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So this US spy satellite that apparently needs shooting down is all a bit fishy isn't it people? A good rule of thumb for appraising official statements by any Government, is that the official statement is bollocks.

The Russians are on to them though. They're saying this is all a smoke screen, the satellite doesn't need shooting down, and the US are using it as an excuse to test a weapons system for shooting down other countries satellites. And to be fair, I know who I believe.

If America wants to insist that this thing needs shooting down because of it's hazardous nature, surely the Russians are entitled to have a pop at it too and use it as an excuse to test their own weapons? They can just say well, it was entering out air space, and so we shot it down so it wouldn't land on our peasants.

We're expected to accept that a tactical missile needs to be fired at the tanks of the satellite that hold 1,000lbs of Hydrazine - which is a chemical that can kill humans if released into the atmosphere - so that it doesn't land on us and kill us!

Surely blitzing those tanks will release the chemical? And what if they miss? Won't a missile landing in a town somewhere be quite dangerous too? And what about all the debris from the explosion if they do hit it?

You just know some redneck is gonna be rocking back and forth in a chair on his veranda and take a piece of satellite to the face. Or get showered by Hydrazine that he'll collect and use as a mixer for his moonshine.

Did they explain why they're filling these satellites with a chemical that kills people in the first place? For fuel? Are we OK with this? You want to spy on the commies, fair enough, but if doing so puts us all in danger of having our faces burned off by showers of lethal chemicals, I'd prefer it if they didn't. Is spying even legal anyway??

Surely they all signed an agreement at a convention somewhere that prohibits spying? That Geneva thing maybe? Hazardous of not, no one seems to be raising any objections to this thing being a spy satellite? I'm sure spying is illegal.

Not that it matters I suppose. If Google can take pictures of my house and my street and probably me, I don't suppose it matters what the US Government have been photographing. I just hope it broke before they started showing the brand new series of Scrubs on E4.