Friday, February 15, 2008

Experts Scoff at Satellite Shoot-Down Rationale

Noah Shachtman writes on Danger Room:

The Pentagon says it has to shoot down a malfunctioning spy satellite because of the threat of a toxic gas cloud.

Space security experts are calling the rationale highly unlikely. "Having the US government spend millions of dollars to destroy a billion-dollar failure to save zero lives is comedic gold," one tells DANGER ROOM.

More here.

1 Comments:

At Wed Feb 20, 07:02:00 PM PST, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Now they are talking about shooting the satellite down at 1030 tonite...right in the middle of the lunar eclipse!! Something's up!!

 

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