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mystery-ak · « **on:** April 21, 2022, 02:05:00 pm »

April 21, 2022 5:00am EDT
Russia's Putin and China's Xi laugh at space cadet Kamala Harris
This is another sign of the White House in foreign policy free fall

By Rebecca Grant | Fox News

Please keep Vice President Kamala Harris away from the Space Force. Instead of visiting America’s southern border or even Ukraine, Vice President Harris went home to California for a big speech at Vandenberg Air Force Base on Monday.

"Space is exciting!" Harris cooed in that faux-bright tone we use on 6-year-olds confronting broccoli at dinner. "It affects us all and it connects us all," she continued. Spoiler alert: it gets worse.

With Space Force service members arrayed behind her for the big speech, Harris announced the U.S. would halt "destructive satellite tests," where your missile blows up your own, old satellite on orbit. "These tests are dangerous and we will not conduct them," said Harris. Then she called on all nations including China and Russia to join the ban.

Here’s the kicker: the U.S. has no plans to blow up satellites. The only true American anti-satellite test took place in 1985. It was actually a pretty cool event, involving an Air Force F-15 fighter and a special missile. Then in 2008, the U.S. shot down a broken spy satellite, carefully timing the impact so the chunks would burn up in the atmosphere.

But that’s it. That’s the whole U.S. record, two anti-satellite shots. For Harris to make a unilateral pledge, to stop something the U.S. wasn’t doing anyway, was bonkers.

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Kamaji · « **Reply #1 on:** April 21, 2022, 02:12:29 pm »

There is something to be said for not blowing up satellites in orbit just to test your equipment - unless you have the ability to de-orbit the resulting debris and bring it back into the atmosphere.

Otherwise, you just create a new debris field in orbit that can render an entire orbit useless to other satellites - including your own.

240B · « **Reply #2 on:** April 21, 2022, 02:35:30 pm »

Quote from: mystery-ak on April 21, 2022, 02:05:00 pm

But that’s it. That’s the whole U.S. record, two anti-satellite shots. For Harris to make a unilateral pledge, to stop something the U.S. wasn’t doing anyway, was bonkers.

It just a distraction for stupid people to give the appearance that the Biden Administration is doing something, without doing anything at all. With crime, inflation, world war, invasion from the south, the Biden admin decided to take the bold and brave stand to outlaw 'lynching'... LOL ... as if this was some pressing urgent need on the minds of all Americans.

Nobody is being 'lynched' these days, and lynching was always illegal anyway as it is a form of murder. But yes, stopping things that nobody is doing seems to be a theme in this administration.