Thursday, February 14, 2008

Space Balls The Movie-Pentagon To Shoot at Garbage in Outer Space

Fire up the Whinybago, and put on your Puke Piewalker pajamas, as the Pentagon is going garbage hunting in outerspace, the Final Frontier. Forget the not so famous, but truly humorous "Spaceballs the Movie", this is real life. Seems an ill-fated spy satellite launched in 2006 is about to crash back into the Earth's atmosphere, endangering mankind and the environment. (The AP story failed to express any concerns for the environment.) We as a civilized society, as a world people need to seriously rethink our imprint (not just carbon) on this planet when our military is attempting to shoot garbage out of the sky. It is saddening to think we as a world are becoming more like Saturn every day, with our ring of garbage in our oceans, and now a ring of debris circling overhead. In the boys and their toys department, this is not an attempt by George Bush to one up China's military feat of shooting one of their own satellites out of orbit.

US to Shoot Down Broken Spy Satellite



Posted: 2008-02-14 16:30:14

Filed Under: Nation News


WASHINGTON (Feb. 14) - President Bush decided to make a first-of-its-kind attempt to use a missile to bring down a broken U.S. spy satellite because of the potential danger to people from its rocket fuel, officials said Thursday.


A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.
Robert
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