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 Post Posted: Mon Sep 26, 2016 1:36 am 
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I think that's exactly it though.

This comic sums up his paranoia about the issue: http://www.sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/20120405

Schlock believes he's been backed into a corner. It's certainly very possible that this is partially based on information we don't know yet, but even without considering that, it seems that Schlock is tired of running from one life threatening situation to another. He needs to be in control so that he can take care of the threats to his life for good instead of narrowly escaping death time and time again. Taking over Hereticorp by itself was just another narrow escape of death at the hands of Kusari. Taking over the world and getting his orbital DFA - that's the way he keeps himself safe for good. It doesn't have to be 100% rational. Sure, we can say that the additional enemies he acquires makes the risk greater than the potential safety offered by reaching his goal, but I think in his mind this is absolutely necessary to give himself peace of mind.

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 Post Posted: Tue Sep 27, 2016 12:50 pm 
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garyfritz wrote:
Zillatain wrote:
RamenChef (and others) are referring to the Kessler Syndrome, where debris from a destroyed satellite proceeds to destroy more satellites, which in turn produces even more debris that destroys more satellites, then so on and so forth. It could prevent any satellites from being put into that particular orbit.

Which could become quite a problem if it's a popular orbit. Like the Geosynchronous orbit, probably the most crowded orbit around Earth. 22,236 miles above sea level and right over the equator is a popular place. The first answer at this page says there are about 1350 objects in geosync orbit. But if one of them blew up into so many teeny tiny pieces...

Monday's comic clarified that they are in a low Earth orbit. Debris in that zone can be a problem in a short-term perspective, because there are many satellites there, but in the long run it will fall out of orbit because of atmospheric drag.

Pied Typer wrote:
So much for "top-secret" satellite.

Now I wonder how they saw all those tiny pieces.

Yodimus_Prime wrote:
if the Flux Nut 1 shared it orbit, it would be pretty easy for other governments to stumble across.

garyfritz wrote:
And speaking of teeny tiny pieces, how were they able to see what happened to Flux-Nut-1 ? Unless they have another satellite with a camera trained on the Flux-Nut-1, they should have just seen an abrupt loss of signal.

To all of these I'd like to point out that there are institutes keeping track of satellites and space debris. It's impossible to keep a satellite secret; there's nothing to hide it behind. The world's big military powers are keeping a close eye on each other's satellites and rocket launches.

Hereti-Corp is supposedly ready to take over Nasa's job. That includes keeping track of objects in orbit. I can't imagine that they would launch a prototype satellite without having both telescopes and radar stations tracking it. Apparently they weren't constantly watching manually though, as they didn't see the attack coming.

Silly Green Monkey wrote:
It sounds like there's more than one operator speaking. Satellites don't have anyone on-site, they're not manned.

Naturally the operators are in the control center on the ground.

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 Post Posted: Wed Sep 28, 2016 11:42 am 
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Just tell the world that it's a Grab-All relay satellite. :sasha:

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