No, it would have been detected by various systems pretty much immediately. Those systems are military though, and probably wouldn't tell the general public about the movement of military satellites
It's also conceivable that it was detected in that orbit but not recognised, so it was treated as a mystery object
The biggest problem is that the magnets will "quench", which is what happens when a superconducting electromagnet suddenly stops being superconducting.
There's a lot of energy stored in that magnet, and when it quenches the energy all turns to heat in a very short time. Any remaining helium will flash boil, turning into an explosive expansion of gas, and the thermal shock will seriously damage the machine
Because it's feedback on how effective their targeting has been when confronted with whatever electronic warfare and misdirection Israel was using to defend themselves.
That sort of information might let the attacker make adjustments to be more accurate next time
It is guaranteed, actually. US law imposes requirements on telecoms providers to support wire taps
No, basically. They would love to be able to do that, but it's approximately impossible for the generative systems they're using at the moment
By that logic, you should object to cheese being labelled as "cheddar" cheese, because that's a place too and you've almost certainly never seen cheese which came from there.
It's a stupid rule
Then you'd be defeating the careful planning which went into making sure the satellites don't become a long term problem, by raising them out of the orbits which decay in just a few years and into orbits which never decay.
For an emergency ascent, they'd probably have dropped more than two. They also probably wouldn't have taken the time to type a message to the surface if it were going wrong that quickly.
It seems more likely to me that they were controlling their rare of descent. I'd expect them to lose a little buoyancy as the vessel compresses, so it seems reasonable that they'd drop the occasional weight as they descend.
Actually, I suspect he's implying that nobody's trying to assassinate Harris because all the democracy-hating assassins are on her side, or she's the one setting them up, or something to that effect.
It's still the sort of slander which in a reasonable world he'd be called on, but that seems unlikely
It's unlikely to cause anything to outright fail, but it will certainly be creating bottlenecks and inefficiencies
Hey now, some of us have standards.
We have shitty python scripts
I'm pretty sure their concern is their own birth rate dropping, actually. Have you seen the demographics graph for Russia? They're facing a complete collapse of their working-age population in a decade or two