I love them. when you see the moon eclipsed by the earth;'s shadow you can really see that it is just a giant sphere flowting in space, just out there. it looks beautiful and strikes me with awe and grandeur, but then again I have a real name and am not afraid to share it. ha!

yeah it was too cloudy here as well.

:(

I saw it.
It was pretty majestic.

solar eclipses are interesting because of the solar corona, but moon eclipses... they are not worthy of me lifting my ass from bed.

If you guys got to see it then you also saw Jupiter and regulus (the central star in constellation LEO) on either side of the moon!

solar eclipses cannot be looked at directly though. lunar ones you can smoke a large fattie boombattie and gaze upon it for hours.

hours of scout lameness.

you jaded bitter asshole!!11!!!one!!!omg!!!!

i sense sulking.

No the conspiracy nets were saying the Navy was shooting down some interstellar object (alien) that was using the eclipse as cover.

Hey I'm just repeating what I read...

and they would have gotten away with it, if it wasn't for you meddling kids.

the US put up that spy satteliote last year, meaning it has the top level of technology in it, top secret shit,and it malfunctioned almost instantly. it has been useless for a year. it has taken this long for it's orbit to degrade.

they were for sure destroying it so no one could get theuir hands on the technology
the fuel would have exploded in re-entry like a motherfucker. that was a red herring to appease the stupid sheep.

That satellite was going 17,000 mph, it's amazing that the navy was able to hit it even though the missile was going 22,000 mph, just incredible.

not so much.

aegis cruisers are floating ballastics computers.

just sayin'.

The fuel tank aboard the satellite was believed strong enough to survive the fiery re-entry through the atmosphere...

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/21/us/21cnd-satellite.html?_r=1&hp=&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&adxnn lx=1203614829-BllMVXyimLCLR9tyK5VAbQ


...if you want to claim that's just the story the pentagon gave the public, ....be my guest. you have a point about protecting the technology. just sayin...

Supposedly there have been plenty of other falling satellites with fuel but the pentagon didn't need to shoot them down. I think this is a response to the Chinese action of last year and a test of our space weaponry. If we were to engage China in a war, say over Taiwan, I suspect the satellites will be one of the first targets. They're sitting ducks, they just happen to be sitting in space revolving in predictable orbits.

the fuel is toxic, but so is nearly everything that nuclear submarines dump into th deep oceans.

the technology was the crucial part I think. and there is nothing wrong with that at all.

but was it really technology or alien body parts?

DISCUSS

[edit: if *I* was going to hide alien body parts, a spy-sat would be the place I'd put them]

if *you* were a robot, where would you hide yr 2029 AI tech?