Shooting Down A Satellite

The truth about why the U.S is going to try and shoot down that satellite that is failing and slowly falling out of earth orbit has almost nothing to do with what the government says its about. They say that they are worried about people on the ground. That's not it. That satellite was launched in 2006. It is a state of the art piece of technological equipment that the U.S government does not want any other country to get it hands on. It can land anywhere, there is no way to tell where it would come down. The fear is that it might fall someplace on the earth where we cant recover it like say Russia or some part of the pacific ocean where we cant get to it before other countries can and make it disappear and then take it home and take the thing apart piece by piece and discover how to make a state of the art satellite and end up building a similiar version of their own that they in turn use to spy on us. That is what the big fear is. The government is not worried that the satellite is going to come down and land on your house or mine, it does not worry about those kinds of things it worries about its military secrets remaining secret. The other reason is simply to just see if they can do it. The Bush administration believes in the viability of a misslie defense system that can one day shoot down incoming missiles that are fired at the U.S. from enemy countries and it just wants to see if it can do it is all. It wants to see if it is possible. It is called research and development. It's the same reason we went to the moon, to see if we can do it, and at the same time while we are at it try and show off a little about what we can do, that is if we can do it. We shall see.

P.S. ---The satellite in question was shot down successfully on the first try on February 20th 2007 with a missile that was launched from a U.S. cruiser in the Pacific ocean west of Hawaii at about 10 p.m.