Fwd: CNN Breaking News

[Ronn! Blankenship]

At 04:23 AM Thursday 2/21/2008, Lance A. Brown wrote:
>Ronn! Blankenship said the following on 2/21/2008 12:31 AM:
> >
> > So . . . if they shot it /down/ before it crashed to Earth, where is
> > it going to fall now?
> >
> >
> > (Yes, I know . . . just seems they could have phrased that better . . . )
> >
>
>The point of shooting the satellite was to disrupt the fuel storage.  If
>the satellite came down in one piece, there is a chance the hydrazine
>fuel on board would survive to reach the surface.  If it impacts on
>land, you get nasty poisonous gas cloud.
>
>If the missile did it's job, the fuel storage was destroyed.  The
>satellite (or remaining parts) will still come down, but now the
>hydrazine will burn up during reentry.



Now, if I really wanted to nit-pick CNN I would mention the sentence 
which has appeared in at least three stories on the topic,

"Hydrazine is similar to chlorine or ammonia in that it affects the 
lungs and breathing tissue."

without once mentioning that hydrazine is what is produced when you 
fail to follow the warning on the labels and mix chlorine bleach and 
ammonia . . . X;{


Still Don't Play One On TV Maru


-- Ronn!  :)