pan6467

I think it could be both ways.

Let's look at a hypothetical paranoidal situation:

We send up a spysat carrying a massive amount of Hydrazine. Now let's say in the near future we felt threatened by Iran/China etc. We announced a while ago that it was out of control, so if it fell into orbit and "accidentally" fell on the country we were having a problem with and released the gas.... we weren't at fault it was uncontrolled. (Meanwhile, all along "they" (the US intelligence) did have control of it but the country and everyone around the world buys into the accident except the "nutty conspiracy theorists" who no one listens to.

But now, perhaps it truly is uncontrollable and "they" don't want to run the risk of it landing here or in a friendly zone. So why not shoot it dwn and kill 2 birds with one stone.

Or the shoot down could be a ploy and "oops we missed.... sorry Iran/China/etc.).

Is any of it:

Paranoid? Yes.

Probable? Absolutely not.

Possible? Absolutely YES.

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