I believe Sir Thomas More put it best when he said:

“Sometimes, you just gotta blow @#$% up.”

That's right Frank! Our military rocks!!

Don't symbolize with America?

I bet the "satellite" was really an alien mother ship coming to earth to either atomize Obama for the Clintons or take Ron Paul to some paradise where they use the gold standard and everybody tells the twoof. Bush simply didn't want to lose either of these clowns since we need humor so he shot the UFO down.

And I was looking forward to the zombies...

-The jinxmedic

i'm just glad we didn't miss... otherwise we'd have looked like the biggest tools on the planet.

"we make satellite but it bwake and fall down. we have wocket. we make satellite go boom! ooopsies. we miss satellite and blow up nukular weactor in iran. sorries!"

hmm... maybe that would have been a good plan after all...

Frank, I would expect you of all people to know that "real" Americans never lived in caves and such. We spent our early days killings Indians (yes, I still call them Indians) and repopulating the continent. Blowing up our orbiting antiquated technology is merely an extension of this philosophy.

And I was looking forward to the zombies...

Well, we still have the Obama supporters....

Our space technology is really amazing. I love reading about space tech, space weaepons and outer space. The other day I read that there are probably numerous Earth-like plants in our galaxy. Someday humans will get to explore them all! Unless Obama is president. Obama probably hates Space stuff.

Ah capt. you try to put a good spin on everything but face facts. There is no real humor in these characters. They wouldn't know humor if it reared up on it's hind legs, danced on the table with a rose between it's teeth, hung out a vacancy sign or painted itself blue.

Humor is a foreign concept to these people unless it's hurtful, demeaning, and filled to the brim with obscenities. And that's the twooth.

Today, a satellite, tomorrow, the moon!

So we shot this thing down because it had a lethal substance that could spew all over people causing serious damage. Sound an awful lot like Hilary and Obama. Can we use shoot them with a missile too?!

I was momentarily proud of Bush during Shock and Awe.

We're Air Force here, but it needs to be said:
Ten X, Navy.

Wouldn't you love to be on the stool at the end of the bar at Lake Erie's next port of call? They're going to be bound for Valparaiso, IYKWIM. That main brace is going to be spliced.

Suppose Abraham Lincoln hung onto that "Mission Accomplished" banner? Do they loan it out?

How about a broom lashed to the masthead?
A gut bustin', mother-lovin' Navy broom.

I've had the 24-hour news cycle on all night, and have yet to hear the CIC say those four little words. WELL DONE, Lake Erie...

I think the VINCENNES did a better job...

I love the subtle message of this exercise and its excellent timing. Hey, Iran, North Korea, China, et al, we can stand near your coasts and shoot you down. Any time we want.

My brother was in the Army, and I ain't the CIC but I'll say it anyway: WELL DONE, Lake Erie. Sometimes the Navy is good for other things than taking Marines around ( just kidding).
U.S. Navy 1 space stuff zero. Them Vulcans better watch their step.

Jimmy I think it was just saying if a satellite goes bad we can fix it. Maybe even help out if another country has satellite troubles. I don't think it was some sort of threat or warning to our enemies. The U.S. isn't like that. We are a good country. Everyone already knows we have powerful weapons anyway so I think your idea was not as clever as some of your other ones. Maybe your next comment will be a little more interesting and well thought out. By the way you still haven't apologized to me.

Can we get a telethon going for this spaz already?

My you are the naive one, aren't you?

The reason "everyone knows" we have awesome weaponry is because we take the out occasionally and show them off. This reminds our friend that they can count on us and reminds our enemies (and we have plenty) that we CAN Shock and Awe them back to the fourteenth century. Not that we will, that we can.

Besides why have then if you don''t use them. It's like having a car and never driving it, 'cause you don't want it to get in an accident. As long as the accidents not your fault, the other guy has the problem.

PEACE THROUGH POWER - That's damn straight.

The many heads of Nate,
have confused me of late.
Why Nate, it's no trouble,
just exit your bubble,
and reveal your flatuous state.

And another silver lining is that, since the private sector drives so much research and development, our technological innovation is increasing in geometric proportions.

The

don't @#$% with America

Off Topic:

Dilbert's revenge

I dunno Nate, the satellite looks pretty fixed to me.

Sorry Nate, but we're so rich that when a little thing like a satellite breaks on us, we blow the crap out of it just because we can. It's conspicuous consumption at a military level. It's sorta like when Paris Hilton's cell phone breaks - she just buys a new one.

