India successfully shoots down satellite in space

Post by azemda » Thu, Mar 28, 2019, 4:38 AM UTC

nindalf wrote: post #17

abhinai wrote: post #3

I wonder why the prime minister felt the need to announce this himself. If I remember correctly the Chinese premier did not announce their test.

Modi takes the credit for anything achieved by the government or government backed entities like the space organisation. He singlehandedly opened bank accounts (that are empty), surgically struck Pakistan (with his bare hands), got us to space, developed missiles, brought the black money back, won the cricket world cup, created jobs, built the mandir (that's built, right?) and a million other achievements. What's cur…

Post by z3phyr » Thu, Mar 28, 2019, 7:04 AM UTC

garmaine wrote: post #79

z3phyr wrote: post #46

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Then everybody will do it secretly. It's only a travesty when someone starts it; other people have the right to respond to parity with their own.

There's no way to secretly test these weapons. To be clear, I'm not objecting to the weapons existence. I'm objecting to the tests, which are potentially worse than above-ground nuclear testing. The kessler syndrome, if realized, would permanently destroy our ability to deploy, access, and use space resources.

Post by timdiggerm » Thu, Mar 28, 2019, 1:18 PM UTC

shripadk wrote: post #96

timdiggerm wrote: post #32

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It is definitely possible that the exercise was carried out independent of the election schedule, but Modi announcing it (instead of some lower official) is because of the elections, part of making every bit of possible patriotism count. Don't be too quick to overstate others' positions!

Modi heads the Department of Space. He has every right to announce it whether you like it or not. As far as overstating positions go, the opposition in India was quick to jump to conspiracy theories after the Pulwama attack saying that Modi orchestrated the entire attack for political gains. This ridiculous conspiracy theory mongering has gone on to unprecedented levels this election. After failing at making a dent f…

Post by natch » Tue, Apr 02, 2019, 6:51 AM UTC

lodi wrote: post #89

natch wrote: post #65

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Unless some pieces were boosted higher by the explosion. But I guess they are confident this could never happen.

When you boost an orbiting object in this manner there's only two possibilities for what can happen next: a) you give it enough energy to reach escape velocity, in which case there's no problem. b) you blow out the circular orbit into a long ellipse. The far end, apogee, can be very far out depending on how much energy you added, but the near end, perigee, is always at the same altitude as it was at the moment of imp…