Re: Wormley's position on space debris

Tom Potter wrote:
"Sam Wormley" <swormley1@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:zCBll.516098$TT4.119929@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Tom Potter wrote:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/13/AR2009021302071.html
"The military tracks about 18,000 pieces of orbital debris. Earlier this week the census of space-shmutz suddenly jumped by 600, the initial estimate of the number of fragments from a stunning collision Tuesday of two satellites high above Siberia.

Space is now polluted with the flotsam and jetsam of a satellite-dependent civilization. The debris is increasingly a hazard for human spaceflight and has put everything from the Hubble Space Telescope to communications satellites at risk of being struck by an object moving at hypervelocity."

Newsgroups: sci.physics
From: Sam Wormley <sworml...@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 15:02:34 GMT
Local: Mon, Feb 19 2007 11:02 pm
Subject: Re: Negating America's War Machine

Tom Potter wrote:
It appears that Rumsfeld and Bush ignored the fact
that the GPS system can be neutralized globally
by wiping out the GPS satellites,
by exploding a nuclear or fragmentation device in space,
(Kennedy wiped out most of the satellites back in 1971
when he had a nuclear bomb exploded in space.)
Don't be so stoooopid, Potter. Thirty-two nuke on use cities would be a lot easier.
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What would be the best way to negate America's War Machine which is heavily dependent upon the GPS System?

Nuke 32 U.S. cities, or explode ONE fragmentation bomb in GPS orbital space?

If Potter only had a clue as to where those NAVSTAR satellite
are located with respect to the space debris.

I was surprised to see that Sam Wormley did not comprehend that my post made the point that America should not put all of its' military eggs in one GPS basket, as a well placed "nuclear or fragmentation device" could take out the system.

Of course, it may be that Sammy thinks that "nuclear or fragmentation device" cannot be exploded in "GPS orbital space" for some strange reason. ( Maybe General Relativity???)


If Potter only had a clue as to where those NAVSTAR satellite
are located.

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