Tuesday, February 26, 2008

26 February 2008

The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff has said that the analysis gives them a "high degree of confidence" that the hydrazine tank was breached when the Navy hit the USA 193 spy satellite with an ABM. They are tracking about 3,000 pieces of debris which are all smaller than a football. Are there any more pieces of debris that they are tracking that are larger than a football? I bet that is another question they wouldn't answer if asked. They say that "The vast majority of debris has already re-entered or will shortly re-enter the Earth's atmosphere in the coming days and weeks. They also say that there have not been any reports of debris surviving to impact earth and they are not expecting there to be any in the future. I haven't seen any reports of people observing reentering debris.

CNN story



Twinkle Twinkle Little Star

Twinkle, twinkle, little star,
How I wonder what you are!
Up above the world so high,
Like a diamond in the sky!

When the blazing sun is gone,
When he nothing shines upon,
Then you show your little light,
Twinkle, twinkle, all the night.

Then the traveler in the dark,
Thanks you for your tiny spark,
He could not see which way to go,
If you did not twinkle so.

In the dark blue sky you keep,
And often through my curtains peep,
For you never shut your eye,
Till the sun is in the sky.

As your bright and tiny spark,
Lights the traveller in the dark,—
Though I know not what you are,
Twinkle, twinkle, little star.

English Nursery Rhyme


Motzart - "Variations on Ah! vous dirai-je, Maman", K265/300e