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Thursday, February 14, 2008

Pentagon to shoot down renegade spy satellite

Spy Satellite snapshotThe US government has finally put together a plan to avoid the civilization-decimating disaster that would have resulted from its impact with Earth: they're gonna blow it up. That's right -- US officials have confirmed that they're going to use modified SM-3 missiles fired from a cruiser and destroyer off the Northwest coast of Hawaii to take the thing out.

The weapons have additional fuel and new software which will allow them to reach the object in orbit, thus blasting it to smithereens. The resulting impact will leave nothing but "space junk," which will endlessly pollute the galaxy until we're wiped out by a reverse "Big Bang" or doomsday device.

Source- http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/14/pentagon-to-shoot-down-renegade-spy-satellite/

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