{"id":1525,"date":"2008-02-16T06:37:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-15T20:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wpblog\/?p=1525"},"modified":"2008-02-16T06:37:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-15T20:37:00","slug":"u-s-officials-say-broken-satellite-will-be-shot-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/?p=1525","title":{"rendered":"U.S. officials say broken satellite will be shot down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure style=\"width: 100px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a title=\"Go to the photo page\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/smallritual\/3224156970\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/3080\/3224156970_29d03071f7_t.jpg\" alt=\"early soviet spacecraft\" width=\"100\" height=\"77\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">by smallritual<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nQuoting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.com\/U.S.-officials-say-broken-satellite-will-be-shot-down\/2100-11397_3-6230668.html\">NEWS.COM<\/a>: They are shooting it down because:<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">\n<blockquote><p>President Bush ordered the action to prevent any possible contamination from that hazardous rocket fuel on board, and <span style=\"font-weight: bold\">not out of any concern that parts of the spacecraft might survive and its secrets be revealed, officials said.<\/span><br \/>\nThe fuel tank is believed sturdy enough to survive re-entry, based on studies of the fuel tank that fell to earth after the shuttle <a title=\"NASA site collects Columbia pictures -- Monday, Feb 3, 2003\" href=\"http:\/\/www.news.com\/NASA-site-collects-Columbia-pictures\/2100-1001_3-983152.html?tag=st.nl\">Columbia disaster in 2003<\/a>. Officials said that the slushy frozen fuel would have then been released wherever it came down.<br \/>\n&#8220;This is all about trying to reduce the danger to human beings,&#8221; said James Jeffrey, the deputy national security adviser.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>Of course, we believe every word of it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quoting NEWS.COM: They are shooting it down because: President Bush ordered the action to prevent any possible contamination from that[&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[3205,3310,3914],"class_list":["post-1525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ramblings","tag-satellite","tag-shot-down","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1525"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1525\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}