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On Thursday, amid new announcements of sanctions on the Russian economy by the United States and NATO in retaliation for the invasion of Ukraine, Dimitry Rogozin, the chief of the Russian space corporation Roscosmos, made an eyebrow-raising threat: that if the sanctions continue, Russia could stop maintaining the orbit of the International Space Station and allow it to crash into the United States.
"If you block cooperation with us, who will save the ISS from an uncontrolled deorbit and fall into the United States or Europe?" tweeted Rogozin in Russian. "There is also the option of dropping a 500-ton structure on India or China. Do you want to threaten them with such a prospect? The ISS does not fly over Russia, so all the risks are yours. Are you ready for them?"
https://www.rawstory.com/russia-sanctions-2656787558/
Not only is that a threat, it is an avoidable event that they would let happen.
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JoanofArgh
(14,971 posts)Jspur
(578 posts)the US would be an act of war.
C_U_L8R
(44,997 posts)The one who gets tossed in the shark tank in the first act.
Budi
(15,325 posts)Thanks for the humor.
Dial H For Hero
(2,971 posts)ck4829
(35,042 posts)TheBlackAdder
(28,182 posts)Budi
(15,325 posts)We know how those fights end.
Someone's gonna be lying on the floor sobbing...
How embarrassing.
TheBlackAdder
(28,182 posts)Harker
(14,012 posts)Mr.Bill
(24,275 posts)Or maybe he didn't say it at all. Someone else could have said it and hung his name on it.
Harker
(14,012 posts)It has a Soviet era pugnacity about it.
inanna
(3,547 posts)This just keeps getting worse.
And worse.
My God...
Botany
(70,488 posts)n/t
Dial H For Hero
(2,971 posts)brush
(53,764 posts)What does he think, we don't have weapons pointed at the Kremlin as we speak? And all other important targets in Russia.
Botany
(70,488 posts)Once the object reenters the atmosphere it would start to burn up and I don't think
it has any heat shielding since it was built for space.
Lancero
(3,003 posts)The ISS has been, since it's creation, an example of unity for the differing nations of the world.
Towlie
(5,324 posts)
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Botany
(70,488 posts)BTW we can park one of our satellites right over it and see everything too. Odds are 66% the stuff
would hit the ocean too.
dweller
(23,627 posts)jus saying
✌🏻
TheBlackAdder
(28,182 posts)Budi
(15,325 posts)Budi
(15,325 posts)Game on.....
maxsolomon
(33,289 posts)Let's set Space Exploration back decades. Rusher made that choice.
boston bean
(36,221 posts)Lancero
(3,003 posts)Not drop it from orbit. If it drops, it'll burn up in orbit - Blowing it up, however, would pose a signifigant chance of triggering the Kessler Syndrome.
Doing that, however, would fuck over Russia as much as the rest of the world - I can't really see Russia doing that, even with their backs to the wall. A less technologically inclined nation, like North Korea, sure.
As odd as it sounds, if Russia wanted to make a point, dropping a couple nukes would be a saner option than blowing up the ISS.
harumph
(1,898 posts)radius777
(3,635 posts)if the West is to exist - it is a zero sum game - that much is clear going forward.
Samrob
(4,298 posts)Now that we know he aims at the US is that an act of war? Is there anything we can do to counter potential actions like this?
One thing we now know, there should be no more joint space ventures with Putin in charge.