Fun and games in the Atlantic Ocean?
Of course I’m forever a cynic. And believe me it is worth being so at times.
Even more so these days, but apparently a French and British submarine collided “somewhere in the Atlantic.” And a couple of Russian naval vessels deposited 300 tonnes of heavy fuel oil as a result of a refuelling incident just 50 miles from Fastnet Rock, Hmm..
Sounds incredibly suspicious does it not?
It is well known that naval forces around the planet routinely watch each other. Because if they weren’t then they wouldn’t be doing their job would they?
After all, it wasn’t all that long ago that a Chinese submarine surfaced right in the middle of an American aircraft carrier battle group?
So two damaged nuclear powered and nuclear armed submarines and an incident involving 300 tonnes of accidental Russian pollution just a few miles off the Irish coast are supposedly unrelated?
Look at an atlas and any idiot could tell you that it would be no surprise to see a British or French submarine passing close to the Irish coastline but a few Russian ships refuelling by their own admission just 50 miles off the coast?
And you can be sure that if the Russian surface fleet were dandying about near our territorial waters spilling bunker oil all over the place that there would be at least one Russian submarine not all that far away.
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just one more in a series of unusual crashes that have been in the news lately. I wonder what they’ll think of next. Weather balloon crash?
I would imagine that these occurences are fairly regular Dan. I bet there are loads more that we don’t know of yet. Or probably ever will know of for that matter.
There was a crash recently: two satellites collided – sat phones and some russian crap…
OMG ! Our Tie Fighter got pwned ! :]
Ha! I saw a brilliant graphic recently of all the stuff that is floating around the planet. Some 16,000 man made objects in all. I can’t seem to find a copy on the net.
i`m glad i got rid of this yoke: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ssPageName=STRK:MESOX:IT&item=290287789566 *before* the crash. it wouldnt affect the signal since they have a few spares left but still it would be harder to get rid of.
i dunno how much longer these low orbit satellites will stay in fashion for. all the kool kids are using their GSM phones through gateways that connect to Inmarsat. ryanair, ships and the like all prefer the geosynchronous satellites despite the lag and the low power margin. you can get handheld inmarsat phones or even very small ones but the coverage isn’t nearly as good
Iridium was an absolute disaster Dan. How long ago were they launched? I can remember some guff about it around 1999
The cost of launching them alone was staggering, let alone the cost of building them. Sold for a song IIRC.
They started launching them in ’97 but launched a few more in 2002 when the new crowd took over. they are planning to launch new ones in a few years so we`ll see how that goes
the one that crashed was one of the oldest and probably at the end of it’s days anyway.
globalstar are planning to launch a new network this year. like the satellites are already being made and all that so now is either the time to buy up a load of cheap phones globalstar phones because their current constellation is falling apart or get rid of them as fast as you can
no Rob id say it is just a coincidence. Russan navel vessels regulary travel the irish coast often docking in Cork.