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- technology@lemmy.world
cross-posted from: https://fedia.io/m/technology@lemmy.world/t/1341668
A satellite belonging to multinational service provider Intelsat mysteriously broke up in geostationary orbit over the weekend.
- On the one hand: GodDAMMIT, Boeing! - On the other hand: C’mon now, which one of you was fucking around with the Space Laser? - My bad. One of my Jewish friends let me borrow it and I couldn’t help but push the big red button that says don’t push - Hey! The paint didn’t even dry! - .- GNU Terry Prachett 
 
 
- Suddenly or was it hit by something? - I mean, if you get hit by something, that tends to happen suddenly. - I mean as in intentional targeted hitting 
 
- It might have been hit by something. Or it could have had a failure and blown itself up. The history of these buses and some previous observations on this satellite, plus Boeing being involved, makes me inclined to think it blew itself up. 
 
- Kessler effect… here we go! 
- … Boeing …  
- deleted by creator - It’s hard to fall out of the window in space, on account of not being able to fall and not having windows. But Boeing’s got rocket scientists working on the problem! - Akshually, the satellite was falling the whole time. 
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- So, just like the manufacturer. 
- Anti Satellite weapon, or Boeing+rocketfuel? 





