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Bullseye! US shoots down spy satellite!

By | February 20, 2008, 7:55pm PST

Summary: Good job. According to Reuters, the US has succeeded in shooting down its errant spy satellite. Update:  Yes, there is video.

Good job. According to Reuters, the US has succeeded in shooting down its errant spy satellite.

Update:  Yes, there is video.

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A former ZDNet blogger, Richard Stiennon is an industry consultant. Most recently he was Chief Marketing Officer for Fortinet, Inc., the largest privately held security vendor. prior to that he was Chief Research Analyst at IT-Harvest. And before creating IT-Harvest, he was VP of threat research for Webroot Software, Inc. the leading commercial anti-spyware solution.

Previously, Richard was VP Research at Gartner, Inc. where he covered security topics including firewalls, intrusion detection, intrusion prevention, security consulting and managed security services for the Security and Privacy group. He is a holder of Gartner's Thought Leadership award for 2003 and was named "One of the 50 most powerful people in Networking" by NetworkWorld magazine. His speaking engagements have included conferences and meetings throughout North and South America, Hawaii, Tokyo, Tel Aviv, Istanbul, Milan, Munich, Hannover, Madrid, London, and Cannes.

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Again -Big - Giant - waste of money
Prime Detailer 21st Feb 2008
OK - must be one of group of people who don't believe in science or probability.
So in that vain, God will prevent this stupid satellite from hitting anyone. Now, if
the satellite were to hit my house, I'd gladly take 60 million in compensation.

Really - when was the last time you heard of anyone or anything being hit from
some piece of space junk that reentered the atmosphere? Our current leaders have
been governing by fear for the last 7 years. This was really just target practice for
our new super duper "missile shield". And do you really think they are not going to
replace the missile that was used. I qualify because I happen to pay a lot of tax
every year and have done some reading in the past about falling space junk. I
wasn't spewing, but you certainly seem to have drool sticking to the side of your
mouth.
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At what cost?
Prime Detailer 21st Feb 2008
I saw heard on the news last night that it cost $60 million to shoot down this satellite.
I think a lot of good things could have been done with that money instead of shooting
down a satellite. I don't think there was any danger. I think that this was merely an
opportunity for some military type to practice shooting at stuff in space.
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They already had the missle ....
ShadeTree 21st Feb 2008
... so that money could not be used for something else. What qualifies you to judge if there was any danger or not? Do you have something to support your contentions or are you just idly spewwing random thought?
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Again -Big - Giant - waste of money
Prime Detailer 21st Feb 2008
OK - must be one of group of people who don't believe in science or probability.
So in that vain, God will prevent this stupid satellite from hitting anyone. Now, if
the satellite were to hit my house, I'd gladly take 60 million in compensation.

Really - when was the last time you heard of anyone or anything being hit from
some piece of space junk that reentered the atmosphere? Our current leaders have
been governing by fear for the last 7 years. This was really just target practice for
our new super duper "missile shield". And do you really think they are not going to
replace the missile that was used. I qualify because I happen to pay a lot of tax
every year and have done some reading in the past about falling space junk. I
wasn't spewing, but you certainly seem to have drool sticking to the side of your
mouth.

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