Jeremy Hsu of Imaginova penned an article for Space News: “Space Arms Race Heats up Overnight.” A few choice bits (my emphases):
“It was an unfortunate choice by the United States that seems to have been unnecessary. The fact is that satellites fall from space all the time and the risk of it was fairly minimal,” [...]
At least the eclipse was nice.
Morning has broken and we are not at war! The Navy successfuly shot down a malfunctioning spy satellite that could have posed a threat to terrestrial (read: living) interests and, astonishingly to the blame-America-first, kill-all-the-humans-but-leave-the-stars-alone crowd, the End of Days is not obviously at hand.
See Jeffrey Lewis’s, Leader of the Doomsday [...]
I received this technical analysis (Forden analysis) by MIT’s Geoffrey E. Forden regarding the US Navy’s proposed shootdown of USA 193. Forden’s attempts at objectivity are laughable, but the commentary that accompanied his e-mail shows the ethical vacuity of his school of thought. Better to let some folks die than sully pristine outer space with the possibility of conflict [...]
It doesn’t get any better than this. Whyis the Navy going to shoot down an inoperable American spy satellite? Lots opf reasons come to mind, very few of which jive with the official version that it is an issue of pubic safety. Our friend Jim Oberg has, as usual, the most scientifically sound and logical responses–but [...]