The message to the Chinese and Iranians was heard, loud and clear. "We will fix your satellites and any other missile-related technology we want to fix heh heh heh."

Well, I didn't say the satellite wasn't fixed two peeps above me. It wasn't a warning to other countries at all either. It was just the USA trying to fix a big mistake. We don't want other countries getting our sneaky spy stuff. We wouldn't do some warning thing because that would make us look pathetic like China and Pakistan do when they take their missiles on parades. The USA is way above all that. We are better than them so we would never do some stupid show off thing.

#18 - Posted by: Nate on February 21, 2008 01:18 PM

Sending the shuttle is how we fix satellites, Nate. Sending a missile is how we eliminate them. Any use of technology in this manner serves the purpose of demonstrating power, whether it is the primary purpose or just a bonus.
Peace through superior firepower!
Semper Fidelis

Any use of technology in this manner serves the purpose of demonstrating power, whether it is the primary purpose or just a bonus. Peace through superior firepower!

No Way! That was not the purpose at all. It was to destroy the satellite so people are not hurt. It was for safety. It would be pointless and childish of the USA to show off like that. That's the kind of thing North Korean dictators do. We are not so pathetic as to do such a thing. I disagree. Only a pathetic weak-minded insecure American would ever even want our country to needlessly show off power in such a manner. If you are such an immature little baby coward that you need that kind of stuff then move to North Korea.

God Bless America and our missiles.

#26 - Posted by: Nate on February 21, 2008 02:29 PM

You are correct when you say that parading missiles is pathetic. But blowing up a satellite with one is not just cool, it is also quite instructional to those array themselves against us. Instructional demonstrations are not showing off.
Semper Fi

Yes, I guess it is a little different. Not like missile parade. Instructional :-) :-> :D) :0) I like that. USA is teacher. No one gets hurt but instructions given. :)D I'm sorry for what i said above.

One Shot One Kill!!!!
Hey Putin! We can zap anything in the sky, from a moving platform! Bus-sized satellite at the edge of the atmosphere going thousands of MPH - no problem. TU-95 'Bear' bomber the size of Gore's mansion going about 400mps - so easy it's almost boring!

Cost to fix broken satellite: about 500 million (the estimated cost of a shuttle launch).

Cost to destroy broken satellite: 20 million (the estimated cost of launching one Block 3 Standard Missile).

Benefit of the coolness return on investment from witnessing explosions: priceless.

Go Navy!

The cost of discouraging an enemy from attacking us or our allies.

Priceless

Anchors Away, at a boy Navy.

just watched the raw footage of the kaboom. i must say, it reminded me of the summer i was a high school intern at MICOM in huntsville, al. i worked in the project office for the hellfire missles and got to watch footage of chopper pilots blowing up real tanks with real missles for the first time. never heard such a joyful use of the words "f**k yeah!" in all my life.

that fall it was the first, and later final, weapon to be fired in desert storm.

yeah. i've been proud of my country before...

Nate has cool emoticons!

Hey if you like Navy guns Check this cool rail gun out. It destroys everything it touches at 5,640 mph. I'm starting to really enjoy weapons. I hope you people aren't turning me into a weapons fanatic.

Welcome Nate, it's not always comfy but it's real.

Weapons are real and so am I. Wait. No I'm not. It is probably much easier to hit a satellite than an imcoming missile so the test proves absolutely nothing. Kind of pathetic actually. Hello lameness.

I would like to see a poll of the candidates for president: what do you think of the missle and satellite thing. Really, that simple of a question.

Any one of them that seemed to have no inkling of what was going on there, out. Any of them that thought it was bad and we should try to have had the space shuttle capture it and recycle it, out. Any one of them that thought there was hope that the satellite would change course and disappear into space , out. Unless it crashed into the moon, then that answer would score some points.

"When I am elected president, don't forget I will have an entire "gun cabinet" full of these missles. Just ask and I can introduce you to those virgins you are looking forward to seeing."

That one is a winner!

Timeline:

Chinese blow up satellite.

America blows up a satellite one month later.

Liberals: "Hey, the military might be lying about the satellite spewing toxic gas into space! perhaps there's another reason for them to do this!"

I kid thee not. Sigh.

Go USN!!!
Has anyone checked on Aquaman? Are we sure he's OK? Nothing fell on him I guess...we're good here!!!