Wednesday, February 20, 2008

Satellite Party!

Let's have a party and watch the U.S. Government shoot down this errant satellite and spend yours and my hard earned dollars to the tune of $60 million (that's just for the missile). China did this some years back to a much smaller satellite and everyone's complaining that there is debris up to 4 inches thick as a result....and this will be different....how?? Not to mention they will be using the heat seeking technology used in other missiles currently, yet they have to tone down the settings since the satellite is "colder than usual." Uh well no shit its been in space for a few years if not decades its kinda cold out there, but I have to hand it to those rocket scientists, I mean at last they picked up on this....do we remember when they screwed up measurements forgetting to convert them back from millimeter to meters, or something like that....yea thats only off by a thousandth...no big deal.

Hey listen, its not like we have a say in how much they spend or if they do it or not cause NASA's a bunch of space cowboys anyway, but I can tell you this, lets hope my plane isn't in the air when they decide to launch this puppy because I'm assuming my jet will be a little warmer than that satellite and I really don't feel like jumping out of the plane to skip being shit plowed by the $60 mil rocket going an "estimated 22,000 mph".

So yea in terms of the party I'm thinking we all watch TV and turn on Chemical Brothers song Surface to Air. Sound good?

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