Satellite Crash: A coincidence?
The NASA Orbiting Carbon Observatory crashed into the ocean just short of the Antarctic coast early on Tuesday – What’s the real story?
The NASA Orbiting Carbon Observatory crashed into the ocean just short of the Antarctic coast early on Tuesday. This satellite was to gather precise data on the carbon levels in the atmosphere to give a more accurate picture on global warming. Of course this satellite never made it to orbit to gather the data, so everyone is still waiting definitive estimations of what will happen and when.
With so much in the media about global warming there is still much we don’t know about the effects it will have on our planet and more specifically the timeframe. With the crash of this satellite we have lost important ground in the struggle to understand, forecast, and combat global warming.
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NASA would probably have you believe that there was a malfunction that caused this satellite to crash to Earth but just seems too convenient that this $280 million dollar mission failed to even make it into orbit. Many space agencies around the world launch satellites and with so many successful launches the chances of coincidence decrease even more.
One theory about this crash could be that there are certain people who do not want the truth about global warming to reach the masses. There are many reasons that play a factor in not wanting the truth about global warming to become a grim scientific fact. The economy would no doubt suffer if we were to find out we only have 10-20 years before catastrophic changes begin to occur. The infrastructure of nations would be at risk if everyone knew their jobs and careers would mean nothing in the face of another ice age.
It just seems like too large of a coincidence for me to ignore. Hopefully we will be able to fully understand the impacts we are having on the Earth today and the many changes that we will have to adapt to in the future.
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On February 26, 2009 at 12:08 am
I also thought this seemed coincidental and convenient, but in a totally different way.
You admit yourself in the article that we don’t know much about global warming. Yet everyone is running around in a frenzy, willing to give up their freedoms and spend their neighbors’ money in the name of ostensibly saving the planet.
The “grim scientific fact” that certain people are trying to keep from us is that global warming as portrayed by the media is a scam. There is a huge industry, largely political, in convincing us that we’re going to die unless we destroy “evil” oil-burning corporations and return to pre-industrial conditions.
Call me in another, say, 100000 years when the next ice age is over and we can look at the historical data and see if global warming was really a problem. After all, that’s how long it takes for the Earth’s climate to cycle just ONCE. At best we’ve got about 0.4% of that recorded now; not very convincing. And if our methods for calculating the mythical global average temperature suck today, I’m sure they were pretty worthless in the 1600s.
On February 26, 2009 at 12:12 am
By the way, there’s something weird going on with the code that posts the comments – it converted all my apostrophes and quotation marks into escape sequences. Might want to look into that.
On February 26, 2009 at 12:22 am
Testing IE to see if it does the same thing.
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On February 26, 2009 at 12:24 am
Sorry to keep posting – looks like it’s a problem with Firefox. I’m using version 3.0.6. IE 7 works fine. Hope that helps.