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posted by Fnord666 on Friday July 24 2020, @10:25PM   Printer-friendly
from the star-wars dept.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-53518238

The US State Department described the recent use of "what would appear to be actual in-orbit anti-satellite weaponry" as concerning.

Russia's defence ministry earlier said it was using new technology to perform checks on Russian space equipment.

The US has previously raised concerns about new Russian satellite activity.

But it is the first time the UK has made accusations about Russian test-firing in space.

[...] The head of the UK's space directorate, Air Vice Marshal Harvey Smyth, said he was also concerned about the latest Russian satellite test, which he said had the "characteristics of a weapon".

"Actions like this threaten the peaceful use of space and risk causing debris that could pose a threat to satellites and the space systems on which the world depends," he said. He urged Russia to be "responsible" and to "avoid any further such testing".

[...] The US said the Russian satellite system was the same one it raised concerns about in 2018 and earlier this year when the US accused it of manoeuvring close to an American satellite.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 24 2020, @11:02PM (11 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 24 2020, @11:02PM (#1026001)

    Damn! I never took you to be such a bourgeois teeny-bopper!

  • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Friday July 24 2020, @11:16PM (10 children)

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Friday July 24 2020, @11:16PM (#1026002) Journal

    Dude, please. I grew up in the '60's and early '70's. We didn't have all the gay shit you kids grew up with. Chicks today have smartphones and sexting. Girls then had hula hoops and bobby socks. We didn't have all the video you have - we were lucky if someone allowed us to listen to their car stereo. You spoiled litte bourgeois asses shouldn't make fun of your elder bourgeois.

    • (Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 24 2020, @11:28PM (8 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 24 2020, @11:28PM (#1026007)

      Looking back, I thought 70s was THE loony decade, with all them disco dancing and kungfu fighting, but then look at these millenials.

      • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Saturday July 25 2020, @12:29AM (6 children)

        by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Saturday July 25 2020, @12:29AM (#1026026) Journal

        Don't forget the hair. "Big hair" started out as a black thing - then all the white kids had to have big hair. That was when I first noticed that a lot of white people seemed to wish they were black.

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 25 2020, @12:47AM

          by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 25 2020, @12:47AM (#1026030)

          That "big hair" shit kept up thru the 80s - remember the "hair metals?" Even the limeys are infected - see Thomson Twins.

          Now, the jerry-curl, that is a genuine greasy disgrace - an embarrassing chapter in the African American history.

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 25 2020, @03:20AM (2 children)

          by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 25 2020, @03:20AM (#1026067)

          What does that mean, "wish they were black?" Is blackness also a part of this decadence narrative you're spinning?

          The youth today, they are too black. The boys are too girly and the girls are too boyish, they have no respect for the social constructs of the white man. White men must assert the hierarchy that conveniently places white man at the top. If they do not, blacks might start acting white! Then the white snowflake race with its half baked racialism and social construct theory of gender will really be in trouble!

          • (Score: 5, Insightful) by Opportunist on Saturday July 25 2020, @09:29AM (1 child)

            by Opportunist (5545) on Saturday July 25 2020, @09:29AM (#1026117)

            Bored kids in the 50s came up with crazy new novelty dances, bored kids in the 2020s come up with crazy new novelty genders.

            What changes is the fads, not that fads exist.

            • (Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 26 2020, @12:07AM

              by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 26 2020, @12:07AM (#1026363)

              Fuckin' Proud Boys and their Apache Attack Helicopter fetishes.

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 25 2020, @01:38PM (1 child)

          by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 25 2020, @01:38PM (#1026148)

          I do remember that I wanted to be black like my older cousin when I was a kid. Sadly not possible.

          • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 25 2020, @02:01PM

            by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 25 2020, @02:01PM (#1026157)

            Follow your dreams [wikipedia.org]

      • (Score: 2) by Opportunist on Saturday July 25 2020, @09:31AM

        by Opportunist (5545) on Saturday July 25 2020, @09:31AM (#1026118)

        The loony decade was the 90s. Need proof [youtube.com]?

        Drugs are bad, mmmkay? They make you like THIS!

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 25 2020, @04:25AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 25 2020, @04:25AM (#1026081)

      Few things were more gay than the 90s. Bunch of posers

      I can't believe you did that. If you found those guys in a Beavis & Butthead show, I wouldn't think you're so weird, especially for someone your age

      By the way, Class of '73