If we want to bring down a wayward satellite because we'd prefer what's on it not get into the wrong hands, why don't we just say so?
This nonsense about toxic gas hasn't even convinced the JCS:
Joint Chiefs of Staff Vice Chairman Gen. James Cartwright cast the threat from the satellite in much less dire terms. Even if the hydrazine were released, he noted, the effects would likely be mild -- akin to chlorine gas poisoning, which can cause burning in the lungs, and elsewhere. The area affected would be "roughly the size of two football fields [where you might] incur something that would make you go to the doctor."
If there hadn't been so many lies fed to us over the past seven years I'd be more likely to believe the "dangerous gas" explanation. More discussion here.
Remember when they said not to touch the bits of Columbia that dropped all over the midwest because it was "radioactive"? Yeah...I'm guessing you're right about this one too.
Posted by: Karan at February 17, 2008 05:30 PM