....you mean like a heat-seeking missile? These are less accurate than radar-guided missiles, like the one they shot it down wiht.
--Doom Tony wrote: > i think its impressive to gel. > whats more impressive is that it was a COLD object > travelling at 17000mph, in space WOW. > > i mean, i get hitting a travelling object, that is warm > has a contrail, etc, but a COLD object, no heat, moving > that fast, WOW. > > if i were another country imagining sending missiles to > hurt the USA, i would say, we kinda ratcheted up another > reason not to. > > tw > > On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 12:30 PM, Vivec <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> "an Aegis-class cruiser, fired a single missile just before 10:30 p.m. >> Eastern time, and the missile hit the satellite as it traveled at more >> than 17,000 miles per hour, the Pentagon said in its official >> announcement. " >> >> Damn...that's pretty impressive hitting an object travelling that fast. >> >> And you would think there would be some mission to clean up the space >> debris around the earth too. But I guess...how do you stop chunks of >> metal flying around at 17,000 miles an hour...:-\ >> >> >> > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;160198600;22374440;w Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:254727 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
