"A Y2K glitch has nothing to do with the availability of orbital elements." This paragraph was meant for the original poster who had just posted a Milstar sighting Graham ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ted Molczan" <molczan@rogers.com> To: "SeeSat-L" <SeeSat-L@satobs.org> Sent: Saturday, August 07, 2004 11:32 PM Subject: RE: old article - Spy satellites on demand > Graham wrote: > > > Expect them to come aknockin.! > > > > "We know China and Russia are working on lasers that can > > blind our satellites. By publicly broadcasting their > > location, we make their job easy -- point and shoot. > > Any country having the resources to pursue such a program, would find it > relatively easy to develop an independent satellite tracking capability. It is > well known that Russia has a robust satellite tracking capability. I do not know > about China, but satellite tracking is well within its technological grasp. > Certainly, I can not imagine any country making the success of such a program > dependent upon sources of orbital data not under its control, much less > hobbyists. > > > > "Other satellite issues are equally troubling. For example, it > > is known that the Milstar, the main U.S. battlefield > > coordinating satellite, was knocked out for three hours in a > > Y2K glitch. Without the Milstar, the U.S. military is > > essentially blind on the battlefield. Much of the satellite > > data used to fight the Gulf War was coordinated through the > > Australia-based facilities at Pine Gap. " > > A Y2K glitch has nothing to do with the availability of orbital elements. > > The author of the article in question, Anthony LoBaido, wrote an opinion piece > dated 2001 Sep 13, in which he speculated about "filthy Jay Leno monologues" and > other possible causes of the 9-11 tragedy: > > http://www.opinionjournal.com/best/?id=95001149 > > http://www.dynamist.com/weblog/archives/2001/915.html > > excerpts: > > "Is New York the head of the "Great Satan"? All that is evil in the world can be > found in New York: MTV, the United Nations, the U.N. abortion programs, the > Council on Foreign Relations, New Age Church of St. John the Divine, Wall Street > greed, Madison Avenue manipulation and of course more confirmed AIDS cases than > the rest of America combined. Let's remember the filthy sodomite gay parade last > summer in New York. Let's remember all the New York politicians falling all over > themselves to praise this sick spectacle. > > And let's not forget that New Yorkers elected - by a landslide - the openly > Marxist, treasonous and abortion-mongering, occultic Hillary to a Senate seat. > All while fully knowing what she was all about." > > "Can the remnant in America help but honestly ask themselves: Is this the > fulfillment of Revelation chapters 17 and 18 (Mystery Babylon) or has God raised > up Shiite Islam as a sword against America?" > > Ted Molczan > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: > http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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