Spy satellites failed for three days at rollover

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I heard this morning, via NPR, that some (all?) U S spy satellites were blind for three days off the rollover. A quick look around CNN, WND, and NYT did not mention this.

-- don wiley (drw@planetc.com), January 13, 2000

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Today Show quoted Chicago Tribune on this.

i have a problem it happened.

i have NO problem that we weren't told. You do NOT advertise that your armor is off so you can pee.

Chuck

-- Chuck, a night driver (rienzoo@en.com), January 13, 2000.


Incidentally, what makes you think that they were only down for three days? How are you (or Joe Terrorist) going to check?

-- Servant (public_service@yahoo.com), January 13, 2000.

It was also reported here in Denver.

I did not have sex with that woman.

3 freakin days!!!

Whilst I agree with Chuck regarding national security, this is typical of what is really going on. Nobody advertises incompetence or weakness. Anything we learn regarding y2k problems will be via detective work and primarily luck.

Over 1 trillion dollars was not spent for nothing despite what the pollies say.

The fact that Flint, Decker and Co. have bailed ***already???*** says volumes about their grasp of the problem in the first place.

-- Andy (2000EOD@prodigy.net), January 13, 2000.


I can live with not being told about it at the time. Better that than a neon sign that said, "YOO HOO! OUR DEFENSE CAPABILITIES ARE TEMPORARILY DEGRADED, SO DON'T HURT US, OK? THANKS!"

-- I'm Here, I'm There (I'm Everywhere@so.beware), January 13, 2000.

I always felt it was largely irrelevant that my local utility company claimed it was ready, yet that was largely the basis that the local and state PTB told us not to bother with anything. First, thanks to deregulation in my state, the folks that send me the bills do not generate their own power any more (and the most likely problems were at the point of generation). Second, there was the potential for fuel shortages. Third, there was a plausible potential for terrorist activities. Maybe the spy satellite disaster was the "three day storm" we were supposed to prepare for. Just seems like good citizenship to me to be prepared.

-- Brooks (brooksbie@hotmail.com), January 13, 2000.


Not a problem that they did not announce it it real time. But, the shoes just keep dropping, don't they?

And I am not really digging. And I AM keeping and increasing my preps.

-- don wiley (drw@planetc.com), January 13, 2000.


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