On 9/24/2011 2:22 PM, Home Guy wrote:
George wrote:

On the other side, do you expect UARS to announce (truthfully)
how good their tracking is? Anyone who does should be replaced
and possibly prosecuted...

But as you noted what gets fed to the public is a subset of actual
capability. To draw the conclusion that the Air Force and NORAD had
no clue based on public sources shows how far someone will go to
express their hatred.

What a load of horse **** logic you have there. Both of you.

The US has nothing to gain by projecting (to Russia and China) that the
US *does not* have the capability to detect large projectiles as they
approach or re-enter from orbit along the western coastline if infact
the US *does* have such an ability. Under the MAD doctrine of war, you
always want your enemy to know that you can detect offensive action,
because that in and of itself is a deterrent for the enemy to start an
offence if they falsely believe you won't detect it.

And if the US can detect objects like this, then the Russians and
Chinese probably can do the same, so you're not hiding anything of any
stragic value by feigning that you didn't detect this satellite as it
entered the airspace over Portland.

If the US couldn't detect it, then yes you don't want to admit that
deficiency and ordinary you'd never be called on it. Except when a
satellite is tumbling toward you and forces you to reveal that you don't
have this detection capability.

Who revealed (someone with actual knowledge, not the media) it couldn't
be detected? Perhaps you have some inside information?