This may be a big problem for all countries in the years to come that have Satelites and if one gets hit then the remenence will be a floating hazard in space destroying or damaging others. Or in the best outcome, just burn in the atmosphere. Not a good sign.
A new book called 'Spacewars' by William Scott is the perfect read on this subject. An ex Aviation Week & Space technology magazine editor, Scott just hits it on the head as to how vulnerable our space sats are.
Hate to say it, but the next MAJOR (Irag and Afganistan are minor wars) WAR will be with China. The sad part of it is, is that because the United States has allowed much of her manufactering might to go over to China, and because so much of America's economy is tied into Chinese loans and investments in the United States, and because China is flushed with money, while the United States is not, they're is a damn good chance that China could defeat the United States. About the only thing China lacks is a large "deep water" navy, and I don't think it'll be very long before she has one. The United States Navy is down to about two hundred and forty-eight ships, many of which are twenty-plus years old, and the workers in America's shipyards are getting older and older with not a lot of young blood coming in to replace them. Makes you wonder, "down the road" who's going to rebuilt our Navy and her ships. btw, just FYI, it takes any were from five to seven years or longer for a US Navy ship to be built from the early proposal stages to the actual commisioning of the ship, a lesson I learned from 22 years working at a Naval Architect/Marine Engineering firm supporting NAVSEA. Of course, I got laid off 5 years ago because the top heavy managemnet of that company decided they had "to many" engineers and designers/draftsmen working for them. Basically they wanted to "gut" the company before selling it off (which they eventually did). Hate to say it, but the next round of ship design and ship building will probably to great extent have to be "outsourced". Wonder if a Chinese firm will get some of those contracts? Wouldn't be surprised, such is the stupidity and greed of many in the United States government (especially the Republican crowd, but the Democrats aren't far behind them in selling off America to other countries).
What Tech exactly did Mr. Clinton sell to China? Is the tech required for these missiles apart of what he chose to sell? Or is it tech China stole from company's dumb (greedy) enough to build their product's there? I personally have had enough of the whole China issue. We are forgetting the basic fact. 15 years ago China was a communist country but we didn't care because they were harmless. 15 years later China is still a communist country and they are shooting down satellite's like target practice. How does this happen? Greedy US Company's CEO's and Board Of Directors taking away US job's and money for middle class and sending them to China. Least we forget THEY ARE A COMMUNIST STATE! Wake up, stop selling us down the river so you can afford your 10+ million dollar salary you think you deserve! What good is your money when China is buying up our debt at a record rate? China spends more each year on their military. Where do they get the money to do so? When was the last time you picked up something that did not say "Made In China". Our generation is the first in US history that is expected to NOT economically succeed as our parents did. Why is that? How many products were made in the US then? How many are today? These are jobs that family's can make a living without a college degree. Manufacturing is almost dead in this country, yet manufacturing is what has built this country. How can we let this happen? This is our issue and it will define the US for years to come. Remember this the next time you walk into a Walmart. You are buying China made products at a retailer who does not want to pay benefits to their employees. This is the current face of America!
Hate to say it, but the next MAJOR (Irag and Afganistan are minor wars) WAR will be with China.
It doesn't need to happen. There is no inexorable law of the universe that says it has to happen. It will only happen if the Governments of both the USA and China feel it is in their best interests. And, the way things are going at the present time, you can never say what will happen 10 or 20 years down the road, a major war on that scale would be in nobody's interests. But you are right, Cleaned Up, there is more than a good chance the Chinese would win it, on the sheer weight of numbers alone . . .
Allan Greenspan gives his opinion: OIL INTERESTS. And the VEEPS contractor interests might also be a factor, I suppose.
Allan Greenspan is actually right on that one . . . All the flag waving, lets spread democracy, is just window dressing to make a resource grab (oil and sites for military bases to dominate the Middle East) acceptable.
I think we need to yank the rug out from under China and withdraw ALL our assets and production from that country. I for one have been avoiding purches of products that are made in China. Not only have we hurt our US economy with this and denied good jobs to our Fellow Americans, but we have FUNDED China's irresponsible actions!!! It is PAST time we pulled EVERYTHING out of China and see how their economy fares after that. Hey, and by the way ... Thanks to the Idiot Bill Clinton for making China "Most favored nation" we are in trouble again!
Why waste any more American young men and women lifes let just turn the country over to the Chinesse,we have given them everything else.It time for our law maker to get some balls and stop our greetly business Ceo from selling out this country by putting our men and women out of jobs( for their own money hungry pockets) and sending the jobs over sea and Mexico. They live in the USA keep the job here and make our people wealthy not other nations.Stop giving china on factories and ban all factory from leaving this country.... My believe is that these people and the law makers are tratior to this country.Our children and grand kids will pay for the money hungry Ceo's and these fools we call our leaders......
