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Sick isn’t it.

You’re like my little dog; I can get you to bark anytime I want!

Hahahahahahah yeah riight DC TOM

My god Tom! how many screen names to you have?

Tom, I didn’t say anything about Geosynchronous in my example because they have to be about 23,000 miles out for a 23 hr 56 min rotation. For the example I gave myself the widest berth to be right. The furthest earth or geo obiter that I read about was 50,000 to 60,000 miles out. Turns out at the very least the pole or platform would have to be over 250 miles high to observe a obiter around the equator from the South pole.

Geo orbiter can go out to 60,000 miles (approx 100,000KM). You basically have a right triangle. Side 1= 60,000 miles side 2= 3963 miles (straight down through the earth to the equator) hypotenuse = 60,131 miles. Angle to geo obiter at 60,000 miles out = approx 86 degrees from South Pole. 90-86= 4 degrees below the horizon. The platform would have to be about 276 miles high. So I guess it’s not realistic, unless you bounce it off a polar obiter. So the biggest advantage is that you can see or destroy every polar obiter within one rotational orbit around the earth.

point in space. Yes, it’s possible to create a platform high enough all you need is a telescoping shaft with a with reflective media on the end

It will at a point above the equator on a high enough platform

hummmm who's more Secret Dick or Hilary hard one, let me help: Oh, Tom I have a shotgun and its loaded for monkey!

Mickey, two word for you and the rest of the Clinton lovers VINCE FOSTER

She said WOODworking

Thanks, no wonder why the sheep are so lonely.

And you thought Al-Qaeda trains hard

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Can I like get arrested for viewing this stuff?

What was Sawyers name in the flash back?

I can tell you she’s not that hot naked.

Tangent to the earth’s surface, Think of a clown (like Tom) balancing on a plank on a large beech ball. The plank represents your line of site if Tom leans to one side (angle to the horizon), before falling off; the plank will be over the equator of the ball in high orbit so you can track or disrupt the geo-obiter 360 degrees around the globe from the south pole.

Thanks, My skin has grown quite thick over the years here.

I agree, if there is no question that china is erecting some type of military platform then it’s a no brainer, like you said everyone hits them hard. But, what if the Chinese convince the UN that it is a scientific research platform for “peaceful purposes” and that any attach on this station will be “viewed as an act of war”. You can’t win here; everyone will blame us for starting WWIII.

who said looking through a planet? not me, tangent maybe. Polar obiter passes over the South Pole after one revolution around the earth every time, no other point on earth except the North Pole is this possible. Also a South Pole platform provides small advantage since the platform is on the earth’s axis you don’t have to correct for the spin of the earth when tracking and or targeting.

Wrong not all, there are currently eight to twelve IR sensing satellites in polar orbit about 6,000 miles up serving as early warning satellites. You should know by now I am immune to your insults.

I don’t think you need many resources to protect a military platform at the South Pole. During the winter you can’t safely get troops on the ground or safely conduct an Arial bombing. Surface to air missiles won’t work if they take out the navigation satellites and they will have plenty of time to track and shoot them down from the platform We won’t use a nuke but could load the warhead with a conventional load, this would take time. Water vapor, ozone and dust absorb the infrared energy emitted by this type of laser. There is very little dust, water vapor or ozone at the South Pole.

the Antarctic Treaty prohibits any measures of a military nature, such as the establishment of military bases and fortifications, the carrying out of military maneuvers, or the testing of any type of weapon; it permits the use of military personnel or equipment for scientific research or for any other peaceful purposes. They would not have written this military clause into treaty if they did not see any military advantage to the South Pole. Again we really don’t know what’s going on down there, it’s not like you could drive out to it to observe.