Comments on: Good news: Chinese satellite killer might have been rogue operation

By: Tim Burton

Tim Burton — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 21:26:18 +0000

I wonder how much of their technology to do this was given to them by the Clintons….?

By: Buck Turgidson

Buck Turgidson — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 15:52:20 +0000

If ever there was posted story begging for the Dr. Strangelove reference this is it. Although I'd hate to prejudge untill all the facts are in, it sounds like Godless commies invalidated the policy provisions of Plan R. That's how your hard-core commie works. If we hit em' with everything we got, we stand a pretty good chance of catching them with their pants down!

By: TugboatPhil

TugboatPhil — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 15:31:16 +0000

Rogue missile?? Where was Jack Bauer when this happened?

By: Jaibones

Jaibones — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 15:21:59 +0000

Snark demands a comment here, but I am torn between the two camps: bitter sarcasm at the notion of a rogue, but high-tech military operation within a militaristic, high-manufacturing communist state, or “oh, give me a fu**ing break/you can’t be serious” dismissal.

Either way, I think you all had it covered.

By: Sam

Sam — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 13:48:11 +0000

Just my educated opinion but no way this could have been done by rogues. Technically, you don’t just get a few of your boys and go down to the local launch pad to fire off an ASAT. Practically, if you managed to pull this off, you and your family would be captured, imprisoned, tortured and probably end up as candidates for organ harvesting before your executions.

By: bloviator

bloviator — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 13:01:00 +0000

Okay. Defused.

Whew… now the biggest threat to my life is the inattentive soccermom blabbling on her cell phone when she crushes me under the wheels of her SUV.

By: Highrise

Highrise — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 07:25:51 +0000

I feel much safer that china is launching crap into space and blowing crap up..uhuh…riiiiggggghhhhttttt.

It’s just a mere molehill..nothing to see here..move along..no investigation needed.

/sarcasm

By: Janos Hunyadi

Janos Hunyadi — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 07:13:10 +0000

The idea that there are “rogue” military launching unapproved anti-sat weapon’s tests is nonsense.

georgej on January 23, 2007 at 1:56 AM

Well, in no-longer-completely-Commie China, there is “rogue” and then there is “rogue”. No living soul outside Peking ( yes, I said Peking: I’m old ) knows the inner workings of the ChiCom bureaucracy. I know the Outer Workings, and I know that Nothing Is Impossible

….okay, almost nothing. And yes, this sounds like one of the early Bond flicks ( before Connery needed that dick drug )

By: georgej

georgej — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 06:56:25 +0000

The idea that there are “rogue” military launching unapproved anti-sat weapon’s tests is nonsense.

By: MirCat

MirCat — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 05:54:16 +0000

Sorry, I dropped my grammer.

By: MirCat

MirCat — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 05:53:25 +0000

Yeah and when Kirk stole a Romulan cloaking device, that was a rouge opperation too!! Oh wait, reality. Well I still don’t believe any country without Sir Richard Branson could rouge space agency.

- The Cat

By: Jaibones

Jaibones — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 05:46:52 +0000

WTF?

By: Buck Turgidson

Buck Turgidson — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 05:43:14 +0000

Mr President, I cannot allow a rogue missile gap!

By: R D

R D — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 05:21:14 +0000

Stop it Allah! ;-)

By: R D

R D — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 05:02:48 +0000

Umm so someone fired a multi million dollar Sat killer into space and it was just for kicks ?

William Amos on January 22, 2007 at 10:03 PM

Well William, I agree with you. There was more to say, but the censors stopped it, I guess.

By: R D

R D — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 04:55:29 +0000

Umm so someone fired a multi million dollar Sat killer into space and it was just for kicks ?

William Amos on January 22, 2007 at 10:03 PM

Once again, William Amos hits it on the head. No country just lobs a warhead into space without the intent of gaining further knowledge. It may have been low level crap to most, laugh it off if you must, but this is serious shit when China starts shooting warheads into space…And Connecting!

By: shooten

shooten — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 03:48:55 +0000

This story just gets stranger by the second. The ASAT test that occurred last year with a ground based laser was troubling. Rogue elements of the ChiCom military? The chinese government is obviously in a partnership with Fox to generate new plots for 24. Or something…

By: Lawrence

Lawrence — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 03:25:14 +0000

This story is the proverbial mountain out of a mole hill story.

Even if China did kill a satellite, they are far far from having the technology to have any serious dent in our significant satellite networks.

By: right2bright

right2bright — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 03:21:17 +0000

Someone posted last week (it may have been me) not to worry, our real strategic sats are dark and deep. Any attack and they are activated and we counter. Just a good guess.

By: Zorro

Zorro — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 03:11:30 +0000

I’m curious as to what the next move could be; more money for the democracy movement?

By: William Amos

William Amos — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 03:03:40 +0000

Umm so someone fired a multi million dollar Sat killer into space and it was just for kicks ?

By: Bill's Bites

Bill's Bites — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 02:39:38 +0000

Chinese satellite killer might have been rogue operation…

See previous: Chinese Test Anti-Satellite Weapon, China Defends ‘Satellite Killer’ as Weapon of Peace Allahpundit writes: I saw this story at the Times this morning and didn’t give it a second thought. An authoritarian regime with less than complet…

By: PinkyBigglesworth

PinkyBigglesworth — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 02:31:38 +0000

“You only live twice, Mr. Bond……….”

By: taznar

taznar — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 02:21:10 +0000

Spin to defuse tension???

China has nuclear weapons! And rogue players have the ability to fire what I would think would be some of their most protected weapons? And China isn’t responsible if anything happens.

I can feel the “tension” draining already…

By: Limerick

Limerick — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 01:52:35 +0000

Seems odd…..I just can’t imagine them having ‘rogue’ missle techs. One thing you can take to the bank with the Chinese is that everything is by-the-book. If it was a ‘rogue’ shot…well….I guess we will be the first to know.