{"id":1471,"date":"2008-02-14T21:17:45","date_gmt":"2008-02-14T21:17:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2008\/02\/14\/navy-will-shoot-down-satellite\/"},"modified":"2008-02-14T21:17:45","modified_gmt":"2008-02-14T21:17:45","slug":"navy-will-shoot-down-satellite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/14\/navy-will-shoot-down-satellite\/","title":{"rendered":"Navy Will Shoot Down Satellite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some time in the next few days the US navy will fire a rocket in order to shoot down a satellite carrying 454 kilograms of the very poisonous substance hydrazine.  By blowing the satellite up, the hydrazine tank will explode dispersing the gas to a low concentration level If the tank is not blown up, it would likely survive re-entry.  If it burst on contact with the earth, several city blocks could be covered with deadly gas.<!--more-->Most likely, the satellite will not hit a few city block, and the military says it is most likely to come down in a desolate area.  But, the military has said a lot of things in the past that they just made up, so who knows.  <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/americas\/7245578.stm\">(BBC)<\/a>In any event, about half of the 2,700 kilogram satellite is expected to make it to the surface of the earth.One distinct possibiltiy is that the navy rocket could fail to hit the satellite, which would demonstrate the effectiveness of the United State&#8217;s national defense system, showing a weakness which would likely be exploited by, for example, the Canadians.  Those of us in northern states should be on the lookout for an invasion from Canada.  There have been reports for some time now that the Canadians have been massing on the border, so this is pretty serious.<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/472\/files\/2012\/04\/i-34531e7175eca06257943c830962fd96-AnimatedMap_e.gif?w=604\" alt=\"i-34531e7175eca06257943c830962fd96-AnimatedMap_e.gif\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/geodepot.statcan.ca\/Diss\/Highlights\/Page3\/AnimatedMap_e.cfm\">Source of Invasion Map<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some time in the next few days the US navy will fire a rocket in order to shoot down a satellite carrying 454 kilograms of the very poisonous substance hydrazine. By blowing the satellite up, the hydrazine tank will explode dispersing the gas to a low concentration level If the tank is not blown up, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/14\/navy-will-shoot-down-satellite\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Navy Will Shoot Down Satellite<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[191],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-nJ","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1471"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1471\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}