 15-02-2008 09:40PM

Damomanye wrote: »

i nearly choked on my cornflakes this morning when i read this...

The Pentagon is planning to shoot down a satellite orbiting over Ireland with a missile from a US navy warship

We have modified three SM-3 missiles aboard Aegis ships to strike the satellite," said James E Cartwright, vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.He predicts a fairly high chance - as much as 80 percent - of hitting the satellite, which will be about 150 miles up when the shot is fired.

"We'll take one shot and assess," he said. "This is the first time we've used a tactical missile to engage a spacecraft."

Astronomy enthusiasts say that debris could land anywhere from Co Cork to Co Donegal. Satellite trackers say that the 5,000lb craft, about the size of a small bus, travels on an orbit of 58.5 degrees that takes it over most of the Earth from Ireland and the tip of Scotland to Patagonia at the southern end of Latin America.

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/article3434509.ece

Excuse me while build a bunker..

Do you work for The Sun or The Herald? A big dramatic headline to read a story about ifs, buts and probablys. From what I gauge from sensibly reading it the satellite will fall somewhere between Glasgow and the far south of Chile. Its hardly a confirmed hit on us is it.

Wouldnt it be ironic if after posting this it ended up killing me.

I hope it hits my workplace in the middle of the night tbh.

galwayrush · 15-02-2008 09:51PM

I'll gladly pay for it to land on my Neighbours house.:cool:

ScumLord · 15-02-2008 10:10PM

I'll be severely disappointed if we don't get hit by bits of it. I'd even settle for seeing the rocket off if there firing from the Atlantic.

staker · 15-02-2008 10:14PM

where does the missile go if it misses dude?

Eero New · 15-02-2008 10:19PM

Sure if it kills someone it kills someone.

Bob the Builder · 15-02-2008 10:30PM

Eero New wrote: »

Sure if it kills someone it kills someone.

Well they say it's overpopulated anyway!

RonMexico · 15-02-2008 10:30PM

The yanks will probably miss and hit the international space station thus no more expensive trips on their clapped out shuttle. Tis all a conspiracy....

chuci · 15-02-2008 10:33PM

tin foil hats and superpowers yay the irish breed of superheroes. its going to miss isnt it.

Eero New · 15-02-2008 10:52PM

nevf wrote: »

Well they say it's overpopulated anyway!

Yeah, as long as it dosent kill me, i dont care about the rest of you.

Thats my 'New Ireland' attitude coming out in me...

galwayrush · 15-02-2008 10:55PM

Please land on my Neighbour's house
Please land on my Neighbour's house
Please land on my Neighbour's house

RoundyMooney · 15-02-2008 11:01PM

You have a Neighbours house?

Is it full of tanned Australians?

Capt'n Midnight · 15-02-2008 11:05PM

hydrazine ?

I reckon its a missile test disuised as FUD

can't they just vent the tanks ?

Hydrazine is similar to hydrogen peroxide in some ways, mainly that it is very easy to break down into relatively harmless stuff, and both ammonia and hydrazine have a similar smell, and no one likes babies nappies so even if it did survive then no one is going to try to taste it :rolleyes:

Can't see how the tank that contains it oculd survive reentry without the hydrazine getting up to decomposition termperature. Anyway here is this list of things that cause hydrazine to decompose to Nitrogen (inert), Hydrogen (non-toxic and fastest dispersing gas known) and some ammonia (it's what makes nappies smell so bad)
http://www.pcl.ox.ac.uk/MSDS/HY/hydrazine.html

May be an explosion hazard, particularly if heated. Incompatible with sources of ignition, light, shock, strong oxidizing agents, strong acids, metal oxides, nitrous oxide, hydrogen peroxide, most common metals, organic materials, porous materials such as wood, paper, asbestos, soil or rust.

galwayrush · 15-02-2008 11:09PM

RoundyMooney wrote: »

You have a Neighbours house?

Is it full of tanned Australians?

Can i swap the neighbour for a few tanned Australians?

RoundyMooney · 15-02-2008 11:10PM

In an ideal world, quite possibly.

galwayrush · 15-02-2008 11:13PM

RoundyMooney wrote: »

In an ideal world, quite possibly.

i could always shoot the neighbour and advertise for some tanned Aussies to move in.:cool:

Eero New · 15-02-2008 11:17PM

galwayrush wrote: »

i couod always shoot the neighbour and advertise for some tanned Aussies to move in.:cool:

Few things in life which are relatively unimportant annoy me... but bloody australians are one. Loud, arrogant, dumb and agressive, and thats just the burds.

Capt'n Midnight · 15-02-2008 11:17PM

oh yeah it was the Chinese that got a lot of stick for doing the last anti-satellite test a year ago.

Debris will probably cause more harm in the long run. Satellite launches are bloody expensive. The money to replace a satellite that has been damaged has to come from somewhere, and because of the cost it has to impact on some health scheme or other.

Capt'n Midnight · 15-02-2008 11:25PM

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg15621033.800-what-goes-up.html
russians have been using this for ages, some health concerns but can't tell if the rockets are the sole cause as russina environmental record is so bad, but possible 1,400 tonnes into the atmosphere

the russian fuel is not hydzine but a cross bweteen it and hydrocarbons so lots more combustion products

Manic Moran · 15-02-2008 11:26PM

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

oh yeah it was the Chinese that got a lot of stick for doing the last anti-satellite test a year ago.

Apparently there's a difference in altitude involved. The Chinese satellite was in a much higher orbit, so a much larger amount of debris which did not enter the atmosphere resulted.

can't they just vent the tanks ?

If the satellite were responding to instructions, it wouldn't be in a decomposing orbit to begin with.

NTM

Capt'n Midnight · 15-02-2008 11:49PM

Manic Moran wrote: »

Apparently there's a difference in altitude involved. The Chinese satellite was in a much higher orbit, so a much larger amount of debris which did not enter the atmosphere resulted.

The debris problem is that other sattelites get hit and go offline , even in a Low Earth Orbit the destruction of a satellite would cause some meterial to go to a slightly higher orbit , but the main problem is that small pieces can't be tracked. And then there are retrograd orbits, the Isrealies launched out over the med. A piece of debris hits one of those and now you have stuff travelling at up to 36,000 mph , not fun if you happen to be looking out of a window of the ISS when it arrives.

galwayrush · 15-02-2008 11:50PM

Eero New wrote: »

Few things in life which are relatively unimportant annoy me... but bloody australians are one. Loud, arrogant, dumb and agressive, and thats just the burds.

Oh i could easily live peacefully with a lot of loud Aussies next door after what i've lived beside for the last few years, an extremely loud Yank who has a negative opinion on everything Irish, and when i say loud, i mean ear splitting loud, and he can speak for hours despite having an intelligence level below that of an average earthworm.

St0n3d · 16-02-2008 03:26AM

*Waits eagerly*

Did it blow did it bloW! ?

Manic Moran · 16-02-2008 03:27AM

Well, if anyone really cares, you can track the satellite on http://www.n2yo.com/?s=29651

It's somewhere between New Zealand and Ecuador as I'm tying this.

NTM

gerky · 16-02-2008 03:52AM

St0n3d wrote: »

*Waits eagerly*

Did it blow did it bloW! ?

Must resist certain two words,you......must resist:p

US satellite with toxic payload to be shot down over Ireland!!!

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