Electromagnetic waves have a really hard time penetrating conductors. Most of the energy is simply reflected. The better the conductor, the less energy is transmitted (rather than reflected). The transmission coefficient is also a function of frequency. There is no need to ground the conductor as was mentionned. I’m pretty sure every single satelite in orbit has a layer of conducting material, to protect it from radiation coming from space. Especially radiation from the Sun. Then, an EMP or any electromagnetic wave for that matter would not penetrate a satellite in any significant way, except from it’s antenna(s). Then it could potentially fry the circuits inside, if the power is strong enough. I really doubt that you could collimate enough energy to fry anything in such low frequencies as microwaves at such long distances, although a laser might achieve it. Even then, you would need some mean of entering the satelite “shell” to cause any damage. Perhaps spy satelites with optic system could be rendered useless that way…

And boat is a good analogy. The HAARP facilities are similar to boats. There are many types of boats that ply the ocean. Shrimp boats, speed boats, sail boats and Destroyers. There are military boats and there are public boats…. But what is the one thing all boats have in common????”

My guess would be that they all float, for a while any way. ;)

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Actually, it means they don’t move at all over the face of the earth. They stay permanently above the same spot as it rotates.

A Geostationary satellite is what you have described – it has a zero inclination angle to the Earth’s equitorial plane. In that case, yes, it appears to be unmoving (or moving nearly imperceptibly). A Geosynchronous satellite (what enderw88 mentioned) will have a non-zero inclination angle. As a result, it remains fixed over a given longitude line; however it will appear (from the ground) to “bob” North and South along that line several degrees. The range of deviation from appearing stationary depends on the inclination angle the the eccentricity of the orbit. In all but an extreme case of large inclinations, it’s rate of “bob” will be very slow (a few degrees per hour).

Byrden said: ”
>> “They have a much higher angular rate than any deep space object”

Relative to what? The angular rate of deep space objects is zero relative to a non-rotating Earth. The angular rate of these satellites is zero relative to the actual rotating Earth.

And if you swap around, the angular rates are still identical.”

The relation was implied in the discussion to a ground station (antenna/telescope) such as what this article was about. For such a situation, the angular rate of deep space objects varies between 0-15 degrees/hour depending on their declination (specifically: cosine (declination angle) * 360 degrees / 24 hours) from the Earth’s equitorial plane.

But the ‘real world’ in the matrix is just another matrix so technically it could just be a bug.