<p>Does anyone believe that the satellite was effectively destroyed?</p>
<p>I say Nay, because it's the Bush admin, and we all know they lied a lot. Another reason is that they're not showing us high resolution pictures of the satellite being blown apart.</p>
<p>Disagree. Do you really think that no one in the international community would have noticed if the satellite had not been effectively destroyed? Do you honestly need "high resolution pictures" just to believe something happened? And as far as stretching the truth with the American public goes, well, it's happened with nearly every administration in our 200+ year history, so don't try to paint the Bush administration as some terribly corrupt oligarchy.</p>
<p>i'm not going to worry about it b/c if they either didn't believe they hit it or knew they didn't hit it, they wouold have told the public b/c the satellite had dangerous fuel on it.</p>
<p>YouTube</a> - Rogue Spy Satellite Blast</p>
<p>Looks like a good hit to me.</p>
<p>(Not a rickroll)</p>
<p>I agree.
I can't say what the degree of danger existed, but I don't believe that it was about the dangerous fuel - </p>
<p>If you constructed a high-tech spy thingy, wouldn't you include a self-destruction mechanism (just like with normal satellites), just in case? (Don't tell me that the computers failed. Self-destruction mechanisms are designed to work WITHOUT computers and are not linked with the normal bus system. At all. It wouldn't make sense...)</p>
<p>If one of your bigger rivals (China) would show you that it can blow up its own satellites - showing you that is military is quite advanced - would you ignore that?
If you had some missile defense project running- would you use an excellent opportunity to try it?</p>
<p>I'm not trying to sound too suspicious, but here from the distance the whole thing sounds a bit fishy..</p>
<p>Lets blame Bush for the hell of it.............God knows he's caused all of America's other problems, why not a satalite crash...........Give me a break</p>