Main US Weather Satellite Fails As Hurricane Season Looms 235
First time accepted submitter Rebecka writes with bad news, quoting an IB Times report: "Just as the 2013 hurricane season is about to begin, one of the U.S.' main weather satellites failed this week. The Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite, also known as GOES-13, reportedly ceased to operate as of Tuesday, making it impossible to predict weather patterns on the East Coast."
A note at NOAA's page for the GOES family of satellites says "GOES-13 imaging and sounding operations suspended. Recovery efforts for GOES-13 continue and the spacecraft health and safety are nominal. GOES-14 is being activated." You can follow the progress on the agency's page of General Satellite Messages.
Re:They saw this coming for ages... (Score:5, Funny)
we don't need it, god will look after us
Re:They saw this coming for ages... (Score:5, Funny)
What are you doing here? get back to work
Nothing to worry about (Score:5, Funny)
If the weather satellite fails, we can just get our weather from the Internet like everybody else [slashdot.org].
Re:They saw this coming for ages... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:They saw this coming for ages... (Score:5, Funny)
Well, Lotus Notes is worse.
Re:They saw this coming for ages... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:They saw this coming for ages... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:They saw this coming for ages... (Score:4, Funny)
Yeah, it was "impossible to predict weather patterns on the US East Coast" for like 15 minutes until they took the backup satellite off standby.
Whew, that was close! Those hurricanes come out of nowhere!
Re:They saw this coming for ages... (Score:4, Funny)
we don't need it, god will look after us
Don't you mean The Free Market? Anthropocentric religions are SOOOO last-millenium.