On 03/10/13 11:42, Trevor M5AKA wrote:
CNN are reporting the BLITS satellite was rendered inoperable after being impacted by debris from a 2007 weapon test.
http://edition.cnn.com/2013/03/09/tech/satellite-hit/index.html
Wiki says the weapon test created 2,317 pieces of trackable size (golf ball size and larger) and an estimated 150,000 debris particles so there's clearly potential for more impacts.
73 Trevor M5AKA
Thank you Trevor, for these. Most of the time I've heard of them before, but sometimes not.
In the information age where we are bombarded by multiple firehoses, it is easy to miss something. Having relevant items pointed to here helps that, at least some.
Emails are light and easy to deal with. The simple application of the delete key in your mailer makes them go away. In general 50% of the emails I get on lists are deleted fairly quickly, leaving the others for more reading.
If people like Ted don't like them, any subject header that smells like a re-transmission should be automatically deleted, and if that really really isn't enough, mails from Trevor could simply be zapped on arrival. That can be automated (deleting) in mailers like Thunderbird. But, I hope no one does that because Trevor has done a lot.
--STeve Andre' wb8wsf en72