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From: lwall@sdcrdcf.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.space
Subject: Re: OMNI ASAT article
Message-ID: <1177@sdcrdcf.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 2-Jul-84 09:29:36 EDT
Article-I.D.: sdcrdcf.1177
Posted: Mon Jul  2 09:29:36 1984
Date-Received: Wed, 4-Jul-84 00:28:04 EDT
References: <1271@sri-arpa.UUCP> <20400bbb.142@apollo.uucp>
Reply-To: lwall@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Larry Wall)
Organization: System Development Corporation, Santa Monica
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In article <20400bbb.142@apollo.uucp> eric@apollo.UUCP writes:

>>The most recent issue of OMNI magazine has an article by Oberg about
>>a technique the Soviets could use to wipe out all satellites in
>>geosynchronous orbit.
>>
>>Upon command, the satellite would expel its
>>cargo of pebbles/sand grains/etc.  US satellites in geo would encounter
>>the objects at twice orbital velocity, once every 12 hours.
>
>What a mess that would make!  GEO orbits are VALUABLE!  And it would be
>a long time (if ever) before anyone could clean them up.  Who thinks of
>this stuff, I wonder?

Chess players.  QxR/GEO, sacrificing Q but mate in 2.

Larry Wall
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