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A satellite belonging to multinational service provider Intelsat mysteriously broke up in geostationary orbit over the weekend.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The satellite went boing boing?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

No, not double boing. It went triple boing.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

J E W I S H. S P A C E. L A S E R S!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago

The YHVH cosmic canons

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

It was probably an emergency exit hatch for the magic rocket gas.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

Did it happen to have a beeper?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

There's not really a threat in geostationary orbits. It's a much bigger area with far fewer satellites.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

puts on conspiracy hat

Did musk hit it with something?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Nah, it obviously wanted to whistlelbow about Boeing.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Doubtful. Dude ain't got no ups.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Musk probably hit it with his signature offensive odor

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

It was the window seal.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

That's not good. —Subtitle

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

You can't make this shit up lmao.

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