I always told everybody not to thrust those snake-faces. Do noth thrust people who eat cats and dogs. Those snake-faces have no culture, no respect for life, no nothing. We already shóuld have nuke´em loooong time ago when it was still time, before the korean war ...
American greed and our politicins and big business CEO's have sold us and our country out. Ever try to buy something in Lowe's or Home Depot that isnt Made in China??? Nearly impossible. I was ready an article about shipbuilding and the article stated that if a World War 2 era Liberty ship was to be built today here, only 45% of the ship could be completed with domestically available components. What have we done to ourselves??????
We will not go to war with China, they will just control us economically, there is more than one way to conquare your enemy. Military force is a last option. It's much easier and cleaner to bully them with economic power we have done it to others, infact we always use economic power as a weapon.
Getting back to the point in a war you can forget about any satellite use at all, so this relaince on GPS is going to make a lot of weapons useless, hope you Navy guys still know how to navigate with out GPS I know we in the Coast Guard are over reliant on GPS.
Time has a way of changing your view of life. I have lived through the end of the depression, WWII, Korean "police action", fought in the Vietnam "conflict", over throw of Cuba, the Cuban missile crisis, I have lost count of the world wide destabilization of a country's government and take overs by "bad guys", the end of the "Iron Curtain", the end of the cold war, the migration of our industry to Japan, Europe, Mexico, the Pacific Rim countries.
The African's mine precious metals and gem stones. Sell to the world market for just a very small part of their actual value and others become wealthy from them. Crude oil doesn't sell for any $3.00 a gallon at the well. Someone recovers it, sells it for a small portion of it's market value and others be come wealthy dealing in the sale of it. While all this was going on, every time a country became wealthy, they became a threat to the destabilization of the world. The owners of industry in the United States became wealthy supplying it's government with goods and material to fight a world war. The Japanese had been slowly destroying China for over 14 years before the "Korean conflict" took place. Industry in China was all but gone, it's "military" (one in three men had a fire arm of some kind) had been all but destroyed by the Japanese occupation when we took them on with our military in Korea and we paid a very heavy price militarily, we are still there and North Korea has still not signed a peace treaty. Our great industry just didn't up and leave the United States. Laws, environmental issues, unworkable restriction, the list is endless caused the migration of our industry to a more friendly place. In another country. The political agendas in the United States has taken over our military and for the most part it is now a civilian commercial operation. The China picture as of this moment has become the country to take the Soviet Union's place in the watch out for these bad guys and their next move. Americans are more than slightly dependent on the goods from other countries vital to our own defense. We are in a vulnerable position and Americans have got to wake up and take their country back. President Ronald Reagan called it "Star wars" and the world listened. One can only hope that China's action in space of the missile shoot down of a satellite, gives all Americans a wake up call. With the open political bickering on the nightly snooze every night. 9/11 has been twisted from a rallying point to a political football and much like Vietnam unpopular to the American public.
Only science fiction writers have authored announcements like these within their stories of a future when space is a home for humanity. Not until this decade have we realized the potential of space as a battlefield. China has not been the only threat toward conquering the night sky. They are, however, the first to stake a flag in the only land without soil. We should not be concerned with Iraq and Afghanistan, let those wars explode until their dust. We should not be concerned with returning to the moon, NASA's publicity stunt for the ignorrant American. Instead of these daily headline headaches, we should invest our resources in the futures written so many paperbacks ago. In the community of space, where the term astronaut is a sneer at history, beacuase the title is no longer a unique career, yet its a lifestyle. Forget million dollar day trips into the unknown, we should emphasis the forefront as the new development of mansions. Is this statement exaggerated, yes. The science fiction authors were too in their times, so its only a matter of time before we make sense of fantasies.
I'm assuming all recent satellites launched would have laser defense systems in place. The technology is there. We need to protect our interests. If the commies want trouble they came to the right place. We should have never stopped in North Korea. Uh ruh!
What happened with our manufacturing was done also by greedy workers and unions. Lets take the steel industry for example. The unions continued to ask and get more benefits and salarys for the workers, way beyond what they should have. Like a 3 month vacation every 3 yrs, that was including the regular 4 wks evrey yr. They kept adding men to jobs, so it ended up one slept half the night. This helped close steel mills. I know,my dad was one of them. He used to talk about how it would run the businesses out of here, and it did. The companys diversified, and steel became too expensive for them to produce. So they just closed up the mills and did something profitable. A lot of other businesses did too, or moved over seas. Now we must rely on other countries to do it for us. WE did it to ourselves.
This certainly is a more realistic; and a far, far greater; threat to our nation than exists in Iraq.
